Kid gets suspended from school for Halo sketches

"In Pittston, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old boy was suspended from school and authorities are considering terrorism threat charges for notebook sketches of Halo. The student attended Wyoming Valley West Middle School where officials found the boy's composition notebook in his locker with "crudely drawn" sketches of an assault rifle, a bomb, and a map. He was immediately suspended and the school called the police," according to the article.

[socomnick]

Daam poor kid , all for drawing halo.

[ArduousAndy]

isnt about the government and the patriot act. What this is about, is that in our society. We have become to free with our rights. Where any infraction is considered serious. This child drew symbols that are considered violent. And were taking as a child that was ready to take a gun to the school.

Its not 9/11 its not the patriot act. Its none of those items. What it is, is a person that is over sensitve about what is going on in this country and made a decision.

[x440Magnumx]

Darn, wrong post. Fixed. :-P

[ravinash]

After all, their made a whole game with troops running round with guns and stuff...isn't that promoting violence?
the way things are in America at the moment make me laugh some times (other times cry), I'm so glad I don't live there because it seems like you guys live in a constant state of fear.
Hell, I used to draw Transformers at school, no one thought anything about it back then..whats the world coming too....its just a kid.

[DeadlyFire]

America isn't so bad Ravinash. Its just fact that almost half of America isn't smart enough to comprehend some things. I myself live here and see stupidity all the time.

To consider this terrorism is absurb, unless well the map was of the school. Then I might think something might of been brewing, but I doubt that drawing pictures of guns, bombs, or anything else of that nature has anything to do with terrorism.

This isn't the first school that has done something this stupid before. There was another that suspended a kid for drawing something as well last year. Fact is some people know that the war on terror has started a new kinda war that will not end for quite a while. It makes some people paranoid. Like school officials.

[jackfatal]

do u hear these things in japan??
either the kids have some problems or the video games!!

[Lacarious]

"Armed with search warrants, authorities searched the boy's home and had his computer confiscated for investigation of any terrorist plans. The boy's mother tried to explain that the sketches were just harmless doodles related to Bungie Studios' Halo 3 for the Xbox 360, but the school officials insisted on taking precautionary measures, saying that the boy claimed to sitting on the roof shooting pigeons, and that he possessed copies of snuff films."

Thank you Bush Administration for taking us back to the time of the Nazi's!

[Ri0tSquad]

last year I got 10 days out because I brought nail clippers into school. They said it was a weapon :/

[ZeroXMD]

Actually, if you are going to take the developers to court, you might as well take the Army, Navy, and entire military to court. After all, who promotes guns and stuff like that more than the military? If you watched tv here, there are at least 4 military commercials in a 30 min period. Also, the America's Army game. This isn't about kids, this is about all the idiotic people in america being so scared of their own shadow that anything related to violence is taken as terrorism, despite there being violence everywhere in the media. I'm an american, and this crap sickens me to my core. Cops look for any and every way to arrest someone nowadays, because they are applauded if they do. The people who arrested this kid prolly got congradulated for "stopping another school shooting" when all they did was arrest a little kid who likes a video game. It's bull and they know it, but they did it anyways for the congrats they'd get. its sick and it's complete crap. Anyway you look at it. I drew guns and weapons all the time in school and never got arrested for it but...after 9/11, the patriot act, and all the other crap (america is controlled from behind by people) they want us in a police state. And the stupid idiots in america are more than willing to give up anything to protect them from the muslim that is hiding under their beds, waiting to gut them with a knife at a moments notice (sarcasm)

[sjappie]

America is being runned by a bunch of nazis. Have you Americans ever heard about the "Patriot Act"? You'd better look that up, it's a law that basically strips you off all your rights, and imposes Martial Law, in the event of an national emergency. Like 911, wich was an inside job.

[ElementX]

9/11 is an inside job. The towers around it fell like they were demo'd. There was footage on CNN (ran once or twice before it was cut by the government) of firefighters saying they heard a series of explosions. Watch In Plane Sight.

[socomnick]

Im sick and tired of all the f@g00ts that think 9/11 was a inside job. Eat a d|ck already and shut up. it was not a inside job it was just a horrible act by people who hate us. So we have to repay the favor and bomb them back to the stone age.

[sjappie]

How much time did you spend looking into the matter? I know I have been, doing that for the last three years, and it's not pretty.
And it's that ignorant,arrogant attitude of yours, that provides a basis for these people you call your leaders.
You my friend, are in for a rude awakening.

@below. That's what I mean by investigating, if you would've done that you would now that jet fuel burns at maximal 1796 F. Steel melts at around 2700 F, depending on composition. Also, most of the fuel burned up in the initial impact. Never before, or after 911 has a steel framed structure collapsed due to fire.
The towers collapsed in about 9 seconds. That's free fall speed. The only way that's possible, is if the supporting structure in the whole building, is blown up from under it. Not to mention wtc building 7, wich wasn't even hit by plane, and still it collapsed in a way that can only be a controlled demolition.
Please explain.

@ chrisgtr below. They did it so that they would have an excuse to go to war. They had a boogie man (Bin Laden, terrorism) to scare people in to giving up their rights. Everybody felt like something had to be done, giving them the power to do what they want. Invade Iraq, invade Afghanistan, oil, money and power is what it's about. Imperialism. America has got the biggest part of the middle east in control now. Iran is next, and they don't even want a war. Only America and Israel do. World domination, the plans have been there for decades.

