Comments on: Story About Zombies = Terrorism

By: the friendly grizzly

the friendly grizzly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:04:34 +0000

@ #2 JCoke: Do you think this nonsense will let up when The Saviour takes over in January?

By: C. S. P. Schofield

C. S. P. Schofield — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:53:11 +0000

Bill, we have a revolution every 4-8 years …. but like most revolutions we seem to replace one lot of authoritarian swine with another.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:19:50 +0000

I would be doing life plus 50 at this point. I’ve been writing crazy things for years – my last book even has a zombie story – http://www.undertakerpress.com . We need another revolution in this country.

By: C. S. P. Schofield

C. S. P. Schofield — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:53:22 +0000

OK, JCoke, explain to me what the %$#^ this story has to do with the Bush admin?

My memory is that laws about “Terroristic Threats” were put in place to trip up White Supremacist groups like the KKK, when it proved too hard for the BATF and the FBI to actually catch them DOING anything. That dates back to the 1980’s. The rest of this is clearly an outgrowth of the post-Columbine hysteria.

The “Terroristic Threat” laws were the beginnings of the stupid “Hate Crimes” laws that somehow never apply to Leftwing jerks shooting their mouths off. Post-Columbine hysteria totally ignored that in-school violence had been trending down for decades, and that Columbine was so bad because the local police frankly dropped the ball. Lots to criticize in both, but where does Bush (of whom I’m no great fan) come in?

By: KY ZOMBIES OMG

KY ZOMBIES OMG — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:02:01 +0000

The grandparents’ sentence? Serving out the rest of their natural lives without the comfort and companionship of their progeny.

By: MacK

MacK — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:26:36 +0000

Worst thing here is that it was a story about ZOMBIES, and yet it went as far as it did.
Now If he was to write a story about some kids killing an HONEST COP/GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL everyone would have known it to be fiction right from the start, and none of us would have heard of this.

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:18:25 +0000

BTW, the actor Wil Wheaton (STAND BY ME, STAR TREK: TNG) wrote a short short about zombies when he was 12. Imagine what fun he’d be having with the judicial system if he’d written it today!

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:16:10 +0000

It may be an old (2005) story, but as Alphonse Kerr said, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

By: Gary McGath

Gary McGath — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:07:17 +0000

Why are all the blogs recycling this years-old story today? It seems to have come back from the dead like a … zombie.

By: colson

colson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:52:31 +0000

I hate local news sites for TV stations. They all seem to use the same damned content system and a lot of them never have dates on articles…

By: Scooby

Scooby — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:42:05 +0000

While on bail, he violated the terms of the bail by going onto the grounds of a school with a friend to pick up the friend’s younger sibling. That is the crime he is (or was- it’s been more than 2 years) on probation for.

It’s still stupid, but not quite as incomprehensible as originally thought. Moral: when on bail, even for a non-crime, keep your nose clean.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:59:42 +0000

#29, I would simply refuse to sign anywhere and to go along with it. Let them throw you into prison for no crime, then proceed to destroy the lives of those responsible for perpetrating this fascism on you.

By: ceanf

ceanf — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:51:49 +0000

i don’t understand how all charges can be dropped, because he wasn’t even indicted for a real crime, yet he is still forced to be on probation. how can that be legal? so he is innocent of a crime that doesn’t exist, but they’re gonna throw him on probation and make him pee in a cup for a couple years just to be sure. how efd up is that?

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:12:10 +0000

anyone catch that the prosecutors dropped the charges to a misdemeanor “attempt to commit terroristic threatening’?????

horrific. absolutely horrific. who the hell is running the prosecutors office in that area? i dont’ care that it was 2005 now, this is just sick.

That is why I discount the claims that Poole was trying to recruit other schoolmates for this supposed “gang”. If there was evidence of that then why not charge him with some sort of conspiracy charge which would have multiple witnesses?

I can somewhat understand reading some of that and then taking a closer look at Poole. Maybe even searching his house and places he is known to frequent to look for weapons, but simply arresting him and charging him on little more than writings in the past tense in a personal journal? Very stupid.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:09:29 +0000

He got probation since he violated his first terms of probation. It is still kind of creepy in that his first probation was for a crime that didn’t exist, basically the legal system using a technicallity to its benefit.

By: Mike Leatherwood

Mike Leatherwood — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:02:34 +0000

And the schools won’t allow you to bring a shotgun to defend yourself against the Zombie menace. Where is the NRA when you need em?

By: j.d.

j.d. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:53:50 +0000

anyone catch that the prosecutors dropped the charges to a misdemeanor “attempt to commit terroristic threatening’?????

horrific. absolutely horrific. who the hell is running the prosecutors office in that area? i dont’ care that it was 2005 now, this is just sick.

By: Zombie Attack and Terrorist Threats

Zombie Attack and Terrorist Threats — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:41:03 +0000

[...] Radley Balko links to a story about a high school student, William Poole, being arrested for, as the Poole says, writing a story about zombies. Yes, zombies. A good round-up of the story can be found here. [...]

By: Ganja Blue

Ganja Blue — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Substitute “threat” for “treat” in that last comment. My mind must be on Halloween already, Freudian slip.

By: Ganja Blue

Ganja Blue — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:21:51 +0000

The problem with zombies is real. Congress must act before a zombie attack[Video] happens again in Memphis. This treat must not be taken lightly. We must exhaust all resources of the federal, state and local governments until American children are safe at night.