Texas teen faces 8 years' jail time for League of Legends joke

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I recall one of the barrack room lawyers on here a while back saying that this sort of thing couldn't happen in the US. Well it has, so much for youir precious Constitution.


By Fidel Martinez on June 28, 2013 Email

A New Braunfels, Texas, resident faces the possibility of serious jail time after making an offhand Facebook comment about murdering children.
In February 2013, Justin Carter got in an argument on the social network over League of Legends, the popular online multiplayer game. At some point during the conversation, someone accused Carter of being off his rocker.
"Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head," they said, Carter's father recounts.
Instead of dismissing the claim, the 18-year-old responded in a less than tactful manner.
"Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts," he wrote. The teen's comments came two months after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook.
Carter allegedly followed the previous message with an "lol" and a "jk," but the joke was lost on a Canadian woman who was partaking in the discussion. According to KHOU, she did a cursory Google search and found out that the Texas teen previously lived next to a primary school.
She then contacted the local police department, who proceeded to arrest him on March 27. He is being charged with making terroristic threats. A search of Carter's home produced no weapon and his computer was confiscated as evidence. His trial has been set for July 1.
In the interim, Jennifer Carter—Justin's mother—has launched a Change.org campaign petionining Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp, and President Barack Obama to release her son. The petition argues that the police were in violation of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 Supreme Court case that ruled that government agencies "cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action."
As of this writing, the petition has collected 6,742 signatures, and has garnered the support of the League of Legends community.
If convicted, Carter could face up to eight years in prison.

 

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I recall one of the barrack room lawyers on here a while back saying that this sort of thing couldn't happen in the US. Well it has, so much for youir precious Constitution.


By Fidel Martinez on June 28, 2013 Email

A New Braunfels, Texas, resident faces the possibility of serious jail time after making an offhand Facebook comment about murdering children.
In February 2013, Justin Carter got in an argument on the social network over League of Legends, the popular online multiplayer game. At some point during the conversation, someone accused Carter of being off his rocker.
"Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head," they said, Carter's father recounts.
Instead of dismissing the claim, the 18-year-old responded in a less than tactful manner.
"Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts," he wrote. The teen's comments came two months after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook.
Carter allegedly followed the previous message with an "lol" and a "jk," but the joke was lost on a Canadian woman who was partaking in the discussion. According to KHOU, she did a cursory Google search and found out that the Texas teen previously lived next to a primary school.
She then contacted the local police department, who proceeded to arrest him on March 27. He is being charged with making terroristic threats. A search of Carter's home produced no weapon and his computer was confiscated as evidence. His trial has been set for July 1.
In the interim, Jennifer Carter—Justin's mother—has launched a Change.org campaign petionining Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp, and President Barack Obama to release her son. The petition argues that the police were in violation of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 Supreme Court case that ruled that government agencies "cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action."
As of this writing, the petition has collected 6,742 signatures, and has garnered the support of the League of Legends community.
If convicted, Carter could face up to eight years in prison.

Yup, he made a threat and is being charged criminally with it.
Tell me about the threats to kill laws in England and how they have been used against people for the most ridiculous reasons.

 

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I recall one of the barrack room lawyers on here a while back saying that this sort of thing couldn't happen in the US. Well it has, so much for youir precious Constitution.


By Fidel Martinez on June 28, 2013 Email

A New Braunfels, Texas, resident faces the possibility of serious jail time after making an offhand Facebook comment about murdering children.
In February 2013, Justin Carter got in an argument on the social network over League of Legends, the popular online multiplayer game. At some point during the conversation, someone accused Carter of being off his rocker.
"Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head," they said, Carter's father recounts.
Instead of dismissing the claim, the 18-year-old responded in a less than tactful manner.
"Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts," he wrote. The teen's comments came two months after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook.
Carter allegedly followed the previous message with an "lol" and a "jk," but the joke was lost on a Canadian woman who was partaking in the discussion. According to KHOU, she did a cursory Google search and found out that the Texas teen previously lived next to a primary school.
She then contacted the local police department, who proceeded to arrest him on March 27. He is being charged with making terroristic threats. A search of Carter's home produced no weapon and his computer was confiscated as evidence. His trial has been set for July 1.
In the interim, Jennifer Carter—Justin's mother—has launched a Change.org campaign petionining Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp, and President Barack Obama to release her son. The petition argues that the police were in violation of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 Supreme Court case that ruled that government agencies "cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action."
As of this writing, the petition has collected 6,742 signatures, and has garnered the support of the League of Legends community.
If convicted, Carter could face up to eight years in prison.

