The awesome costs of political correctness

[VTA]

The First Amendment. :mock

The family of Justin Carter, the 19-year old Texas gamer who made offensive Facebook comments that landed him in jail, is working with new urgency to get his $500,000 bail reduced because they say he's getting beat up while behind bars.

"Without getting into the really nasty details, he's had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection," says Carter's father, Jack. "He's been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he's depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience."

Carter has been in jail since a February arrest. After Justin finished playing the online game League of Legends, where the community trash-talking can get quite toxic, court documents show he posted the following messages on a Facebook page:

"I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten / And watch the blood of the innocent rain down/ And eat the beating heart of one of them."

Carter's father says his son was responding to an insult by being sarcastic, and followed the message with "JK" for just kidding, but that's disputed by police.

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[VTA]

Crap wrong place again... Sorry guys. Please move to right spot.

 

[VTA]

Gracias.

 

[lons]

This is literally 30 miles from my house. It's an outrage and an over reaction of epic proportions. It is fucking thought crime at best and irresponsibly at the least. Was what he said stupid? Sure, for the purposes of the discussion it was. Even though you can tell the kid was being sarcastic. Was it stupid enough that he's had to spend 100 days + in jail without bond yeah I know he has a bond, but by making it 500k that's the same as saying you are fucking staying in jail.

You cannot prosecute this case, you are detaining a US citizen for a God Damn joke...

 

[VTA]

A kid gets thrown in jail, having his first amendment rights revoked, and hardly a protest. Kill an ass licking dog and watch the calls to kill cops. Yeah. Happy 'independence' day.

 

[MetalHead]

America is finished.
You can have Facebook pages calling for the assassination of George Zimmerman,Black Panther party placing bounties on him,and nothing happens.
White boy makes a joke,he's thrown in jail.
White people,you need to wake the fuck up.