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May 08, 2003Unbelievable...
I read about the Chicago high school powder puff football game gone awry earlier today, but it wasn't until tonight, when I saw the footage, that I realized just how serious of a situation was being described. It's one thing to read that five girls were hospitalized--one with a broken ankle, another with ten stitches in her head. It was quite another thing to see it played out. If you unleashed the Hitler Jugen on a half-dozen unarmed Jews, this is how it would look.
Watching this female mob surround and beat clearly outnumbered individuals who were on the ground, too busy writhing in agony to even think of fighting back, it was very hard to imagine humanity as harboring any spark of the divine. This group--consisting of assailants and those who watched passively--looked primed and ready to burn books, or maybe just sweep through a Jewish ghetto with clubs and bats.
They should be expelled and prosecuted, one and all. Or at least prevented from attending whatever sort of modern-day Kristallnacht they've got planned for Grad Night.
Posted by patrick at May 8, 2003 12:44 AM
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