And if fires affected the steel in the floors where there was fire, and those floors failed, why was the rest of the building, where no fires had been, desintegrated in 9 seconds to dust?

Also I didn't quote Loose Change, and I think Loose Change is no good, it has faults in it.
You should watch 911mysteries, very factual debunking of official story.

http://video.google.com/vid...

@ chrisgtr. Yes, the wtc-owner, Larry Silverstein made billions with the insurance, he also got paid twice, cause it counted as two seperate attacks, no kidding.

[socomnick]

sjappie dude you need some help m8. Whats sad is you truly believe the crackpot 9/11 theories. Let me break it down to you. Terrorist hijacked plane crashed it into the world trade center. The jet fuel melted the steel and it collapsed simple as that.

[m9105826]

I'm not going to take either side here, but I'll throw two things out there:
#1. Steel wont melt at jet-fuel temperatures, but it will lose structural integrity.

and

#2. on the other side of things, a B-52 Bomber, much larger and more dense than a commercial aircraft, once crashed into the Empire State Building, built to much lower standards than the WTC because of the time it was built, with no structural collapse at all.

Also, quoting the "Loose Change" video almost word for word just makes you look like a sheep... I have done research on both sides, and I have to say that there is not enough declassified data available to civilians that i can make a 100%, sure as sh!t statement either way.

Back on point: WTF?!? He was drawing pictures from a game for God's sake. Instead of encouraging this kids creativity as an artist, they are scaring the crap out of him. Poor kid will probably never draw a picture at school again. On the other side though, we don't know his back story. Maybe he's the kind of kid they've had real trouble with before, like bringing a knife to school of something. I remember in high school I was all into MGS2, and I was drawing weapons from the game, but whereas they sat this kids drawings were crude, I've been studying art since i was 4, so my pictures looked very realistic. I was nearly suspended for it, until my programming teacher stuck his neck out for me and told the administration that it was concept art for a game I was working on. He was a great guy.

[Chris_GTR1]

completely agree. 9/11 was inside job. theres no doubt at all about it. but the only thing is why?? i know they stole all the gold reserves from under the WTC.. but was that all? the reason for killing thousands of people and doing the biggest heist in US history was by the govt... damnn..

but either way you look at it, theres just way too much evidence thats obviously false about binladen and the whole 9/11 "terrorist" attack.

but lets just say for a second that it actually was real...what could be the reasons for it actually being real?
the US govt musta done some really sick things to the people over there for them to get that angry..

i kind of look at iraq as half life 2 type of thing... the US is the alien guys and they are the civilians in city 17... the only reason why there doing all these car bombings and suicide things is to stop the oppresion by the US.. just like in half life 2 where it was gordon freeman and the other people that were fighting the alien guys...that would be the iraq and civilians?
i dunno that kinda came to mind..

[The BS Police]

1. It would take thousands of personel to plan it, let alone weeks to plant demo charges in the WTC... also what worker wouldn't notice men planting bombs in the WTC?

2. It would take years to plan it, which means Bush would not have had anything to do with it.

3. Seeing as how the present administration can't keep one lousy secret that involves a few, would mean they couldn't realsiticly keep a secret involving thousands.

The administration is only at fualt for not taking security measures when they were warned an attack was imminent months before.

All in all, don't quote loose change, because if it was true that it was an inside job, the creators of that lame theory would be dead aswell.

Also, I doubt the kid was supended because the patriot act, he was suspended becase when a teacher sees drawings like that they believe they found a would-be school shooter

[Daxx]

Not one American citizen who is innocent of terrorism has been effected by the Patriot Act! And if that were the case they would have the right to sue the socks off of the American government for commiting an unconstitutional act on them.

[Chris_GTR1]

it said in that video that they closed off the some of the floors of the towers 2 weeks before the bombings...

also the insurance for the twin towers was upgraded to ensure for terrorist attacks just 7 months before the attacks... and it never had that until then..

[dexterwang]

I won't take sides, but I find this argument hilarious after watching the southpark episode on WTC conspiracy...

What are you people? retarded? hahaha

[The BS Police]

Two floors clsoed out of out of how many? That is not evidence... that is an assumption.

In fact all of the evidence conspiracy theorists bring up are just assumptions.

Message to all conspiracy nutcases:

Untill you can back it up with concrete evidence, your an idiot.

[Chris_GTR1]

ok seriously man.. shut up. all the people that actually knew what went down or saw something are either dead or were payed off. how the fuk are we suppost to show u evidence when the govt destroyed it!

look all i have to say is WHY would they destroy all the evidence and try so hard to hide everything if it was a legit terrorist attack?

remember when the buildings collapsed.. then like 2 days later they were already in there collecting all the crap.. they didnt even examine it or anything! they didnt allow anyone to go in exept for the guys going in to collect all the crap and haul it away.

remember the oklahoma bombings...my bet is those were also done by the govt.. how would he have known the weakspot was right there and it would collapse at that specific pillar... just look at the movie shooter.. thats exactly how they do it..

or the movie V for Vendetta.. that one was all based on 9/11.

[Daxx]

Edit: Ah forget it. I'm to tired to think logically right now.

[ry-guy]

I am sure if a building was collapsing it would sound like bombs going off. How else are you going to describe it? It sounded like the soft trickle of a creek on a warm summer afternoon with the birds chirping in the air. Get real.

