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Teenager arrested for Facebook post beaten up in prison (Texas)
RT ^ | 07/04/2013 | RT

Posted on 07/08/2013 1:57:22 AM PDT by TexGrill

Things aren’t getting any better for a 19-year-old video gamer who has been locked up since March for the remarks he made over Facebook. The father of the teen now says his son is being beaten up while he waits to stand trial.

In an interview with National Public Radio that aired Wednesday, Jack Carter said his son Justin has suffered countless injuries since being locked up in a Texas detention facility more than three months ago.

"Without getting into the really nasty details, he's had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection," Jack Carter told NPR. "He's been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he's depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience."

Prisoner abuse isn’t anything new, but the so-called crime that’s left Justin Carter facing potentially eight years in prison could be unprecedented. He’s been locked up without trial since late March after authorities were alerted to a Facebook message that Carter says he made in jest.

Only 18 at the time, Carter had just wrapped up session on the online role-playing game “League of Legends” when he got into a spat with a friend over Facebook. Speaking to KVUE news last month, his father explained how what was supposed to be a sarcastic remark posted publically ended up with an unexpected jail stint.

“Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’” he called, “to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.’”

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When I did journalism in South Korea I would read hundreds of these type of violent comments, which were addressed to me. They were goofy and often offensive but I never thought, let's go get these folks arrested. Don't people have a right to talk stupid?
1 posted on 07/08/2013 1:57:23 AM PDT by TexGrill
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To: TexGrill

Only if you’re a liberal is it ok to talk stupid, expected in reality.


2 posted on 07/08/2013 2:08:20 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: TexGrill

Why isn’t this kid out on bail ?


3 posted on 07/08/2013 2:33:19 AM PDT by Popman
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Texas is police state.

I'm currently on bail facing felony "stalking" charges in TX for sending a few joke emails to a former employer who fired me under questionable circumstances.

There were no threats, or words even in the email or I would be in a worse position.

It was a few tasteless pictures (non pornographic or violent, but crude).

4 posted on 07/08/2013 2:35:29 AM PDT by ClaytonP
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Why isn’t this kid out on bail ?

Because, along with trumped up charges. Bail amounts have gone up to ridiculous levels.

I'm guessing the bail amount was well north of the six figures I was facing for a lesser charge.

5 posted on 07/08/2013 2:37:52 AM PDT by ClaytonP
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I went back to the article and saw his bail was 500,000 which is absurd....the judge should be horsewhipped....


6 posted on 07/08/2013 2:41:18 AM PDT by Popman
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To: TexGrill

If you can’t do the time . . . . Don’t do the crime. . . .


7 posted on 07/08/2013 3:07:59 AM PDT by DeaconRed (We sent REPS to DC to handle our problems. They have done NOTHING. Time to March with pitch forks.)
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To: TexGrill

And all over Facebook and Twitter the Moron Class is promising to riot and kill people if George Zimmerman is acquitted. Why isn’t the Gestapo going after them?


8 posted on 07/08/2013 3:09:27 AM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: DeaconRed

Shouldn’t one take into to consideration the issue of intent? He did act foolish, but how many of us when we were 18-years-old said something we regret. Hopefully, none of us got sent to prison for talking stupid at that time.


9 posted on 07/08/2013 3:11:00 AM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: TexGrill

democrats have a first amendment right to lie, but everybody else has to suit the democrats


10 posted on 07/08/2013 3:11:01 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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his bail was 500,000 which is absurd

I remember when America, the whole country, followed the Eighth Suggestion: "Excessive bail shall not be required". I miss the rule of law.

11 posted on 07/08/2013 3:11:47 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Get a lawyer and sue.

3 months and still no trial, this is not right.


12 posted on 07/08/2013 3:21:00 AM PDT by RginTN
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If you can’t do the time . . . . Don’t do the crime. . . .

You are the ideal police-state drone.

Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system
Written in 1957 about the future of the US, by a Russian woman. Hmm.

13 posted on 07/08/2013 3:21:08 AM PDT by Teacher317 (The public is being manipulated to fleece the taxpayer. That is the real industry in Washington.)
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It’s the government idiots who should all be in prison. the IRS morons, Obama, the Congress, the TSA, the EPA etc all should be in prison. American citizens who have freedom of speech to write what they want to on the Internet should not be put in prison by big brother gov idiot criminals


14 posted on 07/08/2013 3:38:30 AM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: DeaconRed

Were you born a fool or did you have to work your way up to it?


15 posted on 07/08/2013 3:40:00 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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Why isn’t this kid out on bail ?

According to the article: The young man's father explained that while playing a video game, “Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’” he called, “to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.’”

My guess is that the authorities want to make absolutely certain the boy was joking before unleashing him on society ... and they probably want to drive the point home that certain subjects do not lend themselves to gallows humor.

16 posted on 07/08/2013 3:44:31 AM PDT by Zakeet (Democrats: Making everything free in this country except you)
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To: DeaconRed

He made a sarcastic remark. Poorly phrased. But that should have been obvious. There still is a 1st amendment isn’t there?


17 posted on 07/08/2013 3:50:57 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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My guess is that the authorities want to make absolutely certain the boy was joking before unleashing him on society ... and they probably want to drive the point home that certain subjects do not lend themselves to gallows humor.

If he didn't have inclination to violence before, he might well have by the time he gets out of jail.

18 posted on 07/08/2013 3:57:54 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: TexGrill
"When I did journalism"

What does that mean?

19 posted on 07/08/2013 4:09:25 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: TexGrill

3 mos before trial for.... nada?


20 posted on 07/08/2013 4:16:10 AM PDT by GeronL
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