Drop the pen, step away from the pen...

Is violent poetry criminal? California high court debates conviction of teenage boy : Children writing disturbing poetry being convicted of criminal intent. Wasn't there a Law & Order about this? The foolish thing is this :

Speaking for the state, Laurence said the boy's poem cannot be analyzed in a vacuum. The boy passed the poem to a girl in his English class 11 days after a student killed two classmates and wounded 13 others at Santana High School in Santee on March 5, 2001.

Of course it can't be analyzed in a vacuum. You have to consider intent and justification [realistically, if not legally] and it makes perfect sense that anyone would be disturbed shortly after such an incident, feel the compulsion to do something about it [like write a poem], and feel the need to share it in an environment like [heavens] an English class. For all I know, the kid could be an evil little bastard but there's a big difference between this situation and the intended reductio ad absurdum example of "a bank robber [being] immune from charges for giving a bank teller this note: 'Roses are red. Violets are blue. Give me the money or I'll shoot you.'"