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Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat
CaptainCarrot writes "Writer/IT contractor Matt Boyd, formerly the man who made up the words for webcomic Mac Hall and who now does the same for his and Ian McConville's new comic Three Panel Soul, was recently fired from his government job. His conversation with a co-worker about a gun he intended to buy for target shooting was overheard by someone in a nearby cubicle. As it was unfortunately the day of the Virginia Tech shootings, the eavesdropper panicked and reported him to management. That was bad enough. But when he used the comic to document the meeting where the reason for his firing was explained, he was visited by representatives of local law enforcement investigating him on suspicion of making a "terroristic threat" using the Internet. No charges have been filed. Yet. FLEEN interviewed Matt about the incident."
1. The government didn't do anything to him.
.22 to kill them, probably within earshot of someone who doesn't know him personally, on the day of the nation's worst mass shooting no less.
2. He was released from a contract position that he can be released from at any time for talking about how many times you'd have to shoot someone in the face with a
3. The police followed up after receiving a complaint when he recounted his firing in his comic implying that he now would have a reason to "go postal" (even if it was 100% a joke), which is their job, and determined that there was no threat, which he himself says in the interview.
4. Get a life.
That you didn't hear it, or that you don't remember it, doesn't change the fact that is certainly does happen.
The statistics say the majority of school shooters tell someone about what they are going to do.
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yes, most female supervisors are hell bent on demeaning men.
Americans are ball-less wonders with no guts who live in fear for their jobs and their lives, and who live at the pleasure of the US government who can arrest and imprison them at any time for any trumped-up reason. This is driven home to them nightly by cop and lawyer TV shows and movies where "civil rights" and "due process" are routinely ignored in order to ensure that nobody gets out of line.
Further, this behavioral code is enforced at the church, corporate, university, high school, and grammar school level by every known form of authority.
I learned this when in grammar school. One day it was raining and I was standing at the bottom of the stairs at the entrance to the school waiting for class to start. We were futzing around making noise and somebody had grabbed my hat. A teacher came to the top of the stairs and ordered everyone to be quiet. I then (quietly) asked the other student to give me back my hat. Because I had "disobeyed" the order to keep quiet, I was sent outside to wait in the rain. This was my first lesson in "arbitrary authority" - if you don't want to count the time I was beat up in the street by the two sons of the mayor of the town who had learned to be bullies because of their father's position.
Later, in church, a couple of kids were fooling around a drink fountain and spilled water on the floor. The preacher comes up and blames me for not PREVENTING them from doing this. Thus I learned about the church's view of justice.
I could go on about high school, college, work environments, the US Army, and so on. But the point should be obvious. Primates view authority as a means of establishing dominance over other members of their species that they fear. There is no more sophisticated reason for its existence.
You're right. Americans are peasants who nonetheless believe that they are better than everyone else in the world precisely because of their servilism to their masters.
This is why America is in for a rude shock when the rest of the world takes down the "American Empire" over the next fifty years. First, Iran will bleed the US to death for the next ten years militarily, economically, and geopolitically when Bush starts his war there. Then China will dump the US dollar, finishing off the US economy. The rest of the world - with the possible exceptions of "poodles" like Britain - will get in line to finish off the US - without a shot being fired, I might add - it will all be done via economics. If the US attempts to use its military and nuclear might to re-establish itself, it will discover how easy it is to smuggle in nuclear weapons and wipe its major cities off the map without anyone knowing who did it or why.
As Dorian Gray put it in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "I've lived long enough to know that empires crumble. There are no exceptions."
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