Dispatch Half-Baked Cow Pies

To the Dispatch,
Well, the Dispatch is preaching at the kids again (“Half-baked” editorial).
Earlier, you straighten out a young man who refused (quite legally by the way) to submit to the half-witted state school-testing scheme. You thought it even worse that his father, the school’s principal, looked favorably upon his son’s action.
Next you pontificated to T-shirt wearing students about how wrong they were for putting the school administration in a difficult position by using their first amendment rights. You suggested all sorts of “proper” things the Dispatch would have preferred.
Now you repeat yourself as to how anything the Dispatch doesn’t like is not effective and hurts the activists’ causes. One thing I’ve learned over the years, however, is that when the guardians of propriety send up alarms about how bad something is, it must be having a good effect.
Obviously the “Dispatch” is much more concerned with chastising a few isolated high school and college students over their actions (two out of three of which would pass muster at the Supreme Court) than it is concerned with lawless legislators who have three or four times thumbed their noses at the legitimate orders of the Supreme Court.
As your editorial states, “People who are secure in their own viewpoints don’t need to resort to physical attack.” Obviously the legislature is secure in it’s own viewpoint and power; they just ignored the court and the constitution; and when it came time to wear T-shirts and throw pies, the court – unlike the kids you admonished – slunk away, probably not wanting to put anyone in “a difficult position.”
Maybe if the Dispatch threw more figurative pies at those who truly deserve them, the kids would respect the system more and throw fewer actual pies.
Uke Man