Hello??? News followup 2

Court: It's 'premature' to consider motion to release Jena 6 defendant - CNN.com:

Some background info:

"In September 2006, a black student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where white students typically congregated.

Told by the vice principal they could sit wherever they pleased, the student and his pals sat under the sprawling branches of the shade tree in the campus courtyard.

The next day, students arrived at school to find three nooses hanging from those branches.

According to The Town Talk in nearby Alexandria, the school's principal recommended expulsion for those behind the nooses. Instead, the newspaper reported, a school district committee suspended three white students for three days for hanging the nooses, a gesture written off as a "prank."

Okay so a couple of things...why did the student feel he needed to ask permission to sit under the school tree? The student was told that it didn't matter where he sat--no discrimination there. The three kids who hung the nooses {very bad form, dude!! Sheets are for the bed, not a uniform!} The principal tried to expell these kids....now I think its interesting that the principal can only recommend punishment and the school district gets to dish it out {it should be said that most school district/school boards are made up of people who have kids in school--so did these kids have relatives on the board? I would love to read the minutes of that meeting!}.

Racial tensions flared. The district attorney was summoned to address the student body. Off-campus fights were reported. On November 30, someone torched the school's main academic building. The arson remains unsolved, but many suspect it was linked to the discord.

Four days after the arson, several students jumped Barker, knocking him unconscious before stomping and kicking him.

So someone set the building on fire...now the perps are facing felony charges...no one knows who did it, so what made the perps take it out on this particular kid? Was he a selected victim or just a random one? Which would be wrose? The report does say that there were reports that the victim was heard by his beaters to say racial slurs...his parents of course are saying he wouldn't do that....my guess is the truth is somewhere in between....he might not be the type of kid to normally do it, but under stress you never know. So the question is:

Does using a slur justify beating this kid into unconsciousness?? Not in my mind. Sticks and stones, people, sticks and stones.

The victim did go to the hospital with significant injuries, but was released from the hospital even though he had clots in his eyes. You know what? This isn't that unusual really. My son lost a peice of his eye, an actual peice of the iris which regulates your pupil, and they fixed what they could and kept him only because of an adverse reaction to the anesthesia {since it was an emergency, he had eaten that day and it made him sick}.

So the 6 were arrested...well I would hope so...and bail was set between $70,000-135,000...okay I guess that's a bit high for the area, but then I have a stereotype in my head based on the Katrina coverage...but then these are very very serious charges. Well, apparently one family {the supposed ring leader or his liutenent} says that $90,000 is too high.

He was tried as an adult....he's 17 and has a criminal record already that contains 4 cases of battery...but for some reason the state supreme court feels he should have been tried as a juvy based on age....never mind the fact that the degree of assult this time could have cause permenant harm and/or resulting in death!! This goes beyond simple battery {punching a kid in the nose or a simple scuffle} this was in my mind attempted murder.

No wonder our kids are so screwed up!! Right/Wrong? Which way is the wind blowing today? Who needs what groups vote today?

As the kids say....this is totally whack!