[Defiant]

Bingo!! How right you are. He wanted his parents to tell him NO! when he decided to pretend to be a black gangster. Then, when they "supported" him, he thought, "surely they'll stop me" when he decided to become a Muslim. No, they even gave him money and let him quit high school.

I think if they had kicked his butt when he was 12, he'd be a normal kid in northern California--a little whacky, perhaps, but not a Talibunny. Too bad.

[William Wallace]

I think if they had kicked his butt when he was 12, he'd be a normal kid in northern California--a little whacky, perhaps, but not a Talibunny. Too bad.

One never knows how kids will turn out even with the right upbringing, but this was asking for disaster.