Yeah, the zombies are taking over, all right ....

With this kind of criteria, Stephen King's writing career would have been nipped in the bud back in high school. As I recall, he wrote a short story about a high school kid taking his whole classroom hostage and titled it Rage.

The Thought Police are now out in full force it would seem.

Yep...just look at what happened to that Harvard President...

I think I'm scared more of the thought police than the zombies.

Guess those fictional horror books at school libraries are the next to be banned.

I guess Winchester Kentucky just doesn't have a lot of crime problems. The biggest crime of the decade seems to have been writing in a private journal. Kudos to the grandparents for violating the privacy of an 18 year old school senior. I guess in Kentucky you can be old enough to join the Army and visit strange foreign countries, and kill the inhabitants, but not old enough to keep your thoughts and writings private.

You don't have to go to strange lands to kill inhabitants. And since yesterday, you don't even have to be responsible if you are under 18.

The cult of narcissism has won. Christopher Lasch warned us, Sam Vaknin writes brilliantly about it, but our politics, policing, and public discourse are dominated by sociopathic malignant narcissists who are destroying society and crave only one thing: unchecked freedom to be insane, sadistic monsters.

Joe McCarthy, Dick Nixon, Woody Wilson, J. Edgar Hoover, Ronnie Reagan, Prescott Bush, Adolf Hitler, Madame Blavatsky, and all the wingnut bloggers who currently champion your indefatigable intolerance and hatred, rest in peace: you have won.

From across, the pond in Great Britain, Kentucky seems an awfully strange place. It's not that much better here though...

As Jo said, "unless the grandparents know something that the rest of America doesn't." Well, maybe they do. Only an excerpt of the journal is provided in the story, so who knows exactly what was in the full text of the journal. It obviously scared the grandparents enough to call the police and turn in their own grandson.
Look back at Columbine. The warning signs were there for the parents to see, but they chose to ignore them. If the story really is just made up, it will come out in trial and the entire journal will be read and a jury can decide if this kid had the intent to carry out some of the described acts.
As for the privacy issue, most states - except Oregon now - say that if a child lives under your roof, there is a much lowered expectation of privacy. It's the job of parents or guardians to make sure that the kid grows up correctly - and that also means making sure the child doesn't go out and kill people in his high school (as absurd as that sounds).
I don't like "Big Brother" and I value my privacy as much as anyone, but who better than parents to moniter children? It's their job.

Lurch, as you are probably more aware than I am on this issue, if you are in high school and there is a draft, you can't be drafted until you graduate or cease going to school. So, the kid could have dropped out of high school and joined the military, but I'm sure that the privacy of military personnel is even lower than this kid enjoyed.

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