assault on a writer, or they should be sued out of business.

'emergency medical evaluation'! For Writing a Book and people say we don't live in a Police State??

Suzanne Collins writes about a dystopian future where children are 'recruited" to fight each other to the death. Frank Herbert - and now his son Brian Herbert - write about a galaxy-spanning Jihad that kills billions. Did they have to put up with this bullshit? No? Jesus fucking christ.

42 USC Section 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

I believe, though I have not checked, that the above was the statute under which Rodney King sued and won, after the cops who beat him were acquitted in state court, despite video of the beating. In any event, people who are deprived of federal and statutory rights HAVE to sue, every single one.

When property, local and state taxes go up because of settlements and judgments of these suits, taxpayers will start screaming at Governors and Mayors and Governors and Mayors will start screaming at police commissioners, who will start training cops differently.

Meanwhile, DUer rhett o'rick had a great idea. Let's all contact our Governors, state legislators, mayors and town councillors and tell them we don't want this crap or paying for the verdicts and settlements likely to result from it.

I don't always believe our calls, letters, emails etc. will have the effect for which we hope. However, I do in this instance.

WE CAN IMPACT THIS.

have defended this, or at least seem to condone what happened because he used an 'alias'

Which of course no other author in the history of mankind has ever done.
I know this for a fact because I checked with Mark Twain, Stephen King, JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith, Lewis Carroll, Stan Lee, Joseph Conrad, Voltaire, George Orwell (which makes the whole thing purely ironic), Silence Dogood and Richard Saunders
They all assured me that NO authors have ever used an alias or pen name that they know of

on edit
FOUND IT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5466729

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just for the title

It is perfectly normal for people to write using a pen name / pseudonym.
I also see no problem with an IT person writing a syfi novel involving an AI going bonkers and taking over the military.
Fiction is fiction and sometimes the more factual data involved makes the story better.

So I am somewhat surprised at myself that I find the writing of a novel about a school shooting written by a middle school teacher somewhat out of place.
Fiction is after all fiction.

Still I would have no problem if the same middle school teacher wrote a novel about a local police force going bonkers and infringing on a writers constitutional rights.

Internal confects are the worst.

office in that county seems to be the prime mover.