Jerry, you're not giving the full story, are you? You're not even giving a quarter of the story.
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"Some calls merely taunted dispatchers, and others contained obscene language and death threats aimed at dispatchers and their families, Low said. The teen also made false injury reports, including a 911 call in which he posed as a person with a broken leg, the officer said."
Death threats against the dispatchers? That's a terroristic threat in the sense that has nothing to do with HSA. That's what they'd have called it long before 9/11. Calling in false calls endangers EMS workers. 500 phone calls ties up 911 operators. To get him to stop required quite a bit of work by the police. This wasn't Bart Simpson calling Moe's Tavern and asking for Amanda Huginkiss.
The kid's 16. He's old enough to know better. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. I'm not thrilled about kids being tried as an adult, but this kid would make a fine example to all the others out there thinking death threats to 911 is funny.
This had nothing to do with the Patriot Act.
And you, Jerry, either don't know what you are talking about, are deliberately misrepresenting the evidence for your own purpose, or both.
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