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Autistic Boy Faces Felony Rap for Stick-Figure Sketch
AOL News ^ | may 14, 2010 | David Knowles

Posted on 05/15/2010 10:38:19 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

(May 14) -- A 14-year-old autistic boy in Georgia faces felony charges of making terroristic threats after he drew a stick-figure version of himself firing a gun at his teacher.

After discovering the crudely rendered drawing that Shane Finn had made on his classwork, officials at Atlanta's Ridgeview Charter School suspended the eighth-grader and decided to pursue charges against him, Fox News in Atlanta reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: autism; autistic; zerotolerance
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This boy has an IQ of 75, equal that of a 3rd grader.

Anybody remember singing in grade school "On Top of Old Smokey"? We'd be jailed for that now.

1 posted on 05/15/2010 10:38:20 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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He's white? He's male? He's acting alone?

Fits the profile.

2 posted on 05/15/2010 10:39:23 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the five of the five is the two of the one.)
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Cripes, this was Shane Finn, not Sinn Fein...and Georgia, not Belfast...WTF...when is this madness going to end...the kid is autisitic for Cripes sake...the LAST thing he needed was this shit.


3 posted on 05/15/2010 10:41:30 AM PDT by jessduntno (Kagan...Filly-bust-her. Bork her. Bork her hard. She needs it.)
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Hmmmm, kid draws stick picture of him shooting teacher.....felony, man makes movie about assassinating Bush.....praise and adulation.


4 posted on 05/15/2010 10:42:29 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (END THE WAR ON LIBERTY!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

On top of that, I wonder if he’s a member of that terrorist organization Finn Shane.


5 posted on 05/15/2010 10:42:46 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: DJ MacWoW

Good thing the (failed) NYC SUV bomber doesn’t go to that school. Imagine the trouble he’d be in!!! /sarc


6 posted on 05/15/2010 10:43:33 AM PDT by jeffc (One Big A$$ Mistake America)
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>>>>This boy has an IQ of 75, equal that of a 3rd grader

That doesn’t matter. They think he is a tea partier.


7 posted on 05/15/2010 10:44:58 AM PDT by pinochet
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To: DJ MacWoW

There seems to be a lot of prosecutors in this country with an IQ of 75.


8 posted on 05/15/2010 10:45:20 AM PDT by microgood
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I have to agree. I found one sentence on Fox that says felony charges have now been filed.


9 posted on 05/15/2010 10:46:51 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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If it was a stick figure drawing, how did they know it was of him and his teacher? Reminds me of the cartoon of a father meeting his son's kindergarten teacher who literally is a stick figure and saying how he recognizes her from his kid's drawings.

School authorities are threatening a 6 year old with suspension for drawing this:



Good thing they didn't find the stick figure flip book I did in 4th grade.
10 posted on 05/15/2010 10:51:15 AM PDT by aruanan
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The damned schools! What’s the litmus test for teachers these days? And why did the boy have negative feelings for this one? God knows. And He will judge.


11 posted on 05/15/2010 10:52:49 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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Felony charges, any charges, 3rd grade; really?

For what, freedom of expression, self-actualization, being artistic…this is nothing more than an abuse by the cowardly.

As for “…that sweeping, zero-tolerance [attitude]…” members of government education should be charged with incompetence, negligence and fraud, locked up for a minimum of a year based on being part of a conspiracy to destroying Americas future; before going after the client.


12 posted on 05/15/2010 10:53:42 AM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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If it was a stick figure drawing, how did they know it was of him and his teacher?

I believe he wrote his name above the stick figure that had the gun, and the name of the teacher above the one the gun was pointed at.

13 posted on 05/15/2010 10:53:58 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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He wrote “me” over the one with the gun and “Hartman” over the other figure. There’s a pic of it at the link.


14 posted on 05/15/2010 10:57:13 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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It is gratifying to see that the authorities have finally mustered the courage to label somebody a ‘terrorist”.


15 posted on 05/15/2010 10:57:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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His mother said he has trouble with expressing frustration. If he’s autistic, he has trouble expressing anything. And we know why he’s frustrated. The teacher’s an idiot.


16 posted on 05/15/2010 10:58:35 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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What are the races of the individuals?

17 posted on 05/15/2010 10:58:41 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: HerrBlucher

These idiots are INSANE!


18 posted on 05/15/2010 10:59:17 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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How about this and variants of it:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have marched up to the office and we hung the principle
We have tortured all the teachers, we've broken every rule
The school is burning down.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Teacher hit me with a ruler
I met her at the door with a pistol 44 now she don't teach no more.

19 posted on 05/15/2010 10:59:57 AM PDT by fso301
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He's white. There's video at this link.

Autistic Boy Charged with Making Terroristic Threats in Stick Figure Drawing

20 posted on 05/15/2010 11:02:49 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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