A lawyer for a 22 year old who posted a treatening message about Faulkner University in Montgomery on Facebook is seeking a lower bond. Right now it's $500,000. As far as has been reported, there is zero evidence the kid had the ability or materials to carry through any threat. It's not as if he had obtainted, or tried to obtain, a weapon...or had stockpiled explosives, or even stolen secret detailed campus maps.
We live in such scary times that almost any comment can be taken seriously.
Sure it was a stupid thing to do, but unless there's something else going on here, save the terrorism prosecutions for the truly dangerous people out there who do have guns and do have bombs and do have even more dangeous weapons. There is unfortunately no shortage of them.
These things have to be taken seriously. Dead is dead.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in the DC area, we learned--you don't joke about doing harm to the president. A Secret Service employee or a Capitol Police officer might be sitting at the next restaurant table and overhear.
Then you'll get a tap on the shoulder, a flash of a badge and "We need to talk with you."
Well, I suppose there are umpteen thousand fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide, whom, at various and sundry times should be so prosecuted for making terrorist threats, vis-a-vis their remarks such as, "we're going to kill you," or "we're going to annihilate you."
ReplyDeleteAnd given that, in the coming days in lawless California, the Tide will be facing Texans, there's bound to be bloodshed... or, at least the threats of it - on gridiron and off.
Maybe, just maybe... they're going to use those roses' thorns to inflict damage upon those in attendance, as well.
Now THAT, my friends is a terrorist threat.