18 Year Old Faces 20 Years in Jail on “Terror Charges” for a Facebook Post

Guess why 18 year old Cameron D’Ambrosio is being held on one-million dollars bail and faces twenty years in prison?  The answer is “terror charges.”  This case is a perfect example of why I am so against using the word “terrorist” in general at this point.  Think about all the pointless wars and erosion of domestic civil liberties that have been justified in the name of this never-ending Orwellian “war on terror.” We’ve been tricked, and in the future anyone that does anything the oligarchs and politicians don’t like will be named a “terrorist” and be subject to the aggressive terror laws that most states passed after 9/11.  We need to take a giant cultural deep breath and react to terrorism in a sane way before we lose what’s left of our dignity and freedom.  Be very suspicious of anyone who uses the word “terror” too often.  They are trying to keep you in fear, and if you are in fear, you are easily controlled.  From Gawker:

Yesterday, D’Ambrosio was absent from school, but messing around online, changing his profile photos and tweaking his status updates. At approximately 12:20 pm, one of his peers alerted MHS administration that the Methuen native had posted “disturbing verbiage” on Facebook, lyrics menacing enough for the school to call the city police.

“He posted a threat in the form of rap where he mentioned the White House, the Boston Marathon bombing, and said ‘Everybody you will see what I am going to do, kill people,'” Methuen Police Chief Joe Solomon paraphrased to the Valley Patriot.

Now, D’Ambrosio is being held on a one-million dollar bail and charged with terroristic threats, a felony punishable for up to 20 years in prison.

It’s unclear what D’Ambrosio wrote exactly, but it’s tough to believe that whatever ill-advised lyrical whimsy he shared justified this response. Even the police are quick to clarify that his verses were vague. “I do want to make clear he did not make a specific threat against the school or any particular individuals but he did threaten to kill a bunch of people and specifically mentioned the Boston Marathon and the White House,” Solomon told the Valley Patriot. “The threat was disturbing enough for us to act and I think our officers did the right thing.”

Acting is one thing, bringing a hooky-playing high-schooler in for questioning to evaluate the seriousness of the threat is another, obtaining a search warrant for his home is still another. But arresting the kid, setting his bail at one million dollars, and charging him with terroristic threats? Holy shit.

Holy shit is right, and if we don’t grow a pair, stop being afraid of our own shadows, then we may end up being safe…safe like pigs in a pen.  We certainly won’t be free.

Full article here.

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Mike

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8 thoughts on “18 Year Old Faces 20 Years in Jail on “Terror Charges” for a Facebook Post”

  1. Orwell and Sartre were right about governments, manipulation, and coercion, and Machiavelli before them for equating power with corruption. I think its time to change taskmasters…. And yes, is this environment, this comment can be interpreted as home-grown jihad…. the prisons aren’t big enough to house thought-crime felons, …..

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    • Build more prisons or just cram more people into a cell. Worse comes to worst, set the death penalty lower and off them.

      The big O has the right idea, ship them to torture centers and then destroy the evidence.

      This idea of changing the “taskmasters” has got to go. We don’t need change, we need ….

  2. I think it is larger than the gov. Believe me I am no fan of a lot of gov. but I think in general usa society had a so called moral underpinning that is gone. So when the denial is gone peple either scream and carry on or do self destructive things. This I see in my own life and you see it out there all the time.

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  3. I agree that the word “terrorist” has lost all meaning. I think it once refered to a political insurgency that used gurrella tactics to fight a militarily superior foe. Now it is used to refer to wayward adolescents with no discernible political agenda. It has become an undefined catch-phrase to label individuals the powers that be would like to silence and persecute.

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  4. I think that society is to blame for molding such a person an attitude. I’m not 100 percent innocent, sometimes I guess I feel like this kid does, but it’s the government making a big deal about things, putting pressure on teens trying to make them the way they want to be almost like they are manipulating the way every human being should act. That’s what makes a person go insane. Fuck the propaganda and the outdated way of america

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