Watch the footage. The top of the buildings collapse due to structural failure and bring down the rest of the building. Starting from the top down they collapse in on themselves. If you were going to straight drop demolition a building you use the base to control your blast, not the top. You can buy the so-called "government stolen" footage from CNN's own DVD. If you want you can watch it over, and over, and over again.

What is sick is how you guys are treating the event. It was not an inside job, it was an act of terrorism. This act could have been prevented under the Clinton Administration but they did not act. Instead the President decided to get a BJ in the oval office. End of story.

[Chris_GTR1]

ok.. mr ry-guy how exactly do u explain ALLL the footage of explosions going on inside the buildings?? how do u explain all of the firefighers,police officers,paramedics,people inside the building,people watching nearby on footage where they said there was explosions in the main lobby and underground of it. cnn nbc ect. everyone has footage of the many explosions going off throught the buildings

no explosion huh wtf is this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=...
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ok man , u want videos.. i show u videos.. and now u say oh noooo those arent credible,there fake! WTF do u want!? your ignorant as$ dosent belive REAL videos taken from a freaken cellphone during the damn explosions?! how the hell is that not enough?? thats not when the building collapsed. that video was taken before! so just stfu and search on youtube for the footage b4 talking out of your ignorant as$. im not going against america here! i live here in texas. im angry at all the fuken money hungry bastards that are incontrol of america and will do w/e it takes to get rich, taking over countrys, killing innocent americans... they are incharge of the most powerfull county in the world and are abusing their power with the help of stupid ignorant americans like you that support them!

[ry-guy]

Where was this footage? Where were these interviews?

I, like 95% of the world, was glued to a TV during this horrible time and I digested every interview, every word, every video clipping of it. I was absorbed into some sort of mega-car crash. You just couldn't look away from it. It was a horrible time.

However, during all of that I never recall ONE interview stating that or ONE account of such a tale being spun. Before you make these accusations you need the proof to back it up. You're just making up random citations. I watched it all, I never heard of any claims.

Even the conspiracies videos, which I have watched, use the video footage available and you never heard or saw a single spoken word. They just played the chilling videos with text pointing out what they wanted to point out to chill spooky techno music. I have seen those videos. The only video they claimed was taken was a gas station's footage that showed the one plane crashing into the Pentagon. They never claimed of "lost" accounts or people being "bought out".

Get off the drugs, man.

Edit:

Those Youtube videos have as much credability as those documentaries on how we faked the moon landing.

As for the interviews, I'm sure a building collapsing is going to make pops, bangs, and booms. Again, a building beginning to collapse and collapsing are not going to be quiet events.

[Megaton]

You know, you can interpret some info as 9/11 being an inside job, but whenever one of you conspiracy tools claims it fell just like a demo, it makes me laugh. Have you ever even seen a demo? It falls very quickly, and all at once, with flashes of light all over the building on every floor. Not from top to bottom with everything underneath the falling area in perfect condition, and 3 glares of light that you guys run with as concrete proof of bombs being planted.

I understand hating government, and I understand the need to find something to believe in, but for crying out loud, you could drive a truck through the holes in the conspiracy theory. I would hope you guys could find something more intelligent to bandwagon onto.

Edit - I've seen all the videos that you guys hold dear as undeniable proof, so you don't need to PM me links to more sjappie.

[The BS Police]

Were caused by the That was one of six explosions that could be heard were the giant diesel tanks that heated the buildings.

[x440Magnumx]

@2.3

Ok...so jet fuel burns at 1700 degrees. So the real question is, if you instantaneously ignite a full tank of jet fuel, and that ignites whatever fuel there is inside of the building (we're talking tons of paper, wood, whatever chemicals are in any office equipment, insulation, the silly panels on the ceiling etc.), what kind of temperatures would we be talking about?

And for God's sake, isn't their pressurized oxygen on board aircraft? That stuff is extremely volatile!

So it's not too hard to believe that a fire by jet fuel+fuel from building + compressed oxygen would have a significantly higher burning temperature than by jet fuel alone. (Oxygen tanks very easily account for multiple explosions as well, not to mention the electrical and heating systems inside the buildings blowing out.)

As for the free fall, it took quite a while after the actual impacts for the towers to fall....so who knows what was decaying structurally in those moments.

It's kind of funny though how you can just shrug off that fact that the impact of an aircraft travelling 350+mph was absorbed into a building that was designed to handle at most 100 mph winds (we're talking evacuation of the building at that point.)

Just because a building falls fast isn't conspiracy, it's just physics. Things aren't always slow and dramatic like the movies. Sheesh. You have a building effectively split in half by an explosion, so you have one very large mass sitting above another very large mass, and the supports betwenen the two have been shredded...

If the first mass can gain enough momentum to crush through the next floor by gravity, chances are it'll just keep accelerating until the now weakened untied together beams just buckle under the tremendous weight in an instant.

Just apply a little thinking, honestly. Or is physics a conspiracy too? I knew it!

Though it looks like your 3 years of thinking didn't get you very far, so maybe you should just leave the thinking to somebody else.

And videos from youtube? Honestly, that's stooping pretty low. Worse than wikipedia, actually. When you have an event that is happening mostly inside the structure of a building... not outside where the windows are or inside where the people are, but the frame of the building itself, it's pretty pointless to use videos of the windows and the interior to try to prove things about the structure. Yawn.

[Lucreto]

This is from the Xfiles spin off The Lone Gunman before 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[tatical]

"All in all, don't quote loose change, because if it was true that it was an inside job, the creators of that lame theory would be dead aswell."

