Posted on 07/01/2013 11:48:53 AM PDT by neverdem
Ping
Well, yeah, but we’re not a police state, because nobody in uniform shot the kid’s dog.
Welcome to the new Amerika comrades.
On another thread, a FReeper wrote this was no big deal, because Justin Carter could bail out and still had the right to a trial by jury. I think that FReeper is hopelessly naive. As I understand it, the bail in this case was set incredibly high. Plus, going through a trial is hit or miss even when one is clearly innocent (case in point, Zimmerman trial).
The government can make your life a living hell. It has virtually unlimited resources, and the full weight of the bureaucratic state can come down on you even if you’re innocent.
I’m a Texas defense attorney and I recently beat a case where the “threats” were worse than the ones alleged here.
The key (and difficulty of) to proving a felony terroristic threat charge is the State must prove that the communication was made in such a way that it would cause the public or a substantial part of the public imminent fear of death or serious bodily injury.
The classic case is a bomb threat resulting in a building clearing out very quickly often with people in a panic.
But the very worst comments or threats imaginable that don’t cause that kind of fear of an imminent danger don’t constitute this offense.
This guy needs a good lawyer now.
Again I’m a TX criminal defense attorney, so private message me if you need to.
He is an ungood oldthinker who failed to use crimestop, committing thoughtcrime.
Of course, so are most of us here.
It’s a travesty for him to be jailed. Reminds me of the kid who posed proudly with his new Christmas rifle, posted on FB, and the local cops rousted him. Outrageous.
“In free countries such as the United States, one is permitted to be a fool.”
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To make an accurate sentence we need to take out the words between countries and one and eliminate the comma. In free countries one is permitted to be a fool. The United States of America is NOT a free country. If there is one on the planet I would not undertake to name it but the USofA is certainly not one.
I had this conversation with people. They don’t understand what its like to be some ordinary person on the wrong side of the law. You can do nothing yet stand accused and spend years and have your nice orderly life turned inside out over nothing.
Then even if proven wrong you can try and get recompense for your troubles but that path lay through the same state that attempted to prosecute you in the first place.
Thx for the comment.
What town is this in? The link doesn’t mention what area of TX he’s from. Thanks.
” Carters joke was witless and flippant ”
LOL
Spend a week at FR and see what flippant and humorless remarks really loom like.
Guy’s a piker compared to many of us
One minor problem:
All this stuff is happening in Austin.
Been a long time since I was there, but that town struck me as in a different universe even then....
He is not a Korrect Citizen
A real demonstration of the ability to discern a threat to the country by the alphabet soup groups. Al quada trembles I am sure.
Couple this to the MASSIVE influx of false leads generated by data mining the entire phone records of the country and I suspect the FBI is up to their noses in stupidity and totally rendered useless.
Someone had to “reasonably” determine that a threat of deadly force was imminent to warrant an immediate investigation to track down the offender and make an arrest...
So if someone were alarmed enough to call law enforcement in this case, why did the investigation determine that it was a reasonable threat, considering the source???
Seems to me someone wasn’t doing their job very well...
While I'm sure the town matters, the name and town of the Komrade from Canada who made the unfounded accusation would be far more useful.
I can actually wrap around that analysis...FReepers subtleties, when realized, can be as harsh as a 10 year olds on Xbox...
;-)
Some people just need to grow a pair I suppose...
In the book the Thought police would blame the person they were torturing of failing to discipline himself and then accuse him of insanity.
There was even something called ‘facecrime’, e.g. failing to look properly ecstatic when Big Brother made an appearance. You see this kind of stuff in North Korea, never thought I’d see it here: the Zimmerman show trial.
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