Traditionally, when men disagree, they sometimes resorted to fisticuffs. It's an old, masculine tradition, however barbaric you may perceive it. Men also tend to get over the conflict soon thereafter, too, having worked through their aggression and resolved their conflict physically. These days, though, in this litigious environment, such conflict resolution can cost you dearly.

A Mabelton man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for punching his son's football coach because the 17-year-old was told to run sprints after practice as punishment for missing class.

Ronald Lee also was sentenced to 10 years on probation for aggravated battery to a teacher, aggravated battery of a school employee and cruelty to children.

Here's what happened:

Lee admitted that he confronted [coach] Moses on the field, but the father testified that he hit the coach only in self-defense.

"He dropped the whistle out of his mouth and he came towards me and I reacted," Lee said, according to a WSB radio account of the father's testimony. "He went down on one knee...I was just kind of stunned for a minute because of what happened. And then I just walked off the field."

That part about dropping the whistle and moving toward Lee would indeed be counted as assault, if Gwinnett police officers have been truthful with me. Any such threatening moves toward someone can be considered assault (not battery which requires physical force). Depending upon how it went down, it's not beyond reason for Lee to see his punch as self-defense. Also supporting his assertion is the fact he only through one punch. Once the approaching (assaulting?) coach dropped, Lee walked off.

On the other hand, if Lee's verbal conflict passed the usual rhetoric associated with sports—and it very well may have, since he was reacting to his son's punishment—then Lee offered the initial provocation, legally speaking.

Lee's punch "required [the coach] to have surgery." Good punch! Nevertheless, I find it difficult to believe that such an action legitimizes five years in prison. The father was seemingly defending his son, a very reasonable response, and he perceived an assault and reacted defensively. Again, depending upon how things really went down, this does not seem at all beyond reason. Surely, such a manly conflict does not warrant five years in prison! (Meanwhile, real criminals are routinely free, even en masse, to commit theft, rape, and murder.)

Just to add insult to injury, notice the charges levied against Lee:

1. aggravated battery to a teacher,
2. aggravated battery of a school employee, and
3. cruelty to children.

There's a unique charge for battery to a teacher, as opposed to a non-teacher? (Same for "school employee".) Being government morons—er, government employees (same thing)—I guess they're a protected class, despite the clear ethics of the 14th Amendment, the DoI, the Bible, etc.

Why aren't the first two charges completely redundant and overlapping? Conviction on both these counts is tantamount to double jeopardy! ("Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.") It was one punch to one man. There can only be one battery charge. Period. Filing two overlapping charges for one crime (if indeed it even was a crime, which I question), is no less double jeopardy than if they were filed at different times.

The last charge is also a mystery to me. How was there any cruelty to children in this incident, other than possibly the coach's treatment of Lee's son (depending upon the circumstances of his missed class)? As far as the facts were reported by Atlanta's Urinal and Constipation, there were no other children involved, and indeed the only potential crime was Lee's punch (to the coach). Or was this coach himself a child? Surely the schools aren't employing children to be coaches! (Even if they did, this would merely be another redundant charge.) Just in case this charge pertains to the punch having been witnessed by children, tell me how this differs from the copious violence on TV, in movies, and in video games, where pride is taken in their realism. The real cruelty to children is in enslaving them to an utterly corrupt government where justice has no meaning.

As I've said repeatedly... Law is irrelevant. We are no longer a culture under the rule of law. Even the prima facie evidence shows the 5th and 14th Amendments to have been blatantly violated without reservation, proof that the law means nothing to the prosecuting and judging government. If Big Brother wants to target you, there is no effective defense except force (and this will likely result in your death). Charges will be trumped up. Rights will be ignored. The law has no connection with righteousness or justice but is merely another weapon against citizens, or else it's something to be ignored by the "experts".