Government Bad-Guy#1: These guys just made a film that proves that we were behind 9/11. I'm sending out the assassination team that makes everything look like an 'accident'.

Government Bad-Guy#2: Don't bother, if we let them live they'll look like crazy conspiracy nuts. No matter how close to the truth they get no one would listen to them. But if we actually killed them, then everyone would be like, "Those guys must've been right because they're dead now".

Government Bad-Guy#1 Niiiiiiice!

[Witty Comment]

9/11 movies is called Zeitgeist.

zeitgeistmovie.com

Just trust me here.

[Megaton]

@ 2.22

Zeitgeist has been debunked by proxy, since it made the mistake of sourcing much of its info from Loose Change. You guys should see the special done by Popular Mechanics. The guys who made Loose Change are on there, admitting that a lot of their info is wrong, and that they're currently making another version with more theories.

[Jinxstar]

WTF is wrong with you conspiracy theorists. To coordinate media centers all around the United states to aire footage all simultaneously with 1000's of eye witnesses to plane parts falling from the sky... I was in the Army the day of 9/11 and spent 16 months in Iraq and time in Afghanistan too. If it was an inside job what did they have to gain from this. Iraq doesn't have enough oil to even support the US for 2 years.... Afghanistan is even worse off and my brothers in arms died for you guys to talk like this. You should be ashamed of yourselves for thinking its a conspiracy. I working in the MI Field and know exactly how impossible it would be to coordinate that kind of effort by out Govt. Sacrificing 1000's of lives to invade a country for nothing... So my friends could die so you bastards could play the conspiracy theory game. F*ck you Sjappie and any others who side with him. Your retarded and if you all had any integrity or sense of duty or patriotism to a country that has come to the aid of all who have asked and helped in WW1 and WW2 and done a hge amount of sacrifice for the world to make it a great place... You can all die in a fire... This country that I live in has done so much and I and many I know/knew have sacrificed more then your spoiled ass will ever know. Go enlist and find out what it takes to be a real damn Man. Pansies. hiding behind smoke and mirror theories.... Think big bad govt is out to get you. Spying on your calls.... Trust me they got better stuff to do then worry about what some stupid xbots and fanboys have to talk about... like saving lives and protecting the free world.... Dumb asses...

Edit: I lived in europe for a while as well and know they appriciate our aide. Churhill himself popped open a bottle of champagne when the nazi's invaded france and the US declared they were coming. He said nothing could stop the US. To think some of these conspiracy theories are coming from either US Citizens or people the US has helped not get taken over by Nazis.... Its insulting and you should go kill yourselves.

[itsalive]

Operation Northwood(s?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[bestgamer94]

what a conspiracy sjapple

[sjappie]

It will be painfully clear to you sooner or later.

[pwnsause]

seriously, this is why I dont want to live here anymore

[wil4hire]

The XBOX section of this site is 100% DEAD.

The ONLY stories that are ever published are sales figures, HALO3 articles(Kid gets stabbed, new video about how some lamer got all blowed up, or about a new halo soda) Or one about Mass Effect, and how terrible those screenshots were.

For a second I was wondering why 360 fans always manage to find their way into ps3 news that has nothing to do with sales or the 360, low and behold.. no news on n4g for the xbox.

Why don't you guys take some time and write articles about something useful, like when Alan Wake is getting new screenshots or game footage. When Huxley gets a hands on review? Those are supposed to be the huge amazing games for the RROD box yet there is no news about anything.

I feel like we should all get together and change the tab for XBOX to "Mass Effect & Halo3 news"

Where we can keep posting videos of "OMG LOOK HOW I NADED THAT GUY." videos! It will be so amazing.. Also, we can post news stories about how some retarded child in Alabama stole a halo3 helmet and used it to rape a catfish.

As far as mass effect goes, we can keep posting stills of the story mode, pretend those gamer.tm stills didn't exist, and use words like "Epic" & "Monumental" to describe how amazing that game is going to be! (Based on Screen Shots & KOTOR) I don't even get the KOTOR comparisons anymore after seeing the game footage, which has turned into a terrible third person shooter where the lead character keeps the exact same face no matter what.

But all BS aside, Mass Effect will be game of the year... have you ever seen a game with such an amazing story mode-renderer? I mean, all the close ups (nothing but close ups & blurred out backgrounds) Look GREAT! Plus Bioware developed the game so you KNOW based on that, it will be GOTY indeed. The story is going to be so epic(No idea how I know this, but.. it will be!) 50hours plus gameplay!! Of running around in a terrible third person shooter & cut-story-mode-scenes that look fabulous!

Or we can talk about how Great Too Human looks.. since its a huge franchise as well. The gameplay looks amazing, definitely innovative, thats for sue. Just like Mass Effect, and Halo3 as well.. Those are all the most innovative games I have ever played in my life. These games bring new things to the table every time!

Enjoy the PS3 section guys! I think there is news on Ratchet, Uncharted,COD4(why its better than the 360 version),Tekken,MGS,Gran Turismo,Haze,and flow..

lol.. flow.

[ben hates you]

nevermind

[socomnick]

Will dude can I ask you a question. I'm not trying to insult you or anything. How old are you ?

[Witty Comment]

was the Holy Grail of all forum troll rants.

We could call it "Let's watch all the fanboys start flamewars because they have no lives" section, too, right?

