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Thought Crime: Student Arrested for Fictional Essay

The Chicago Trib reports that a senior at Care-Grove High School was arrested last Monday for writing an essay "described as violently disturbing but not directed toward any specific person or location."

According to the Trib, the straight-A student completed the assignment for a Creative English class that asked students to "identify and utilize poetic conventions to communicate ideas and emotions." The article does, however, say that students were warned to stay away from writing things that "posed a threat to self and others" in the wake of the VT shootings.

This just in: Warrants issued for the arrests of Quentin Tarrantino, Clive Barker, Eddie Vedder, Gus Van Sant, and the corpses of Kathy Acker and William S Burroughs.

[via Slashdot]