Two Boys From Oregon

OUTRAGED

... and on a mission from god, and Judge Raggo.

In the process of making a point, Mark Steyn  [Swat somebody's butt, and yours belongs to the the D.A.] touched a nerve and sent me on a mission from god.  The kids are interviewed in this Oregonian TV piece, and that really launched me.  I had to summon  Judge Raggo to do some adjudicating.  As you may recall, Judge Raggo does not suffer fools lightly. “ Do you know Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison? If you do, don't approach them. Call 911 and order up a SWAT team. They're believed to be in the vicinity of McMinnville, Ore., where they're a clear and present danger to the community. Mashburn and Cornelison were recently charged with five counts of felony sexual abuse, and District Attorney Bradley Berry has pledged to have them registered for life as sex offenders. Oh, by the way, the defendants are in the seventh grade. Messrs Mashburn and Cornelison are pupils at Patton Middle School. They were arrested in February after being observed in the vestibule, swatting girls on the butt. Butt-swatting had apparently become a form of greeting at the school – like "a handshake we do," as one female student put it. On "Slap Butt Fridays," boys and girls would hail each other with a cheery application of manual friction to the posterior, akin to a Masonic greeting. ”