Dear Readers:
This is another prime example of left wingers living in their own fantasy world and then crying “foul” when the run a-rye of the law!
I’ll have more to say at the end of the article!
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By Tom Carter
Last week, the World Socialist Web Site published aninterview with the mother of Justin Carter, a teenager from Austin, Texas who was jailed as a “terrorist” for a sarcastic comment he made on Facebook.
At the time of that article, we noted that a petition for Justin Carter’s release on Change.org had gathered 1,000 signatures since his incarceration in February. In a matter of days, his petition has reached nearly 70,000 signatures and counting. Since being interviewed on the WSWS, Justin Carter’s parents have been interviewed on CNN, ABC, 
BBC Radio, National Public Radio, and elsewhere.
Justin Carter’s supposedly “terrorist” post was made during an Internet trash-talking session related to the popular online game League of Legends.
In response to accusations that he was “crazy” or “messed up in the head,” Justin Carter wrote, “I’m fucked in the head alright. I think I’m gonna shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them.”
Then he wrote, “j/k” (“just kidding”).
“Justin Carter and I were good friends when he lived in California and was going to the same school as me,” wrote David Inglis of California. “I believe that his arrest was unlawful as it restricts his constitutional right to free speech. It’s one thing to say something, which he said he was just kidding about, and it’s another thing to act on something. I am genuinely furious at Justin’s unconstitutional persecution and at our Federal Government. To make such claims that his words were genuine when he was clearly joking is insulting. America has become a country of fear and unjust persecution because of the amount of power our police force has been given because of our fearful Government.
“Prime example of draconian prosecutorial over zealousness and blatant disregard for the First Amendment,” wrote Brian Swetnam of Maryland yesterday. “Why is this teenager still in prison for making an offhand comment? Why is law enforcement wasting taxpayers’ money incarcerating a kid for a poor choice of words? I’m ashamed to be American on this Independence Day while my government allows this sort of thing to happen. Shame!”
“This case represents a very dangerous precedent in the criminal justice system in the USA, whereby people are being arrested and prosecuted for what they say,” wrote Patricia Walsh from Slovenia. “That entire policy is completely contradictory to the US Constitution and the principles that underlie this country. It has the feel to it of not prosecution but rather persecution.”
“This is the first step to totalitarianism,” wrote Olga Baeva from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. “We still remember times when somebody could disappear because of a joke about the government. We can’t let this happen again—when we’re killing people because we don’t like what are they are saying. This arrest is just like a killing, maybe even worse. This is a first step.”
“The USA has always been a flag bearer of ‘free speech.’ This incident is disheartening and presents it in a different light altogether!” wrote Rahul Singh of Bangalore, India.
Similar statements have poured in from the UK, Canada, Poland, Finland, Australia, Korea, Bangladesh, Belgium, Israel, South Africa, France, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Ukraine, Slovenia, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, Luxembourg, Qatar, and elsewhere.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/05/cart-j05.html?view=article_mobile
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SORRY ALL YOU LEFT-WING BLEEDING HEARTS! YA CAN’T YELL “FIRE” IN A CROWDED MOVIE THEATER, AND YA CAN’T TALK ABOUT BOMBS AT AN AIRPORT,………… SO WHAT MAKES ANYONE THINK THEY CAN POST A MESSAGE ABOUT SHOOTING UP A KINDERGARTEN CLASS ON THE INTERNET?
This isn’t a case of someone just crossing the line…………………………., it’s more like they didn’t even know there was a line to begin with!
I’ll give you an example:
Last year on this blog I was talking about a group, and some societal rules, that were driving me to absolute distraction.
I wrote:
“I don’t know how any group can be that stupid, but they keep it up day after day after day. I wish they would stop because I don’t want to turn out to be one of those guys who ends up climbing a bell-tower with a rifle slung over my shoulder!”
Now this statement wasn’t that threatening, (obviously) because nobody called the cops on me!
HOWEVER!
If I had said: “I’m fucked in the head alright. I think I’m gonna shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them,” I would fully expect the local swat team to break down my front door within minutes!
This kid, (and it was a kid) not only crossed the line folks, he jumped on it with both feet!
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