[gamesR4fun]

trust me were no better here well not by much anyways (they still havnt made torture legal here officially like the Us did the other day)
Man a make believe war on a abstract concept like terror and they be raking in the cash in Iraque not the American ppl ofcourse their paying the bill but the guys in charge who own them multi billion dollar U.S contracts and are allowed to rape the iraquiens for all their worth have got to be prosecuted.
Not this innocent kid f ing American government h8 machines got ppl so twisted up stuff like this happens every day.

[FordGTGuy]

How democracy works?

[gamesR4fun]

nope do you?
I mean is it suppose to be the royal rape of the masses by the elite? Cause thats what Im seeing here and abroad in so called free and democratic countries...

[sjappie]

and to justify to take their rights. The Bin Laden family and the Bush family go way back. It's all a setup.
This is a warning to Americans, look it up for yourselves: the "Patriot Act", this law can strip you of your civil rights, and it's already been accepted.
If you don't believe it just google it, it's for real.

[m9105826]

I'd like to hope that, for the most part, we all know what the Patriot Act is. In all honesty though, it's better than where we COULD be. Look at places like Sierra Leone, and you get a whole new appreciation for the freedoms you DO still have. I wouldn't ever consider myself patriotic, and I never take anything said by politicians at face value, and I believe that that is what democracy is: constantly challenging the powers that be to live up to their own standards. Check and re-check what powerful men claim as truths, because when the day comes that we go blindly into any situation on the whim of a specialized group is the day we no longer have a free and democratic existence.

EDIT: Just for reference, I'd just like to know why the people who disagrees with me did so. Thanks.

[The BS Police]

Religiton > Anything else.

It is your Bullshit opinuion that shows that what Bin Laden set out to do uis working.

He commits a whole sh*tload of terrorist attacks, and know he has americans blaming americans.

The fact is you can either blame eachother for the rest of your lives, or join arms agaisnt the terorist threat... your choice.

[Kulupoo]

well ur looking from a American perspective, where media is controled and free speech is limited. If you look from an iraqi perspective you will realize the war on terror is more like war on preserving the oil, US government send in Texa's oil drilling company in to iraq right after capture of Baghdad. and the worst of all is iraqi is dying in huge numbers everyday, I dont think i will believe that is a war on terror until i see some proof of that Weapon of mass destruction, which does not exist(the UN investigate from UK already says it be4 the war, funny how the guy died of heart attack within 1 week after the investigate....)

[The BS Police]

The american governemnt pissed off a few religious nutcases with their foreign policy and that lead to outright war which has been escelating since the 1970's.

And that is from a Canadian point of view.

[ravinash]

7.4 - I don't really see it as either.
The american governemnt pissed off a few religious nutcases with their foreign policy and that lead to outright war which has been escelating since the 1970's.
And that is from a Canadian point of view.

Its one thing to piss off a few nutcases, but when those nutcases are repected leader of countries/peoples/religions is something else.
America may not like Osama, but a lot of people in the middle east do.
Something to do with the fact that they see US troops storming their houses or seeing their country getting blown up tend to backup their view point. No one asked the US to go into Iraq, in fact everyone else was saying don't do it.
So its not a surprise if these people think that the US are wankers...hell, I'm not from the middle east, so at lest I know its just the US goverment that are wankers.

[Skizelli]

You sound pretty arrogant. My mother taught me to respect people no matter where they're from. Did yours not? You Europeans amuse me with your bigotry. You know practically nothing about Americans as a people other than what you read or see on TV. We're not all Bush-loving, gun-toting hill billies, and most of us oppose the war in Iraq. Don't act like your country hasn't started wars. Your nose is far from clean, friend, so get off your high horse. Your country has a darker history than America ever will, but that's beside the point. I've been a user of the internet long enough to know that there's a-holes in every part of the world. Especially yours.

[Bonsai1214]

wow sjappie. why don't you go vote for hilary in 08. any american who doesn't know what the patriot act is has been living under a rock. and recent revisions to it through a democratically controlled congress amended it so that a lot of what gave it teeth is now gone.

and honestly, i don't mind giving the government power like this because if you're doing nothing wrong, they have no reason (and possibly no right, through those revisions) to search through your stuff, etc. and i know that through this they've stopped attacks like 9/11 from happening again.

[Kulupoo]

well if they found out you draw a Halo3 sketch in ur backpack and they consider a terroist threat and lock u up, then torture u : WHERE IS MASTER CHIEF!?!? WE KNOW HE IS PLANING A BOMB @ High Ground... does that seem fair?

[ry-guy]

You're right about the Patrotic Act and how it has been amended but you're right about your philosophy on what the government should do.

It is up to the American people to protect the American people. You should never, ever, give up that right freely. I am not planning any terroristic threats, or building any bombs, but I sure as heck would NEVER willingly give over those civil liberties. The thing I worry about is giving the government too much power, that should be the point everyone votes on.

For example, the SCHIP bill that just got smacked down by President Bush. This bill was intended to put middle class citizens who could all ready afford private insurance, all ready HAD private insurance, onto government controlled insurance. That is something you should NEVER agree to.

[sjappie]

And the Patriot Act is still in effect. They recently passed a new law on
"thought crime", wich can label a certain conviction as "terrorism".
It's not the laws that enable them to search your bags, that you have to worry about, it's the laws that enable them to do as they please with you, as soon as America is under attack again.
And they haven't stopped any attacks from happening, they made it happen, and there is a good chance they will make it happen again.

