So this is apparently a fairly old story but it's one I'm just now getting into. According to this place Justin Carter (age 18 at the time residing in TX) was arrested for a post made on his facebook. According to his father, Justin and a friend were in an argument with someone over LoL. His father says "Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’ to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and jk.,".

Now granted that's not a funny statement at all. In fact...it is actually fairly disturbing. But for fuck's sake, this is the internet. If someone were to take even 10% of the things that have been said over the internet seriously then pretty anyone with internet access would be jailed (and those in jail with internet access would be doubly screwed). I agree with the police that "Hey, maybe this is worth checking into!" however they did it like a bunch of idiots. Instead of actually ya know....respecting 1st & 4th amendment rights and doing things the way that would make sense, they just busted in and arrested the kid. They didn't even bother searching the home until a week after the arrest. Now maybe I just have a weird sense of logic, but it seems to me that the homes of those deemed "terrorist threats" should be searched like...while you're there. Ya know, that way there's no chance of any of their "terrorist buddies" coming by and taking all their "terrorist equipment" for diabolical plans and whatnot. The search that they conducted didn't yield any results as far as weapons ago, but they did make one key discovery that they just had to seize: his computer. Oh man, a gamer that has a computer? This is some WW3 srsbsns stuff right here.

As for this noble citizen that alerted the police to this "terrorist threat"? She lives in Canada. According to Justin's father "the woman did a Google search and found his son’s old address was near an elementary school and she called police. Yeah. She tracked down this guy all the way from Canada and decided to alert TX police. Funny thing: he doesn't live there anymore. The address that she gave police actually belonged to Justin's parents. This woman solicited a man who was not the suspect in order to give police the juicy info on this "terrorist", and yet she's coming out of this the hero.

I'm not saying that this kid is by any means the good guy or completely innocent. In terms of "things I can say to get back at someone for calling me insane", what he chose to reply with ranks pretty high on the list. That being said, the search of his apartment yielding no results for any form of weapon or other sort of dangerous equipment should've been enough to acquit him of the charges of "making a terrorist threat". Granted you could charge him for being a moron and "making an idiotic statement", but not making a terrorist threat.

For any that have read this far and may be wondering how said suspect is doing, here's an update.
If we're going strictly from before he was imprisoned, even with that idiotic statement that he made I wouldn't have worried too much that this kid was going to shoot up a school. That being said, he's now been imprisoned for a crime and has probably been buddies with most of the inmates where he's currently being incarcerated. I actually would begin to worry once this kid gets out mainly due to the effect that prison has on people, and I'd be utterly ashamed of TX authorities if they didn't request therapy for him if he's released soon. Though I really feel that they should track down that woman from Canada and make her pay for all of his sessions.

Well shit. Can't feel safe anywhere anymore, not even the internet where girls are actually boys and men love ponies and killing is the goal of pretty much every game you play in some way.

I hope he doesnt actually turn insane because of prison and carry out his threat once hes off the hook

O_O dang
Lesson is to never make jokes like that on the internet etc

How the hell is that the lesson :/

The only lesson here is that these cops are dumbasses.

Personally if I was ever in a predicament like this, where I was being raped by my government and prosucuted on bs charges. I would spend every waking moment of my life to try and screw that government. At the point I wouldn't care what happens to me and I would pull some vendetta shit, even if it means I get a chest full of bullets in the end.

But I guess I'm just a simpleton for thinking my rights as a Citizen shouldn't be trumped by my government.

Every1 knew that lesson a LOOONG time ago...
+ This all started cuz of that comment that he posted on FB

If sarcastic comments could get you jailed then you, me, and most of the internet would be in serious trouble. Sarcasm is everywhere.

"This only happened because person did _____". You can really only say this when the person in question actually did something wrong. The Canadian women invading this kid's privacy is the guilty party here, as well as the cops arresting this kid without a proper investigation.

Not to mention the fact that even after they searched his apartment and found nothing that could be construed as a dangerous weapon (aside from probably a few kitchen knives I'd imagine), the kid is still imprisoned.


I mean...I could see the argument people want to make for the woman and the police if they checked into it and went "Oh well, he was just being an idiot and made a really stupid sarcastic comment" because in all honesty I could think of at least 10+ things to say in his situation. That being said, 1) I highly doubt this kid thought anyone would take that comment seriously and 2) the police didn't bother looking into it anymore than his facebook comment before they requested the warrant. I can assure you there was no background check to see if this kid had a history of violence or mental instability (if there had been then they'd have realized he wasn't serious about it), there was no thought process of "Hey, maybe this guy was just being sarcastic and didn't know that Canadian people are apparently srsbsns about what's said on the internet". They requested a warrant based solely on A SINGLE FACEBOOK COMMENT. Look through your profile on facebook, twitter, myspace, or whatever you want. I dunno about everyone else here, but just from the top of my head I can think of at least 4 comments that apparently would've resulted in something similar to this had they been taken too seriously. They're nowhere near as bad as saying that I had plans to shoot up a school, but they could still probably land me in some hot water.

I would be in the top prisons if someone reported me...fak
Anyways i already had an thread about this and there is an petition if am not mistaken.

http://www.dbocom.com/forum/showthread.php?p=340568

Am just gonna quote my post and close my thread since this one seems more promising.

Cops are useless sometimes, i have some stories