11 year olds know exactly nothing on real life or world affairs, he was probably just saying something after watching farnheit 9/11 for the first time.
[ QUOTE ] Police Investigate Anti-American Statements of 11-Year-Old And in news from Virginia, the Washington Post reports two police officers recently visited the home of an 11-year-old and questioned his parents for three hours about anti-American comments their son made in school The student had refused to participate…
Toomas, when Conan was 11 he killed a bull with his bare hands, when I was 11 I was jacking off to the JC Penny catalog of women's underwear, looking up mini-skirts and smoking pot daily. I knew what I was doing. I refused to say the pledge to the American flag and got sent to the office for it in school. I agreed to…
That's absurd... As soon as you have your own opinion that goes against the "common good"(although I doubt a 11 year old kid has one, but still), you need to be investigated for 3 bloody hours... charming... absolutely charming.
Frosty hes fucking 11, before he goes to work im sure he grows up a little. A lot of kids have similar toughts they just keep their mouths shut. Anyways its sad to watch how you americans get stripped of your civil rights.
Come on, the point wasn't the kid, it was the possibility that he learned that "die americans!" stuff from his parents and that his parents might be sleeper operatives. Nobody thinks an 11 year old kid is a threat to national security but they think he might be a clue towards the existence of potential terrorists in his…
Sounds to me like the officers were just doing their jobs. Nobody was detained, they were just investigating. With all of the shootings in schools, and Columbine, and the general mood of the country after a heated elections, you cannot be too careful. A LEO's job is to protect the people. A kid makes some pretty radical…
Reading the WashPost story tells the whole tale. The police had two things in mind when they investigated: Columbine, and real terrorists. It's not like they really thought the 11-year-old is a terrorist. They didn't detain him, right? He's not going to Gitmo. They're quoted as saying that when a student makes rashly…
[ QUOTE ] Sounds to me like the officers were just doing their jobs. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I see they were just doing their job. [/ QUOTE ] No one is questioning whether or not they were doing their job. The police aren't allowed to make judgment calls as to whether or not a call deserves their attention; if the police are…