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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:17 PM Original message |
Autistic Boy Charged with Making Terroristic Threats in Stick Figure Drawing |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Another decisive victory in the War on Terror, albeit for the other side. (nt) |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Exactly. The Taliban won the war years ago. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. You mean Al Queda, right? |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
56. Sorry. It's all a blur at this point. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
72. If we really wanted a "wat on terror," we'd been in Saudi Arabia right now... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #72 |
74. Or taking out BP |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Embrace the Newthink! It is ++Good and Bound to get Better! |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Gitmo future inmate |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. No rights! No trial! Held indefinitely...the american way! |
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Mojeoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
76. once, when my kids played with fire, we had the local fire marshal come |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Preemptive fuck you to anybody thinking of agreeing with this hysterical BS. |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. If you're counting people who think people are getting hysterical about the word "terroristic"... |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Umm, no, he wouldn't have been, |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. If it has gone this far |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. Or Hartman needs a blow-dry |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
10. 'making terroristic threats' is *NOT* a 'terrorism charge' |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Thank you. |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
41. It's still ridiculous. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. This is series!!1!1!Eleven! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
12. What type of SPED teacher would get bent out of shape by that? |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. If I had to guess, and I must guess |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
79. +1 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Deleted message |
kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. The type |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
15. Uh, waitaminte on the outrage.... |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. "I kinda doubt they're going to be able to prove that in any case." |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Was the threat credible? |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Just because a gun was used in the drawing doesn't mean... |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
34. .."autistics often have a propensity for violence..." |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:29 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. I assume he's referring to .... |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
42. Jesus Christ! The kid drew a fucking picture. |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. A death threat is a death threat. |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 10:03 AM Response to Reply #44 |
66. Oh for pete's sake. nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
47. We have a "propensity for violence" according to WHO!?! |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. So you physically attacked people who were annoying you? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 04:42 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. What is merely "annoying" to a normal person is painful to me. |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 05:04 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Did these people physically strike you? |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 05:39 AM Response to Reply #53 |
59. Even so, does what he said support your assertion... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #59 |
68. THANK YOU!!! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #53 |
67. You clearly don't understand autistic sensory sensitivies. |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:42 PM Response to Reply #67 |
78. In my case.... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
50. Autism is a disorder characterized by a variety of behavioral markers. |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. This is moronic on so many levels |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. that's why nobody but the OP called it 'terrorism' |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Yes, lost of people where charged with making "terroristic threats" when I was a kid |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Well, uh, my dad was charged with terroristic threatening when I was a kid.... |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Are you trying to claim these laws are the same as they were 15 years ago? |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. You are mistaken. |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:52 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Do you really understand the history of these laws? |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. That'll have Al Quieda shaking in their boots |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Pathetic!..... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
23. Here's the statute. |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Wow, so scratch decades in my posts.... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. In fairness, it looks like it was originally an antiterrorism statute, the terrorists being the KKK. |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
54. You would be correct rug |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. Interesting info. Thanks. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. What?!? No mention of Gitmo or 'enhanced interrogation?' |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. True but there's still enough stupidity in this prosecution to go around. |
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benld74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
28. OH PUH-LEEEASE!!!! |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. A stick figure of mass destruction. |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
43. It used to be |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. And I still do that |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
45. PC CORRECTNESS RUNS AMOK USING authortarianism AS EXCUSE. Why do they hate sick people? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
46. Zero Tolerance = Zero Brains |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-14-10 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
49. Another dumb-ass teacher that needs to be given her walking papers. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 03:06 AM Response to Reply #49 |
57. Its ok to threaten teachers? |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #57 |
64. Do you really think that was a threat? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #57 |
77. This wasn't a threat. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:45 AM Response to Reply #49 |
63. the teacher? |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 04:49 AM Response to Original message |
58. Who the Gods would destroy they first make mad |
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D-Lee (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 06:18 AM Response to Original message |
60. Maybe the kid was serious? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
61. If this young man has been diagnosed with Autism my guess is he is in the |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:57 AM Response to Reply #61 |
65. The drawing was in the top margin of a class assignment. n/t |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #65 |
70. Ok, thanks for that. Well. It bears asking his treatment clinician(s) if |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #70 |
75. Yes, his doctor definitely needs to be consulted. n/t |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
62. Did the kid have access to a gun at home or somewhere else? |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
69. What transformed this into a "terrorist" threat as opposed to just a plain old threat? nt |
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bondwooley (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
71. I hope Lieberman was there to promptly spank the citizenship out of him! nt |
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rationalcalgarian (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
73. When I was in the eighth grade |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #73 |
80. I love this story. |
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