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Thread #79092   Message #1430427
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
09-Mar-05 - 07:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fiction is illegal???
Subject: RE: BS: Fiction is illegal???
...police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you... possess matter involving a school or (school) function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky,"...

If depicting acts of violence occuring on a school campus is a felony in Kentucky, then it would have to be a felony for anyone of any age to do so. You simply can't have a law that says it's a felony for students to do something but it's okay for everybody else*. Does that mean that Stephen King's novel Carrie in which the main character wreaks deadly havoc at a school dance after being mistreated by fellow students is banned in Kentucky? Will Stephen be arrested if he makes the commencement address at Louisville University?

And while we're arresting Stephen King for violating Kentucky's no-school-violence law, let's pop him with a federal charge of plotting terrorism for having that guy in Insomnia fly a bomb-laden Cessna into a civic center.


* You can have "school rules" that ban activities that may be perfectly legal elsewhere. But the maximum penalty for breaking such a rule is expulsion from the school. A student can't be arrested unless his infraction is also a violation of the law. And if it's a violation of the law then anyone should be subject to arrest for doing the same thing.