Here is the article written by Gonzalez, insulting Pat Tillman and his fellow soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan:
media.dailycollegian.com/pages/tillman_lobandwidth.html?in_archive=1

Here is the response a good friend of mine e-mailed to the editors of The Daily Collegian:


Rene,

            Just some questions for you:

            1) Are you an English grad student? Your writing is
            really pretty awful. I'm surprised your editor let your
            piece get published as-is, never mind the content, but
            the style. "Self-critical incapable nation", and the
            scare quotes around the words awe and sacrifice? Surely
            you can come up with a better way to express yourself!

            2) You claim you could tell that Pat Tillman was a macho
            type of guy (whatever that means) by his "scowling, beefy
            face on the CNN pictures".  Are you involved in profiling
            based on looks? Are you suggesting that scowling, beefy
            types are macho types? You don't really define either of
            these concepts.  Servicemen come in all shapes and sizes.
             Are Rangers that are not beefy, still macho or are
            Rangers that are beefy AND scowl macho or are all Rangers
            macho, but you can only tell that they are macho by their
            beefiness or scowling? Personally, I have found that an
            individual who wears the Ranger tab to be a pretty macho
            person, but I had never considered beefiness or scowling
            as a macho or Ranger trait.  Tillman did play
            professional football, an occupation in which beefiness
            is at a premium. Can you see where this is headed? I
            can't either.

            3)What exactly is the stupidity of the Afghanistan and
            Iraq wars?  Should we let our enemies plot our
            destruction (even U Mass grad students) in peace and
            quiet or just wait until they kill enough of us to get
            our attention and then go get them? But seriously, a
            policy difference over the war or a different approach,
            might be a discussion, but to just call it stupid without
            any demonstration of its stupidity, that would be,
            um...stupid.

            4)Which neighborhood is "yours" in Puerto Rico? Are you
            an out of state student paying out-of-state tuition? If
            you are paying in-state rates, then I would suggest that
            makes you a Bay Stater, or at least, a Massachusetts
            citizen, and more important, an American, not a Puerto
            Rican.

            5)Idiot is derived from a Greek word meaning one who does
            not participate in 5th century B.C. Athenian politics.
            Can't you do better than to call Tillman names? Couldn't
            you describe how his choices were ill-informed or
            foolish?  Did you editor press you for space?

            6)You claim that America is an "all-powerful" nation. Did
            you watch TV on September 11th? Even CNN showed some of
            the events, of course they haven't since...How is America
            all-powerful? Or is it? If it is, how do you think it got
            that way? I would opine that it is due to a free people
            who through Judeo-Christian culture control their
            passions and vices and have a system of government
            allowing for free people to voluntarily wage free market
            enterprise at a rate unmatched by a centralized economy,
            regardless of size. Productivity and individual happiness
            and freedom are maximized.  The government is able to
            field a military composed of free men who willingly fight
            due to their understanding and devotion to the cause of
            individual liberty. What's you reason for America's
            supposed "all-powerful" status?

            7) You claim Afghanistan is a "seventh-rate" power? What
            does this mean? On September 11th, they were a first-rate
            power, or at least maybe a sixth.  Also, on the days that
            Al Qaeda struck US embassies and the USS Cole,
            Afghanistan was probably higher than seventh, right?
            Again, you're not being very precise.

            8)You say that "Ramone or Tyrone" have joined the
            military out of financial necessity or to have a chance
            at education. This is puzzling. Who are Ramone and
            Tyrone? I'm assuming you are using stereotypical Hispanic
            and black names. Again, this is awful writing. Can't U
            Mass's editors do better? Do you have some statistics on
            the racial make-up of our armed forces and some data on
            their reasons for joining? How about at least for the
            Army Rangers? That would buttress your argument. Infantry
            units are made up of all racial and ethnic backgrounds,
            but not the proportion that many would assume.  Infantry
            units are mostly white, particularly units such as the
            Army Rangers. Besides, you have to volunteer for not only
            the Army, and infantry, but for the Rangers and go
            through US Army Ranger school, which is really hard. A
            Ranger cadet in the middle of the Florida Everglades who
            has lost thirty pounds and is considering eating some
            moss because he is starving and has a migraine headache
            from not sleeping and is about to begin yet another night
            patrol is unlikely motivated by financial necessity or
            the chance at education. So I ask, to what do you ascribe
            the motivations of men who serve in the US Armed Forces?
            I would wager that each individual is motivated by his
            own choice, such as one would expect in a free market
            society.

            9)You claim that Clint Eastwood and Rambo movies push
            people into nationalistic fantasies.  Should there be a
            lawsuit pending? What fantasy was Tillman acting out?
            With the money at his disposal, a Play Station and a game
            probably could have helped him out. I suspect he had a
            higher calling that a fantasy. Ranger school, which as
            stated before is voluntary, probably would have satisfied
            his desire for fantasy.  Are all Army Rangers seduced by
            fantasy? or just Tillman? What about his brother? What
            about boxer Riddick Bowe, who lasted only three days in
            the Marine Corps Recruit Training? That was way before
            9/11? Was he acting out of a desire for fantasy? Was he
            watching too many Clint Eastwood movies?

