The Cornell Rape Ethics Train Wreck just made a nasty stop.
The captain of the Piner High School football team posted the phrase “Free the Cornell Seven” on Instagram.
So what? That post is entirely, completely, protected free speech, and any semi-informed American dolt over the age of 18 should know it. That message does not involve the school or its students in any way. It is pure opinion.
Never mind. Santa Rosa City Schools officials announced last week that the student had been punished. So far, all we know about the punishment is that the player was barred from attending a team dinner. It doesn’t matter if the punishment was a reprimand in the principal’s office. A school can’t do that.
Not punished, however, were the approximately 200 students—nobody bothered to take names or count them— who walked out of class to protest the fact that their school hadn’t sufficiently punished a fellow student for making a statement of opinion that could not be legally, ethically or constitutionally punished. This is bonkers. The conduct of those students must be punished. Not only that, the teachers and administrators responsible for them not comprehending the essentials of free speech, the First Amendment and the Constitution at such an advanced age should be sacked.
The protesters demanded “accountability” for the football team captain. So did many parents, who complained to the school district that the message “makes light of sexual assault and should not be tolerated.” Not be tolerated? The school’s principal’s answer to the parents should have been,
“Mind your own damn business and get out of my face. You need to go back to high school yourself. You don’t know what you are talking about. First, anyone, including a student here, is free to post any opinion on a controversy in New York on his or her personal social media accounts any time they choose. We have to “tolerate it.” Second, there is no evidence that a sexual assault occurred, despite your fellow travelers on the Left seeking to wreck the lives of young men as a show of solidarity with the worst of American feminists.”
“And why am I the only one writing about this?“
Not unlike how Lefty can’t slobber enough about the White Supremacist/Neo-Nazi angle for the Hindu Temple wannabe terrorist.
Funniest thing; you really have to dig (all the way to the NYPost) to find out that Alexandros Paporakis is…um…TRANSITIONING
And despite being held without bail, the judge will allow him (?) to continue his (?) hormone therapy program.
PWS
You’re right – at least in California the education cannot be saved.
This is a brilliant example of one of the many reasons we escaped the Golden State five years ago. It is travesty, tragedy, evil.
And why am I the only one writing about this?
Turley wrote about it: https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/16/we-have-a-zero-tolerance-policy-high-school-student-punished-for-expressing-support-for-the-cornell-7/
I should have checked the professor. He’s been annoying me with his constant hawking of his book, tying every post to the “age of rage.” Frankly, I think EA’s “Great Stupid” is more accurate.
Someone needs to doxx this principal.
This shit would be far less common if those who do this faced personal, in-your-face consequences.
Maybe the student or his parents can pursue legal action against the principal or the school? There must be some course of action available. If I were the parent I would be livid beyond livid.
Well, some may argue that as the government does not limit itself to the supreme law if the land, people should not have to limit themselves to inferior laws.
Well sure. But no American parent should have to sue for this.
I have a number of questions:
You know the answer to all of these questions. All the people involved are Democrats. They are a totalitarian party. This student crossed party lines, that is unacceptable. You can have a political rally at school, but any student who expresses the wrong opinion at the rally will be arrested.
https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2026/08/21/torrey-pines-high-students-sue-discipline-pro-trump/
You can even be punished for complaining about being attacked for your political views.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/04/29/ucla-official-threatens-conservative-students-with-discipline-if-they-identify-disruptive-liberal-protesters-1635606/
the school staff should be arrested and prosecuted for conspiracy against rights.
This should have been a teaching moment to educate students on the heckler’s veto. Sadly, the teaching moment was missed.
“Free the Cornell 7”? What? Have they been arrested?
Any man who responds to “free [sex] upstairs!” would probably also be excited about “free sushi in the gas-station dumpster!” Either way, he’s about to learn an important lesson in microbiology.