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My son, Justin Carter, was arrested on February 14, 2013
(yes, Valentine’s Day) because of a sarcastic comment he posted on Facebook
about a computer game which was then taken out of context by a complete
stranger! Please sign my petition to help release my son, Justin.
My son has been in jail for months because we can’t afford
to pay the half million dollar bail money. It took a month before he was
even questioned and he spent his 19th birthday behind bars. To this day,
Justin has not had a trial. No weapons were found during a search of his
apartment, and so we’re really confused and heartbroken that our family is
being violated like this.
While stuck in jail, Justin has been assaulted a number of
times. He has been locked in solitary confinement for weeks. I urgently
need your help.
Justin’s a good kid. He wouldn’t hurt anyone, let alone a
child. What I understand happened is that he was in an argument on the
League of Legends website, which continued on a Facebook page, and someone
on Facebook called him crazy and messed up in the head.
So he responded in a sarcastic tone by saying something
along the lines of 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to
go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts'
which was followed by saying JK (just kidding) and LOL (laughing out loud).
His response may have been in bad taste, but it was written in a
non-threatening way that didn’t translate well online. None of his friends
or family would even question his intention as anything other than a poor
choice of words. Things got out of control, but my son is not a felon and
terrorist as he’s currently being charged!
The authorities’ over-reaction is ruining Justin’s life. And it’s setting a
dangerous example trying to punish kids who often say strange things that I
believe are protected under freedom of speech. The justice system’s abuse
of Justin is wasting time and money that could otherwise be spent to help
people who honestly need it!
I hope you will sign this petition. I’d like Justin to be released. And I
would like a more reasonable law to be put in place so this doesn’t happen
to anyone else again.
July 11 update: We still need your help. Thanks to an
anonymous donor, Justin is now out on bail. I'm happy to have him out right
now, but my son is still facing a felony terrorism charge and years in
prison if found guilty. I have said all along that his Facebook joke was made
in poor taste and understand why it raised some concern, but Justin has no
prior record and he was clearly not actually threatening anyone.
Please sign and share to continue supporting Justin's campaign. We need to
make sure he's not labeled as a terrorist simply for making a Facebook
comment. Thank you.
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3 comments:
First, in this day and age with all the published revelation of the extensive surveillance by the criminal cabal, anyone who would make such statements on the net or on phones or in public deserves what he/she gets. You just can NOT be that foolish any longer. It will get you just what this kid got. On the other hand, what is being done to him is criminal. Perhaps his family should contact civil rights groups like the ACLU (much as I hate to say it), or John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute, or Jay Sekulow at The American Center for Law and Justice, or others that may be recommended by these firms. I'm sure there are others that can be researched. Perhaps one of them will take on this kid's plight.
Tell her to look up the concept of consent. The court is a bank, run for profit. The police protect the corporation bankers and arrest code breakers to provide slave labor in the for-profit prisons so that Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Intel, et al can compete with Asian labor wages. If you admit you are the treasury acct #, all caps name, then you gave them consent to prosecute and jail you for money. If you say you understand the charges... you've said that you "stand under" them, and the judges jurisdiction.
No American is under the corporate jurisdiction. They have just used deceit and fraud to make you think you are.
An anonymous donor posted his bail. He is now out of jail as of 7-12-13.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/justin-carter-freed-bail-posted-anonymous-donor-article-1.1397033
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