FBI grills high school student about his class project

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http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-school-report-hallman-076/

A 16-year-old high school student’s video report for his American Government class earned him an A+ from his teacher. It also yielded a visit from the FBI.

Justin Hallman says that a project he put together for school that included information on the National Defense Authorization Act, Rep. Ron Paul, Anonymous and the Occupy Wall Street movement was well received in the classroom, but wasn’t exactly praised by others. After agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saw a copy of Hallman’s finished work on YouTube, they paid a visit to his own home.

The boy’s mother says the FBI showed up at their home one month after the class project was first turned in and told her, "We need to talk to your son." Once inside, Justin Hallman says he was drilled about his thoughts on an array of issues included in his project.

"They also asked me why I had talked to my teacher about the Illuminati,” he writes in an email obtained by Infowars. “I told them it was just harmless talk about the 1776 Illuminati that formed from the enlightenment era. I said my teacher said they are/were terrorists and not to talk about them (this caused the FBI agents to look puzzled and they changed the subject very fast to Anonymous). In the end they finally left for an ‘important meeting.’”

[Scuba]

1. Thought police?

[Ian David]

2. Watching the video, I can see why they showed-up. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

3. I have to disagree

It sounded like scores of other political ads put out there by the Republicans.

It sounded like things I've heard Cheney say, like, "If Obama wins, we will be attacked". Nobody visited Cheney to ask him what he meant.

This was overreaction, and might even be considered infringement of 1st amendment rights due to it's chilling effect on free speech.

I'm not happy with what happened to this kid.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I thought the whole thing was remarkable, myself.

As in, remarkably lame.

If I were the teacher, that video would have gotten a gentleman's C at best, and not even because I think Ron Paul is as sharp as a pound of wet liver. I just thought it was a silly mess of a video.

[tama]

7. Looking for a snitch

“They wanted me to be an informant, to possibly put my life in danger, to help them arrest and gain intel on occupy protesters and hackers,” Hallman says in the email.

[drm604]

5. What a strange story.

The FBI asked him why he talked about the Illuminati? What? They might as well have asked him about UFO's or chemtrails. I'm skeptical that the conversation went as he's reporting it.

That said, it's troubling that the FBI would visit him about that video. I suspect that his inclusion of Anonymous had something to do with it. I can't imagine any other reason.

[struggle4progress]

6. Well, the story's on World Nut Daily, and RT, and Press TV

plus being in a number of less objective or less reliable sources, like Daily Paul or The Examiner

IMO if the FBI did actually visit the kid, they didn't do so because of his silly video:

But I'm not convinced the FBI actually visited him