Max: Life in the Police State

Violent Message to a Gossip Web Site Leads to Arrest: "'I wonder if i could shut down the school … by saying I’m going to shoot as many people as i can in my second class tomorrow. I hope I get more than 50……….. For liability reasons and ip tracking I won’t leave it at that. But seriously, this site is rediculous, if it got big, and someone put the effort into writing a big long serious suicide note informing all readers that he would kill over 100 kids, they could shut down the school. Nice.'

One person who didn’t find the joke funny at all was Brittany Messenger, a sophomore at Colgate who was looking at the site as part of research for an article she was writing for the student newspaper.

She says she initially did not take the message literally, but after talking with her mother about it, she decided to alert authorities, just in case. 'You just can’t joke about this,' she says. 'That isn’t even funny for a second.'"

Let us set aside that this guy is clearly a dumbass.

You don't generally start threats with "I wonder if". "I wonder if Max would be mad if I kicked him in the balls?" is a stupid question. But it is not the same as, "Max I am going to kick you in your motherfucking balls."

Even if this is eventually dismissed in court, he has still been made to suffer by the State for practicing his rights.