High School Attack: Kerry Taunts Tied To Fight

[Moloch]

Three high school students face charges for using a bat to beat another student who taunted them about being John Kerry supporters days after the contentious election.

The 17-year-old Apple Valley victim was assaulted Thursday in a Minnesota Zoo parking lot near Apple Valley's School of Environmental Studies, better known as the zoo school. Chad McKay, also 17, stood over the victim attempting to protect him.

"It's a good thing to see young people interested and excited about politics," said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom. "It's obviously very disturbing to see this kind of violence over it."

http://drudgereport.com/flashmn.htm

[XanaDUer]

1. I don't endorse this type of stuff

but you can push people too far...

[zbdent]

2. Gee, one attack by Kerry supporters, and it makes the news

Numerous attacks by Bush supporters, you never hear anything . . .

[ClassWarrior]

11. Yeah, on election day here...

...there was a news report that the tires had been slashed on 10 or 20 vans that the RepubliCONs had rented for GOTV. The official Bushbot they interviewed made it out to be some devious plot to thwart their GOTV efforts. The reporter then said security had spotted a teenager in a black hoodie running from the area. Some devious plot - a teenage Eminem fan!! LOL

NGU.

[Roaming]

14. Update on that van story--they think some kids of local

Democratic activists were responsible. What a bunch of jerks.

[henslee]

3. Parlock, jr.?

[sandnsea]

4. gay taunts

Well I guess Democrats aren't backing off their support of gay rights.

[Shoeempress]

5. Gee, you don't think this might be Manufactured like th story about

Big Dogs staff taking all the W keys off the computers do you. Naw, Chimpy and his Minions wouldn't LIE.

[ElectroPrincess]

6. Right Wing Propaganda ...

Even if it was true. You can beat this story by a long shot with a landslide of other nasty little deeds don't by the right wing radicals of the republican party.

Say, for instance, my windshield covered with permanent red ink on Nov 2nd. Or one of my co-workers at the Democratic booth being called "a traitor."

But Drudge wants to stir things up and claim all the HATE is from the liberals. What an a**hole. Why do we bother to cite him at DU?

[ClassWarrior]

13. Sore winners.

We say, "What do you expect when Bush**'s supporters are so cruel and rotten - even in victory??"

NGU.

[lateo]

7. This is what it is coming to.

The anger, turns to rage, the rage wraps around hatred and BOOM! We are headed down the spiral of violence that will lead to civil war.

I say bring it.

/flame away

[stevedeshazer]

8. DRUDGE

'Nuff said.

[northernsoul]

9. This happened in Minnesota, but the first I'm hearing this is from Drudge?

I'll believe it when I see it in the local media

[slappypan]

10. What's the matter, don't Republicans endorse bullying anymore?

"Boys will be boys" and all that?

[UpInArms]

12. Drudge Sludge is not acceptable LBN linkage

please cease to use that as "news" sourcing.

Do you not realize that you are providing that POS with income by even "clicking" his link?

Why are you supporting him?

Not trying to flame, just educate.

[Voltaire99]

15. What's not to believe in this story?

Yes, the Pi Press is a rag, and Drudge is Druge. But this hardly smacks, so to speak, of propaganda. It's merely a portrait of suburban violence--but with a scrim of political identity pasted on. The key details are the bat and the lock around the finger. From this we deconstruct a fairly tawdry and typical pathology: these kids are not strangers to mayhem...