Secret Service Questions Student on Drawings

[DarkMaster]

One day I shall be King of Canada (or perhaps the Holy Divine God of Awesomeness, I haven't quite decided on the title), and I shall rule with an iron fist. Seriously, anyone who disobeys shall succumb to a thrashing of a fist made of iron fastened to a steel chain, which will have been forged by a guy who knows how to make those things, and I will give him $500 to make it, but then he'll get greedy and ask for $700, so I'll order him dead, but he won't like this, and he'll reveal himself to be the King of Australia, which I will then make as my rival, and we shall declare war on one another, and fight for a few years, but eventually I'll win, and attain my rank as the Supreme Awesome Guy (yeah that title kicks ass), and it shall be good, as true now as it was when it was written.

[Dark Samurai]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

One day I shall be King of Canada (or perhaps the Holy Divine God of Awesomeness, I haven't quite decided on the title), and I shall rule with an iron fist. Seriously, anyone who disobeys shall succumb to a thrashing of a fist made of iron fastened to a steel chain, which will have been forged by a guy who knows how to make those things, and I will give him $500 to make it, but then he'll get greedy and ask for $700, so I'll order him dead, but he won't like this, and he'll reveal himself to be the King of Australia, which I will then make as my rival, and we shall declare war on one another, and fight for a few years, but eventually I'll win, and attain my rank as the Supreme Awesome Guy (yeah that title kicks ass), and it shall be good, as true now as it was when it was written.

Run on sentences!!! the...horror...

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by Dark Samurai

Run on sentences!!! the...horror...

Don't tell me what to do, I'll have you beheaded.

[Professor S]

BACK... ON... TOPIC...

Lets think about this for a second before we start shooting around claims of denial of freedoms and the like. A 15 year old kid draws a picture of a terrorist with George Bush's head on a stick asking for an end to the war on terrorism. Now, do you think the secret service was brought in to go after the kid?

I don't think so.

There are multiple terror cells operating in this country RIGHT NOW, many of which we have no clue what they're up to. Odds are the secret service was brought in to possibly identify one of the cells through the contact they ay have had, say through a family member, with the kid. I agree that if the kid has no connection he should not be puniched in anyway for just speaking his mind, but simply questioning someone isn't out of the question.

Plus, think about it a little more. What if the kid was connected in some way to a terror cell and everyone just ignored it? After the act of terrorism was completed and all the information starts coming in, we'd be the most critical if we later found out some kid was drawing terrorists killing our president in public school was connected to it.

Everyone wants to be safe, and everyone wants to not be inconvenienced in the least. It doesn't work that way.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

BACK... ON... TOPIC...

Lets think about this for a second before we start shooting around claims of denial of freedoms and the like. A 15 year old kid draws a picture of a terrorist with George Bush's head on a stick asking for an end to the war on terrorism. Now, do you think the secret service was brought in to go after the kid?

I don't think so.

There are multiple terror cells operating in this country RIGHT NOW, many of which we have no clue what they're up to. Odds are the secret service was brought in to possibly identify one of the cells through the contact they ay have had, say through a family member, with the kid. I agree that if the kid has no connection he should not be puniched in anyway for just speaking his mind, but simply questioning someone isn't out of the question.

Plus, think about it a little more. What if the kid was connected in some way to a terror cell and everyone just ignored it? After the act of terrorism was completed and all the information starts coming in, we'd be the most critical if we later found out some kid was drawing terrorists killing our president in public school was connected to it.

Everyone wants to be safe, and everyone wants to not be inconvenienced in the least. It doesn't work that way.

That still doesn't justify why he was punished. I agree it's good to look into it, just to make sure it's ok, because in the world we live in, you never know. Better safe than sorry.

But what happened to the old phrase: "Innocent until proven guilty"?

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

But what happened to the old phrase: "Innocent until proven guilty"?

O.J. Simpson happened.