Pennsylvania Judge Needs A Brain Amputation

[slein]

LINKY: STOOPID TERROR LAW (http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4e553713-948c-4d10-b899-ceccd036ed79)

I don't want to believe it. I didn't want to say it, since I was tired of bashing the US... its almost become too easy. I was beginning to believe that I shouldn't bash the States, since you are my neighbour... and I would like to get along with you.

However....

The story is ridiculous and sensational, yet entirely baseless. Clearly, this couldn't even stand up as an episode in "Law and Order." I'm so flabbergasted that I can't even begin to make an opinionated statement, point, comment or anything!

WTF?!?!?! Are you guys for real? Someone is proud of where they come from, so makes them anti-American? This begs the notion that the US is anti-everything-non-American. And, you wonder why you don't have many friends.

Oh, America! You're so ****ing great. Your country is... ah **** it. Its not worth my time. Piece of **** bully....

[slein]

I know that people in the States aren't as ignorant as the entire country is stereotyped. Those of you are welcome up here in the Great White North. Come and stay a while.

If you are a part of the law system in Pennsylvania, please, just shoot yourself and end the misery.

[Changleen]

Wow. That's pretty special right there. What a bunch of dicks.

After Travis was arrested, another bomb threat was scrawled on a different bathroom wall at his school. Authorities chalked it up to a copycat crime that wasn't worth investigating....

Why does this enrage me so much? Ah, yes, because it's ****ing retarded!

So he was arrested for: The slogan on his T-shirt, and having legal substances in his house. Fascists.

[chicodude]

You have to be kidding me........

[Silver]

That whole Molson "I am Canadian" thing is just as retarded. If he had brains, he would have worn Larry Flynt's "**** this Court" shirt :D

But, still this kid deserves to be in jail. Can't be too safe...

[Damn True]

It is absurd that the kid was convicted, but what was he thinking wearing the goofy shirts into court? What was his lawyer thinking? Kinda asinine on their parts.

At most he should have gotten rung up for the bomb threat. After all, how many times have school administrators and police not looked into what appeared to be a kids prank and had it turn out to be something far worse than that.

What happens if you make a joke about a bomb in an airport?

[Changleen]

That whole Molson "I am Canadian" thing is just as retarded. If he had brains, he would have worn Larry Flynt's "**** this Court" shirt :D

But, still this kid deserves to be in jail. Can't be too safe...How about we kill everyone else in the entire world? Then we'll be a bit safer!

[Silver]

How about we kill everyone else in the entire world? Then we'll be a bit safer!

Only if we kill whitey as well...

[Changleen]

Only if we kill whitey as well...Kill him first. It'll lull everyone else into a false sense of security. :evil:

[reflux]

I'm at a loss for words.

[slein]

It is absurd that the kid was convicted, but what was he thinking wearing the goofy shirts into court? What was his lawyer thinking? Kinda asinine on their parts.

From the second page of the article:

"Travis was still wearing the shirt -- he hadn't been allowed to change -- when he was brought to court the next day. Images of Travis in his "anti-American shirt" appeared on newscasts and in area papers."

Next thing they'll arrest Marilyn Manson for committing androgeny.

At most he should have gotten rung up for the bomb threat. After all, how many times have school administrators and police not looked into what appeared to be a kids prank and had it turn out to be something far worse than that.

whaddya mean by, "rung up?"


What happens if you make a joke about a bomb in an airport?

Depends... when I said it, they told me you couldn't say that. I said, "oh." Next time I'll take the Gaylord Fokker approach

[MMike]

I have the same shirt. I wore it all the time while I was living in the States.... THAT as a close one!!

My name is MMike, and I AM CANADIAN!!!!

[Changleen]

You might wanna rethink your avatar DT, it's close to a full depiction of cartoon nudity. You could probably get locked up for that Anti-American display of flesh.

[Ciaran]

Welcome back to the McCarthy era. :(

I just don't know what to say. This makes me sad and angry. This is wrong. And no amount of rhetoric about fear and terrorism will change that. But then as usual I am stating the obvious.

[Damn True]

From the second page of the article:

"Travis was still wearing the shirt -- he hadn't been allowed to change -- when he was brought to court the next day. Images of Travis in his "anti-American shirt" appeared on newscasts and in area papers."

Next thing they'll arrest Marilyn Manson for committing androgeny.



whaddya mean by, "rung up?"




