Posted on 04/18/2007 1:05:03 PM PDT by james500
Millions understand how Stalin and Mao were just going about the business of proper governance, and they're not arrested.
One of the problems is that we have made involuntary committal so difficult that the only way to deal with it now seems to be to arrest somebody.
We’d be stunned if we tallied up all the people nutcases on a rampage have killed in this country since the demise of involuntary committal in the 1970’s (might interfere with somebody’s self expression, ya know? And anyway, in a capitalist system, aren’t the crazy the only truly sane?). It was a disastrous mistake.
Read this! Not the first time he has been at the center of a firestorm:
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2006/nov/07/cu-student-distributes-newsletters-ignites-fury/
The last time I checked we didn't put people in jail in this country becasue we don't like what they say.
That's it.
Sounds to me like he was TRYING to get arrested so that he could get attention and/or sue later.
Let the witch hunts BEGIN!
His comments didn't remotely reach the level of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
That's not what "disturbing the peace" means. That actually goes well beyond the state's burden.
One can be arrested for disturbing the peace for playing, say, a Bach cello suite at an inappropriate volume, for example.
Even if no one is frightened, but people are only annoyed.
Google this clown’s name and you’ll find a history of anti-social behavior.
Another kid who can’t get laid. The police may have stopped a time bomb with this one.
www.yetipaper.com
Lately my favorite quote is from John Wayne, it seem to apply here. " Life is hard, and if you are stupid, it is harder." John Wayne
Two to one he’s some little sniveling liberal punk, a John Walker Lindh type. Glad they caught him early, but doubt very much they caught him early enough to turn him around.
Most planned murders are preceded by threats.
Liberals after 9/11 repeatedly made comments about how they “understand” the Muzzies killing 3 thousand people. So this boy is in trouble for understanding the killingof 32?
Sounds more like we don’t like what he said so we had arrested because they were “afraid”.
Class discussion and he expressed his views. Distasteful, but in America we don't arrest people because we don't like them.
How silly can we get?
I thought profiling was a bad thing...
From another saner Max:
Re “anyone else is entitled to make comments sympathetic to a mass murderer without the government arresting him (her).” Well nancy Pelosi made nice with Assad Jr, and wants to meet Achmedgenocide in Iran.
Guys like Kerry and Harkin and Fonda liked Ho Chi Minh (the George Washington of his country), and Fonda met with the No. Vietnamese in No. Vietnam. Dellums dealt with marxists like Castro (a mass murderer) and Bishop in Grenada. Harkin and Kerry went to see killer Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
All the Democrats love Hugo Chavez and his stooge next door, Morales. And how many have made the ‘kowtow” homage to Mao and his successors in the biggest killing field of the world, Red China?
And don’t forget the nutcase in No. Korea? And how many former congressmen represent Middle Eastern dictatorships? Lots, unfortunately.
What is wrong with this picture?
No, but it is good that they might get this guy some clearly-needed treatment.
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