Helpfully Providing Information to Our Benevolent Masters
A student arrested in Kentucky for “terroristic threatening” says that he is in trouble over a zombie story that was not intended as a threat. According to Lex 18, which I can only guess by the name is a news-generating robot,
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,”
Regardless of what the cops say (whatever the hell the above sentence even means), my suspicion is they need threats to boost their budget and stamping out remaining creativity in the government citizen factories is always accepted behavior.
I passed along some information to the Clark County Circuit Court, which according to their website, has telephones and water fountains available.
I read that your prosecutor’s office has taken an interest in fiction involving violence in schools. You may also be interested in the novella Bring a Gun to School Day, which shows how overbearing security measures make students less safe.
http://www.bringaguntoschoolday.com
It’s my duty to share any information I can provide to help keep our children safe.
Thanks to Mike for sharing the news story.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
A bold stance, my friend. Bravo!
Incidents that may or may not attract mainstream media attention could be provoked by peaceful actions such as, say, trying to donate copies of your book to every library in a given demographic area. An area where it meets with strong resistance but not complete suppression. That might be a project worth contributing to, actually.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky,”
So, the way I see it:
- Making a threat is a felony in the state of Kentucky
- Possessing matter involving a school is a felony in the state of Kentucky
- Possessing matter involving a function is a felony the state of Kentucky
I get the first one, even though it could be over-broad. But “possessing matter” involving anything? He’s talking about, like, atoms and molecules, right? Any “matter” involving a school might mean any student or parent with school-aged children.
This attitude is pervasive, though, even if this speaker is, ehm, inarticulate: You’re all criminals, we just haven’t found something yet to pin on you, so get back in line.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
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