Carter’s joke was witless and flippant — typical, in other words, of late-teenaged men. By no means was it criminal. Nevertheless, a woman in Canada, who inexactly described herself as a “concerned citizen,” saw from afar what Carter had written and shopped him to Texas police. Police acquiesced to her request, searching the family’s house in the process — and finding nothing. “They really want my son to go away to jail for a sarcastic comment that he made,” Jack Carter, the boy’s father, said. Apparently so: He’s been incarcerated since March without trial.
This is quite incredible,and in a Republican State,too!
But then this is in the Country that still has a man imprisoned for making a video mildly critical of Islam a year ago.
I sense a huge lawsuit against some humor challenged statist totalitarians for violation of his constitutional rights. Maybe I’ve been on the internet too long but I don’t find any implied threat in his statement. The woman who called police about this “threat” should undergo some intense involuntary re-education in recognizing sarcasm and satire. A couple of years of “re-education” would likely be appropriate.
This is the type of thing one expects in a dictatorship; oops, forgot that we’re dealing with Obozo’s Amerika now. I recall George Carlin doing a skit on things you’re not allowed to say on TV. What we need is a comedian like him to parody the current stop of statist swine who need to be publicly humiliated in a manner that only a good comedian can accomplish.
Comment got held up by spam filter. Curious and related to fact that I now do all my browsing through Tor?
Seems the US is getting back to “lettre de cachet” etc. a la pre revolutionary France. I can’t imagine being imprisoned under such circumstances. How that can be approved by a judge at the arraignment beggars belief. But then political correctness really is the new fascism. Likewise the political commissars aka “human rights” tribunals here in Canada.
Dear Loki, when you spell like a troll, you get filtered like a troll…
SpamLookup – Keyword Filter -10.0 Word Filter match on ‘amerika’: ‘Amerika’.
“…a woman in Canada, who inexactly described herself as a “concerned citizen,”
Concerned citizen: Old Indian word for useless %^$*#&g busybody.
Yeah well, Austen Texas is an island of leftist insanity in an ocean of conservative wisdom. Add to that this kid is being charged with a FEDERAL OFFENCE.
When the kid got busted, the achool shooting thing was a hot button issue that conservatives were uncertain how to deal with. With the subsequent defeat of control over-reach they have concluded fronting bail is counter productive.
Lefties are stupid but not insane. The kid is likely safer from physical threats than the POTUS….out on bail not so much…..his supporters consider it protective custody.
Texas conservatives are astute enough to hysband their resourses for a trial and subsequent lawsuits. This is just legal fore-play IMHO.
This kid is only 19 but his retirement fund is coming along nicely.
First off a teenage male is NOT a man, so all of us who have been there know we often do a lot of silly and even stupid things without thinking. I also think this Canadian busybody needs to be identified and outted. Sasquatch is spot on about Austen being a leftist hotbed as opposed to the rest of the state. It no more represents normal Texans that Victoria and Vancouver represent the rest of British Columbia.
“…a woman in Canada, who inexactly described herself as a ‘concerned citizen,’…”
Overlooking the question of why in h@ll the cops in Texas would be concerned with anything some gal in Canada was saying, I’d like to apologize to Americans on behalf of the vastly overwhelming majority of Canadians who have a lick of common sense.
Usually, Canadians who have sh!t for brains end up leaving our country and relocating to someplace where they fit in more easily (ala Jim Carrey).
In the name of ‘security’ and ‘safety’, the US is becoming a police state, with the full panoply of SWAT teams run even by the Department of Education. Niall Ferguson has noticed that class snobbery has become stronger than it is in England, which makes much of the sneering at Sarah Palin understandable (apparently she has the wrong kind of accent.)
This is a tragedy. Blaming it on the Democrats and Obama is not correct: through 2 elections, Obama won the national vote, and Pelosi continues to win enough votes to remain in the Senate. And have you seen the front runner in the oncoming NYC election: that nasty little Weiner guy!
“Canadians who have sh!t for brains end up leaving our country…”
If only.
I wonder if the Canadian concerned citizen is the teacher who called the cops when the little girl drew the letter “L” in a kindergarten class in Ontario,but the teacher thought it looked like a gun.
I think “ConcernedCanuck) is my new twitter-troll handle…
Wait until we start seeing more grievance tourism from Islamic countries!
Mark Stein talked about this a few years ago.
Of course the Liberal Left welcomes this with open arms.
And what about the RCMP? Well we know how they like to evacuate flood victims, rob their homes, and then leave the homes to rot beyond recovery. You’ll get no sympathy from them when a foreign Islamic citizen decides you personally offended them on-line.
BTW – Austin is not conservative Texas, it’s a little Liberal enclave like San Fransicko with cowboy themes, taken from the real Texans years ago.
I bet the Women is from Surrey, or Toronto. Any bets?
Frankly why an American in Texas would take a person from some Canadian Left coast collectivist hive, or Toronto the no good. Is beyond my reasoning.
My apologies to Our Cousins in America.
It looks like they have gone PC mad as well.
Just curious. But why are so many Californians in Austin, trying to recreate the very political climate they fled California from?
It seems insane.
Thank you for the update Kate. Normally I don’t spell America with a “k”, but in this context I thought it was appropriate. 40 years ago we were confident that once computers got fast enough our AI programs would be as good as people and spam filters would be capable of understanding when certain spellings were appropriate and when not. Instead we’re stuck with brainless spam filters and voice recognition software that serves primarily to inject humor into radiology reports and a good medical transcriptionist will never be out of work.
My heart weeps for the American Patriots in the USA – as for the ‘concerned citizen’, she is a real piece of work, IMO. Mean, self rightous, heartless…she has landed a young man in jail for posting a joke on the web! How can she live with herself?
The Amerikan fascist state at work
1. I have no problem with a “Canadian woman” reporting this. Fact is, on the internet you don’t know if you’re communicating with a lunatic or not.
2. I have no problem with the police following up on the report. Threats against schools are taken seriously given recent events.
3. Finally, the reporting of this story is short on facts in my opinion. I believe that police would NOT arrest this “young man” without something more that just what was written. I believe that a judge would NOT set bond at $500,000 without good reason. I might be naive but the trial is set for “July 1” according to one source (a strange delay considering the February arrest). I’ll give it a chance to run through the legal system before I make a judgement.
Well said, David in Michigan. Not even in Soviet Socialist Austin is someone arrested for a tasteless joke — such as a catheterized legislator.
Now I’ve never been to Austen Texas – so any comment I make on the common-sense quotient of their cops and their prosecutors may well fall into the category of jumping to conclusions. But I’m betting I’m not.
Did you ever hear of Kitchener Ontario? We used to think that it was a pretty common-sense sort of place.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/2598150-man-shocked-by-arrest-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun-at-school/
You’d be amazed what happens when you put ‘zero-tolerance’ policies in the hands of idiots and keyboards at the fingertips of professional busybodies.
Maybe I AM naive. I wouldn’t have expected such an extreme reaction to a 4 year old child’s drawing in Canada. Similar zero tolerance anti gun nuttiness in the U.S. only results in punishment for the child ….. which of course makes no sense either. Still, in the Justin Carter case, since the trial is imminent I’ll wait a little longer but watch all the more closely.
You poor fools. There is no Canadian woman.