You'll never post on FB again (maybe)

[Xox]

Just outside Boston, a teenager is locked up right now.
He's held without bail, charged as a terrorist, and
faces 20 years in prison. All for posting some lyrics
online. After you read his story, you may never post
on Facebook again. (Good idea! -- Xox)
[http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager ]

It sounds like an Onion article, but it's happening
in Methuen, MA. Cameron D'Ambrosio is 18 and by all
accounts a pretty typical teenager who likes music,
video games, and girls. He's an aspiring rapper and
goes by the name "Cammy Dee" in his YouTube videos.

On May 1st, Cam allegedly posted some lyrics to a
rap he was writing on Facebook. It contained a vague
reference to the Boston Marathon bombing and political
speech calling the Whitehouse a "federal house of
horrors." Cam was arrested on the street and has
been held without bail ever since. He's charged with
making "Terroristic Threats" for his artistic and
political free speech.

We've already seen an overwhelming response to this
action. Can you share this with your friends and
family to help get Cam free and protect online
freedoms for generations to come?

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Help us send a message to the District Attorney that
no one should ever go to jail for rapping about
politics online. Cam is locked up right now and
needs our help. Click here to take action to demand
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Full disclosure, I live in Boston. I was here with
my family and young child during the lock-down after
the Marathon bombing. I know that people are on
edge. But it's imperative that we NEVER let anyone
use the tragedy that happened here to undermine our
basic rights to freedom of expression. Censorship
will never make us safer.

Cam's lyrics didn't threaten any specific person or
group of people, didn't claim that Cam had a weapon,
and weren't intended to cause the evacuation or
disruption of anything (which are the requirements
that the post would have to meet to count as a
"terroristic threat.") Furthermore, a search of
Cam's house found no explosives, no weapons, nothing.
The cops just confiscated his computer and an X-Box.
Anyone who has listened to music since Wu Tang Clan
can easily interpret Cam's post as fairly standard
rap metaphor and braggadocio. Still, a judge ordered
him held without bail for the next three months
while he awaits trial.

But Methuen is a small town. If authorities there
get wind that there is national attention on this
case, they'll have to reconsider their terrible
decision to prosecute a teenager as a terrorist for
exercising his freedom of speech. Will you add your
voice?
[ http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager ]

Protecting free speech requires constant vigilance.
We know this may seem like a small local issue, but
it's close to home for us here in Boston and we want
to make sure that this case doesn't set a precedent
that chills free speech online.

Thanks for all that you do,
-Evan Greer
Fight for the Future & Center for Rights

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[Jorge]

In article <knh86j$5bq$1...@reader1.panix.com>, Xox <eta...@etaoin.com>
wrote:

It's the "death throes" of a democracy.
R.I.P.
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Karma ; what a concept!