Novelist Imprisoned for His Novel

He’s a school teacher, and this is his second novel, both set in the future, What angered “school officials” and, apparently fools among the cops, was its subject matter: a school shooting. Is this what we can expect in the future from our government? Writers imprisoned because SOMEBODY didn’t like his plotline? We USED TO BE a free country. But no longer if a NOVELIST can be imprisoned because of what he is writing. This is what they say about the arrest: “Pending the release of further information, it’s impossible to tell if McLaw did or said anything beyond authoring novels reflective of contemporary commercial fiction that gave authorities credible reason to believe he was a real threat to himself and/or others. Without such details, speculation about 'Soviet-style punishment for a novelist' are to be expected, as is an equally likely possibility that this could simply be the type of zero tolerance insanity that results in bizarre gross official overreactions, like a student being suspended for writing about shooting dinosaurs.” “Soviet-style punishment for authors.” How appropriate. Well, I guess it’s only a matter of time before I get a visit from several men in black suits wearing mirrored sunglasses because of what I write: the truth. (The Examiner)