Zombie Terror Threat
I REALLY am at a loss for words.
Does any one know if this is real (god I hope not!)?
Zombie Terror Threat
I REALLY am at a loss for words
Does any one know if this is real (god I hope not!)?
I doubt it, but it wouldn't surprise me... I have such a lovely opinion of humanity...
That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, and I truly would not doubt that it happened.
It is. I was discussing it a couple of days ago. Sad, sad.
It is true. The kid was arrested, but our aspiring author didn't write about zombies at all.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/11086999.htm
And, as it turns out, Poole's writings include no brain-eating dead folks.
What they do contain, Winchester police Detective Steven Caudill testified yesterday, is evidence that he had tried to solicit seven fellow students to join him in a military organization called No Limited Soldiers.
The writings describe a bloody shootout in "Zone 2," the designation given to Clark County.
"All the soldiers of Zone 2 started shooting," Caudill read on the witness stand. "They're dropping every one of them. After five minutes, all the people are lying on the ground dead."
The papers contain two different dates of Poole's death.
Poole has corresponded with someone in Barbourville who claimed to have acquired cash and guns in break-ins, Caudill testified.
That still doesn't give proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt that he was planning on doing anything illegal.
They dont need that anymore.
*sighs* Apparently. *shakes head sadly*
The entire point of the outrage was because he was being arrested for writing a story about zombies. I was just pointing out that his story was not about zombies, and is therefore not all that ludicrous.
Still ludicrous, as I still haven't seen any evidence of probable cause.
I'm not contending whether or not he was planning to do anything bad. I've only read two one-page articles on the case, I have no grounds to judge anyone. I'm just saying that writing a macabre, eerily close-to-home story about an underground militia is a whole lot more suspicious than a story about a fantasy zombie attack.
And what if they hadn't arrested him and his plan be succesful and it turned out to be a ploy and we would of had another trenchcoat mafia incident on our hands? Then the parents are whining "how could this happen?" "how could we prevented this?" "this is the goverment's fault for not doing thier jobs! Let's sue someone blargh!"
So.. now we come at a cross-road.. do we protect ourselves from POSSIBLE threats, and destroy our subtle liberties..
Or do we allow ourselves to be exposed to the worst and reap the reprocussions of having choices and will?
You as a person have to decide what is more important to you, freedom or security. Neither the boy, nor the state is at fault here. Both are but victims of the law of our universe that we must follow wether we like too or not to insure our survival.
Freedom or security, it's what it always has come down too..
You can't arrest someone on potential. First off, to even get an arrest warrant, you must show probable cause that a crime was committed, or is in the process of being carried out.And what if they hadn't arrested him and his plan be succesful and it turned out to be a ploy and we would of had another trenchcoat mafia incident on our hands? Then the parents are whining "how could this happen?" "how could we prevented this?" "this is the goverment's fault for not doing thier jobs! Let's sue someone blargh!"
Absolutely not. It's called the 4th Amendment.So.. now we come at a cross-road.. do we protect ourselves from POSSIBLE threats, and destroy our subtle liberties..
That only comes into a controversy when people forget the main purpose of the entire judicial system: the protection of life and liberty of the innocent, not the punishment of the guilty.You as a person have to decide what is more important to you, freedom or security. Neither the boy, nor the state is at fault here. Both are but victims of the law of our universe that we must follow wether we like too or not to insure our survival.
*adds Kentucky to the list*
I like Kung-Fu.
Well this is america in america people love to punish young people and lock them up forever ruining there lives.Just because they're young and they might jump up a kill everybody.yep yep good ole america.
BTW i would say this is a fake but it isn't.My little step brother got kicked out his old school last year for talking about a FPS game called Rainbow Six 3.We,l he was actually talking aobut an experience ont eh game but a girl over heard him.He was talking about how he was in survival mode and everyone was just killing each other and how he owned them all with his desert eagle.Well the little girls overheard and told the teacher "hey hey hey nick said will kill people with a DE."
Twisted and turned his word and the sad thing about it is kids lie all the time and the innocent always gets in trouble.Now he was lucky to be in a private school.But if he was in a public school he'd be locked up in juvy then moved into prison when he turned 18.by then he would have been raped and harassed by the guards in juvy.
Long story short don't talk about FPS games in school.Actually don't talk about death period in school.Don't write a hitlist in your journal and say your not serious because you will be treated as a killer and criminal off that potential.This is what I find funny.School shootings have been happening in predominately minority public schools.As soon as two white boys go crazy and kill a bunch of white people the whole country just goes under shock and decides to do something about school shootings.But before colubine it was just another black or hispanic who got killed.Anyway I'll leave that bit to a end so i don't start another controversial debate.
This article is stupid but I can actually believe something like that happening.Something so damn unrealistic.They just wanted to arrest that kid and spend a bunch of your tax dollars to keep him locked up.
Last edited by lordblazer; 03-21-2005 at 03:36 AM.
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