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Teenage gamer may go to prison for 8 years.

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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#381 - 2013-07-09 21:12:49 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:


Houm, sounds like you pretend everyone to be Asperger.


No, I would like people to act responsibly and show respect for the recipient. Surely, that's not asking too much, is it?

Where you get this Aspberger thing from; that's discourteous, wouldn't you say?

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Daisai
Daisai Investments.
#382 - 2013-07-09 21:29:05 UTC
If he doesnt get "sentenced" to prison ( you cant sentence a minor for something like this ).
They should sue the **** out of that state.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#383 - 2013-07-09 21:46:22 UTC
Myfanwy Heimdal wrote:
Keira Kashuken wrote:
[ This whole case is just ridiculous, if he would have said these things to somebody in public he would have been scolded by his parents and it would have been ok.

But hey he said it on Facebook so better go and shatter his ******* live wohooo.


This is the important distinction, the putting onto FaceBork part.

If he had come up to someone in the street and made the thread discretely then I expect that nothing would have happened (perhaps other than a belt across the lug 'ole) but what he did on FaceBork was to publish a threat.

As far as the authorities are concerned such threats published are just as henious as taking out a full page spread in the New York Times.

And what if [insert the name of your favourite terrorist group here] placed an afvert in the New York Times, say that they are going to kill every child in a school and then put, only kidding at the bottom of it. Would the authorities sit back, laugh and say "Those $MY FAVOURITE GROUP they know how to have a good laugh" or would they want to do something about it by kicing in doors and nick someone?

Okay, then let's then say that said $MY FAVOURITE GROUP rather than take out a full page advert in the paper but posted the same threat on Facebook. Would the authorities still do nothing?

No, if anyone makes a threat then they had better had be aware of the consequcences. At the time of the Texan lad making his comment there was that bloody idiot in South Sheids already awaiting trail for much the same thing. And it wasn't just the UK police after him it was the US Authorities.

In the case of this lad in South Shields the American authorities made it clear that they were taking no more chances because of the problems in the past with shootings in schools. Zero Tolerance, I believe it's called.

Quite simply; one cannot go around threatening other people, especially children, in the US or anywhere else. If you do it and don't breathe fresh air for two or eight years then it's your own damn stupid fault. The case in England, which was well publicised in the US, should have been warning enough for the lad facing eight years.


He didn't threatened anyone. He was joking after being called insane. I doubt you will get the subtle clue that "Joe Nobody" is not "Mr. Terrorist gang" unless the justice haves some sound evidence of it. Preferably based on fact and not on a single sentence written in a single occasion.

When i was a child, a school buddy told me a "secret": if I wanted to mess with the police, i had to say "gora ETA", or even better, write it on a wall -but better don't get caught else I could end up in jail. That sounded bloody impressive for a 9 year, and i asked my parents and they told me what ETA was and what meant "gora ETA" and why it was wrong to say that. Of course, it was stupid in a 9 year, but certianly the older ones who did that kind of stuff entered a watch list, and the process in which some of them became actual terrorists (maybe 1 in 1,000) has been documented several times.

And tha'ts one advanatge of livign under a serious real threat for decades. It gives you perspective and vaccinates against ruining a teen's life because he said something gross and nobody wants to lose his ass because of common sense. Jailing the boy is the safest way (unless he finds a lawyer with a bloodthirst against authorities), so there we go. He's not rich, nor famous, and his family does not even owe firearms. It's bloody safe to imprison him and let him rot. But by no means it makes sense nor makes anyone an ounce safer. The next shooting will happen the same and the author will have spread his nutbaggery all over the place a hundred times before and nobody acted because displaying a irrational love for firearms is not insanity, it's called being a Good Murrican.

Meanwhile, a ordinary boy has had his life ruined and some of you don't even commiserate him, but feel he should suffer more until your irrational fears and inhuman cruelty are satisfied. Guilty until charged, come on, won't somebody think of the children? Roll

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#384 - 2013-07-09 21:52:43 UTC
Myfanwy Heimdal wrote:
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:


Houm, sounds like you pretend everyone to be Asperger.


No, I would like people to act responsibly and show respect for the recipient. Surely, that's not asking too much, is it?

Where you get this Aspberger thing from; that's discourteous, wouldn't you say?


"Respect" according to who? And how much?

Respect for the recipient in the terms of the recipient, maybe? "Are you talking to me? Because I feel offended that your words reach me..." Roll

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you

Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#385 - 2013-07-09 22:49:20 UTC
It's a lost cause. The Entitled Generation is going to do what it is going to do.

They cannot even write in cursive handwriting anymore apparently. It is no longer taught in most schools and that idea is spreading.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882

Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#386 - 2013-07-10 00:35:20 UTC
Ordinary boy my arse Lol if what he said was ordinary the likes of what he posted would be all over FB. But it is not, so your claims of ordinary fall short.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#387 - 2013-07-10 01:18:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
The opposite side of this convo seems to just be scared that they are starting to lose their grasp on their free haven. For close to a decade and a half trolls have relished in their ability to spew whatever they want out on public forums without fear of repercussions. Well, if certain parts of the population want to be so edgy why not bring it to the street? I mean they believe they have a right to type it out. Grow some balls and bring it to my face and not my screen. Cowards. And this kid will be your martyr Big smile

Edit: A martyr that will probably end up with time served and a slap on his wrist.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#388 - 2013-07-10 02:48:43 UTC
If he wanted to be edgy and try to play the I am cool because I say crazy stuff.

He should have said something like following.

"Yeah I am fing crazy. I am a fing cannibal and I eat raw human flesh."

The above would have instilled similar levels of distaste in his targets minds and there would be no grounds as their is no actual potential target. But no, he had to target, albeit vaguely, A school. What if he had said, A police station, or A court house. Law Enforcements hands would be tied there as well I believe.

So, if you truly think, the law is in the wrong, just make sure you never throw stones if they ever ignore a potential threat that hits close to home.
Tumahub
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#389 - 2013-07-10 03:38:55 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
It's a lost cause. The Entitled Generation is going to do what it is going to do.

They cannot even write in cursive handwriting anymore apparently. It is no longer taught in most schools and that idea is spreading.


The entitlement generation is in power. They're called the baby boomers.

The reason most children these days can't reason their way out of a paper bag is because of the boomers' colossal failure known as the department of education.

Perhaps if these fat entitled boomers didn't put their country trillions into debt for wars and welfare these poor kids wouldn't be suffering through ****-poor education with less than 50% odds of a full-time job when and if they get through their worthless degree program.

How out of touch do you have to be in order to stick back on your high horse and blame CHILDREN for problems clearly caused before they were ever born?
ISD Gallifreyan
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#390 - 2013-07-10 06:22:39 UTC
Ok.
Sorry about this folks.
This thread has been dipping in and out of what I would classify as a Political discussion.

This would Violate Rule 2 & 7 of OOPE Forum Rules.

I will be locking this thread permanently.

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