Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months

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• Hey, how about some good news for a change?

  http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/54183103692/victory-charges-dismissed-against-student-who-wore-nra

  • This is fantastic news. I can only hope that they get the situation sorted out with this other boy. This is just insane!

    • OH, oh goodie, they caught this mf (sorry) too

      http://www.examiner.com/article/nanny-cam-home-invasion-suspect-arrested-42-year-old-man-charged

      And may his stay be more unpleasant than most.

      • That is also great news. I was kind of hoping that a citizen just happen to be in a situation where this man got shot by the citizen. Or else that the cops "saw" a gun and shot. If anyone should have an incident about a gun that was or was not there when he got shot is this guy.

• You can go to Change.org to sign a petition asking that Justin be freed and that criteria for so-called "terroristic threat" law be changed. Thousands have already signed.

  http://www.change.org/petitions/release-justin-carter-and-change-the-investigative-criteria-for-terroristic-threat-laws

  • Change.org? His parents must be democrat contributors.

    • LOL! He actually thinks George Soros wants him released? Eleventy!

• Okay let's say they were cautious because of Newtown. They went ahead and arrested him. Obviously he had no plans to actually shoot up a school, so let him go right? Oh no... he SAID it, he committed a thought and speech crime and therefore he needs to stay in prison? Are we insane? Kind of like the other kid who took NRA t-shirt to school is Satan President...? oh wait...

  • Unfortunately, prosecutors are going to stunt like this until they try persecuting the wrong father's kid and they create a real tragedy.

    • I have family that worked in the courts in colo for many years. prosecutors only care about their conviction records. they don't give a rodents rectum about truth, or justice. They just want to look good for their performance reviews.

• Help us all is the only thing that I can think of. Comments in a video game setting are now grounds for an arrests, trial and possible conviction. The prosecuting attorney or attornies must be on some type of power trip. The totalitarian state isn't just a bad dream it's about to become very real, very shortly.

  No need for the FEMA camps Im not going.

• BTW, let's ban dumbass Canadians from playing video games.

• At first I thought I was reading The Onion. If there had been on line video games when I was kid I would probably still be in jail. I can't believe law enforcement in Texas is that damn stupid. Geez, get a grip on reality in Austin. Libtard central of Texas.

• So he's being censored?

  • So... this is your new thing now? what happened to Ron Paul?

    • The Creepy Crowley is just pissed because he gets thumbed down, instead of realizing his comments are stupid, repetitive and boring, he thinks the thumbs down is censorship. How long has he been here and he still don't get it.

      • Nah, I don't mind the TDs, but CO2 has actually started to delete my posts altogether.

        • "...CO2 has actually started to delete my posts altogether."

          Yes! YES!! Why O2 is one of my newest heroes.

          And he also told you why and you know exactly what to do for it to happen. Sounds like self censorship to me.

        • True. It does have a choice to act intelligently and it chooses not to.

        • Boohoo, Crowley. Add to the dialogue instead of being a nuisance and see if things do not change for the better.

        • So you admit that I'm being censored and that you support censorship?

        • I said neither of those things. I simply don't support you or your useless posts.

        • Everyone needs to have convictions and stick by them indeed.

        • You have previously mentioned that you want me banned though?

        • Unless you decided to add something constructive. I wish you would add something useful; I don't like banning anyone but I also don't like people who wish to annoy others just to get a reaction from them. Says nothing good about you.

  • No. He's being persecuted in an attempt to censor others.

  • When the government throws you in jail over comments you made in a video game I would call that worse than censorship. Are you a product of public education?

• We may as well face it. We are all at risk of being the next one targeted for stupidity. There is no first amendment anymore, unless it is to say whatever the party approves. It's 1984 - we are just 29 years late.

  • The most frightening thing about the situation is that most people likely can be convinced that throwing the kid in prison is appropriate. The high misinformation voter is getting exactly the government they deserve.

    • Only problem is that when the axe comes down on them and it will at some point, they'll still believe that Bush had something to do with it!

      • Yep... of course nothing in response to the very specific threats outlined here:
        https://www.ihatethemedia.com/if-zimmerman-get-off-ima-go-kill-a-white-boy-trayvon-martin-supporters-make-shocking-threats-ahead-of-verdict

        Equal protection my ass. Perhaps we should demand that each of those twits be hauled into court for making terrorist threats as well.