Free Speech?

[EminemBase]

What exactly did you say?

You could be being intentionally vague in order to get your desired response from Eminem fans.

wasnt trying to be intentionally vague. my bad. i said gonna make me run in school and pull another columbine

Well that's just a line for the sake of comparison. Exaggeration... I mean, if Columbine was fictional they wouldn't say anything. You can say what you want anyway, tell them to fuck off.

[christalgurl]

I would just say the line was an exaggeration, that it wasn't serious. It was just a way to get out your angry feelings, but that you'd never actually act on the line. That should help.

[No Way Out]

Hahahaa .. how did you use the term "Columbine"?

Cause if you said something like ... "im gonna reinact the columbine shoooting tomorow" .. I can see why there'd be cause for alarm. but if you just randomly brought it up.. thats bs

[christalgurl]

Hahahaa .. how did you use the term "Columbine"?

Cause if you said something like ... "im gonna reinact the columbine shoooting tomorow" .. I can see why there'd be cause for alarm. but if you just randomly brought it up.. thats bs

That's basically what he said.

i said gonna make me run in school and pull another columbine

[BigBoss]

Hahahaa .. how did you use the term "Columbine"?

Cause if you said something like ... "im gonna reinact the columbine shoooting tomorow" .. I can see why there'd be cause for alarm. but if you just randomly brought it up.. thats bs

That's basically what he said.

i said gonna make me run in school and pull another columbine

Wait....


Who said you could talk? Get back to the kitchen, women.

[Willy]

See, at this point with you saying something like that, as a principle he had every right to take you into his office and have a talk with you.

Granted, I don't know anything about you. Your teacher/principle just picked up a CD with you saying these things, and by law I believe they have to investigate. Now, you could just calmly explain to them the intended artistic effect those lyrics had. If they were just meant to be shocking...well, you got it.

[jba1me]

See, at this point with you saying something like that, as a principle he had every right to take you into his office and have a talk with you.

Granted, I don't know anything about you. Your teacher/principle just picked up a CD with you saying these things, and by law I believe they have to investigate. Now, you could just calmly explain to them the intended artistic effect those lyrics had. If they were just meant to be shocking...well, you got it.

thats what i did but its still on my record..and this was only the 2nd time ive ever been in trouble at school..everyone in my first block thinks im a bad ass now because 2 sro's had to come get me along with the principal.. i was wondering also can anything happen to you if you just post songs on your facebook?

[Willy]

What exactly is on your record, like whats it say? And the thing you have to understand is that even if a principle of a school hears, by word of mouth, rumor, through the grapevine, whatever, about some student being a potential threat to the lives of other students, he has to act on it.

Posting stuff on your Facebook is taking a chance, a chance some kid is going to click on it, listen, and go tell someone about it. . .."Hey Principle Johnston, so and so didn't take those songs down, he put them on his facebook!!!!!" I'm not saying you are wrong, or what you did was wrong, I'm just telling you how it is.

[psu24]

I can see where the school is coming from but I don't think they really needed to make that big a deal of it. Though with all the school shootings we've had in this country over the past decade it's not hard to see why it would be cause for alarm. I totally agree with free speech and although that wasn't a direct threat and you had no intention on acting on the lyrics you know damn well they're not going to see it that way. I mean if your walking around the school saying "I'm gonna blow this whole building up" or some shit like that it's not really the issue of free speech it'll be seen as a threat. Now if it said something like fuck all the teachers that would be that's not an issue although it probably would be to them but that's just saying how you feel. But, yeah freedom of speech is the most important ammendment we have imo.

[Jiskefet]

People are afraid nowadays. Thats why they are responding the way they do. I wouldnt post your songs on facebook. Even here in Holland, where the mentality is very different compared to the USA, people were seriously arrested at their homes lately for stuff they said on twitter about some shootings. Recent shootings, but still...

[flyingmonkey10]

there is no such thing as free speech. everybody's a fucking critic and no matter what you say, or how explicit you are, some asshole is gonna shit on you no matter what

[Manly Moose]

You should have been laughing. If I was in your position I would play along and answer all their questions seriously, even though its obvious that I find the whole situation hilarious. Just play along and keep a big grin on your face, they probably have to do this sort of thing but they are gonna feel stupid/rush through it because your making it obvious that its a waste of their time.