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By Dennis Prager






At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Ore., students created something
called "slap butt day." On one such day in February, according to the
Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle
School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran - what some
kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is
against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the
gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police
officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them."

A police officer interrogated them?

"After hours of interviews with students," the Oregonian continues, "the
day of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda
rights

hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next
five days."

Two seventh-graders were read their Miranda rights for butt-swatting?

And hauled off to jail for butt-swatting?

And kept in jail for five days for butt-swatting?

At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Ore., students created something
called "slap butt day." On one such day in February, according to the
Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle
School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran - what some
kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is
against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the
gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police
officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them."

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By Dennis Prager

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By Dennis Prager

At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Ore., students created something
called "slap butt day." On one such day in February, according to the
Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle
School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran - what some
kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is
against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the
gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police
officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them."

A police officer interrogated them?

"After hours of interviews with students," the Oregonian continues, "the day
of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and
hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next
five days."

Two seventh-graders were read their Miranda rights for butt-swatting?

And hauled off to jail for butt-swatting?

And kept in jail for five days for butt-swatting?

This is worse than a bad joke; it is actually sick.

And it gets worse. The seventh-graders were not permitted contact with their
parents for 24 hours, they were brought into court in shackles and jail
garb, and they were strip-searched four times.

All because the Yamhill County district attorney, Bradley Berry, brought
felony sex charges against the two boys. When he finally explained himself
under pressure from the media, Berry told the Oregonian, "From our
perspective and the perspective of the victims, this was not just
horseplay."

In fact, it turns out that the girls involved did regard it as horseplay.
And they claimed from virtually the outset that they had been pressured into
making a case against the boys.

The Oregonian has reported that listeners to my radio show across America
provided nearly all of the more than $40,000 for defense costs for the two
boys. But they have done more. They have also sent letters to the two boys
assuring them it is not they, but Bradley Berry, who acted perversely. One
of the boys' mothers, in tears, told me that these letters profoundly
affected the boys, who were made to appear as perverts and sexual predators
and who could have been placed on sexual predator lists for the rest of
their lives. My listeners also reported that when they phoned the office of
Bradley Berry, they were told that "there was more to the story," that more
evidence would be forthcoming.

That was a lie. Berry had nothing more to reveal and did in fact drop the
felony charges. The boys were then charged "only" with sexual harassment.

Our beloved country is flipping out. The effects of The Age of Stupidity
ushered in during the '60s and '70s are omnipresent. It is highly doubtful
that there is a living member of the World War II generation who could have
imagined that seventh-graders would one day be brought in shackles into an
American courtroom for playfully swatting a girl's buttocks. It is also true
that there is no member of that generation who could ever have imagined
something as low-life as a "slap butt day" in an American middle school -
but that is another matter.

Apparently, ex-Raleigh/Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is not the only
D.A. in America who has used his almost unlimited power to hurt innocent
boys.

Nifong, it will be recalled, brought phony charges of gang rape against
three Duke lacrosse players, lied about having more evidence, withheld
critical information from the defense and in sundry other ways did whatever
he could to ruin three innocent boys' lives.

Nifong has since been disbarred.

Nifong has met his match in Oregon, where Bradley Berry has done his best to
ruin two innocent boys' lives. Perhaps the major difference is that the boys
Bradley Berry is abusing are seventh-graders, not college students.

The story is so angering that one can only wonder whether America is
suffering from a surfeit of district attorneys who are either incompetent or
just lack elementary human decency. One prays these two district attorneys
are exceptions. But there is only one way to ensure that they are. Bradley,
like Nifong, must be removed from office. Anyone who believes that
seventh-graders who swat girls' buttocks on "slap butt day" are sex
criminals who should be charged with crimes that would permanently label
them as sex offenders is a dangerous fool. A district attorney who believes
that is a dangerous fool. Bradley Berry has acted like Mike Nifong. He needs
to be punished like Mike Nifong.

