Student Facing Terroristic Threat Charges After Decorating High School Bathroom With Laughable 'Satanic' Graffiti
from the HOW-DO-YOU-PENTAGRAM dept
Today's "terroristic threat" is brought to you by a very disappointed Satan.
Apparently, this graffiti first appeared in a Brownsboro High School boys restroom before making its way across Facebook (as one's graffiti does), where it was spotted by an increasing number of concerned parents and students. That groundswell of social media handwringing culminated in this:
School and law enforcement officials received information about graffiti on a bathroom stall at Brownsboro High School on Tuesday afternoon and investigated the matter. On Wednesday, the high school student was detained at the beginning of the school day and was questioned. The student was later charged with terrorist threat on a public entity, a third degree felony.The Athens (TX) Daily Review's coverage provides more color commentary from a concerned parent.
Stephanie Teel shared her concerns, and a photo on the Chandlerslist Facebook page.At which point, the school district leapt into action, painting over the graffiti and asking students not to talk about it. Oh, and they sent the cops after the unnamed student, who will undoubtedly soon be graced with a name because of this decision:
“Today someone wrote on the walls starting 10 students would be sacrificed on 11/6/14. It also had writings about Satan as well as hell. I was informed it's been going on for the past couple days,” she wrote. “With all the school shootings in the past, I don't believe this is something to be taken lightly or joked about especially by a school official whom we trust with our children's safety daily.”
At the beginning of the school day Wednesday, the student, who is being considered an adult instead of a minor, was immediately detained.That escalated quickly. KLTV's coverage includes this not-quite-accurate description of the graffiti/threat:
Pictures of the graffiti show images of a pentagram and words printed in and around it mentioning Satan and sacrifices. The graffiti depicted a pentagram and had phrases including "I will sacrifice 10 students" and "Satan is God".A pentagram it ain't, at least not in the classic Satanic sense. For comparison:
And if there's something referencing the death of "10 students," it can't be found in this "heavily circulated" photo, which only shows the phrase "sacrifice the children."
If the unnamed student was hoping to impress the Dark Lord with his restroom wall tribute, he couldn't have done much worse than this Lone Star State approximation littered with quasi-Satanic afterthoughts -- something about as "threatening" as anything shown by Count Floyd and as "Satanic" as Simon Milligan and man-servant Hecubus. Someone bored and stupid made this, and now they're facing felony charges… as an adult.
Hopefully, an investigation is also underway, rather than some sort of railroading. Third-degree felonies are punishable by fines up to $10,000 and sentences of 2-10 years. Texas is a bad place to be caught uttering terroristic threats. Just ask Justin Carter, whose online trash talk netted him $500,000 bail, time in solitary confinement (for his protection) and acts of violence from other inmates. As Tamara Tabo points out at Above the Law, terroristic threat laws steamroll the Constitution in their zeal to bring "terrorists" to justice.
Politicians and prosecutors trumpet terroristic threat laws as tools for the swift intervention of authorities, allowing law enforcement to prevent horrendous crimes. Sure, they make things easier. Ordinarily, if someone tips off the cops that someone else was talking about committing a crime, the police investigate. They could make an arrest later, if their investigation revealed that necessity.Maybe this will all shake out in a few days. Maybe the cops did capture someone who needed capturing. Or maybe the swift overreaction of students, parents, administration and local law enforcement -- all primed to believe another school shooting is constantly just around the corner -- will see someone harshly punished for the crime of being stupid in public.
With terroristic threat laws, the suspicious talk itself is the crime, not just evidence of plans for one. The cops can arrest for the threat charge and investigate the possible underlying violent scheme later. Meanwhile, the accused is not simply enduring the inconvenience of a police inquiry. He is locked up. Even if he is ultimately acquitted or charges are dropped, months of lost liberty is too high a price for using gauche language or failing to understand his audience’s sensitivities. It’s too high a price when police could have investigated the old-fashioned way.
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I wonder what would happen if I was still in school. I remember being in Business Studies class, and being given the assignment of writing up documentation for a fictional company. My company was a fictional black market arms dealer willing to sell weapons to anybody. My teacher loved it. These guys wouldn't.
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We'll need to start appending the phrase "THIS IS A JOKE, NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY" to our joking so the thin-skinned and the ones that are incapable of humor due to fear won't freak out...
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ESPECIALLY when religion is involved because someone decides "a Satanist must have done this".
