The Sad State of Discourse

I was saddened to read the following letter to the editor in today's Star Tribune.

In-school Indoctrination

How will the U.S. military get the cannon fodder it needs to take foreign oil fields for U.S. oil companies if our schools don't first turn potential recruits into mindless robots?

JEFF MILLER, HOPKINS

I have little to no respect for the meanness and un-patriotic tone that comes from the anti-war crowd and this letter clearly demonstrates why I feel that way. Mr. Miller is obvoiusly free to voice his First Amendment Right of Free Speech, however stupid and hurtfull it may be. Thousands upon thousands of "mindless robots" gained him that right by sheading their blood throughout our history.