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Old 12-04-2007, 08:39 PM
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Default ATTN TROLLS: Trolling the internet can now get you arrested

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Old 12-05-2007, 11:05 AM
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Bush basically trolls America. Anything we can do about him?
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Old 12-05-2007, 01:25 PM
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The arrest was ridiculous, and there will be no conviction.
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Old 12-05-2007, 08:17 PM
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Bush basically trolls America. Anything we can do about him?
Wow, it doesn't take much does it.

I think Hillary is a bit more troll like than Bush, I hear she feeds on the blood of the unborn.
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Old 12-05-2007, 08:33 PM
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Oh, yeah? Well, I heard they're making a movie about Bush and he's gonna be played by Ben Affleck.
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Old 12-05-2007, 10:04 PM
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That was a low blow

I can't even think of who would play Hillary. At first I thought David Spade, but he doesn't have that raspy militant feminist demeanor.
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Old 12-05-2007, 11:43 PM
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Default Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster would play a good Hilary. And Hilary could totally kick David Spade's butt. And Bush's. At the same time. Holding a lawn chair in one hand.

The point is, trolling is our God-given right as Americans. It may not be spelled out in the Constitution, but I think that people have a right to be rude to other people. I think those people have a right to not like them, like how Bush-voters don't like me when I point out that George Bush is the only American president to misspell his own name. But the right to be rude in the first place shall not be infringed.

Trolling, of course, takes place on the internet, which means that somebody somewhere probably owns that piece of it, and if they wanted to they could always ban the offending cave-dweller. But you shouldn't face legal charges for something just because you're being really, really rude.

If we can start throwing people in jail just for being offensive, I think we should start with 90% of politicians.

P.S. George Bush is the only person who can't think up a Chuck Norris joke.
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That's disturbing, but I'm with Blade. The conviction will not stick.
If it does... now that's crazy!

BTW according to UPers, anyone living south of the Macinac Bridge is a troll.
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I doubt that he'll be convicted. The problem is that he said something about dealing with teachers "one shot at a time". I imagine that in context he was simply making a point in a idiotic way, but there's plenty of people out there who would post such things and mean it.





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I doubt that he'll be convicted. The problem is that he said something about dealing with teachers "one shot at a time".
He was talking about Jack Daniels, right? I mean, that's how "I" used to deal with teachers - "one shot at a time". Usually that would be "a few shots in a row, one at a time", until the memory of the particular teacher in question was just a distant haze....
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