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Originally Posted by mindster2000

just think about how all of this started.kids who built bombs in their bedrooms ,planned an attack on their school and actually went through with it.wouldn,t you know what your kid was up to?i sure would.the people taking action in this case probably don't even know where their kids are.

Notifying parents is a far cry from locking kids up. No guns or bombs were found. I would like the bar set high for locking up juveniles for something they have written. Even then, it would probably be safer to give them a room to themselves at someplace like Wolf's facility then throw them in with the general population in juvenlie detention.

Let's say something bad happens to the kid while locked up and it is shown that what he wrote was not a 'terrorist threat'. Who do the parents go to? The attitude of the authorities will be 'we went by the book' and 'shit happens'.

By these standards, I doubt Stephen King and George Romero would have survived high school.

edit: Scratch that, it appears that the kid was 18 and is being held in adult detention. That's a lot worse.

Now, if it could be shown that the kid was actively recruiting zombies...