if these guards want to beat the shit out of people, they should just join the army

"A 14-year-old boy beaten by guards at a Florida boot camp died because guards suffocated him," reports the BBC, contradcting earlier reports that he had died of sickle cell complications.

In fact, "the camp surveillance videotape showed the guards roughing him up and shoving ammonia pills up his nose."

What kind of society sends 14-year-olds to boot camp anyway?

[Tags: Martin Lee Anderson, boot camp]