A high school kid in Kentucky has been arrested and is currently in jail awaiting felony charges for making terroristic threats against his high school.
what was the threat?
He wrote a short story about zombies taking over a high school…a fictional high school, not his own, and none of the characters in his story were real people.
It gets even more stupid:
The seriousness of the charge? The seriousness of the charge? What the fuck? I don’t even know what to say or who to pit first.
How about grandparents who called the cops on their own grandson for writing a zombie story? Are they fucking mental? Are they senile? What’s going on there?
The cops are even worse than the grandparents for actually arresting the kid for this BULLSHIT! Do they all get lobotomized when they join the Winchester PD? They never saw a zombie story before? Are they fucking stupid or something?
The prosecutors who actually had the balls to ask the judge to raise the bond because of the “seriousness” of the charges are even worse than the cops and the fucking asswipe judge who granted their request is even worse than they are.
I hope nobody here has ever written a zombie story because if you have, you’re a terrorist.
When I was in like 7th grade I used to draw pictures with one of my friends in a boring English class. I had some (limited) ability to draw caricatures so we would pick out a teacher or a student we didn’t like and draw a picture of him/her, then we would pass the picture back and forth and take turns drawing violent things happening to the person, like bullets, bombs, flamethrowers, arrows, whatever. It was just a way for us to pass the time in a dull class in our thuggish, 12 year-old boy sort of way. We got caught once and the teacher just balled up the drawing and threw it in the trash. We’d probably get arrested for it now.
I also use to try to write horror stories and sometimes those stories would involve kids and schools because I was a kid in school. That’s what I knew. I even wrote these stories for classes and got good grades for them. Now I would probably get arrested for them.
The stupidity of the actions of the adults in this situation speaks for itself, so I’ll just take the cheap grammar potshot and say that I’m sure his short story is a sterling contribution to the body of English literature.
Well, to be fair, apparently reading isn’t much of a skill in Kentucky. They seem to be having problems correctly parsing “no law”, so perhaps he is merely reflecting some weird native dialect.
Clearly, the First Amendment’s recognition of the Right to Free Speech is intended to apply only to the ability of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances. Back when the Amendment was written, nobody even knew such a thing as zombies might exist; much less that they would become so popular in fiction. There is no way that they could have intended that zombies would be written about. Since zombie literature did not exist at the time the Amendment was written, there is no reason to believe it is protected now. Besides, the First Amendment only applies to the federal government. The States can do as they please to reasonably ensure the safety of the Public.
Did this guy really need to write a story about zombies? No! He could have written a story about his puppy, or about a pleasant spot at the lake. Zombies? Nobody has any business writing about zombies! Zombie stories are dangerous. Someone might read them and be inspired to emulate them and go around killing and eating people. They can damage the psyches of impressionable young children. I think there should be a law banning all zombie stories, whether in print or on film or video, and that they should be confiscated.
Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard it before. ‘When zombie stories are outlawed, only outlaws will write zombie stories.’ And: ‘Outlawing zombie stories won’t do any good, because people will get them anyway. Heck, I can make a zombie story in my basement!’ Bullshit. Nobody needs zombie stories!
And don’t start with the ‘slippery slope’ arguement! Nobody is calling for the banning of Free Speech for legitimate purposes! People will still be able to write stories about things that are good for society. Like war stories.
The sooner all of the zombie stories are banned, the sooner this country will become more civilised!
[sub]Note to the humour impared: I’m joking.[/sub]
The grandparents better hope nothing happens to their other descendants, because if the eventual choice of their nursing home settles on zomibe-boy… watch out.
Yeah, but the new motto is “Education First!” And they beleive it. No, really! I saw it on numerous Welcome signs to the state along the Interstates. Maybe they’re just ahead of the curve.
Anyhoo…that’s it: I’m sending my kids to private school. This is fucking ridiculous. With all the coat checks, sobriety tests, pledges, moments of silence, and censorship, it’s a wonder our public schools find any time to teach whilst indoctrinating our kids into the time-honored tradition of American Paranoia. If they’re not being made to “duck and cover” or sup the Jesus Juice from the Christian Right’s Challice of Creationist Wisdom, they’re worrying about being branded members of Osama’s Army. Fuck the whole thing. Bush can have his goddamn vouchers, and then they can establish their very own zombielessly-pure Freedom Ghetto and brainwash their spawn any way they like. I want out. I cringe at the thougt of having my kids educated in this environment.
The asshats who can only parrot things like “think of the children” are to blame. I can see how things may need to be different after the Columbine masacre but zero tolerance is not a subtitute for proper action.
Sounds like maybe the first story was getting spun by the kid and this may not be as egregious as it seems.
I will now uncharacteristically back away from my initial rant and wait for the facts. If the kid was really trying to organize an armed invasion of the school then the arrest, of course, was entirely warranted. I will actually be a little relieved if that turns out to be the case.
