14 DAY TRIAL // Politics is a tricky and slippery slope to go down on, tempers inflame and fists are being raised all the time. I know it, you know it, hell, even the infants that have passed through the room during a live debate know it. There's nothing new under the sun. It's just that sensation of fists being pushed down people's throats that seems to be trolling around on the Internet, lighting the spark of fighting here and there, and patiently awaiting for the right moment to come into the light and burst the bubble in everybody's faces.
The difference between Orwell's sun and ours is that it lights more than just one political party. Apart from that, Big Brother is really watching you. A teacher, who replied to a political blog about a discussion on teachers' salaries, has been arrested:
"Looking at those teacher salary numbers in West Bend made me sick. $60,000 for a part time job were you 'work' maybe 5 hours per day and sit in the teachers lounge and smoke the rest of the time. Thanks God we won on the referendum. But whining here doesn't stop the problem. We've got to get in back of the kids who have had enough of lazy, no good teachers and are fighting back. Kids like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold members of the Young Republicans club at Columbine. They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time! Too bad the liberals rip them; they were heroes and should be remembered that way."
Ignore the obvious idiocy of the comment, the main point I'm trying to make here is that despite presenting no legal offense, the police have obtained the IP address of James Buss and took him down hard. The charges would be disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communication systems. But, isn't anonymous comment allowed? It is, the teacher replied under the name of "Observer". Is what she said worthy of being considered a threat? Last time I checked the definition of the word "threat", "one shot at a time" definitely did not fall under any of the explanations available:
According to dictionary.com, a threat is "a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace". It was a hyperbole, and the entire deal should have fallen under the first amendment and the police should have remembered prior to the arrest that free speech is a birthright, at least in the United States, where the whole deal took place. Later, the teacher was bailed out for $350.
Oceania, here we come. Make sure to have enough room prepared, 'cause we're so goddamn many.