R.I.P. Scout26
“Takin this bad boy up, this outta make the snowflakes melt, aye? And I mean snowflakes as in snow.”
Doesn't there have to be a threat before it can be labeled as a "terroristic" threat?
He said Michigan’s definition contains no requirement that any particular target exist nor any “reasonable person” standard, exposing people to charges for telling what Reilly called harmless jokes.
Lucas Gerhard, 20, faces the charge of making a terrorist threat over an incident that occurred in August. The maximum sentence for a conviction on that charge is 20 years in prison.
He said Michigan's definition contains no requirement that any particular target exist nor any “reasonable person” standard, exposing people to charges for telling what Reilly called harmless jokes.
Lucas Gerhard attended but did not speak per the advice of his lawyer since his case is pending. He spent 83 days in jail before being released on bond.
The really absurd part is how much power prosecutors have to screw with people's lives with very little justification.
I actually hope this happens to me, called how to become a multi-millionaire by being yourself and being represented by a great attorney.
Remember the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case about 15 years ago?
Having a non liberal opinion is a terroristic threat nowadays
At least they were (finally) officially exonerated, and the prosecutor was disbarred. Don't remember if he also got some hard time.
Had they not come from families with some wealth I doubt the outcome would have been the same.
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
