all of you bleepholes that say that the kid deserves a 7 year sentence or that the first amendment doesn't apply or that this incident needs to be treated as a real terror threat need to squeeze your heads out of your collective back doors and remember the following:
1) terrorists, such as those that we commonly associate with explosive attacks, rarely, if ever, make a direct threat that explicitly declares a target, the 2 attacks on the twin towers (in 1993 and 2001) weren't preceded by a written threat, the oklahoma city bombing, the anthrax attacks, the attacks in england, spain, bali, the attacks on the uss cole, the attacks on our soldiers in afganistan and iraq, none of them were preceded by a specific threat, terrorists rely on the element of surprise in order to maximize the body count and carnage, you never have any specific advanced notice, they just attack. once you understand that modus operandi, the only logical conclusion is that this was meant as a prank.
2) the first amendment explicitly states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
note that it doesn't say "no law...unless a judge, the supreme court, a prosecutor, some scared citizen, or any one else feels like there should be limits on individual freedoms" and as far as the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" argument is concerned, it a lame way of getting the public to voluntarily relinquish a portion of their civil liberties, movie theaters have multiple exits, both were you normally enter and next to the movie screens and they have fire suppression systems along with smoke detectors, if someone runs in and yells "fire" but there is no smoke, the smoke detectors aren't going off and neither are the sprinklers, then why would you believe that person much less panic? if you are stupid enough to panic then i submit you probably deserve to be trampled.
i will leave you with this often repeated truth "those that would exchange their liberty for security, deserve neither".
for those that feel that this post should be rated down, i hope you will keep in mind that that too is part of your constitutionally protected right to free speech, and just as you wish to have that right to express your opinion of this post, so too should you support another's right to express himself (i'm talking about the kid), no matter how inappropriate that expression might have been.
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