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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2013, 03:01:50 pm »
The kid is alarmingly stupid.  The cops are alarmingly stupid.  It's Texas.  What's new?
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2013, 03:56:20 pm »
Happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. Frustrated comment, someone in the US took it seriously, transatlantic police alert. We were waiting to go into the lecture when he got a surprised phonecall from his sister because the police were first going to his home address. They didn't interrupt the lecture, but he was quietly picked out of the crowd afterwards and spent several uncomfortable hours at the police station.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2013, 04:00:37 pm »
It's amazing the lengths people are going to in order to defend the arrest.  It basically boils down to "these are scary times so they shouldn't be able to say things like that."  Yeah, you're scared and offended that these things were said during a sensitive period, but in five years after the hysteria dies down you'll be bitching about how more rights are being stripped away and wondering how it happened.  You can't make allowances for this type of crap because you're currently paranoid, and then be surprised when those allowances aren't relinquished after the paranoia leaves.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2013, 04:48:35 pm »
I was pissed when I read about this in June and still pissed reading it today.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2013, 01:31:36 am »
I don't see what the kid did that's so stupid. It's an obvious joke, & he went out of his way to identify it as such. People make jokes. Sometimes jokes are offensive. Since when is that "stupid"?

The comments are really irritating me. They don't seem to get this idea of "disproportionate retribution." If the police investigated the report, they should have seen that it was an obvious joke, by a person with no signs of violence. Call him up, warn him about being careful with wisecracks like that, & call it a day. What happens to freedom of speech if satirical comments are prosecutable "threats of terrorism"?
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2013, 02:11:23 am »
Man, this has me so angry I feel like blowing up a church and hiding anthrax in the Easter eggs and Halloween candy.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2013, 02:35:05 pm »
Quote from: Osama bin Bambi on August 25, 2013, 02:11:23 am
Man, this has me so angry I feel like blowing up a church and hiding anthrax in the Easter eggs and Halloween candy.

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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2013, 04:24:37 pm »
Quote from: Magus Silveresti on August 25, 2013, 02:35:05 pm
Quote from: Osama bin Bambi on August 25, 2013, 02:11:23 am
Man, this has me so angry I feel like blowing up a church and hiding anthrax in the Easter eggs and Halloween candy.

And then Eva was never seen again...

"Of course she's a terrorist, just look at her user name" said the lazy federal agent.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2013, 05:46:02 pm »
Quote from: lord gibbon on August 25, 2013, 04:24:37 pm
Quote from: Magus Silveresti on August 25, 2013, 02:35:05 pm
Quote from: Osama bin Bambi on August 25, 2013, 02:11:23 am
Man, this has me so angry I feel like blowing up a church and hiding anthrax in the Easter eggs and Halloween candy.

And then Eva was never seen again...

"Of course she's a terrorist, just look at her user name" said the lazy federal agent.

That's the funniest bit about this.
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2013, 11:54:59 pm »
Quote from: Magus Silveresti on August 25, 2013, 05:46:02 pm
Quote from: lord gibbon on August 25, 2013, 04:24:37 pm
Quote from: Magus Silveresti on August 25, 2013, 02:35:05 pm
Quote from: Osama bin Bambi on August 25, 2013, 02:11:23 am
Man, this has me so angry I feel like blowing up a church and hiding anthrax in the Easter eggs and Halloween candy.

And then Eva was never seen again...

"Of course she's a terrorist, just look at her user name" said the lazy federal agent.

That's the funniest bit about this.

America enjoys a good joke, but not when the punchline is TERRORISM
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2013, 09:27:09 am »
Well, guys, looks like I'm going to jail for life then, because I said "DIAF" a few times in 2006-7.  Clearly I would never have said such a thing unless I intended to go commit arson/murder.

Seriously, what the fucking hell?
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Re: Texas Kid Could Be Sentenced Up To Eight Years For Facebook Sarcasm
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2013, 04:08:55 am »
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