03-05-2005, 10:21 AM
Occhidiangela,Mar 3 2005, 10:32 AM Wrote:Aspiring Horror Writer Arrested in High School
The frag pattern from Columbine High School seems to be spreading. I must confess that I don't know a lot of facts in this case, and I have not read what it is the school officials and cops, not to mention his kinfolk, were all upset about . . . but my brain is screaming "what ever happened to the exercise of judgment???"
Have we let Osama inside of everyone's head? That's a win for him, if he can get Americans to do stupid stuff (NTSA anyone?) and call it reasoned defense against terrorism.
Daniel Boone wept.
Wow, Granny rats out the kid. Is this tough love, or the culmination of years of their grandkid being a werido who is scaring the heck out of them? No details. But narking out your own kin? Something seems to be rotten in the State of Kentucky . . .
As a matter of importance, family loyalty aside, let's take a look at education in Kentucky and ask about priorities.
Poole disputes that he was threatening anyone.
"It didn't mention nobody who lives in Clark County, didn't mention (George Rogers Clark High School), didn't mention no principal or cops, nothing,"
said Poole. "Half the people at high school know me. They know I'm not that stupid, that crazy."
If he is a senior in high school, and if that is a verbatim quote, I'd ask the folks at George Rogers Clark High School, and his family, to consider working on fundamental skills, such as speaking English, as a priority. Fix the basics, eh? He won't learn good grammar in prison.
Should Edgar Allen Poe have been arrested for writing "Telltale Heart?" After all, it was about murder . . . which is a felony in the state of Kentucky, Maryland, et all. :P
Occhi
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Immedialty after reading the first post, I thought it was strange the grandparents turned him in. It made me think they were concerned enough to stop something they viewed as a serious threat. I also wondered where the parents where and figured they probbably werent around so he was most likely a troubled individual. Odd's seemed good to me this kid was up to trouble, then I read the rest of the posts and the follow-ups clarifying the situation. Now it looks like this is one bad kid afterall!
As for that particular law in Kentucky, it sounds like a reasonable law to me and I don't think it restricts into excluding remarks towards any high school or students. Instead I think its meant to protect students by restricting the depictions of high schools or students regarding violence or attempted violence. But who knows how far this law might go? I'm curioius as to the exact wording of this law and if it might be challenged in the Supreme Court.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin