it was one of the earlier campus demonstrations of the vietnam war. some stanton students organized a protest against the draft. romney organized a counter protest in favor of the draft. that s right, mitt romney is one of the very, very few americans who can claim to have been in a demonstration in favor of the draft during the vietnam war, not that romney was willing to be drafted himself, oh, no, no, no, not that romney was willing to enlist in the military whose draft he supported and the war he supported. romney urged his government to draft unwilling participants into the war, to draft college classmates of his into the war, to send them to their deaths as long as romney didn t have to go to war himself. romney went to france instead. as a mormon missionary, which he
romney urged his government to draft unwilling participants into the war, to draft college classmates of his into the war, to send them to their deaths as long as romney didn t have to go to war himself. romney went to france instead. as a mormon missionary, which he used to preserve his deferment from the draft. while he was trying and mostly failing to convert parisians to mormonism, tens of thousands of boys his age were being killed in vietnam. martin luther king was assassinated in 1968 when romney was in france. perhaps mitt romney can tell us what the civil rights issue was in paris in 1968. but in mitt romney s country, in the then not so united, united states of america, the civil
there are probably about 12 or 13 states that have that have lost laws now that go to the individual person doing this and what we re trying to do at the federal level is say listen, this is really serious and we re going to put up to two years in prison if you re found guilty of doing that and so it s a little bit of a push in the congress because the reality is people aren t really watching it. yeah, you know what? you got to get that you got to scare people and get the word out to the schools so the kids know it s not innocuous anymore. representative loretta sanchez, great work. great focus. thanks for the work your sister is doing. thank you. thank you. meanwhile, straight ahead, as he shared stories from the battlefield and warned americans about the threat overseas, his classmates, his college classmates laughed and heckled. that veteran joins us live for his first tv interview after the break. but first, on this day in 1976, paul simon had the number one song 50 ways
want me to come in. reporter: what do you think happened to jared that it got to this point? i honestly think he probably had some sort of definite dysfunction in his family. reporter: she says loughner s parents were more like roommates and we heard reports he smoked mayor wayne a marijuana and, took hallucinogenic mushrooms. i thought back to when we were dating and the weird conversations we have had, that he was losing it and he d go off on rants about government this and government that and blah, blah, blah, and, i was like, okay. i think he did his homework and i think he s actually playing everything and is trying to get into a psych ward because he doesn t want to go to jail. reporter: former college classmates and instruct tors and campus police differ, painting a picture of someone who seemed unhinged and she last saw him 3-4 months ago and admits that
with a shaved head. he showed no emotion as prosecutors read the charges against him and appeared smirk as the judge spoke to while many in this suburban town struggle with why he did it, it turns out many of those who knew loughner were afraid of him because of increasingly bizarre behavior. he was mentally unstable. you know, he was felt isolated. kind of a social loner, so to say. just kept to himself. reporter: in a june 14th e-mail one of loughner s college classmates seemed terrified. we have a mentally unstable person in class, and that scares the living crap out of some of loughner s neighbors thought he was dangerous. i told my mother i thoug this is a somewhat dysfunctional family. and this individual has probably been troubled for some time. reporter: anyone who read loughner s online postings would likely have come to the same conclusion. the postings show an obsession with violence and paranoia one of loughner s favorite youtube clips is entitled let