[cake_crumb]

"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.

[Prodigal Son]

How much money did he make on it? We used to have English composition teachers who would give us similar assignments- take an innocuous paragraph or sentence and continue creatively. Sounds like a form of parody. If he didn't intend to make money off it and was just having fun I think plagiarism is a bit of a stretch. It's no different than making up new words to a song but keeping the tune or the chorus. Just fun.

[NovemberCharlie]

"About five weeks later, two students found the file on a computer and showed it to their teacher..."

The kid might not be guilty of planning an armed invasion, but he IS guilty of plagiarism.

Not if he never showed it to anyone.

[freepatriot32]

I was just looking over the webpage save brian and on the qoutes page this interesting exchange between the judge and prosacuter

Quoted from transcript dated 1/27/03, page 13. Even after this clarification, Judge Snow later reverses the decision of Judge Ring.

The Court: Now, if I am driving down the freeway, and I have a gun in my trunk with ammunition, and I think to myself, I will take the next exit, stop at a service station, get the gun out of the truck and trunk, and go in and rob this station, and shoot whoever is there. Okay, I am thinking that to myself as I drive down the road. I come to the next exit. I drive on past. I never exit the highway. I never get the gun out of the trunk. Did I commit a crime under this statute?

Mr. Sitzman: Assuming for the moment that big brother somehow or another is able to retrieve your thoughts and put it in some form that it could be utilized as evidence in Court, under this statute, I believe you have. I believe this statute as it is written on its face, unless, there is a very strict construction read into it, this statute criminalizes civil thought.

every civilian in oklahoma is living in a official police state we gotta gather freepers together and freep this court house while the trial is going on and do anything legally poosibleto get this da out of office are da in OK subject to recall ?

If you would like to help this family who is now bankrupt thanks to the oklahoma branch of the gestopo you can go to this link and make donations or jsut write a supportive email