April 30, 2004

a true prick

Let's get one thing straight: Even a prick has the right to say what he thinks (or "feels," in this case) because we live in a free country. But that doesn't mean that I have to agree with the prick, and freedom of speech doesn't give him the right to be a complete dickwit and escape any repercussions for his foolishness.

A University of Massachusetts student has openly criticized Pat Tillman, calling the former NFL player a Rambo-like idiot in the school paper.

The column in question was submitted by graduate student Rene Gonzalez and published Wednesday in the Daily Collegian. It was titled "Pat Tillman is not a hero: he got what was coming to him."

Gonzalez writes that Tillman was a "Rambo" who probably acted out of "nationalist patriotic fantasies." In his own neighborhood in Puerto Rico, according to Gonzalez, Tillman would not have been considered a hero, but a "pendejo," or idiot.

If Tillman was a pendejo, what does that make YOU, Rene, other than a nutless little prick? You aren't fit to carry that man's jockstrap.

Gonzalez also says that Tillman's service was not "necessary."

"It wasn't like he was defending the East coast from an invasion of a foreign power. THAT would have been heroic and laudable," Gonzalez writes. "What he did was make himself useful to a foreign invading army, and he paid for it. It's hard to say I have any sympathy for his death because I don't feel like his 'service' was necessary. He wasn't defending me, nor was he defending the Afghani people. He was acting out his macho, patriotic crap and I guess someone with a bigger gun did him in."

The reputation of UMass as a place of higher learning just went down the crapper in my opinion. If this pathetic, immature rant is the sort of thinking the college produces, let's invade THAT place. I believe that we have some professors who should be added to the terrorist-support network that we're attempting to destroy.

Here's a guy from Puerto Rico, for crying out loud, receiving a college education in the United States, and he has the unmitigated gall to write that Pat Tillman wasn't defending HIM. How the fuck do you think you got the opportunities you have now, Rene? Go to Arlington Cemetary, you ungrateful, pussified shit. THERE is where you'll find what gave you the right to be a whining little prick.

Go piss on a dead soldier's grave if that makes you "feel" good. If I see you do it, however, I'll whip your ass or die trying. You can go back to the freedom-loving, prosperous island of Puerto Rico in several garbage bags. In a free country, I can have MY opinions, too. And IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, you suck!

Who's the real idiot here?