[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Way to exploit a child for a political cause - what a wonderful father....

The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."

The father said that it was the son's own idea. I guess he raised him right.

And since I'm here, the son didn't actually apologize at all. He said he was sorry that they didn't like what he did. Good kid. Good family.

[Stone Mountain]

The father said that it was the son's own idea.

Call me crazy, but I don't believe that. And even if it was his own idea, he's not capable of doing something like that without his parent's help. And again, what if the child wanted to do something politically that the parents disagreed with - do you really think the father would have agreed to that? What if a child wanted to protest the Iraw war and got himself arrested for trespassing at City Hall. Would everyone here still be talking about how independent this child was or how the child was manipulated by his evil liberal parents/media/public schools?

It's clear to me that this child is expressing the views of his parents. If you don't believe that, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.