You don't have to feel sorry for him if you don't want to - I don't think he's asking for that is he anyway?
You are certainly not responsible for his actions or accountable in any way, and I fully understand and appreciate it is all his own doing.
However, I am sure you will feel that it would be better if he came through this alive and well than dead or infirm.
That's enough surely for us to want to do something to try to encourage him to change his mind, or persuade the authorities to do what they can do too.
You object to what he is doing on what you know of the details concerning his personal case, but I think his campaign is about much more than this, at least in his mind (and I feel sure there is plenty of evidence to suggest he has wider aims than to persuade the courts to deal with just his case differently).
I don't agree with some of his aims as you know, and I'm equivocal about his methods of highlighting injustice as I told Lawmoe. Nonetheless the fact that I chose to obey the law and pay towards a child who refused to see me for ten years doesn't mean I feel I can necessarily tell him what he should be doing regarding his child who he does see four times a year, we're told (and he wouldn't listen if I did anyway).
It is a "bigger thing" isn't it, that this man is thinking about, inspired by God I'm sure he believes, and who knows whether that is correct.
I know that in this 'hard bitten' world our courts and law makers have to be prepared to deal with all kinds of unsavoury people who might take advantage of whatever system gets put in place.
Decent people/parents still shouldn't be getting treated badly though, in our ever so sophisticated Western societies, and maybe we all need that hope that things may change or the hope created when someone tries to do something about it all however inadvisably.
All the best, Graham
P.S. Can you bring yourself to write to George W now?