A few big examples of this are the Memphis 3 (police decided Satanists must have killed young children simply because satanists were in the news a lot lately there), and the Texas guy who was executed for setting his house on fire to kill his children in a satanist ritual (despite all the forensic fire experts who looked at the case debunking the prosecution's entirely theory).
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I was just concerned about his freedom of speech.
And no, I don't consider this vandalism. A few drops of acetone on a rag, and the wall is as it was. He didn't damage it.
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But this IS A THREAT.
Maybe just drawing a pentagram is not a threat (threatening because it's a gateway for demons, perhaps, but that's another story). Saying "Satan is God", as much as I disagree as a Christian, is not a threat. Saying, "I'm going to sacrifice children" is a threat and should be dealt with as such.
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But that statement was NOT made. Look at the photograph. It says "Sacrifice the children" (sounds like a quote out of some schlock horror book or movie to me), nor is there ANY mention of 10 children.
Topping it all off, in the second link, one of the parents is quoted as saying:
"BISD officials were notified, and the solution was to paint over the image,"
Was to PAINT OVER the image, this implies it has already been painted over? Sounds like destruction of evidence. How about the felony trial if the image no longer exists?
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I will say that sacrifice the children works great as a satirical response to whatever screws over kids and their future, to point out that they are indeed already sacrificing the children in acts of utmost selfishness.
School to prison pipeline? "Sacrifice the children!".
Cash For Kids Scandal? "Sacrifice the children!".
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But I agree, stating he will sacrifice children is at least vaguely threatening. It's not necessarily explicitly threatening however, since sacrifices take many forms -- you could sacrifice someone's self-esteem by heckling them, for example.
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Don't mess with the blockwarts
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21st century 'witch' hysteria
Almost a quarter-century ago the mass hysteria was about Satanism-infested Day Care. And we knew it was indeed real because 3 & 4-year-old children nationwide always cracked (under high pressure interrogation techniques) and admitted they were forced to participate in these satanic orgy rituals. Scores of these satanic pedophile childcare providers went to prison, busted by the testimony of well-rehearsed 3 year olds.
And just like the 16th century witch hunts, these crackdowns aparently worked, because, just as fast as that epidemic sprang up, these nationwide satanic childcare rings disappeared off the face of the earth, and not a single one has emerged since in the last 20 years.
But now, who knows, maybe Satanism is finally back, and if so, it must be fought with a zero-tolerance approach, and anything with the most subliminal, barely-there hint of Satanism must be fought with nothing less than full scorched-earth tactics.
And we must remember that these fire-and-brimstone tactics always work, because after all, how often do you hear about witches today, 400 years after they were successfully eradicated? Or even Satanic daycare providers? Case closed. Mission accomplished ... now on to find the next dragon to slay.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/01/fran_and_dan_keller_f reed_two_of_the_last_victims_of_satanic_ritual_abuse.html
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Any Excuse is a Good Excuse to Expel Morons
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I and 6 billion other humans would most definitely choose BOTH!
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If that's the case, then why not expel him for those things? There's no need to use bullshit charges to address problem students.
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...and tax evasion!
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and since when, on any sane plane, does mischief, class disruption, bad attitudes and pharmies equate to bullshit terroristic threat charges, several grand and two to 10 years?
Yesh, there are definitely morons that need expelling, expunging, exorcising and some extreme displacement-ing far away from any schools for children.
It's a pity we sacrifice life so readily, isn't it? That can't end well.
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1) Start a private "charter school"
2) Put your puppets in places of authority within public school system
3) Muck up the works
4) Cause confusion and mis trust
5) Profit!!!
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Isn't Satanism protected under freedom of religion?
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Sounds like a terrorist to me.
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It gives the Campus Crusade a new meaning.
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Perhaps, but writing graffiti in the bathroom is not protected. If nothing else it's vandalism.
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Who are the real terrorists?
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Another foiled terrorist plot!
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All of our children will be felons . . .
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The gods are petty and spiteful. Pray they do not notice you.
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The correct solution eluded them
Problem solved.
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But to play devil's advocate (or is this the opposite? Now I'm confused.)
Yes, it is, and that's how it should be because, as you say, that IS the crime. If you call in a bomb threat, it doesn't matter whether you actually have a bomb. (OK, it DOES matter quite a bit, but you get my point - the threat itself is the crime.)
