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Halloween is for Terrorists

It's stories like this that make it no surprise that the William Ayer's "domestic terrorism" story has no impact:

A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday that the "writings" that got him arrested are being taken out of context.

Winchester police say William Poole, 18, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Poole's home that outline possible acts of violence aimed at students, teachers, and police.

Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.

"My story is based on fiction," said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies."

Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky," said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.
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"It didn't mention nobody who lives in Clark County, didn't mention (George Rogers Clark High School), didn't mention no principal or cops, nothing," said Poole. "Half the people at high school know me. They know I'm not that stupid, that crazy."

On Thursday, a judge raised Poole's bond from one to five thousand dollars after prosecutors requested it, citing the seriousness of the charge.

Emphasis mine.  He will now more than likely be entered into a wonderful national database, as a potential terrorist... all because he wrote a short story about zombies.  I had a grade school teacher who once asked the entire class to write a scary story the week before Halloween.  I wrote my story about zombies too (does that make me a terrorist?).  If she were to do the same thing today, would she be arrested for inciting terrorism, or giving aid and comfort to terrorists?  Do I need to be worried that a company I work for will think I'm a terrorist because I once posted this video by Jonathan Coulton about zombies overrunning an office?

Is Jonathan Coulton a terrorist?  (Cue angry email from Elliot because Melinda has the song stuck in her head again).  Via Radley Balko.

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Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:24:23 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Nick,

I don't think it makes you a terrorist.

But, it's a good thing hate crime laws weren't on the books when you wrote your story. You probably would have been arrested for slandering zombies. After all, they *were* people too.

I stole the last line from this t-shirt:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/ae5e/zoom/
Ben
Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:58:33 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Code monkey like zombies. Code monkey like pointing out erosion of civil liberties brought about by fear-wielding Bush.
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