the kid's making the right noises, and a year's worth of full-time unpaid labor is something. hopefully it's real forestry work pulling slash piles together and replanting.

all in all, it's probably the best that could be expected. still a giant fucking pointless tragedy.

Should have been sentenced to a lifetime of planting trees in the burned out areas, but I guess we'll take what we can get.

Deport the motherfucker already. We don't need these thugs, terrorists, and criminals in our midst.
Send him back to England, or wherever his immigrant ancestors came from.

I'm afraid that my immediate response to Walden's bill was "Greg Walden should DIAF." Appropriate, no? Not very nice, but I never claimed to be a nice person, and Greg is blight on the congressional delegation from Oregon.

#4, it was eastern Europe, not that it matters. We have plenty of homegrown teenage assholes, too. In fact most of us were assholes as teens, and most of us were lucky enough not to have our assholery have such devastating consequences. I say this as a lifelong hiker and outdoors person who is sick at heart over what he did, but he's just a dumb stupid kid. I hope he rises above this.

@6

My sarcasto-blaster is set to "stun" this week. Sorry that didn't come across.