[Fred Mertz]

If not, his [Ritter] true motivations should be known. There is no time for him to speak out like the present; dissent can be tolerated, pandering to the enemy cannot.

Ritter continues to puzzle me especially since he was a US Marine. I was hoping you'd come to a clear conclusion in your well written essay, but you left me hanging.

[BrianS.Wise]

I would have come to a clear conclusion, provided I could have figured the guy out. I do plan on writing a follow-up column within the next two weeks, so please continue watching this web site or intellectualconservative.com for that piece.

Thanks for saying the column is well written; something in the back of my mind is telling me Ritter has some sort of inferiority complex, and that when he's ignored, he's forced to go to larger and larger extremes to get the attention he desires. I'll have to give it some thought and write more later.