(It took me three hours to find a tiny crack in media cartel's whiteout of the Alito children's service eligibility )

 WHY IS THE YOUNG, HEALTHY, PHILIP SAMUEL ALITO AT BROWN COLLEGE -- AND NOWHERE NEAR BAGHDAD??? WHY WILL YOU NOT GO IN HIS PLACE???

FROM About, Inc.

Alito's Iraq-Eligible Kids
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Children: Samuel and Martha-Ann have two children.

    * Philip Samuel Alito, a student at Brown College at Monroe Hill. Philip competes in tennis.

    * Laura Alito, a student at james Caldwell High School. Laura competes in swimming, set school records in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Backstroke, and qualified for the Girls All-State Team in March, 2005.

http://www.brown-college.org/people/?page=viewprof&id=788

Philip Alito
# Email: psa7p (at) virginia (dot) edu

January 09, 2006

Hey Phil:

Thousands of my poor friends are getting their legs blown off right now because they are in the middle of a war in Iraq that was started for no verifiably reasonable stated purpose by one President George W. Bush. Who is the gentleman who nominated your father to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Why is it that virtually every kid whose parents have money and influence is in college, or, like the Bush twins, partying down hard in fancy dig in Georgetown (etc.)? This is not to say that you are necessarily a bad person or anything -- but why, since your father is so incredibly well-connected with the folks who started that war -- should the rest of us not ask you to defer your education for a few months to go over there and fight with the poor grunts who could not afford to escape the Iraq Pogrom?

Please think about it. There must be a military recruiter somewhere around The University of Virginia.

Good luck, anyway. I am posting this on MyDD at:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/1/8/203323/1122

You may certainly respond there, if you feel so inclined! And please remind your father to remind George W. Bush that he is not really a king, although he would do well to pay some attention to the Magna Charta, anyway!
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An interesting snippet from a student perspective:

Brown Like Me

RESIDENTS NOT JUST ZANY
by Shayna Kessel

http://www.the-declaration.com/2000/09_28/features/brownlikeme.shtml

I proudly admit it: We are not normal, but we are not "tilted to the left." We are, however, most certainly a community of independent thinkers who don't owe anyone an explanation for the lives we lead, and thank goodness we are brave enough to express our thoughts, be they about what types of nuts we would be or not, without worrying that our utterances will be thrown into the pool of the swarming Brown stereotype. That's a resounding "no thank you" to argue for my normalcy, and I'll thank the local media in advance for not stereotyping the entire Brown community without a sturdy argument on which to found the assertion.

(But please do note, however, that normalcy has been dropped as a military requirement.)

THE HUFFINGTON POST (10.31.2005) --

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/did-the-white-house-kidna_b_9918.html

This morning, [former] Colgate University student Phil Alito's bio was scrubbed from the editors' page of the school's student newspaper, The Forum. It may be that the White House worried his comments about Gary Condit, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer wouldn't reflect well on his Christian right-vetted dad.