Out of Pod Experience

You draw the oddest conclusions.

Conservative ?? Not this San Francisco fa**ot.

Robert Heinlein wrote an entire essay about why all males need to be shut up in barrels and fed through the bunghole until they are 21. It's actually quite convincing. Can be found in his "Expanding Universe" anthology.

So you would agree that you support most of the policies enacted by Bush?

That doesn't sound very liberal.

Teen needs the HTFU for the next 8 years. Sarcasm is fine and even threatening my in game character I could give two s's about. Threaten real people guess you may do real time. Restraint is a beautiful thing.

errrm ... I`m sort of confused on this one so please enlighten me

a person in Canada takes offence about what someone says in another country and has that person prosecuted ?.

am I understanding this correctly ?
sorry im not that clued up with international law ...but as far as I`m aware he actually hasn't broken any laws as far as I can see (he`s a fkn twatt for what he said )
but I don't believe 8 years in prison is justified

what ever happened to a punch in the face


please ...someone enlighten me on this one

From what I understand that there's been more than one or two incidents in American schools and colleges by teens who, for little reason, become unhinged and then end up on a killing spree.

I would imagine that the authorities are sick and tired of these incidents. The NRA wouldn't be too pleased neither because it'll put them in a negative light. Don't get me wrong, I am no supporter of the NRA but I can equally appreciate their frustrations as some idiot runs amok with automatic weapons; even the most dyed-in-the-wool NRA supporter woudl say that this isn't really what they want.

So, we have a young lad who then makes a threat which is completely out of order. The authorites have a number of choices; ignore him and hope he doesn't do anything stupid or, two, lock him up for a few days and tell him to grow a brain or, thirdly, make an example of him because (2) won't stop the next imbecile from mouthing off.

In the US one of the basic principles there is Free Speech. But that even has its limits; I thinkl that everyone understand that shouting "Fire" in a crowded theatre without reason is beyond the scope of free speech.

This is much the same; the lad made a threat and the sort of idot who makes such a threat which, let's face it no normal straight thinking person would, can be seen to the sort of person to go Postal.

I have no complaint about the possibility of the eight year term. He won't get it but he does deserve to be very worried about it and, perhaps, just perhaps, it may stop other idiots from issuing a threat before engaging the brain.

Same argument that has been made repeatedly in this thread and I have to dissagree. I have on many a time said to someone "You do that and I swear to god i'll kill you" in a joking way. This kid, said something as a joke. He didn't plan to walk into the school. He didn't plan to eat the still beating hearts of the children. He didn't do anything wrong at all.

It is as you said, number three on your list. He is being made an example of and its being blown out of proportion. What sort of world will we live in if everything is monitored and people are placed in prison because of jokes and things that are said in passing?

Im pretty sure everyone, yes everyone, has made a questionable comment at somepoint in their lives. Would people rather have people be held accountable for them via incarceration for months with a possibility of 8 years? If thats the case, might as well put every 12 year old foul mouthed COD player in jail if that's the case. When I used to play they always used to tell me they were coming to slit my throat or **** my mother or whatever.

so we should just shut down the internet then ?. people not allowed opinions anymore ?.

freedom of speech working as intended ?.

he`s an idiot ....but he hasn't actually done anything

Yes, you are allowed opinions, I didn't say anywhere where opinions weren't allowed and nowhere did I even suggest that the internet ought to be closed down.

Okay, let's have opnions. Nothing wrong with opinions but's let's have opinions that you hold by rather than lies.

By this if I say that I am not keen on a certain section of society, or how a part of society is run or that I am going or not going to do something then let's make it truthful.

Everything that I have written here in this thread and every other message since my first message on Eve and, in fact on any message board anywhere on the internet at any time, or BBS in time before that, has been truthful. And because I never intented ever to harm anyone I have never had ever had the need to threaten anyone.

If someone comes onto the internet and fouls the waters by being an utter prat and, in doing so, breaks the law then he fullly deservers what he gets. And, yes, he did something wrong - he fell foul of the law with respect to publishing various threats which cannot be taken lightly.

Yes, let's have freedom of speech but let's add a proviso - you can say what you want but it had better be true to your feelings and intentions. And then beware of the consequences. I am the biggest advocate of freedom of speech but I know that with some freedoms comes reposnsibilities. That fact may now have dawned onto that idiot.

So, no. I don't think it's the right thing to do is to do as you suggest and close down the internet.

Has this guy been freed yet?

Cause this is silly, I've heard worst things on the net....