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In reply to the discussion: Maryland teacher gets disappeared for writing fictional book about school shooting [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)128. I'm skeptical
I don't see that kind of justice very often in the typical case like this. He would have to get an awful lot of backing behind him and the best of attorneys. In this kind of case they can easily stack the jury with people who don't really understand the intellectual freedom arguments whatsoever.
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Boreal
Aug 2014
OP
Is it possible he DID have mental-health problems, and they're protecting his privacy?
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#10
That the man may possibly have been had a mental-health problem, when the LEO's encountered him.
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#46
No, that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Occam's Razor. n/t
nomorenomore08
Aug 2014
#38
In this case, I'm not sure. Seems kind of sinister at first look, though.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2014
#54
I think the simplest explanation, given the known facts, is that some concerned citizen
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#82
The simplest explanation is that some idiot got suspicious after learning about the book,
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#85
One reason it ocurred to me is something that happened here, just this week.
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#20
He published his school-shooting novel -- set 900 years in the future -- three years ago.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#23
True. But so what. He's had three years to become a crazed school shooter, and yet
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#28
They are available online. The school shooting novel, a fantasy set 900 years in the future,
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#24
Remember how the media twists things. Someone used the word aliases quite deliberately, I bet.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#59
"who would even entertain the thought of writing a book about school shootings?"
Boreal
Aug 2014
#29
Writers use pseudonyms all the time. Why would that make your eyebrows twitch? n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#50
Right. That's what the accusers obviously want us to think. But the articles say
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#62
I've learned enough by now to know how often articles get details wrong -- and then repeat
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#70
This other article says he had a legal name change 5 years ago, from Beale to McLaw.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#78
It's one more sign of either very sloppy reporting or deliberately misleading statements
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#102
He teaches language arts and he's written novels under pseudonyms. Since when has that been
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#48
Actually, he wrote the novel when he was a college student. I'm sure he had heard of a number
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#110
He was a student. A writer. He published under a psuedonym. Who though it was a good idea to
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2014
#101