"I didn't know I could be charged with a felony for writing a story," he said.
Neither did a lot of people .Welcome to the fatherland stay in between the yellow lines walk single file and salute your superiors or you will be shot
School districts in this country view children the same way george bush views al quada and it needs to stop now. If any child shows the least bit of creativity they drug it out of them with riddilin so they will sit still long enough for the D.A.R.E. officers to come in and tell them how bad drugs are. Then they can be more easily brainwashed into believing that thier existence is bad for the enviroment and is just as evil as cutting down a tree or endangering the life of a snail darter and dung beetle.The ones that slip through the cracks and remain imaginitive are sent to jail and expelled because a child with an imagination cant be brainwashed as easily and is therefore an immediate threat to the power structure of the public schools and must be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
homeschool your children now before they are destroyed by the goverment
To: freepatriot32
Jeez. If I were I student now and I wrote the same stories and poems I had written when I was in HS I'd be in jail for life.
To: freepatriot32
But authorities said the story Robertson wrote was sufficient to charge him under an Oklahoma state statute, which was passed in the wake of school shootings across the country in the last few years.There is NOTHING worse than reactionary policy making.
3 posted on
08/22/2003 1:10:29 PM PDT by
jmc813
(Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
To: freepatriot32
...they drug it out of them with riddilin so they will sit still long enough for the D.A.R.E. officers to come in and tell them how bad drugs are.D.A.R.E. has to be the biggest waste of money, narc on your parents program to date. When I was in school, no one took it seriously. In fact, we the typical mindset was that D.A.R.E. stood for Drugs Are Really Eaxpensive.
4 posted on
08/22/2003 1:11:21 PM PDT by
Orangedog
(Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
To: freepatriot32
If it only saves One Children.
5 posted on
08/22/2003 1:13:51 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: freepatriot32
School districts in this country view children...What you said is so true and quite a sad state of affairs. Homeschooling, when possible, is defiantly the way to go. The "Ritalin rage" makes my blood boil.
This story also reminds me of the feds harassing John Ross after he wrote/published "Unintended Consequences".
6 posted on
08/22/2003 1:13:58 PM PDT by
Oorang
To: freepatriot32
"Brian Robertson was just months away from graduation at Moore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, last year when he found the beginnings of what he thought was a short story on a school computer. He copied the file to another computer, added some paragraphs to the initial text and then promptly got arrested."So he plagiarized some paragraphs and added others to make a story, which outlined an armed invasion of his school. What did the original paragraphs say? What did his additions say?
I agree this statute is paranoid stupidity. The kid might not be guilty of planning an armed invasion, but he IS guilty of plagiarism, which makes me suspect the facts vs agenda of this article from beginning to end.
8 posted on
08/22/2003 1:24:04 PM PDT by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: freepatriot32
When I wrote a story about a snowman who came to life and killed all the kids at school, my mother was called in to defend me, as the educrats told her that I should be sent to s school for "disturbed" children. I've hated public schools ever since.
10 posted on
08/22/2003 1:37:42 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: freepatriot32
"There's no way this law can be tested until they use (it) as a tool for prosecution, and someone like Brian stands up and fights the law."
So the prosecutor admits that he is destroying a life and a family, emotionally and financially, simply to test a law.
Sheer brutality and arrogance.
To: freepatriot32
Blah, blah, blah.
12 posted on
08/22/2003 1:41:16 PM PDT by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree. Bush must be destroyed.)
To: freepatriot32
Robertson says the style of the writing set the tone for what he penned next. "The first paragraph was written in a militaristic style, so I got my mind set in a militaristic style and I just went from there," he said. When I was in school, the teachers would praise and encourage creativity such as this young man exhibited. Now they are thrown in jail?
To: freepatriot32
we need an office
Of Pre-Crime ..should be under Homieland Security
16 posted on
08/22/2003 1:52:46 PM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: freepatriot32
"Assistant District Attorney Richard Sitzman said ..."I wish I hadn't been the first to file a charge under this statute.... It has caused me problems analytically from the day I first read it."
Apparently, the devil made the prosecutor do it.
17 posted on
08/22/2003 1:53:20 PM PDT by
ZviTheWise
("Everybody in this house needs to calm down and eat some fruit or something." -- Mel Gibson, "Signs")
To: Travis McGee
Better head for the hills, Mr. Rabble-rouser. You be guilty of creative writing!!
To: freepatriot32
One of the extremely rare moments when the ACLU is on the right side of an issue.
To: freepatriot32
zero tolerance=zero brains
22 posted on
08/22/2003 2:03:02 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
To: freepatriot32
Da Fatherland, the People's Socialist Soviet Republik of Amerikan States, with Commisar Hildabeast in charge.
24 posted on
08/22/2003 2:40:59 PM PDT by
RetiredArmy
(We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American Way! Toby Keith)
To: freepatriot32
This prosecutor is a moron. If all he has is the story, he has nothing. In 1995, a guy by the name of Jake Baker got in a
boatload of trouble for posting a violent sexual fantasy about a fellow student at the U of Michigan. Much worse than what this kid has evidently done. Case dismissed two years later, in Federal Court.
27 posted on
08/23/2003 1:12:55 AM PDT by
cynwoody
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