Who here said it couldn't happen? Lawyers, and especially judges, are routinely known to be drooling retards. That why we have a Constitution, and don't just rely on tradition and 'gentlemanship' like certain OTHER nations.

 

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"if convicted", shithead.

 

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Yup, he made a threat and is being charged criminally with it.
Tell me about the threats to kill laws in England and how they have been used against people for the most ridiculous reasons.

I posted this because people had posted on here before that the UK was becoming a police state and the US was protected by the First Amendment. Call it shadenfreude.

 

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Who here said it couldn't happen? Lawyers, and especially judges, are routinely known to be drooling retards. That why we have a Constitution, and don't just rely on tradition and 'gentlemanship' like certain OTHER nations.

I seem to recall that you were one of those that said the US was different .

 

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"if convicted", shithead.

He has already spent months behind bars, you Norwegian knobhead.

 

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Yup, he made a threat and is being charged criminally with it.
Tell me about the threats to kill laws in England and how they have been used against people for the most ridiculous reasons.

Pay attention!! This is in reponse to an earlier thread about the UK being so primitive compared to the US. I would look for the thread except I can't be arsed.

 

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Pay aatention!! This is in reponse to an earleier thread about the UK being so primitive compared to the US. I would look for the thread except I can't be arsed.

Clearly you can be and have been "arsed".
Just being Norwegian makes me automatically smarter than you, lime sucker, and that's "square head". shithead.

 

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Clearly you can be and have been "arsed".
Just being Norwegian makes me automatically smarter than you, lime sucker, and that's "square head". shithead.

I love the way that you seem more concerned about jingoistic willy waving than the fact that somebody can be imprisoned for the crime of being an idiot. I can only surmise that you are worried that they will come for you next, there is certainly a treasure trove of idiocy on here for the powers that be to use against you.

 

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I love the way that you seem more concerned about jingoistic willy waving than the fact that somebody can be imprisoned for the crime of being an idiot. I can only surmise that you are worried that they will come for you next, there is certainly a treasure trove of idiocy on here for the powers that be to use against you.

In the current climate of school killings such a threat should be taken seriously.
At least it's not a serious and organized crime to criticize the government in the USA.

 

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In the current climate of school killings such a threat should be taken seriously.
At least it's not a serious and organized crime to criticize the government in the USA.

So the First Amendement is just toothless and subject to the whims of a capricious public mood, when it comes down to it?

 

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I love the way that you seem more concerned about jingoistic willy waving than the fact that somebody can be imprisoned for the crime of being an idiot. I can only surmise that you are worried that they will come for you next, there is certainly a treasure trove of idiocy on here for the powers that be to use against you.

Our justice system is imperfect, as is every other human creation.
That doesn't mean it is not more perfect than yours though.

 

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Our justice system is imperfect, as is every other human creation.
That doesn't mean it is not more perfect than yours though.

Yes, what a perfect system. Where more people are imprisoned per head and prisoners executed than anywhere on Earth outside of North Korea and China.

 

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Yes, what a perfect system. Where more people are imprisoned per head and prisoners executed than anywhere on Earth outside of North Korea and China.

I wonder how much of our privately owned, for profit prison system is owned by BP?

 

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Yes, what a perfect system. Where more people are imprisoned per head and prisoners executed than anywhere on Earth outside of North Korea and China.

It's an effective criminal justice system.
Imprisoning crims, real crims is effective justice.
Releasing murderers early and jailing people for selling bananas by the pound is insanity.

 

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I wonder how much of our privately owned, for profit prison system is owned by BP?

I wonder how much is owned by Occidental Petroleum??

 

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It's an effective criminal justice system.
Imprisoning crims, real crims is effective justice.
Releasing murderers early and jailing people for selling bananas by the pound is insanity.

Just ducking and diving, the claim was made on here that the US was superior to the UK. The First Amendment was paramount and protected even stupid people. Curiously enough, those loud braggarts have become strangely silent now.

 

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Our justice system is imperfect, as is every other human creation.
That doesn't mean it is not more perfect than yours though.

What a perverted way of dismissing this case.

 

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It's an effective criminal justice system.
Imprisoning crims, real crims is effective justice.
Releasing murderers early and jailing people for selling bananas by the pound is insanity.

Yes I am sure that the Geheime Staat Polizei was highly effective as well.