My show and my listeners have been instrumental in helping getting all the
charges against the boys dropped - this happened just yesterday. Now we will
focus our attention on removing Bradley Berry from office.

A democracy cannot long survive the contempt more and more Americans feel
for American law.

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J Young
younginsig...@aol.com

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By Dennis Prager

At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Ore., students created something
called "slap butt day." On one such day in February, according to the
Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle
School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran - what some
kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is
against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the
gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police
officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them."

A police officer interrogated them?

"After hours of interviews with students," the Oregonian continues, "the day
of the February incident, the officer read the boys their Miranda rights and
hauled them off in handcuffs to juvenile jail, where they spent the next
five days."

Two seventh-graders were read their Miranda rights for butt-swatting?

And hauled off to jail for butt-swatting?

And kept in jail for five days for butt-swatting?

This is worse than a bad joke; it is actually sick.

And it gets worse. The seventh-graders were not permitted contact with their
parents for 24 hours, they were brought into court in shackles and jail
garb, and they were strip-searched four times.

All because the Yamhill County district attorney, Bradley Berry, brought
felony sex charges against the two boys. When he finally explained himself
under pressure from the media, Berry told the Oregonian, "From our
perspective and the perspective of the victims, this was not just
horseplay."

In fact, it turns out that the girls involved did regard it as horseplay.
And they claimed from virtually the outset that they had been pressured into
making a case against the boys.

The Oregonian has reported that listeners to my radio show across America
provided nearly all of the more than $40,000 for defense costs for the two
boys. But they have done more. They have also sent letters to the two boys
assuring them it is not they, but Bradley Berry, who acted perversely. One
of the boys' mothers, in tears, told me that these letters profoundly
affected the boys, who were made to appear as perverts and sexual predators
and who could have been placed on sexual predator lists for the rest of
their lives. My listeners also reported that when they phoned the office of
Bradley Berry, they were told that "there was more to the story," that more
evidence would be forthcoming.

That was a lie. Berry had nothing more to reveal and did in fact drop the
felony charges. The boys were then charged "only" with sexual harassment.

Our beloved country is flipping out. The effects of The Age of Stupidity
ushered in during the '60s and '70s are omnipresent. It is highly doubtful
that there is a living member of the World War II generation who could have
imagined that seventh-graders would one day be brought in shackles into an
American courtroom for playfully swatting a girl's buttocks. It is also true
that there is no member of that generation who could ever have imagined
something as low-life as a "slap butt day" in an American middle school -
but that is another matter.

Apparently, ex-Raleigh/Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is not the only
D.A. in America who has used his almost unlimited power to hurt innocent
boys.

Nifong, it will be recalled, brought phony charges of gang rape against
three Duke lacrosse players, lied about having more evidence, withheld
critical information from the defense and in sundry other ways did whatever
he could to ruin three innocent boys' lives.

Nifong has since been disbarred.

Nifong has met his match in Oregon, where Bradley Berry has done his best to
ruin two innocent boys' lives. Perhaps the major difference is that the boys
Bradley Berry is abusing are seventh-graders, not college students.

The story is so angering that one can only wonder whether America is
suffering from a surfeit of district attorneys who are either incompetent or
just lack elementary human decency. One prays these two district attorneys
are exceptions. But there is only one way to ensure that they are. Bradley,
like Nifong, must be removed from office. Anyone who believes that
seventh-graders who swat girls' buttocks on "slap butt day" are sex
criminals who should be charged with crimes that would permanently label
them as sex offenders is a dangerous fool. A district attorney who believes
that is a dangerous fool. Bradley Berry has acted like Mike Nifong. He needs
to be punished like Mike Nifong.

My show and my listeners have been instrumental in helping getting all the
charges against the boys dropped - this happened just yesterday. Now we will
focus our attention on removing Bradley Berry from office.

A democracy cannot long survive the contempt more and more Americans feel
for American law.

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