[freakyzeeky]

Maybe the teacher was a PS3 fanboy? :P

[jack who]

blame it on halo 3

[chrno]

These kind of incidents always happen in Amerikkka XD

[jackdoe]

If you read into the article, there are far more serious charges than the Halo sketches. Reported threats against fellow students is a pretty serious matter and should be investigated.

[ry-guy]

Agreed, this kid had allegedly made some pretty eye raising comments.

I bet the drawings were the tipping point to this incident.

[Kulupoo]

For the people in US... I invite you to Canada :D
but srsly i used to live in L.A.... Canada is alot better, I dont need a weapon (beside my NES zapper XD), I dont even lock the door at my house

[chrno]

wow it's pretty bold for you for not locking door at ur house...since there are plenty of burglaries here in Canada. But yeah, there are rarely any shooting invovled here, as opposed to the US. Overall it's pretty safe here in Canada, and most importantly u can travel safely being a Canadian.

[Kulupoo]

Well I lived in Victoria, BC.... so is pretty quiet here... nothing huge really ever happen.... beside really loud party that the police came and shut it down ...

and ya every experience traveler know to put canadian flag on the backpack... I saw a couple in an airport wearing Canadian flag, so i go up and ask them which part of Canada are they from... they said New York city... Eh?

[MattFoley]

Most people dont lock thier doors here in the midwest either. I dont think thats right for them to do this to this kid but I do agree we dont know everything in this story.

[Chris_GTR1]

well then again it depends on who the kid was and how he looks...

seriously if hes some goth kid or emo then hell yea lock that kid up right away... but if its a normal kid that has friends and acts normally and is social then theres no reason to do all that.

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lol yes u do. everyone does! its a part of human nature. you try teach yourself steriotypes are bad and w/e , but steriotypes is your brain recording everything and remembering the info for when u need it to make VERRY usefull assumptions.

look when u see homeless guy what do u think?? he has no money? hes dirty? its your brain going back and remembering similar refrences from the past to make assumtions.

[Kulupoo]

WHAT!?!? why do you discriminate people by their looks or act?
I'm really shock that you said that...
Is the kids choice to dress and act like emo or goth and that is call freedom, you can't judge people by their looks....

[The BS Police]

First you stated the governemnt is taking away our rights, now you are discriminating agaisnt individuals who use the freedoms givin to us all.

[dmeador]

Whether you think you do or not, everyone makes assumptions about people biased on first on looks. If someone comes to an interview dressed in raggedy jeans and a dirty t-shirt, who has not bathed in a few days, they are most likely not going to get the job. If someone looks and acts mentally retarded, you will have a different attitude talking to them then a "normal" looking person, its just a fact. It doesn't necessarily mean it will be negative.

[doncorleone7]

Go to another country and see how it is there! You will find out that no matter how stupid the government may be at sometimes, America is still the best country in the world!Also, you nutcases that think 9/11 was an inside job, get a life and stop thinking of stupid conspiracies. There is too much proof that terrorists did attack the twin towers.

[chrno]

America the best country in the world?? Don't make me laugh...get out of ur country and explore the world buddy. Canada, Swedan, Australiaand some other countries all offer better quality of live than the US.

[doncorleone7]

Give me 1 good reason for each of those countries about why they're better than the US, then you might be able to persuade me.

[chrno]

Unlike the US, they all have been voted to be the best living places at least once.

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

It's Sweden, not Swedan. And I live there too.

It's not exactly paradise if you think that

[Skizelli]

Enough with the childish racism. Live and let live. Are morons born every millisecond now?

[Drano]

It's pretty sure that if you only lived in America, you can't know if there's better outside. That's just a moronic way of thinking, go back to school and tell those parents of yours to raise you a little bit, that's not going to hurt.

Jump Beyond.

[Skizelli]

Is that your name or what you swallowed as a kid? Surely you're old enough to know that most people are biased towards their own country. That's just the way it is. No sense in putting one down for it, as arrogant as they are.

[Gahigiddy]

You heard me. Play a real shooter.

[caffman]

You heard me. You are a twat

[kss]

the principal most be a sony fanboy.

[lovestruck06]

i watched the videos from youtube and its quite clear that the only mythes and theorys is the ones that say 9/11 wasn't an inside job. all the facts point to inside job. the world trade center was massive and a plane isn't going to bring down the whole thing. thank god i live in canada so im shielded from american government bull sh*t. im thankfull that my country isn't run by a greedy warmonger that doesn't even make his own speeches and still doesn't make an ounce of sense. and an excuse for a catholic(aka the only reason he won the election between kerry) clinton was a way better president.if u think about bush was close friends with bin laden so im sure u could put the two and two together. hey they have alot in common both are willing to trade innocent lives for something they believe in ...long story short there were explosions and there were witnesses, and everyone knows that building was brought down with explosives or just a theory i thought of maybe there were bombs stashed on the plane big ones.

[doncorleone7]

I completely agree with everything you just said right now MagnumX

[Nagazi]

God... all our ideas on what is going on are slanted. I can't comprehend what is truth and lies anymore. You are from Canada? So am I, but I'm awfully worried about our future with america. This whole 9/11 business will mean nothing compared to what will come in the next year or so. This has been in the works for hundreds of years and the true steps to one world government will begin next year, april 14 to be exact (damnit, that's my birthday too). this national id card is going to destroy completely all freedom's that we supposedly have. This national id card will easily and quickly spread to Canada too. Following this will be the worst economic downfall to date, which will usher in the new curreny, the amero which will be used to unite the US, canada, and mexico. This is all part of the north american trade union. The idea of global warming will destroy us soon is for the most part a farce (bash me all you want). This is all part of unifying the world together into one government. The future presidents show no prospective future; hillary or 'hitlary' is a bilderberger and our good friend al gore is backed by the rothschilds. After this economic fall will come the next false flag attack which will overshadow the 9/11 event. honeslty, please look up the rothschilds, go on youtube and watch some videos on the history and ideas of them. It's not them I worry about, it's all the globalists that are driving this world into absolute darkness. listen to the clay and iron radio station, the only ones I believe who are providing the real light in this bedarkened, dismall world.