            10) You say someone with a "bigger gun" did him in. I'm
            assuming U Mass has an ROTC unit. You could probably find
            a US Army soldier nearby and ask some questions. "Gun" is
            only used referring to artillery or naval gunfire. Was
            Tillman killed by terrorists with artillery? Was he
            himself carrying some top-secret, personal artillery
            piece? Even a direct fire 60 mm mortar would be quite a
            story for Tillman, but maybe not, you noted he was
            "beefy".  Do you know anything about US military small
            arms or some of the fine Russian and Chinese made
            Kalashnikov products on the terrorist market? Maybe you
            saw some "guns" in your "old neighborhood"? Please
            explain how someone with a bigger gun killed Tillman.

            11)You say that America has only to play the cheerleader
            role in conflicts that have no credibility. History shows
            that Americans have always resolutely and overwhelmingly
            supported our armed conflicts. Which American conflicts
            had no credibility? With whom? U Mass grad students?
            Islamic sleeper cells inside America? Benefactors of the
            Iraq-UN Oil for Food money? Communist governments
            worldwide? Japanese Emperors? German staff officers?
            Barbary Tyrants? King George III?
            Again, how does this war, or these wars if you must, have
            no credibility? Then wouldn't Tillman be at least a hero
            for saving the lives of "Tyrone and Ramone" in a war that
            had no credibility, freeing them up for a life no longer
            bound by financial necessity or lack of an education?
            Isn't a significant section of American intelligentsia
            always wishing "the rich" to "give back" to the poor?
            Shouldn't their be May Day celebrations for Tillman's
            solidarity with the poor wretch who is forced, (because
            of less than 6% unemployment in the world's most
            productive economy in the history of man), to
            join...gasp, the Army (!) and wage a counterfeit imperial
            war?

            12)You mention that it would be appropriate to join the
            armed forces if the east coast were to be invaded. Why
            not the west coast or our other borders? What about US
            embassies our US Navy ships? Those are all sovereign
            American territory. Did you ever read about the USS Maine
            being destroyed? That event started a war? So did Pearl
            Harbor? But, if it's only the east coast, all the way
            from Maine to the Florida Keys or just the Northeast?
            What if our enemies use hijacked planes to attack New
            York and Washington, D.C.? Would that suffice for you to
            give your approval of others to serve? What would it take
            for you to serve? Perhaps you could be an officer? If you
            decide not to serve, why not? I don't think your
            lifestyle is morally repugnant?Is mine? Was Tillman's?

            13) What careful and logical changes of the underlying
            conditions that allow Al Quadea's ideology to foster
            would you recommend? Again, you may have been running out
            of space, but at least something, please! The rest of us
            are engaged in this war and if you know how to win it,
            then please, share! I think you are suggesting that
            Islamic terrorists are poor, therefore they are angry and
            want to kill people in airplanes and while they are going
            to work. How come the oh-so-poor US armed forces
            enlistees haven't made a "We Hate the Middle East" club
            and gone to kill them? Is it because "rich capitalists"
            have exploited the "poor" in America and the rest of the
            world? Is it because the wealth is concentrated in just a
            few hands of the Zionist-Bush elders? First, Al-Qaeda
            mebers are predominantly middle class and I understand
            that Bin Laden himself as well as Arafat are quite
            personally wealthy. It also seems to me that the
            oppressive States that exist in the Middle East seem to
            have a heavy burden on the people there and a free market
            is not allowed to flourish. It seems the disparity of
            wealth in Saudi Arabia and Iraq are pretty high, much
            higher than say repressive places like Texas. Again, what
            is YOUR strategy for winning this war? I would say that
            killing our enemies until they have had enough is the
            only sure-fire way to protect our nation and our
            government that most likely underwrites the interest on
            your grad school loans. Since I am a taxpayer, I feel I
            deserve better than your writing, if not for content, at
            least for style.

            Please, let us know this strategy! The war is costing a
            lot of money and good men are dying.
            Please tell us you have something from the old, tired
            Marxist-Chomsky drivel!

            As for content, your thoughts and actions show that you
            are something less than a man.  People like Pat Tillman
            are so much greater, even in death, than you may ever be
            in your life.  God Bless you, son, you're going to need
            it.

            Oh yeah, and if U Mass ever gets attacked, call up the
            ROTC unit, you'll find someone there who can protect you
            and find you some clean underwear.

            Capt John S.
            USMC

It's good to see people who don't hate America Pound on this little Greasy Bitch.

Nice letter.... too bad the cheese-weasel will never answer it though. He's too busy hiding under his mother's skirt
after the buttpounding that he's gotten here of late......

It's a free country. The problem is, people like that asshat think they can call names and make up shit as they go along and not have to experience other people's opinions in response.

People like that asshat take uninformed, misleading potshots at others and then scurry behind the Bill of Rights, desperately trying to avoid a debate they so idealistically started in the first place.

Rene........isn't that a female name?Or is it a french word that means:"The undigested corn which rides withen the stinking,expelled turd?"