[twigs]

I saw Mrs. Williams interviewed and my heart went out to her. No matter what my child did, I would love her. But her son is still a murderer. Mrs. Holden will never have a daughter return home to her because of Mrs. Williams' son. I know that war does mess up some people and I'm very sorry. But I don't buy that they can get that evil if there wasn't a predisposition to it. He had plenty of time to consider what he was planning to do and change his mind. It's why we have the death penalty.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[atomicpossum]

I don't buy it. Not one damn bit. If this were true we would see explosions in violent senseless crime after every war.

This is another mother refusing to call her child the monster he is.

[drt1]

The MSM is again having a field day on the fact that this animal was once a Marine and had acquired the propensity to kidnap and kill women and rob convenience stores during the time of his enlistment.

I strongly suspect that his time in the Marines was a respite from dysfunctionality in his social and family life, dysfunctionality that he returned to upon leaving the Marines. His parent's and his actions would appear to support this assertion and I wonder why the MSM doesn't give the total picture instead of focusing on the military and letting his parent's spout self serving recriminations at the Marines. A crock of MSM BS IMO.

[Liberty Valance]

Megan Holden's family is the only family i want to hear from in this gruesome killing. Johnny Williams is a cold-blooded murderer and should be executed ASAP.

[sasafras]

Expect the defense and their family to use Racism as their defense. I mean its not his fault - slavery is still going strong right? and it isnt fair for blacks to be held to the same laws. Michael Jacksons family has now said it was all about racism - he would never molest little boys. OJ got a jury to believe that it was all racism - no way he would have a motive and blood traced to him. There arent many black quaterbacks - you know that has got to be racism - who wants to have the best team? you know the owners dont want to win they are just worried about the race make up on the team. Not enough CEO that are black - bingo thats racism. Blacks have lower test scores than every other race in America most definitely proves racism - white America has a secret plan of giving different tests and scoring them differently to blacks. Everything is just about racism dont you know - this guy should definitely get off and white America should be put on trial for allowing this to happen (sarcasm alert).

[hushpad]

He stayed to himself a lot. Some of the things he encountered in Iraq was hard for him to deal with," she says."<<

Well, a little MURDER THERAPY and he'll be just fine. DOnt blame it on Iraq lady.

[Feiny]

I knew it. It is all Bush's fault.

[cynicom]

When my time was over in the military, they just said so long dummy and away I went. Now we have to deprogram people???

[taxesareforever]

I sympathize with this mother, but then she goes on to start putting blame on everyone but her son. That to me is despicable. But then again, isn't that what society is becoming, a blame game?

[solo gringo]

I feel sorry for the Holden Family.I wish could feel sorry for the Williams family but being the father of five daughters it is hard to do.
I don't buy this war messed up lots of our fighting men and women in Iraq.My grandson spent more than a year in Iraq as a tank comm.He spent 30 days at a time in his tank with his crew.He was in some of the heavy stuff where he and his crew was shot at and they tried bombing his tank He had to stop a few bombers with a direct hits to save lives of Americans and Iraq fighters.What did he do when he came back from Iraq he upped for four more years and started teaching tank warfare.We are very proud grandparents, god bless him and all our forces.