[Skynetone]

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[Loopy]

Don't you remember Virgina Tech ?
Don't you remember Columbine ?
Or Dawson college ?

The article mentions terrorism and then you completely go off topic.

I understand how the school officials are feeling and aren't taking any chance. It doesn't mean they are right, because that's excessive paranoia.

[level1online]

If the kid wants to draw Halo sketches, he should do it on his own time. He should just wait until after he leaves the gov't indoctrination facility (high school).

Very interesting, I didn't think 9/11 Truthers would be on this website. Keep up the great work of waking up your fellow peers! Don't forget to pick up a copy of End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

WTF was the rest of that sh!t about?

[Umbrella Corp]

This shows that the teacher that suspended him was a anti xbox fanboy lol

[Salvadore]

And Jack Thompson will say: "I told you guys, halo 3 isn't suitable for minors".

[BaMYouRDeaD]

This made me laugh for about 5 minutes....Then it made me realize that this world is full of idiots who can't differentiate between a sketch of a guy in a green 3 ton suit and terrorism.

[sandip787]

gutted for the kid
i bet the teacher was nasim...

[Saint Sony]

AMERICA, F@CK YEAH!... not.

[n00dl3s]

I love how someone mentions terrorism and suddenly half you morons consider yourself an expert on the subject because you've watched a bunch of biased movies and read a bunch of articles.

Suddenly people start making statements like "Ok...so jet fuel burns at 1700 degrees. So the real question is, if you instantaneously..." and start debating stuff like you are authorities on the subject. Just because you read a newspaper now and then and spend a lot of time welding at your job or whatever doesn't mean you have a damned clue what you are talking about.

It's hilarious to watch all of you think you're well informed because you watch the discovery channel a couple of times a week. Let's have Myth Busters take a look at it! S$%& that'll finish this argument once and for all!!

The bottom line is, for 9/11 to have been an inside job someone would have to have been working with the terrorists to get it done. Because purely being American action would mean hundreds of people would have to have coordinated it, and if you look at our history, our government isn't smart enough to have a multiple hundred person secret, especially if it involves the death of a couple thousand Americans.

Just all stfu and go back to playing Halo, or Hellgate, or Half-Life, or whatever H-named game is making us happy in the pants this week. It's amazing how everyone turns into an expert all of a sudden when politics are brought up. Dude... you work at Best Buy selling DVDs.... you aren't an expert on s%$#.

The bottom line (in reference to what this article is actually about) is that it's a bunch of stuck up imbeciles making a mountain out of a mole hill. "OMG a kid drew something violent!!".... yeah no %@#$ sherlock... he's a kid... that's what they do. It's all part of this retard movement where parents are deciding that you can't run, jump, fight, wrestle, or think about anything involving violence, because god forbid you scare of offend someone. This country needs to toughen up. Bunch of pansies.

[level1online]

Manhattan Project.

[Quickstrike]

Man Halo is the reason the X-box is popular, the reason millions of kids skipped school to play it, caused a kid to punch his mom in the face, and now it got a kid suspended from school. Any one else is seeing a connection between kids, school, and their parrents?
BTW how the F*** did 9/11 get brought up? All of you are off topic if you are talking about that this is about a kid being suspended from school.

[Enigma_2099]

... and the idiots that live in it...

suspended for drawings... Jeezus H Christ!!

[MvC Xtrm]

The U.S. Government should be put on trial for terrorism threat charges. Not all but most of the dirty politicians running this country into the ground. ..And that's coming from an American.

Xtrm: Professional Structural Engineer. ;)

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

and future dev, leave him the hell alone and let him draw.

[conswella]

... Where creativity will get a 14 year-old arrested and tried for terrorism. Remember one thing, americans: this is where you live.

so when are you going to be fed up with it?

[jinn]

i defend the kid

[pshizle]

what was the map ... if it was the school ya the kid should get suspended

but really 9/11 was not set up ...if ones do believe it was

please get a gun put a bullet in it ..make sure the gun is not on safety then pull the trigger

your life and the WORLD will be a BETTER PLACE WITHOUT YOU =)

[level1online]

when you have a breakdown in a few years, don't kill yourself.

[durran3]

1) American Foreign Policy clearly needs to be looked at by the proper people not the neo-conservatives who like to impose and do what they feel like.

2) There is no excuse to have more than 720 Military Bases in over a 135 countries across the world. American Imperialism is only going to hurt the American people and your leaders who basically are War profiteers will benefit as long as wars keeps going on.

3) Iran poses no nuclear threat what so ever yet the Bush administration keeps saying the same thing again and again. They are using the very same words, the very same sentences that they used to go to war with Iraq

4) Bush won the new elections on the basis of 'FEAR' and using Faux as their primary propaganda tool to spread their fear mongering message across the US. The Day governments step up to say they will 'PROTECT' the people thats the day your Civil liberties are stripped off of you and you bow down to the Government to help them protect you.

