"Giggles Like a Girl" wrote in message
news:10d6c$47b7d762$4038ecbe$23727@PRIMUS.CA...
> In article
news.west.cox.net>,
> don.harvey@absfg.com says...>>
>>KittyP writes:
>>
>>> In the news last night a 20-something year old Oregon community college
>>> student in criminal justice was taken into custody and sent for mental
>>> evaluation (usually a three day ordeal) because he posted a rant that
>>> included advocating violence in his My Space.
>>>
>>>
http://www.katu.com/news/15687037.html
>>>
>>> The news folks on one station interviewed several of his friends who
>>> were
>>> blown away (so to speak), because the guy was always smiling (unlike the
>>> mug
>>> shot), wasn't a violent fellow in any way, and was just blowing off
>>> steam
>>> (not unlike a few of us do occasionally in absfg).
>>>
>>> It made me afraid of every cannibal jokes I've made in the past. But
>>> truly,
>>> if the police can pick up someone for one rant on a blog and call it
>>> 'the
>>> right thing' - who is next?
>>
>>I think the legal standard for non-voluntary commitment in most
>>communities is "posing a threat to oneself or others." Some
>>authorities, given recent events, take expressions advocating
>>violence seriously.
>
> Does this mean we will see a series of arrests of people
> who advocate bombing Iran, assassinating the president
> of Venezuela, and so forth?
That was priceless. It is like history of war, isn't it? The victor must be
right because he won after all. Perpetrating violence and talking about it
by powerful people is taken differently than if I started talking about,
say, assassinating Bush (even though I refuse to even kill flies or
spiders).
Speaking of which I saw 'No Country For Old Men' yesterday and there must be
an allegory or meaning that I'm missing? I came away with was 'life is
violent duhkha and then you die'.
Kitty
Choose your enemy wisely, for you eventually become him. - Sun Tzu
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> Giggles Like a Girl
> May Shai-Hulud clear the path before you.
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