Posted on 07/08/2013 9:32:59 AM PDT by Nachum
Grisly new details emerged in the story of the ongoing imprisonment of Justin Carter, who racked up months in jail for making sarcastic, violent threats after playing an online video game.
Carter has been beaten up multiple times while in jail in Comal County, Texas, according to NPR. He is now on suicide watch.
“This was his first incarceration, his first charge, and without getting into the really nasty details, he has had concussions, he has had black eyes,” said Jack Carter, Justin’s father, in a statement.
Carter is one of two teenagers imprisoned for months for the crime of making off-color, threatening comments over the internet in response to a video game. Josh Pillault has been imprisoned for even longer–since last October. He recently pled guilty to the charges against him out of fear that fighting them would result in a lengthier sentence.
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Not sure that by merely reading his site on Facebook that they would have the information you suggest. It is not as easy as that. You are also assuming that he would permit others access to personal information.
Still not buying it.
The indictment cites the alleged threat by Carter “to shoot up a kindergarten, watch the blood rain down and eat the beating heart out of one of them,” according to the report.
“What I said was terrible, mean and downright stupid,” Carter reportedly wrote in a jailhouse letter to a judge. “The misunderstanding was that I wasn't trying to scare anyone, I was trying to be witty and sarcastic. I failed and I was arrested.”
Justin Carter, Texas teen, jailed since Feb. after making alleged Facebook threat
Not very bright.
You're right, and it's no laughing matter. It's a phenomenon which produces profound ripple effects when these victims are released. The rage that manifests itself is horrible.
Wouldn't be the first King-Sh*t cop of a judge to abuse others under the color of authority.
Do you recall the mandatory memo delivered to many towns across the US straight from DC, "If you see something, say something"? Or DHS's leaked memo that BY IDENTITY that single out conservatives as "terrorists"?
Don't think local and state officials haven't been encouraged in fedguv memos to "go off the deep end" with impunity. OR having even been seduced with possible rewards.
This kind of "off the deep end" LE behavior and attitude has become epidemic. You believe its a coincidence; I don't.
I did read that. No, he was very stupid, but the judge went too far. Now the kid is scarred for life. What’s worse, the stupid kid who made idiotic comments on gaming sites, or the beaten, raped, former felon coming out of prison afterward?
Bears repeating.
Then maybe you ought to look into it. He posted some idiotic comments about shooting up a kindergarden on his Facebook site. Some twit in Canada, of all places, came across it and, after Googling his name and finding out he lived near a school, called the New Braunfels Police and reported it. The cops freely admit that's how they found out about it. Anyway, they went and got a search warrant and a week later they arrested him. The local cops arrested him and the local judge set the bail. No grand, sinister conspiracy, just a Keystone Kops aspect to all of this that makes one want to shake their head.
Facebook seems to be a popular place for morons to incriminate themselves.
I guess I'm just not blessed with your imagination.
Maybe. But how many times do things like this have to occur before it ceases being just the "Keystone Kops".
To put it mildly.
This judge is a complete and utter tool.
PROBLEM: It's become observably epidemic. BY DESIGN. Coincidentally within the last few years.
State and local governance and its respective enforcement wings (under the color of authority) have apparently been delivered memos from DHS that encourage "GUILTY BEFORE PROVEN INNOCENT." When THEY "see something" they indeed "do something" -- that is, abuse Constitutional Rights.
Deniability.
We all know who’s done it, but oops, can’t say anything about it.
Beats me.
Nor I with your quaint naivete.
If you say so.
-and yet Alec Baldwin-who personally threatened a hate crime protected homosexual- is a free man after a simple mea culpa...
-yes, it was a stupid thing to say, but this punishment is equally stupid....simply amazing what has happened to “our” courts and LEOs.
It is sickening and I’m sure similar things have been said about Tea Party people, Conservatives etc...
..but THAT is different.
threatening to kill Kindergarteners is not going to earn him much sympathy easpecially now, beyond from a few here I guess. He has no constitutional right to do this.
Maybe the other morons will learn from this case NOT TO DO that, and this will not happen again.
I hear that criminals in jail are tough on child molesters too. They dont like that child abuse stuff.
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