Re: Care packages to troops immoral...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2807270/postsMassachusetts Law Professor Calls Care Packages for U.S. Troops 'Shameful'
Fox News ^ | November 14, 2011 | Cristina Corbin/Fox News
Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 11:05:49 AM by jazusamo
A Massachusetts law professor has created a campus firestorm with an email to colleagues that declares it would be "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops "who have gone overseas to kill other human beings."
Michael Avery, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, sent a five-paragraph email to colleagues in response to a school-wide appeal for care packages for deployed soldiers, Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reports.
"I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," Avery wrote.
The professor, who specializes in constitutional law, wrote the email last week in response to a university drive to collect items for U.S. troops, like sunblock and sanitary products. He also wrote that sympathy for American troops in harm's way is "not particularly rational in today's world."
Paul Spera, past commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, blasted Avery's remarks on Monday, calling the professor's argument "despicable."
"The shameful thing is that he’s teaching our young people," Spera told FoxNews.com.
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I bet if you surveyed 100 profs, 99 of them would agree with this one. I think it's an institutionalized belief and one that's been around for a long time.
