Okay, I think that makes me two for two on calling bullshit. First I pegged that the IEDs weren't coming from Iran, and now this crops up. I'm a little late with reporting it, I admit, but it's still worth noting. The story of 14 year old Martin Lee Anderson dying at a juvenile boot camp in Florida was hot stuff for a short period of time, and the claim of a medical examiner that the kid died from completely natural causes (sickle cell anemia, specifically) struck me as a little odd at the time, as I wrote here: Because, clearly, things like internal bleeding and hemorrhaging always crop up unexpected. The fact that the kid was tied up and being beaten was entirely unrelated. It's not like that could cause any kind of bleeding. And the bruises on his body? Oh those were from the attempts to resuscitate him. Really. Well, wouldn't you know it, it looks like that's not the case, and Anderson really was beaten to death. The new autopsy was conducted Monday by Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams. Baden said it was clear the teen did not die from sickle cell trait, or from any other natural causes. Yes, it turns out the kid probably didn't have the disease at all, that was just a pure excuse. The fact that it lasted even this long without being uncovered is pretty surprising to me, since I used pure logic to determine that it couldn't have worked like that. This was a 14 year old kid who didn't know he had sickle cell? And it was bad enough that it could kill him after a minor scuffle? Come on now, the kid was in a juvenile boot camp, odds are he's been in at least one fight during his life. If the condition was that bad, it would have reared its head by now. So, unsurprisingly, we find out that nothing sickle-cell related killed this kid and he really was beaten to death. This confuses me a bit, though: No guards have been arrested or fired but the camp has been closed. The fact that none of the guards have been arrested annoys me, to use the term as mildly as possible, but I'm still not sure what it matters that they weren't fired if the camp was closed. I suppose that's telling us that no specific action was taken against just them, but on the same token, the camp closed. No matter what they lost their jobs, action was taken against the whole damn camp. What really does get to me is that in cases like this, no action is ever taken against the guards or anyone responsible for this in a legal sense. If I worked at a convenience store and beat a kid to death because I thought he might have been stealing a candy bar, I'd be in prison. Nine guards beat a 140 pound kid to death and all that happens is the camp closes. Amazing. Tags: boot camp, injustice, cover-up, juvenile, Florida, military, death, youth, human rights