I was watching the videos of this on the news earlier and it's just so fucking sad.
I know hazing is a 'proud tradition' of many schools. This act can't even be lumped in the same category as hazing. This act was an organized act of violence. They brought the victims, they brought the camera and they had a little beer party to boot. These 'girls' and I use that term loosely, should be punished as far as the law allows and then the school should get their collective asses off the fence and show these 'girls' that there are consequences for their actions. Kick'em off the team, publicly reprimand them for embarassing the school and it's other law abiding members.
Mob mentality? I don't buy it. I've been in several 'questionable' situations and I still managed to tell the difference between right and wrong. And in my book, there is never an instance when kicking the dogshit out a defenseless human being is considered 'right.'
Of course, these 'girls' are going to get off. They're going to get a slap on the wrist for their actions. People will talk of 'Mob mentality,' and 'peer pressure' and whole other truckload of psycho-babble bullshit and in the end these 'girls' who so maliciously beat the shit out a weaker group of girls just for shits and giggles, will be cleared of any wrong doing because it 'really wasn't their fault.'
What a crock. Punish the 'girls' and punish the watchers, who stood around watching this cluster fuck without doing anything to stop it. In fact, any body who wasn't getting their shit kicked is guilty.
The thing that bothers me the most is all the wishy washy talk in this article.
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School officials stressed that the game was not sanctioned and occurred off-campus without their knowledge.
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Always concerned with their own ass, eh?
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Cook County Forest Preserve District police are investigating whether any criminal acts occurred.
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Yeah, I guess the really big audio/visual clue isn't much help in these circumstances.....maybe you should look for a big piece of paper that says "here we beat the shit out of a large group of defenseless girls, five of which we sent to the hospital, and threw paint, mud, excrement, you know the usual, on them....signed...."
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School officials were looking at tapes and photographs to identify students for possible discipline...
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Possible discipline??? I think the act merits
definate discipline
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"There's nothing else we can do," Freeman said. "It's out of our jurisdiction. The courts and the parents will mete out punishment."
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I think there is plenty to do. This is just a cop-out by the school to prevent them from looking like the bad guys and taking a little of the responsibility
There is much more to say about this, but I guess I've said enough already