So are the Columbine shooters heroes?

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/120311...





What is telling about this teacher is this part of the story:


"Owen Robinson, a West Bend resident and administrator of the conservative Web site -- bootsandsabers.com -- said it seemed "Observer" was "posing as a conservative, right-wing whack job to discredit" the Web site's discussion of teachers' salaries.""





Or is this another attack on Free Speech?

So are the Columbine shooters heroes?
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So are the Columbine shooters heroes?


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Reply:I think that his comments are not threatning. I think he was within his rights. The investigation was initaited by his job site, and was based on unlawful charges, and probably conspiracy between the school board and police, the firing was probably illegal too.





I suspect he will be prosecuted because the DA will be acting with his or her heart and instead of the brain. If the teacher is intellingent and gets the ACLUs help, this will be a landmark case.





Many people in Yahoo answers and in blogs expect a degree of anonimity. For example, when I read someone asking whether the teacher should be punished in Sudan for the teddy bear, I might write something intended to insult those who agree. In other words--sometimes I'm sarcastic. Sometimes people are sarcastic in these blogs. Writing the Columbine Shooters were heroes may have been just one way of being sarcastic towards those who would disagree about pay raises.





For example, say you want a teacher raise, and the other guys on the post writes, naaah, I don't really wish for a raise. You might write something provocative to make a point. Like, "oh yes, I love my salary, and living at the YMCA with my children sleeping in the car is a great way of living." Again saracstic.





In the very end, this was a stupid arrest. This arrest was vengful and intended to attack freedom of speech. The subesequent firing based on this arrest was orchestrated by the school dept. So I can imagine this making its way to the supreme court, and yes, I can imagine the case winning on the teachers side. Of course it will! Even if its something so terrible like "(insert person you hate here) was a saint", it doesn't matter. We don't get to arrest people for being jerks. But I don't think this was the real motivation for this blog.





I think the teacher just won the lottery. He proably had a concern over his retirement (bet ya there was an issue). He knew exactly what he was doing. All those grammatical errors just lured in the cops, and I bet he'll have a great defense team in no time, and mupltiple lawsuits. Posting on a site where teacher normally blog just put him in the right place for unlawful arrest. He didn't do anything wrong but I bet he knew that the police and school board would exact vengeance for saying something like the shooters were heroes, or one bullet at a time. Sadly, now the taxpayers of Colorado get to pay 7 figure settlement fees to a teacher who might not have gotten his retirement otherwise (bet ya), or if so, very little. Then on top of this if the Supreme Court rules then that makes it easier for real nut jobs to post very threatning messages on Yahoo Answers and blog sites.
Reply:Hmm! I think the thing that worries me the most is that his posting was full of grammatical errors and spelling errors. And he's teaching our children! He's like a beacon for his own attack on teachers' unions. If there weren't any, he probably wouldn't be teaching.





But first I'd have to know if they were sure the comments actually came from him and not either someone else using his computer or someone hacking into his wifi system.





Then it gets a little dicey. Free speech means he can say whatever he wants about the unions, short of advocating their murder, I believe. When he suggested "one shot at a time", I think he stepped over the line.
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