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2010-03-28 Home Front: WoT

A father grieves for his son and the soldiers he's accused of shooting

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Posted by ryuge 2010-03-28 01:39|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 reasonably classy story. no sympathy for the perp, but the father gets my prayers tonight.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-03-28 02:06|| 2010-03-28 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2 prayers for the father. The son goes to hell

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-28 09:01|| 2010-03-28 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Bledsoe wants to understand how his son turned from middle-class Memphis roots to become a self-described member of al-Qaida

What's the matter were there not crips or bloods to join?--oh, they were too respectable. Must be painful for the father. Prayers to him.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-28 09:58|| 2010-03-28 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4
If he really loved his son he wouldn't have raised him muslim.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-28 11:16|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-28 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5
Oops, wrong son.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-28 11:17|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-28 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 The story behind the story is that since Little Rock got a weak kneed, squishy liberal mayor, the place has turned into a shooting gallery. And all the mayor does is stand around, wringing his hands and whining about "Why can't we all just get along?"

Which, of course, is interpreted in the bad part of town as open season for drug dealing and homicide. For their part, the police are more than happy to see thugs for the most part kill other thugs.

Every now and then, I get clippings of local news from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, one of the last good, privately owned, classic style newspapers left in the US. Little Rocks bad men are bad.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-28 11:57|| 2010-03-28 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Little Rock has been a shooting gallery for quite some time now. HBO did a special called Bangin in Little Rock about 20 years ago talking about all the gangs there.

Posted by chris 2010-03-28 12:16|| 2010-03-28 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Not a federal case, not terror related? Sounds like denial, cover-up of the circumstances by the feds (Holder?).

Posted by tipover 2010-03-28 12:20|| 2010-03-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9 "Being gunned down in uniform by a self-described Islamic warrior obviously does not rise to the level of a terrorist act as far as I can tell under this administration," the retired Marine officer said. "... The failure to include the death of a serving U.S. soldier and the wounding of another outside an Army office in America's heartland as a terrorist act by a home-grown jihadist who has ties to Yemen himself is beyond me."

It wouldn't be beyond you if you took Obama's basic nature into account.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-28 12:44|| 2010-03-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

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