Guy writes under a pen name a novel set 900 years in the future. Gets his house searched. Gets "medically evaluated." Is in "a location known to law enforcement" and not permitted to travel.
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.
1 posted on
09/02/2014 8:41:40 AM PDT by
heartwood
To: heartwood
Maryland Teacher Placed on Leave for Authoring Fictional Book on Mass School ShootingPaid leave?
If so, I'm starting tomorrow on my fictional book about a mass shooting at the convenience store where I work.
Regards,
2 posted on
09/02/2014 8:46:00 AM PDT by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: heartwood
I suspect there is more to this story than what we are reading here and in the Atlantic.
4 posted on
09/02/2014 8:48:26 AM PDT by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: heartwood
Patrick McLaw
Looks more like someone you would see at Church, then a threat to society.
6 posted on
09/02/2014 8:57:13 AM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village)
To: heartwood
Bad teacher! Take a paid vacation.
11 posted on
09/02/2014 9:34:57 AM PDT by
DManA
To: heartwood
I wonder if he was or will be a liberal for long.
12 posted on
09/02/2014 9:43:46 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: heartwood
Guy is lucky they didn't SWAT him to death. ...or shoot his dog.
15 posted on
09/02/2014 9:47:21 AM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: heartwood
A “fictional book?” So it doesn’t even exist?
Wow.
To: heartwood
Was there a picture of a gun (assault rifle) in the book?
17 posted on
09/02/2014 9:48:37 AM PDT by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: heartwood
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.
18 posted on
09/02/2014 9:54:10 AM PDT by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: heartwood
Writing fiction is now some sort of offense. Oh, joy.
19 posted on
09/02/2014 10:00:06 AM PDT by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: heartwood
24 posted on
09/02/2014 10:59:40 AM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village)
To: heartwood; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
I don’t see why the police are in such a rush. They have 900 years to stop this thing.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...
I don’t know why the police are in such a rush. They have 900 years to stop this thing.
Anti-free speech, anti-free press Nanny State PING!
To: null and void
To: heartwood
That’s probably why he remains sequestered. Hard to sue when you’re in solitary.
31 posted on
09/05/2014 2:48:26 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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