Father: Teen Jailed For Facebook Comment Beat Up Behind Bars

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This is truly infuriating.

This is what happens when people in the American legal system get drunk on power. They know most Americans are getting outraged over their actions, yet they are continuing to torture this young man just because they can.

It also is worth noting that this is in Texas, which just had its 500th execution (and where it has been proven that a few of those people who were executed were innocent of the crimes they were convicted of). They'd put a needle in this kid's arm if they could, because they've really developed a taste for that kind of thing.

It seems to me like the prosecutors and the judge are thirsty for blood. And it does not matter who they destroy, as long as they are amused at the end of the day.

EDIT - I'm adding more to this post, seeing as I feel the need to further elaborate why this situation is so utterly disturbing to me.

When I was a young man, anybody could do whatever they wanted to me, and there was nothing I could do to defend myself. I faced physical, emotional, sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of my family, at the hands of the mental health system, at the hands of my peers, and at the hands of many school staff. Every word that came out of my mouth, they found some way to use it against me. I was having meltdowns on a regular basis where I would start to shout and I would start to cry. I was never violent, but they loved to treat me like I was a violent criminal. I spent a all of my middle school years in a school program for students who were in-and-out of the legal system, where I was brutally beaten on a daily basis while the staff stood by and let it happen.

The kid in this story has it worse than I did. All he did was crack a tasteless joke. But I strongly suspect that the prosecutors and the judge in this case have exactly the same mentality as the people who got pleasure out of abusing me when I was younger. They see an easy target, and they beat the hell out of him. Such predatory mentalities like that disturb me to no end.

In jail since February with bail set at 500k for saying this \/ on line, followed by JK?

Just to put this story into perspective, I have to wonder how many of the countless Zimmerman critics, many of whom have threatened all manner of murder and mayhem against completely innocent people, have been arrested and charged with anything. And, as far as I know, none of them have said "jk" either.

and people said thought crime would never be real

Most people who go shooting up schools and blowing up places don't make their plans so obvious, especially on a social network.

Our so-called "hyper sensitivity" to school shootings in their aftermath, has brought about nothing but stupidity...pure stupidity. You would need to give me hard core evidence that all of this paranoia is actually effective in preventing what it's trying to prevent.

It's that zero-tolerance knee-jerk mentality at work.

I've made some stupid/violent comments as a teenager when I got pissed off.... I would never actually harm anyone. And if I did have intentions of hurting someone, I sure as hell wouldn't have put it on Facebook. They can't actually think this kid was serious?!

This is one of the many ways where the U.S. fails.

So a kid jokingly says something in bad taste and he is a terrorist but real acts of terrorism is marked as a scary day.

Carter used a well-known rhetorical device. In Canada we have a frequent example of Stephen Harper supporters telling his opponents that Harper drowns kittens... a way to take the insinuations by his opponents that he is evil and blow it into absurdity with a description of his alleged over the top villainy. That US authorities are pretending to be unaware of this rhetorical device is yet another example of playing dumb deliberately to exercise their lustful desires to dominate, torture and terrorise. Carter never threatened anyone... any person in authority believing otherwise ought to have that authority stripped from them at once.

It is a shame that people are letting this happen...

In my experience people that use JK are usually fishing and are people to be wary of. This wasn't a modest proposal.

And most criminals aren't that bright and do go around saying dumb stuff.

Terrorist organizations are constantly threatening, that's in part why they're called terrorist due to the psychologically demoralizing persistent threat of violence, right?

With most of the school shooters there are accounts that they made "jokes" or openly talked about violence. I find it really sad that there were often blatant cries for help that were seemly ignored by everyone around them that was in a position to help.

In this case, the handling seems quite bone headed, but - Texas. The kid (oh, wait 19!, I find that much more troubling) should have probably gotten counseling and community service, maybe serve food at an abused women and children's shelter. But, if you're 19, making jokes like that and don't get that facebook/internet is public? Now I wonder if it's a mental health issue, still shouldn't be in jail.

Regardless, he's likely more of a threat now, just like most people that enter the prison system, which isn't about rehabilitation, but about teaching better criminals.

Seriously, try it on yourself. Surround yourself with people you admire, respect, and are doing what you would like to be doing in the future for a year, then try surrounding yourself with criminals for a year. Positive role models + social support are the only things that can help those that can be helped.

He is out of jail now... an anonymous person ponied up the $500,000 in bail money that the ex-cop judge had set...

Carter is completely not guilty of anything wrong. I think it's a shame that Josh Pillault was not able to get the kind of support Carter got.