1st amend, thoughtcrime, schools as pipelines to jail

[Major Variola (ret.)]

To establish a criminal threat, it would have to be shown that he wanted
the [threatened] officer to see the
 work, the court said.

"The painting does not appear to be anything other than pictorial
ranting," the court said. "The criminal law
does not, and cannot now, implement a zero-tolerance policy concerning
the expressive depiction of
violence."

Schools are becoming one of the primary pipelines to the juvenile
justice system," said Shannan Wilber,
executive director of Legal Services for Children in San Francisco.

Excerpts from
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-threat18jun18001434,1,6789200.story?coll=la-headlines-california