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Allen Lee, the senior with an “A” average arrested for writing a seemingly violent, tasteless creative writing assignment that while “disturbing” appears to threaten no one, recently learned the U.S. Marines have rejected him as a prospect. This at a time when getting any students with any A’s on their report cards to voluntarily sign up is considered quite good, and soldiers face repeated and extended tours in Iraq even when they are suffering from PTSD and other mental conditions. Sounds like an Arlo Guthrie sequel, minus the draft, to me.

“And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly ‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?” I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.” He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?” And I said, “Littering.” And they all moved away from me on the bench there….”

You have to feel for Allen, he’d actually like to serve his country despite the way the Bush Administration is handling the wars.

Here’s SCAM’s take on it.