Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ron on February 14, 2020, 10:52:23 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/lawmakers-rip-charges-against-student-who-posted-gun-photo/2020/02/11/a423615e-4d30-11ea-967b-e074d302c7d4_story.html
Young guy posts a photo and mocks snow flakes.
“Takin this bad boy up, this outta make the snowflakes melt, aye? And I mean snowflakes as in snow.”
Gets arrested for terroristic threats.
Pretty ridiculous.
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Doesn't there have to be a threat before it can be labeled as a "terroristic" threat?
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https://www.wxyz.com/news/lawmakers-defend-michigan-student-charged-over-gun-photo
I think this is the same thing. Washington Post always puts up pop-ups that keep me from reading the article.
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Doesn't there have to be a threat before it can be labeled as a "terroristic" threat?
For a reasonable law that would make sense. Apparently this is a pretty bad law.
He said Michigan’s definition contains no requirement that any particular target exist nor any “reasonable person” standard, exposing people to charges for telling what Reilly called harmless jokes.
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Lucas Gerhard, 20, faces the charge of making a terrorist threat over an incident that occurred in August. The maximum sentence for a conviction on that charge is 20 years in prison.
That is an absurdly long sentence for simply making a threat.
He said Michigan's definition contains no requirement that any particular target exist nor any “reasonable person” standard, exposing people to charges for telling what Reilly called harmless jokes.
poorly written also.
Lucas Gerhard attended but did not speak per the advice of his lawyer since his case is pending. He spent 83 days in jail before being released on bond.
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We are all
socialists East Germany now.
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The really absurd part is how much power prosecutors have to screw with people's lives with very little justification.
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The really absurd part is how much power prosecutors have to screw with people's lives with very little justification.
Remember the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case about 15 years ago?
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The really absurd part is how much power prosecutors have to screw with people's lives with very little justification.
I actually hope this happens to me, called how to become a multi-millionaire by being yourself and being represented by a great attorney.
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Doesn't there have to be a threat before it can be labeled as a "terroristic" threat?
Having a non liberal opinion is a terroristic threat nowadays
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I actually hope this happens to me, called how to become a multi-millionaire by being yourself and being represented by a great attorney.
Saw this recently, maybe on this site: You are innocent until proven indigent.
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Remember the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case about 15 years ago?
At least they were (finally) officially exonerated, and the prosecutor was disbarred. Don't remember if he also got some hard time.
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Having a non liberal opinion is a terroristic threat nowadays
Yes.
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At least they were (finally) officially exonerated, and the prosecutor was disbarred. Don't remember if he also got some hard time.
Had they not come from families with some wealth I doubt the outcome would have been the same.
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Yeah it is strange around here how someone gets a $500 horn not working non moving violation.
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Had they not come from families with some wealth I doubt the outcome would have been the same.
Agreed.
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So in a similar case, prosecutors were first ordered to drop the case, then a court overturned that and the kid is up for prosecution again. Though it appears that this kid was also joking around, I guess the question is, is "show and tell" worse than "melt snowflakes"?
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-ar-15-prosecution-20200215-b5qt4gxvbfgdfhufxb3sehbsim-story.html
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in the good old days of we could get an online army of angry phone callers to call up the justice system there - i hope we see an resurgence of activism.
too bad we cannot get the same folks we got to go to Virginia recently to go protest this