"People should not fear the Governments, Governments should fear the People" --V for Vendetta

I am going to Quote the founding Fathers here..

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin

And Right now.. if the founding fathers were here and they saw the Neo conservative agenda they'd be rolling in their graves...And this is the reason i am going to Vote RON Paul in 2008 for i believe he stands by the Constitution

[jaja1434]

The only thing I disagree with in your post is Iran. While I do think its very hypocritical for the US to claim freedom and then tell another country what they can and can not do, I have no desire to see Iran with nuclear capability.

[Tyrael]

I think Bungie should give him a job offer

[Brianemone]

Is the site not working for anyone else?

[bastardo]

how can you call yourself a free nation if you are unable to express yourself, i pity americans they have the ilusion of freedom.

[Baba1906]

ahahhahahahahah he was suspended for drawing weapons? how stupid is that. looks like fear is stronger than i thought in USA. he hasn't done anything wrong. well i guess if i start painting dwarfs and elves i ll be suspended because i am crazy? i mean i could use an axe to chop some heads of. honestly this is ridiculous.

[IntelligentAj]

Although I wholly disagree with the Patriot Act we Americans have a lot more freedom than most other countries so don't feel sorry for us. Even with our deficit we'll be okay. Oh yeah I actually live in New York and saw the Towers collapse. What's wrong with you people?

[I_killed_TheMart]

God Damn Right, he deserves to get suspanded, drawing sketches of the most crappiest game of 07....FUK U MART fa*got a*s...ill kill you!

[bison812]

This kid should have been suspended. This was a complete dumb move on this kids part.

If you guys go look up Columbine the shooters there would draw pictures of weapons and violence. I hope some of you can care for the safety of others before a video game.

I hope schools work harder from preventing people like this from going to school.

[Drano]

Can I buy you and put you in a cage to entertain me?

Jump Beyond.

[Zinny]

This story and the others like it are the reason why the terrorists are winning.

Well done America, well done.

Next in the news: Baby sent to deathrow after knocking over building blocks thought to be a terrorist training simulator for destorying buildings.

[gamesR4fun]

the real terrorist are running the country

[dinkeldinkse]

For the people that think 9/11 was an inside job,please tell me what your smoking.I would love to know.

For the people that think Americans are all paranoid about the "terrorists" that is not true, why don't you visit America before you people make those statements.

For the people that think Bush is the worst U.S. President ever, he's not,James Buchanon is. If you disagree with that you are a moron because he is rated as the worst president on about every list by experts on American Presidents.

For the people bashing America please go f yourself. We came up with basketball,baseball,telephone, cars,and airplanes.That's just a short list.

But, seriously this suppose to be about a kid getting suspended for drawing halo crap.So why the hell are you people ranting about 9/11 and Bush.

[chrno]

er.. no basketball is invented by Canadians - a proven fact. Next thing you are going to say Americans invented instant noodles.

[The BS Police]

The telephone was invented by a Canadian.

[BUKKAKALYPSE]

hahah man you no sh1t all...basket ball - canadian, phone - canadian, first baseball game ever played was in CANADA!..and if you think 9/11 was done by some arabs then i guess there are WMD's in Iraq too! retard do some research on 9/11 and you'll see that there is no shred of evidence that it wasn't an inside job

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

[THUNDERMARE]

The article is about a kid got suspended by some paranoia teachers.
How come it goes over to terrorisms?

anyway IMHO i think Bush isnt such a bad president, except the war and his unbelievably poor linguistic skills. Well, he managed to turn over half of the US population to spell Iraq the wrong way. (yes Iraq suppose to spell e-rak not i-rak)

[g4n]

WELL ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully some of the parents and teachers in the US are wising up. We have to stop the ignorance in our children! First of all, the game is rated M. this kiddy should not know nothing about Gaylo (we all saw that MC is gay in the second one, so I call it Gaylo).
What?!? You say it should not be rated M?!? what are your credentials? How much time and effort have you spent on figuring the psychological effect of this game on younger children? 0 seconds? That’s what I thought. Ok, EXPERTS have determined that in order to keep MAN KIND around we ALL cannot become GAY! So “everyone” CANNOT play Gaylo!!!! We’re in big enough trouble as it is, the average American IQ has dropped below 95… they are brighter in Iraq then they are here… and guess what, Gaylo (and the 360 in general) only has major sales in the US… where all the ppl with an IQ of 95 are…

Help save our nation, STOP using the low class lolbox, it a glorified PS2 and you compare it with the PS3… most games, including gaylo, are not in HD, even 10 y/o 720p HD… gaylo is not even in 720p… it in 620p something… let alone UXGA.

Just stop and read this, but REALLY think.

“the 360 is the ONLY THING around that claims to be “HD” but has no form of HD meida…”

The DVD is designed for 480i, the lolbox is rigged to somehow getto it out, but its not really HD, is it? Even Microsoft developed the HD-DVD for “HD” not the “dvd”….

[Nagazi]

haha wow what a post. the only thing I can agree with is the true fact in Iraq their education system was quite high before the US intervened, which caused the currency to go from a high number to practically nothing. That country was ruined, and now the only countries remaining that do not have a central bank are Libya, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran.
Oh, and it's true games are desensitizing all of us, but in this digital age mind washing can't be avoided.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Leave it to gamers to believe CNN...haha.

You guys are hilarious.

[devilhunterx]

so HALO is a murder simluation after all.

[Tyler Durden]

now hell have more time to play his ps3 lol