DA, spanking case stir outrage

The Oregonian ^ | 7/24/2007 | SUSAN GOLDSMITH

[Enterprise]

[mvpel]

F-—ing brats need to learn to keep their hands to themselves. Why is something that would result in criminal charges in the workplace just pooh-poohed when it takes place in government schools?

[mtbopfuyn]

While they don’t deserve jail time, they do sound like little sh*theads.

[mvpel]

"...and his life has really been changed by this."

Hopefully his life has been changed enough that he won't grow up to be a tit-grabbing frat-boy date-rapist.

[vox humana]

Berry and Nifong would make good cell mates.

[Minn]

Whatever you say, Mr. Nifong.

[Minn]

Just when you think FReepers are basically decent people.

[applpie]

wow what a ridiculous stereotype! shame on you.

[jeddavis]

You'd have had fun being a kid in 1952 or thereabouts. Class C fireworks, BB-gun fights, tackle football...

The neatest thing of all was that asphalt hadn't been invented and roads were made out of tar and gravel, and there were always pools of leftover tar lying around to roll the neighbor kids in. About the only cure for that was bathing the kid in gasoline.

[Malacoda]

Yup. I am wondering why none of the girls in question hauled off and socked them. Most bullies seem to get the message once SOMEONE stands up to them. Of course then the girls would be charged, too...

[Leatherneck_MT]

Farking prosecutor needs to be sh*tcanned, the principal fired and the cops relieved of duty.

This is sheer overreactive madness on the part of the PC leftist crowd that refuses to allow boys to be boys.

Was it wrong? yep

Was it chargeable? Nope

Dad needs to sit them down and have a talk with them or take them behind the woodshed for some personal time. But the reaction by the powers that be is ludicrous.

[Leatherneck_MT]

“Hopefully his life has been changed enough that he won’t grow up to be a tit-grabbing frat-boy date-rapist.”

and maybe one day you’ll stop being a feminazi, but somehow I doubt.

[guido911]

Perhaps the boys speak Vai, and there will not be an interpreter available.

[NorthFlaRebel]

This is how screwed up this is - Wendy Murphy thinks it absolutely ridiculous.

[Minn]

wow what a ridiculous stereotype! shame on you.

You said it. Whenever a story of this type comes up around here, there is a creepy strain of poster sporting their “hang em high” self righteousness. The Duke boys deserved it, because they went near a stripper. The kid in Georgia that got BJ from someone near his own age deserves to sit in prison for ten years, and these very young teenagers slapping a little butt running down the hall need their lives ruined.

We’re supposed to read this and think to ourselves: “Wow, what a morally pure soul this poster has” instead of the proper “Gees, what an uptight twit” reaction normal people have.

[CarryingOn]

Liberals endorse and promote sexuality for school-aged children, but then decry some of the consequences of their actions. Hypocrisy, as shown in this case, is blatant.

[ChocChipCookie]

The boys also spent five days in detention in February. Officials at McMinnville Public Schools and Patton Middle School imposed a five-day suspension on the seventh-graders.

Now THAT punishment makes sense. The whole jail time/sex offender thing is so far off base, and yet in accordance with the type of laws liberals like to pass. The school, along with the parents, could have handled this well enough without interference from The State.

[DariusBane]

The kids need some discipline, but dragging them into the criminal justice system? Your kidding right.

Right, you probably aren’t kidding since Free Republic is now populated with statists.

[Xenalyte]

What woman do you know who would rather file criminal charges than slap the hell out of a guy who did that?