Depends... when I said it, they told me you couldn't say that. I said, "oh." Next time I'll take the Gaylord Fokker approach

That's [the bomb threat] the only thing he did that was REALLY wrong. The rest was just silly. The t-shirt thing is absurd, his laywer oughta be bitchslapped for letting his client do something like that.

I mean, would it have been smart for MJ to wear this into court? http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/products/a270/a270.gif
The kid was clearly getting a raw deal from the start, no sense in inflaming things.

[Changleen]

That's [the bomb threat] the only thing he did that was REALLY wrong. The rest was just silly. The t-shirt thing is absurd, his laywer oughta be bitchslapped for letting his client do something like that.

I mean, would it have been smart for MJ to wear this into court? http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/products/a270/a270.gif
The kid was clearly getting a raw deal from the start, no sense in inflaming things.Did you miss: "Travis was still wearing the shirt -- he hadn't been allowed to change -- when he was brought to court the next day"?

And as for the bomb thing:

"After Travis was arrested, another bomb threat was scrawled on a different bathroom wall at his school. Authorities chalked it up to a copycat crime that wasn't worth investigating."

So apparantly the bomb thing wasn't an issue for other kids...

Seems like he was targetted for being Canadian? I dunno...

[dhtahoe]

The things they are doing in this country in the name of terrorism. I have to pay terror insurance on my shop in Tahoe. When I told them I didn't want it and they told me that it's the law now. Wait I don't remember voting for that. Yet troops are dying every day from suicide bombers. I think our focus is just A TAD off.

[Damn True]

Did you miss: "Travis was still wearing the shirt -- he hadn't been allowed to change -- when he was brought to court the next day"?


Woops, I thought it was two different shirts on two seperate occasions.

Still, you can't make bomb threats in a school or anywhere else for that matter and not expect some form serious investigation if not consequence. Only a foolish school administrator or local police offical would overlook such a thing lest he preside over the next columbine or red lake MN. So not investigating the second threat certainly qualifies as such.

The shirt thing seems pretty irrelivant in the whole deal. Grandstanding on the part of the prosecutor, salacious reporting on the part of the reporters who chose to focus on it.

The kid was dead wrong in making the original threat and should be punished, the police were wrong in not investigating the second threat.

[peter6061]

Is it just me, or don't some of us live in a country where freedom of speech allows us to walk up to the ****ing white house and display our disrespect for America if we want?

So this guy is proud of Canada? Great! I think it's a pretty cool country too. I'm not a resident, but the few times I've visited, it's always been cool.

So they make a big deal about his shirt being anti-american? I guess this is what happens when all the soccer moms become security moms and vote for the bull**** laws put out by the conservative masses that cant think for themselves and trust their lives to a moron.

And the US Constitution says that I can say that!

edit: And he should be punished for the bomb threat.

[clancy98]

Is it just me, or don't some of us live in a country where freedom of speech allows us to walk up to the ****ing white house and display our disrespect for America if we want?

haha try it....

[peter6061]

haha try it....
Living only 5 minutes from DC, I can honestly say, it happens all the time.

[clancy98]

well then stay off the lawn! or wear a helmet! I'd be scurred a gettin shot!

[MMike]

shouldn't that be "pwn3d"?

[Westy]

Citing the shirt, Bucks County District Attorney Diane Gibbons called Mr. Biehn an "angry" and "unhappy" child.

I thought that was pretty normal, not illegal. Then again if you are not for America you are against her.

[$tinkle]

i don't know how he could blow stuff up w/ k2no3 (a.k.a. saltpeter); maybe he was just trying to be a good menenite by curbing his natural desires.

don't put him in jail - make him raise a barn or something.

[Ciaran]

When I was a kid blowing things up was the American way. We used to save our fireworks from the 4th and make homemade cherry bombs. We would blow up our toys, mailboxes, etc. BOOM!

[slein]

the details that he was gonna bomb sumthin are sketchy... thank-you media for that.

Pretend that he did write the things - if anything, he needs help, not a jail sentence. Looking at his demeanor (pankster I believe), then he could be consider mal-adjusted. That tends to happen to people from Newfoundland. However, Newfies are a fine bunch, and they normally don't harm anyone...

I argue that the fingering students' comments should be corroborate with some other physical evidence... how else can the judgement stand? No one else fingered anyone else? I mean, given the serious ridiculousness of the entire fiasco, I would expect a judge with some sense of intellect to reason that this kid is what he is... a Canadian Prankster.

Kinda like me... oops... I think the anti-Canuck troopers are on their way!