"Zombie Terrorist Kid" Anything I can do to help?

[Witness1]

I just finshed reading that article Brian posted about the high school who got arrested on terroist charges and words can not describe how appaulded I am.

For one thing, something like this happened to me, just not as bad as getting arrested. When I was a junior in high school I wrote a poem for the school paper. It was a dark angsty peice about how I had to kill everyone because they became evil, and I didn't like having to do it. It didnt say anything about the school, or did I put peoples names in it. I didn't think it was that good, I mainly wrote it because all the other poems submitted where about pajamas and the love of ones family. Regardless, alot of students at my school liked it, even the faculity.

But then the Administration became "concerned" about me. So they talked to me and my dad about the poem and my well being. They didn't really do anything to me, I guess because they had already published the poem. But I was very angery of the fact that my dad and I had to defend myself and my art.

One of the things that angers me so much about that article was :
Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky," said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.

How can he say that and not realize that the law in question is breaking freedom of speech?

So is there anything I can do to help this kid? Is there a fund going up for his defense? Is there anybody from Kentucky here who can give me some more information?

Anything, because if there is one thing I know, its fustrating having to defend your art.

[Mashirosen]

I don't know if there's anything going on in this kid's defense yet, although it'll be surprising if the ACLU doesn't get involved, so you might want to keep an eye on their homepage. If you'd like to help someone in an even more desperate situation, though, check out the story of the West Memphis Three (http://www.wm3.org) -- a BS felony terrorism charge is bad enough, but being sent to death row for having an interest in paganism and Metallica?

[Roland]

How can he say that and not realize that the law in question is breaking freedom of speech?


Irony: In school, your rights are severly limited, and freedom of speech is pretty much non-existant.

But yeah, that's pretty bad.

[LordTobias]

Bad? Bad is a misunderstatement, I says. Trying to convict a guy of shit like that is ridiculous. And, if that's the case, then why didn't screen writers get arrested and prosecuted for writing up terrorist films with ACTUAL terrorists and such. Not fuckin zombies.

And as for the 3 kids, Mashirosen...

I saw the two documentaries on HBO. It's fucking disgusting how biased HBO was against them in the first documentary. My theory still stands that the boy who had his genitals cut off was killed by his stepfather, as were the other two boys. Y'know, since they found blood on the step father's knife, and ONLY that boy's body was so horribly mutated.

Oh, and did I mention that that community is a hick town who thinks the bible is life?

Yeah, it's looking bad for those boys...

[senfood]

I have nothign against the Bible, just Bible-thumpers. Jesus, that situation in Memphis...that's just insane. There is no possible way those boys won't have their conviction reversed and be set free. For them to even be in jail just shows how much bias there is in the world.

[synkr0nized]

"Misunderstatement" and "appaulded" have to be the most humerous made-up words I've read in a while.


Political Correctness and the desire to oversensitize the nation will march on, to my chagrin, making things like this more common. We are losing rationality.

[Mashirosen]

Let's leave the religious discussion at home, all right? And synkr0nized, I don't think either of those are as funny as "humerous".

[My Lead Airbag]

And if We proposed nuking Kansas off the face of the Earth, WE'D be arrested.

But...damn. We read that, thinking it was one of those frequent joke articles, but...damn. So first the schools take away the right to wear revealing clothing, then its illegal to make fiction short stories AT HOME.

Too bad this wasn't around during the retarded states thing.

[neyo the king]

I am greatly sadded by this stor, not because it's a load of BS, but because I'm a Kentucky citizen. I don't live in the same county as that poor guy, though, or I would protest. But really, this just makes me want to write a short story like his, and send it to his school.

[Varius]

I live up in Michigan, and...I've had problems like this, in high school.

I got picked on alot, and I had to fight back and defend myself alot.

This got me labeled as a "terrorist" who might potentially kill fellow students, or blow up the school; only because I was picked on, and showed a resolve to not allow myself to be victimized, common traits of terrorist students who do end up killing their fellow students or blowing up their school for being picked on.

But it's too bad schools and their administrations don't do anything about the people who pick on others in the first place. But if they did, then some of us wouldn't feel like going commando.

Either way, it'd be a witch hunt, and someone at some point is going to be wrongly accused. That's why schools shouldn't take part at all in slapping convictions on students. They don't know what the hell is going, and it's not like they're alleviating the problem; they're just calling problems where there actually aren't any problems.