The Student Press Law Center is reporting that a
high school student was arrested for making "terrorist threats" in a fictional short story he had written for class.
The boy and many of his friends say that the story was about zombies taking over a high school. No particular school is named. No one from his high school, students or teachers, are named. But under Kentucky law, "A threat directed at a person or persons or at a school does not need to identify a specific person or persons or school in order for a violation" of Kentucky's anti-terrorist legislation to have occurred.
This is appalling. At the very least, we need to get as many facts about the case as we can and disseminate it to the public as swiftly as possible. Petitioning civil rights organizations to pick up the case is in order too. If this turns out to be the miscarriage of justice that it looks to be, we need to be prepared to march on the Clark County Courthouse and protest the hell out of this thing.