Note if you will where Steyn properly lays the blame. Not upon the teachers or the police, but upon the citizens and the society of the state of Oregon.
"A world that requires handcuffs and judges and district attorneys for what took place that Friday in February is not just a failed education system but an entire society .... A society that looses the state to criminalize schoolroom horseplay....
So why aren't the (guilty) girls being prosecuted also. ??
What? That makes no sense. Voters do not establish guidelines; they only vote for representatives who in turn establish guidelines. And they only know that they've voted badly after the fact . . . and only if they're paying attention.
“I disagree. The teachers, administrators, and even the prosecutor are performing their jobs within the guidelines established by the voting citizens of Oregon...A society that looses the state to criminalize schoolroom horseplay....”
That’s where common sense needs to take over. Just because a pack of godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing Communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts have enacted looney-toon laws is no justification for good men to cave in to them.
Whatever happened to the spirit of Walden, of civil disobedience? What ever happened to “Henry, what are you doing in there?” and, “Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?” Whatever happened to standing up to tyranny and saying, “No!”?