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Five students arrested in foiled southeast Kansas school shooting
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| 4-20-06
| my favorite headache
Posted on 04/20/2006 12:34:48 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Kansas cops raid a high school after plans are uncovered off a web page of 5 students to do a Columbine style killing spree at their high school....developing and breaking...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: banglist; columbine; myspacecom; schoolshooting; teensgonewild
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No! Leave it up! Cops are having a field day trolling around and uncovering all kinds of crap.
To: DBrow
Excellent insight and dead on I might add.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:46:04 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!
And that would help how? There's always going to be problems with sites that have kids on them - unless you think myspace is any worse than any other provider, I don't see how shutting them down would help. They'll go somewhere else and post the same stuff. At least myspace is based in this country and helps with investigations where child molesting/assault is being investigated. What happen you close down myspace and the next popular posting spot is from another country?
To: battlegearboat
This was not even close to Kansas City, but in Cherokee County, which is in the very Southeast corner of the state.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:46:52 PM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!"
I see. MySpace claims to have 70 million subscribers. You'd remove this popular site, full, mostly of innocuous little web pages, because someone posted a plan, real or bogus, to do something?
In some ways, MySpace helps authorities find this stuff and arrest the perps before they do something. No doubt, some other MySpace user saw this on MySpace and reported it to the authorities.
Would you rather these kids just wrote their plans down on a paper journal that nobody saw until after they shot up their school?
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:47:30 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Take a gander at Livejournal and Xanga too.
The problem is more parental visibility into what their kids are posting and who they are trading cell phone pictures with.
I do not want the government to come in and regulate even a small corner of the web. That would be the camel's nose under the mouse.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:47:41 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: tje
You signed up for FR exactly one month after Columbine. Is there anyway to search for FReepers via sign on date?
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:48:54 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Screaming ALREADY POSTED! since 2004)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
TIME TO SHUT DOWN MYSPACE!Seems to be working fine. These kids were dumb enough to post their plans for destruction on MySpace for all to see. I'd be worried if MySpace was shut down and nimrods like these 5 didn't have a place to brag about their pending criminal plans.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:49:03 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: avg_freeper
I sure am glad they found the one kid in Kansas with guns, ammunition, and knives in his bedroom.LOL!!
To: DBrow; Extremely Extreme Extremist
Or how about geocities? Maybe blogspot.com?
Maybe the millions of forums that exist...
Maybe only "allowed" content should be on the Internet...
Sorry, but this is the price of freedom of speach. You are going to have wackos...
- plewis1250
To: Joe 6-pack; My Favorite Headache
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:50:46 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Screaming ALREADY POSTED! since 2004)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The thing about MySpace is the freedom on it for people of all ages across the globe at NO COST. There are a few popular sites just like it as well...
http://www.etwine.com/
Is another example and offers users even more in the way of things than MySpace.com does...these sites serve purpose for a lot of reasons for millions each day and if this uncovered a plot to kill dozens of kids in 30 mins? I say keep it open.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:51:00 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: My Favorite Headache
Interesting. Just seconds ago I was looking at the date. Some bad things had happened aound the 19th and 20th of April in the past from Waco to Columbine and I think the Oklahoma bombing as well.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
MaineVoter2002
(http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
To: jdm
You signed up for FR exactly one month after Columbine. Is there anyway to search for FReepers via sign on date?
I would suspect that there is, but I don't know how. Maybe one of the Mods.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:52:10 PM PDT
by
tje
To: plewis1250
Myspace was not around when Columbine happened...
They had websites somewhere, iirc. I remember one of them, Klebold? going on about Ecstasy and tossing the salad and killing people, all in WierD CApItalIzatioN. He was part of some Goth web community. Hence the Goth dress, trench coats, black fingernail polish, etc.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:52:22 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
And how dumb do you have to be to put your plans for world domination on the web? Obviously these "honor students" weren't as bright as this pair:
To: DBrow
Are the police now monitoring MySpace? Or were they tipped when someone else read the site? Good question. Could be either, but most likely a tip in this case. I'd be surprised if there isn't at least some active monitoring taking place also, though.
And how dumb do you have to be to put your plans for world domination on the web? (I keep my plans in a USB drive).
Kids are by their very nature short sighted (read dumb) sometimes. They get lulled into the concept of anonymity of the internet and don't consider that anyone would bother reading their comments among the thousands out there. They are, of course, wrong, as is anyone who communicates on the 'net and thinks they aren't noticed by someone.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:53:28 PM PDT
by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: My Favorite Headache
Another thing about myspace is that it's a great way to support our troops. Browse Iraq or Afghanistan 18-30 male and female. They appreciate the sentence "WE SUPPORT YOU!" they really do!
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:53:30 PM PDT
by
MaineVoter2002
(http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
To: My Favorite Headache
Cherokee County sheriff's deputies found guns, ammunition and knives in the bedroom of one of the suspects, Sheriff Steve Norman said. Another fine example of parents involved with their children's lives.
/sarc
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:54:39 PM PDT
by
Minnesocold
("The public demand to protect our borders will triumph sooner or later." - Tony Blankley)
To: My Favorite Headache
This'll just give the unAmerican gun grabbers more ammunition, (so to speak), in their jihad against the holy Second Amendment.
My guess is its just boys being boys talkin' big, but the worthless MSM will slant this as a potential Columbine as part of their their anti-gun agenda.
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posted on
04/20/2006 12:55:21 PM PDT
by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
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