Fiction is Terrorism posted by Ben

Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding

So a highschooler writes a fictional story about a zombie attack at an anonymous high school for a school assignment. His grandparents find the journal and call the police. The teenager is arrested for making a terrorist threat. Bail is set at $5000, due to a request from the prosecutors, who are insisting that this is a serious, criminal charge.

Let me repeat that.

A highschooler wrote a zombie story and was arrested as a terrorist.

Have we gone insane? Are we afraid that this highschooler is planning a massive attack with the forces of the living dead? Or that he is a Voudoun priest who will enslave us all?

One more time.

A highschooler wrote a zombie story and was arrested as a terrorist.

Morons.org has more commentary on the entire question of thought crimes.