Teacher Suspended, Incarcerated For Science Fiction Story

[Oceanic Vakiadia]

Unbelievable.

[The Orson Empire]

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

In my opinion, the United States has already become a "soft" police state, but it hasn't reached the level of totalitarianism....at least not yet.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

So me writing a story set in a world equivalent to Late Antiquity means I secretly want to launch cavalry raids against villages looting, murdering, etc to my heart's desire?

GRRM secretly wants to raise people from the dead and commit incest I guess.

No, but if you were say, a police officer that wrote a story about a police officer that planted false evidence and tortured people for confessions it would look suspicious.

Like this guy, one of the most respected police procedural writers in the United States?

[The Serbian Empire]

So, does that mean that principals and superintendents should be incarcerated for implementing safety procedures based on school shootings?

Anyone who talks/thinks about it should be expelled!

And incarcerated for excessive paranoid and being a menace to society.

[Benuty]

Heh... I'm in serious trouble if I ever show Red Dawn to my students... KIDS WITH GUNS OMG GIT THE ROPE.

But I'd only deserve it if I played the more recent one.

My history teacher last year showed us Cold War "duck and cover" PSA's. Oh my god.

To be fair the duck, and cover was probably meant more so to protect from looking at the sheer blinding light if the atomic bomb was dropped far enough way.

[Corvus Metallum]

What a bunch of cunts.

That being said is complex, independent, and rational thought not work in their mind or are they a bunch of lazy deadbeats?

I'm assuming some of the former, and a lot of the latter accounted for this mess. That being said, this is a major over-reaction on the school's (and community's) part.

[Ikania]

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

I've always said no, America isn't a police state, you're exaggerating.

But this.

This.

[Natapoc]

I would be freaked out if I was his student. People often write stories about their dreams and fantasies. Maybe he hated his students and it was some kind of self-insert wish fulfillment story for him. Even if it wasn't it was in very bad taste.

And why is George R. R. Martin not in prison for life?

[The Serbian Empire]

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

In my opinion, the United States has already become a "soft" police state, but it hasn't reached the level of totalitarianism....at least not yet.

I think it needs to be broken apart before it does reach totalitarian levels.

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

I've always said no, America isn't a police state, you're exaggerating.

But this.

This.

Wait for it, it's slowly becoming one. It doesn't matter if the boot that steps on you is right or left... all that matters is the boot.

[Blakullar]

I was surprised until I saw "Maryland".

[The Serbian Empire]

I would be freaked out if I was his student. People often write stories about their dreams and fantasies. Maybe he hated his students and it was some kind of self-insert wish fulfillment story for him. Even if it wasn't it was in very bad taste.

So me writing a story set in a world equivalent to Late Antiquity means I secretly want to launch cavalry raids against villages looting, murdering, etc to my heart's desire?

GRRM secretly wants to raise people from the dead and commit incest I guess.

And who knows what crimes Stephen King's been committing.

[Lalaki]

He never committed any crime, nor did he show evidence that he wanted to commit one. This is not right.

[The Serbian Empire]

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

Right. Oh woe, a teacher wrote a fiction piece about a supposed future scenario; call out the SWAT team.

Modern overkill mindset.

It may not be from the feds themselves as much as the mindset that's being hoisted by the 4th estate of government which is the media. The media created this mindset due to a mindset of if it bleeds, it leads!

[Empire of Narnia]

I would be freaked out if I was his student. People often write stories about their dreams and fantasies. Maybe he hated his students and it was some kind of self-insert wish fulfillment story for him. Even if it wasn't it was in very bad taste.

And why is George R. R. Martin not in prison for life?

He writes obvious fantasy. He isn't like I said before a police officer that writes about tampering with evidence or a US Marine that writes about a soldier that enjoys committing war crimes.

[Geilinor]

And why is George R. R. Martin not in prison for life?

He writes obvious fantasy.

Science fiction is obviously fantasy.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

And why is George R. R. Martin not in prison for life?

He writes obvious fantasy. He isn't like I said before a police officer that writes about tampering with evidence or a US Marine that writes about a soldier that enjoys committing war crimes.

I've already shown you a police officer who successfully wrote about police officers who did such things. I suspect that it wouldn't be hard for someone into war stories to track down a former soldier who wrote about soldiers who enjoy committing war crimes. Do you know how imagination works?

[Benuty]

He writes obvious fantasy.

Science fiction is obviously fantasy.

Then explain mobile carriages that run without horses *nods*.

[The Serbian Empire]

And why is George R. R. Martin not in prison for life?

He writes obvious fantasy. He isn't like I said before a police officer that writes about tampering with evidence or a US Marine that writes about a soldier that enjoys committing war crimes.

Wait for it, the way this mindset of the people and government are going... George R.R. Martin's escape hatch will likely close as people are having greater trouble distinguishing fiction from reality.

[Empire of Narnia]

He writes obvious fantasy.

Science fiction is obviously fantasy.

Setting realistic events 20 minutes in the future doesn't change much. Not much more then setting it in the 50's. It's still a teacher writing about shooting up a school. If he wrote about shooting up an alien spaceship it would be different, but he wrote about murdering kids in a school.

[Stantenople]

My biggest fear is that he certainly isn't the only person of that tipe out there...

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Science fiction is obviously fantasy.

Setting realistic events 20 minutes in the future doesn't change much. Not much more then setting it in the 50's. It's still a teacher writing about shooting up a school. If he wrote about shooting up an alien spaceship it would be different, but he wrote about murdering kids in a school.

So Stephen King should have been taken into custody as he was teaching in a school and writing Carrie?

[The Serbian Empire]

He writes obvious fantasy.

Science fiction is obviously fantasy.

I think it means that American police are struggling to distinguish reality from fiction and the inverse of fiction from reality. Someone needs to get rid of those IQ caps to become a police officer before the SWAT teams are sicked on every fan-fiction writer of violent content.

[Natapoc]

My biggest fear is that he certainly isn't the only person of that tipe out there...

Most people are able to entertain fantasy with zero risk (or true desire) of it ever becoming reality.

Thought crimes are not supposed to be real things.

[Empire of Narnia]

Setting realistic events 20 minutes in the future doesn't change much. Not much more then setting it in the 50's. It's still a teacher writing about shooting up a school. If he wrote about shooting up an alien spaceship it would be different, but he wrote about murdering kids in a school.

So Stephen King should have been taken into custody as he was teaching in a school and writing Carrie?

Carrie was written before Columbine, but I think if it was written today they should have done some sort of investigation, even though the fantasy element in that story is much greater than the one in the OP.

[The Sotoan Union]

I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

Yes. An inevitable slippery slope from the events of one paranoid school district. Or you know. A gross exaggeration.