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Magic Hobbit Ring Suspension: Boy Wanted to Make Classmate 'Disappear'
Newsmax ^ | February 2, 2015

Posted on 02/03/2015 2:58:30 AM PST by SMGFan

A 9-year-old Texas boy was suspended from school after pretending to have the magic Hobbit ring from "The Lord of the Rings" and its prequel, telling a schoolmate that he would make him "disappear."

Aiden Steward had recently watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” with his family when he took his imagination to school in Kermit, Texas, his father, Jason Steward, told the New York Daily News.

When he heard that his son was suspended for making terroristic threats — saying he’d make someone disappear — Steward told the Daily News it was "unbelievable."

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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Also in North Carolina. I had a Pentocostal employee who would not let her grandchild watch Scooby-doo because it was “occult.” I pointed out that, on the contrary, the shows never dealt with the occult, because the culprit always turned out to be the caretaker or a disgruntled relative in disguise, who would have gotten away with it if not for the “meddling kids.”


21 posted on 02/03/2015 6:04:44 AM PST by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning)
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To: pepsionice
around extremely conservative Pentecostal folks....they’d get all freaked out.
So they must believe in this?
22 posted on 02/03/2015 6:12:32 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: SMGFan

School officials nationwide really need a lesson on true threat doctrine, the legal principle that determines whether an utterance is actually a threat for purposes of law (and thus potentially criminal). The appeals court circuits are split on the definition, some applying a “reasonable speaker” doctrine, others a “reasonable hearer” doctrine, and these latter divided between those that take hearer to be the party to whom the speech is directed and those that take the hearer to be a disinterested third party, but all of them require that the speaker have the means of carrying out the harm spoken of (or purportedly spoken of).

Regardless of which standard is used by the appeals court circuit containing Texas, purported threats in which a magical means is specified are no threat at all.


23 posted on 02/03/2015 6:21:25 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: pepsionice

“Pentecostal” is a pretty big tent, with extreme segments, just as other religions have.

Be careful about smearing a huge portion of the population just because of a minority of nutjobs.

Yes, I am Pentecostal. And yes, I know of a few of the kooks. I call them out on their idiocy when I can, however, again, be careful of your labels.


24 posted on 02/03/2015 6:30:07 AM PST by DrewsMum
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To: SMGFan

Kermit is a corrupt little town. Sheriff and DA recently sent to prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkler_County_nurse_whistleblower_case


25 posted on 02/03/2015 6:44:04 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: SMGFan

He needs to try again on the school staff and if successful focus on Obama and his minions...


26 posted on 02/03/2015 8:03:18 AM PST by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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27 posted on 02/03/2015 1:32:13 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: clee1

“I suspect this’ll be from the Austin area...”

You’d be wrong. Kermit Texas. Way out near the NM state line. One of the most conservative areas in the world.


28 posted on 02/03/2015 1:39:50 PM PST by snarkybob
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