1984 Lurches Ever Closer: The Ugly Persecution of Patrick McLaw
If you write fiction that makes small minds tremble with fear, you have a vested interest in what happens to this young writer.
Bottom line: the fellow is a language arts teacher in Maryland, and writes a science fiction novel about a school shooting centuries in the future.
Sounds akin to Stephen King, and "Rage," right? No big deal, right? Wrong.
http://www.wboc.com/story/26367051/cambridge-maces-lane-middle-school-teacher-on-administrative-leave
http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/news/dorchester_county/article_f34bc33b-0a51-5217-a3a7-62bce57ca631.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/in-cambridge-md-a-soviet-style-punishment-for-a-novelist/379431/
His school administrators have him arrested, put through mental evaluation, and now he's barred from coming on school or county property.
ThoughtCrime is encroaching.
Here's a link to his books...
http://www.amazon.com/Insurrectionist-K-Voltaer-ebook/dp/B0075CP2SG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409326782&sr=1-1&keywords=the+insurrectionist
http://www.amazon.com/Liliths-Heir-K-Voltaer-ebook/dp/B00FUL3ZRY/ref=pd_bxgy_kstore_text_y
What happens to Patrick McLaw can happen to any of us that write speculative fiction.
Bottom line: the fellow is a language arts teacher in Maryland, and writes a science fiction novel about a school shooting centuries in the future.
Sounds akin to Stephen King, and "Rage," right? No big deal, right? Wrong.
http://www.wboc.com/story/26367051/cambridge-maces-lane-middle-school-teacher-on-administrative-leave
http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/news/dorchester_county/article_f34bc33b-0a51-5217-a3a7-62bce57ca631.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/in-cambridge-md-a-soviet-style-punishment-for-a-novelist/379431/
His school administrators have him arrested, put through mental evaluation, and now he's barred from coming on school or county property.
ThoughtCrime is encroaching.
Here's a link to his books...
http://www.amazon.com/Insurrectionist-K-Voltaer-ebook/dp/B0075CP2SG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409326782&sr=1-1&keywords=the+insurrectionist
http://www.amazon.com/Liliths-Heir-K-Voltaer-ebook/dp/B00FUL3ZRY/ref=pd_bxgy_kstore_text_y
What happens to Patrick McLaw can happen to any of us that write speculative fiction.
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