I guess if Winston Churchill's saying is true (anyone who's 20 and not a liberal has no heart, anyone who's 40 and not a conservative has no brain), then I was pretty heartless in high school.
Interesting remark -- Cole Thorna is a sophomore at Nottingham High School in Syracuse, and that hugh school is right in the lap of Syracuse U, the home of the Maxwell School Dept. of Political science, as well as a prominent School of Education. Syracuse no doubt has great influence on this high school and its administration (left-leaning?).
Thus it is not unlikely that Nottingham High, being close enough to city center to be the focus of intensive busing, has enough resources to educate some fools of the first water. Like this little sophomore, who presumptuously writes:
Trayvon Martin did not deserve to die.
If it becomes clear that Trayvon intended to permanently damage the brain case of someone by whom he felt a bit "dissed," it is also clear that he did deserve to die, at that moment and on that spot, without further excuse for reserving summary judgment.
Hope this gets through to Cole Thorna. Do we have any FReepers from Syracuse who might wish to answer Cole's blog, or perhaps drop him a line encouraging doing some research before offering the global population his keen teenaged insight?
A pointed note might help to wipe that silly Alfred E. Neumann grin from his face. And of his parents, too.
Probably the same ttime I was loading my M577 Light Tracked Command Post Carrier and other vehicles onto railroad flatcars to invade Iran.