I'm sympathetic to the idea that this particular incident should not rise to the level of a third degree felony, however. The "threat" wasn't very threatening. We have degrees when it comes to things like theft - shoplifting a candy bar does not get a kid the same charge as stealing a car.
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Maybe because it was Halloween a few days ago and he OD'ed on horror flicks just like kids (and some adults, ahem) do? Couldn't be that simple. Must be terroristic.
Wait a minute, are zombies terrorists? Vampires? Ghosts? Arrest Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and all TV broadcasters promoting terrorism and stuffing it down the throats of Innocent Children. Think of the children!
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So you're going to blame television?
I think zombies, being brainless, lack the requisite intent, even though they do terrorize people. Vampires tend to not try to scare people (they're more of the charm-their-victims type), so although they might commit murder, they probably would not be terrorists. Ghosts sometimes to try to scare people, but the literature is inconsistent on whether they can have intent or are just following instincts. I'm not sure how you could arrest one, anyway.
Hey, YOU'RE the one who just claimed that television was responsible. Don't blame me when you follow your own logic to its conclusion and don't like it.
And also, they aren't "stuffing it down the throats of innocent children". Simply offering those movies doesn't rise to that level. Anyone is free to watch or not watch - including the vandal who you think was influenced by the watching. If the broadcasters were to tie children down and force them to repeatedly watch, then they would absolutely be responsible - but that doesn't tend to happen too often.
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YOUR HEAD
Recommended course of action:
Lift hand and apply palm to face.
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To be rebellious and shocking.
"Do you perhaps he intended that some people be afraid?"
No.
This general sort of graffiti has been happening for as long as there have been walls and markers. To call this "terroristic" is ludicrous. It's clearly not even a serious threat.
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While you are at it arrest every bureaucrat and politician.
Oh and YOURSELF since you make me afraid of the intelligent quotient of the human race if your one of it's shining examples of whatever the fuck you think you are.
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To jot down his idea for book or movie. Why are they destroying his copyright protected works?
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At least we all know the day of Common Core testing
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except i think it is not 10 students being sacrificed to the false-gods of common core, but several millions...
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Yeah, I was a teenager once myself. That didn't use to be a crime.
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That's not how you summon Satan!
I suspect that's now a crime too.
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*Thinks of the sign in Wayne's World and agrees*
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Living life under some phobia of perishing in a terror "attack" is not freedom, by any measure. Whoever thought or continues to think that our current state of affairs qualifies as the American Dream needs a padded cell. And that before shit gets real real.
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Second, the most the student would be guilty of is a Class C Misdemeanor Criminal Mischief under Texas law:
But since the student was not charged with criminal mischief, he should walk free. Based on the evidence here, no specific nor credible threat has been made to any specific person which could meet the requirements of a felony "terrorist threat" charge. First and Eighth Amendments would bar the prosecutions case here if the Constitution still had any legal relevance today.
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1, as said above, the "pentagram" is not in the satanic design, it is in the typical wicca arrangement (not the reversed version of a majical symbol denoting the opposite values)
2, pentagram is and never will be truly associated with satanic worship, the pentagram is an ancient occult symbol for the 5 forces of nature in one design. much like yin-yang shows duality in unity..
3, again press and "school officials" have added negative based perceptions based on no truth there is no writting saying "i will sacrifice 10 students" i bet none of the "officials" have actually looked at the picture...
4, school quickly painting it over and telling students not to talk about it... very much like how in the re-editing of the bible, magical practise and knowledge was outlawed for fear of the populace learning the truth about the universe (spirit and everything else we deem supernatural (if it is expressed on this planet, it is part of the universe...))
5, powers that be, illuminati, nwo etc ALL are aware of how they are loosing power and grip on the "percieved reality" they have pulled over our eyes. they are scared. they are frantically trying to maintain control and things like thie and ebola are how it is done.. dont let them win guys, we must reclaimn our knowledge, we must reclaim our power..
May the force be with you all..
Namaste
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Bathroom Graffiti
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The Pentagram as a Satanic symbol
Essentially it's similar to if the lad drew (badly) a swastika on the wall.
This should still serve as no reason to accuse him of terrorism or anything more than tagging (mild vandalism that warrents an hour or two of cleaning duty), but in societies that are dominated by Satan-fearing Christian religious groups, I can see how this could lead to overreach by those in power who are insecure of the respect they get.
And yes, regarding it as anything more than a mere scribble chills free speech.
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