Re: Student NOT (no really, he was) arrested over Counter Strike map

[Jordan Wiens <numatrix () ufl edu>]

I'm afraid your subject change was wrong.  From your own, objective  
source:

http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind- 
student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map
---
“They arrested him,” Chen said of FBISD police, “and also went to the  
house to search.” The Lin family consented to the search, and a  
hammer was found in the boy’s room, which he used to fix his bed,  
because it wasn’t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police  
seized the hammer as a potential weapon.
---

So yes, he was actually arrested.  No, no charges were filed, but  
that's not the same as not being arrested.  Sanctions from the school  
is one thing, but the /police/ thinking this was worth an arrest?   
That's just silly.  While many things are subjective, hopefully most  
folks can agree that a police arrest in this case was unnecessary.

--
Jordan Wiens, CISSP
UF Network Security Engineer
(352)392-2061

On May 6, 2007, at 1:17 AM, David Kennedy CISSP wrote:

> At 08:16 PM 5/3/2007 +0300, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
> > "An American student who made a Counter Strike map of Clements  
> > High School
> has been arrested and sent to an "Alternative Education Center".
> >
>
> In the interests of using information from a source more objective  
> than a
> gamer site, see:
>
> http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2854/phone-call-a-day-after- 
> virginia-tech-sh
> ootings-led-to-clements-students-punishment
>
> Your attention is invited to the following sentence:
> "The boy, whose name was released in the police report, has not been
> identified on FortBendNow because he has not been charged with any  
> crime."
>
> http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2862/school-district-violated- 
> clements-gamer
> s-1st-amendment-rights-lawyer-says
>
> "Alternative Education Center" beats the crap out of being expelled  
> a few
> days before graduation.
>
> They had a complaint from another parent.  They couldn't ignore it.
> Whether they overacted or not is subjective.  It seems the process of
> working through the school board and, if necessary, the courts is  
> working,
> albeit slowly and with some foot-dragging.  No bureaucrat wants to be
> publicly, let alone high-profile, found to have made a mistake.   
> "Take it
> like a man and admit your stupidity" is an option, but a difficult  
> one for
> some.
>
>
>
>
> "Stupidity cannot be cured with money or through
> education or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin,
> the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity
> is the only universal capital crime; the sentence
> is death there is no appeal and execution is
> carried out automatically and without pity."
>   -Robert Heinlein
>
>
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