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For what it's worth I'm not a lawyer in Massachusetts. However in most jurisdictions I'm familiar with it would NOT be a difficult or expensive task to get him before a court to test the basis for the charges against him.
The facts are straightforward, there isn't copious amounts of evidence to work through. Simply interpretation of a statute which could be sorted in a morning's hearing.
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Too bad it just got flagged to death. HN seems to be getting worse for burying anything that anyone might disagree with lately EDIT: Seems to have come back from the dead... :)
The title is written as if unlawful statements are somehow made legal when posted on Facebook. The site then goes on to make a big deal about that: "all for something he posted on Facebook". Of course statements made on Facebook can be criminal. Threats against another are not neutralized because they happen online. Neither is a criminal conspiracy. So the article blithely pretending that this alone should make us ou…
http://www.nbc12.com/story/19396255/marine-brandon-raub-spea...
Its certainly shocking to see people being arrested over facebook posts. No sure what to do. Maybe start a campaign to encourage people to post 'terrorist' messages in protest? What can they do with 10 million terrorist messages?
If those are actually the facts of this case, sounds to me like he just has a terrible lawyer. For what it's worth I'm not a lawyer in Massachusetts. However in most jurisdictions I'm familiar with it would NOT be a difficult or expensive task to get him before a court to test the basis for the charges against him. The facts are straightforward, there isn't copious amounts of evidence to work through. Simply interpre…
It's the fact he was arrested by the state at all in the first place.
What's disturbing about any of that?
Cam's facebook and pointing to "disturbing" posts like "Fuck politics. Fuck Obama. Fuck the government!" What's disturbing about any of that?
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Take a look at these incinerating words, I find them very threatening:
"my flow! I'm a mother fckin criminal! my flow! on your TV and radio! my flow! come and check out my video! here we go everybody say fck the president! my flow! I'm a mother fckin criminal! my flow! on your TV and radio! my flow! come and check out my video! everybody say fck the government!"