Andy, I’m praying for you and your family brother! I hope you can have some reconciliation with your boys! I know that you love them with all you heart and sole! You always have!

Don P

Careful, some of us rednecks are very sensitive and you’ll make us cry with your unkind words. Some of us don’t even drink or beat our wives. And calling us idiots. . . that really hurts our feelings.

AND FROM THE OTHER END OF SANITY

“Let us not JUDGE until you walk in someone else’s shoes. ”

So until you have driven down the road drunk, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have awakened your neighbors by loudly screaming obscenities at small children and women, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have beaten your children senseless, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have robbed your neighbor, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have robbed a convenience store, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have shot up with heroin, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have murdered, raped or tortured, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have been arrested at least 15 times, you shouldn’t judge those who do?
Until you have manufactured meth in the house with your children, you shouldn’t judge those who do?

These “walk a moon in his moccasins” variations are cute and catchy but surely there are some limits beyond which understanding can only be insanity.

Is it really wrong to tell your children and your friends such behavior is wrong?

And if it is wrong, then wouldn’t it be wrong to tell us so?

David, the barefoot redneck
(I’ll put my shoes on later)

Well, the son testified against him. Are we supposed to be mad at someone turning in a drunk driving on the road and beating people with sticks because he should be allowed to beat his children with sticks?

Of course, there’s sticks and there’s sticks. If it were a sizable stick and he broke it, he may just possibly have been hitting harder than he should have—just maybe.

Many people favored switches because they didn’t break easily, did no real physical damage and stung–thereby leaving a mental mark that some particular action would be associated with pain.

A neighbor broke a log over Number 2 son’s head once–in a fight not because he was drunk and thought he could discipline him that way. The log was rotten and the head was hard. And, yes, we turned him in and, yes, the courts frowned on the action but the kid has had plenty of practice making the courts frown in the ensuing years.

“The victim told deputies that he and his brother had grown tired of watching Freeman, their father, “verbally arguing and constantly staying drunk”, according to the Sheriff’s Office arrest report. ”

This MAY not be considered good parenting.

I wonder why the happy couple split up–none of my business, just wondering.

David assuming all reports are accurate

Uh huh.