Posted on 09/02/2014 8:41:40 AM PDT by heartwood
Patrick Mclaw, 23, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Maryland's Mace Lane Middle School, has been placed on leave after authoring "The Insurrectionist," a fictional book that chronicles "the largest school massacre in history."
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No legally registered guns, no illegal ones found in the house search or they would tell us.
Guy is lucky they didn't SWAT him to death.
And unless there were some major red flags flying, McLaw should be able to win a giant lawsuit and spend the rest of his life writing novels that make the authorities nervous.
The people who write the articles don't even use the word "novel." They have to spell out "fictional book" because we're so dumbed down.
Paid leave?
If so, I'm starting tomorrow on my fictional book about a mass shooting at the convenience store where I work.
Regards,
I suspect there is more to this story than what we are reading here and in the Atlantic.
Some articles list a third name (alias) Patrick Beale. That is not a pen name for a book. I suspect that there is more to this story too.
Clarification: In 2009 he legally changed his last name from Beale to the present one. No reason given and first and middle stayed the same.
I know someone who did that, he wanted the last name of his stepfather but was too old to be officially adopted, so he changed his name.
This is the strangest story I’ve heard in a long time and I’ll have to go and try and read the version at the Atlantic which hopefully might make a little more sense even though I’m well aware they are flaming libs.
But this really is an issue left and right can agree on. As someone said, if this is the standard Agatha Christie should have been hanged.
Go to the library and you will find hundreds of “fictional books” about single and mass murders by many well-known authors.
Some of them ,actually quite a few, feature corrupt,stupid, and evil people in government ;sometimes all three at once.Much like real life.
Go to the library and you will find hundreds of “fictional books” about single and mass murders by many well-known authors.
What I am suggesting is there may be more to the story. There may be a facet that the article doesn’t discuss, but would suddenly explain to rational people why the police acted the way they did.
It happens. And, frankly, more than it should. A REAL reporter would ask what crime he is being charged with and under what pretenses is he being held.
I’ve learned from experience that when key questions are not answered, I question the validity of the story.
Bad teacher! Take a paid vacation.
I wonder if he was or will be a liberal for long.
They are knee jerk liberals from Maryland, what other explanation is necessary?
Won’t work unless you are a government employee.
...or shoot his dog.
A “fictional book?” So it doesn’t even exist?
Wow.
Was there a picture of a gun (assault rifle) in the book?
An example of “academic freedom” they chant about. Kinda like the chants Orwell described—war is peace. It’s only freedom when they say it is.
Welcome to your America, McLaw.
Writing fiction is now some sort of offense. Oh, joy.
They are knee jerk liberals from Maryland, what other explanation is necessary?
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