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EntheogenicPeace
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wilshire
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
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EntheogenicPeace
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: wilshire]
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wilshire
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7716855 - 12/04/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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yes, hence the appalled look on my face.
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EntheogenicPeace
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: wilshire]
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johnm214



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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: wilshire]
#7716896 - 12/04/07 06:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Insane...
You can leave a message on the automated answering machine at the prosecutor's office:
432 East Washington Street West Bend, WI 53095 262-335-4311
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zappaisgod
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7717092 - 12/04/07 07:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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EntheogenicPeace said: You don't find it the least bit disturbing knowing that a supposedly anonymous online post that was written as sarcasm & making no threats to anyone specific whatsoever could end if with the cops at your door taking you to jail because a random individual misinterpreted & felt threatened by it?
Dumb things abound here: 1. Nothing on the internet is anonymous. Ever. If you give them reason to make the effort they (anybody at all) can find you out. 2. This wasn't sarcasm. This was a moby, named after the idiot musician who advocated that libtards should post outrageous crap on conservative sites to discredit them. The guy was a moby. 3. We'll see how this PC over-reaction plays out.
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: zappaisgod]
#7717542 - 12/04/07 09:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I really don't know whether living in madison will help or hurt...
Either the madison hippies will rally around him for free speach, or they will shun him for his violent tyrade.
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DreamSignals
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: johnm214]
#7718035 - 12/04/07 11:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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As much as I want to call the cops on these fucks: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/switzerland-xenophobia-thriving-423084.html
I still think freedom of expression is more important and by becoming "offended" we just give their words more power.
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: DreamSignals]
#7718400 - 12/05/07 03:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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> I still think freedom of expression is more important and by becoming "offended" we just give their words more power.
Exactly. As much as I despise the Holy Racist Al Sharpton (for example), I would stand beside him in a fight for his right to speak his shallow racist mind.
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7719036 - 12/05/07 10:21 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I better have my post history deleted or I may wind up in gitmo suckin eggs.
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: afoaf]
#7719258 - 12/05/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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They suck eggs?
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: johnm214]
#7719356 - 12/05/07 11:52 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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johnm214 said: I really don't know whether living in madison will help or hurt...
Either the madison hippies will rally around him for free speach, or they will shun him for his violent tyrade.
Heh.
They're rabid about free speech in Madison. But the WI Teachers Union is like the fucking Gestapo, so there really is no telling.
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YidakiMan
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7719465 - 12/05/07 12:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Personally I think Zappa is right.
My mom has been a teacher in WI for many years, shes actually retiring very soon. I'm not sure or not if she personally knew the accused, but she may have seen him speak at NEA meetings. I will have to ask her about this guy.
I have a hard time believing that the PRESIDENT of the WI Teachers Union secretly believed that teachers were parasites of the government.
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Re: Please read before calling the cops on me [Re: YidakiMan]
#7724704 - 12/06/07 02:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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UPDATE: No charges
Score one for common sense and free speech. Interesting how this paper frames the comment as sarcastic, when other reports I've read simply label it a comment, without charecterizing a subjective judgment.
MADISON, Wis. -
A Wisconsin teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine High School gunmen won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the comment left by James Buss was offensive and disgusting, but was protected speech under the state and U.S. constitutions.
Buss, 46, a high school chemistry teacher in suburban Milwaukee, was arrested by police last week for a Nov. 16 post on a conservative blog that covers Wisconsin politics.
During a discussion over teacher salaries, Buss wrote that Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold "knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time!" He added that the gunmen, who killed 12 students and one teacher in the April 1999 attack, should be remembered as heroes.
Martens said Buss was being facetious because he was tired of reading negative comments about teachers.
Martens said he could not charge Buss with a crime because the blog was not likely to incite "imminent lawless action." He said it was unclear whether the comment advocated violence against teachers, and even if it did, its language was not likely to incite others to act.
Buss is a former president of the teacher's union in Oak Creek, where he has worked since 1994. He has been placed on paid leave while the district investigates the incident and considers disciplinary action against him.
Police had asked the district attorney to charge Buss with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communications systems. But bloggers and free speech advocates had called on him to drop the case.
Martens disclosed his decision not to charge Buss on Wednesday in a letter to Patricia Herdrich, superintendent of West Bend Joint School District No. 1, where a teacher complained about the post.
Dorreen Dembski, a spokeswoman for the West Bend district, said it respects the decision not to charge Buss. "It is very important to us that all threats are taken seriously," she said. "This was turned over to the authorities. They did their work and we'll respect that." http://www.examiner.com/a-1089027~No_Charges_Over_Online_Columbine_Comment.html
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