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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1544)	7/9/2004 9:37:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2534

and what if he doesn't take off the ski mask? Tell him to leave. If he doesn't leave call the cops, and if your armed make sure your gun is ready. Watch him closely. is my perceived threat real then? If he won't take off the mask or leave then maybe you have something of a threat. I still don't see enough for a charge of "making a terrorist threat". You would probably have trespassing, and maybe some other charge. Maybe the law should change so there should be some more specific charge. But he didn't "make a terrorist threat". people get charged with crimes that they have not committed, nothing or unusual about that... If the prosecutor knows he did not commit the crime then he shouldn't be charged. if i own a bank should i be able to call the police and have the guy arrested? Definitely if he won't take off the mask or leave. But he shouldn't be charged with making a terrorist threat. There might be some specific law for the bank situation. If not the charges would probably be very minor (like trespass) but he could still get arrested. what if some guy is skulking around in on the sidewalk watching your house.... wearing a ski mask? that ok too? Again he could perhaps get arrested (at least if he is on my property) but no 1 year prison sentence or terrorism related charge. or would you call the police? or do you have to wait until the guy pulls a weapon? To call the police? Hell no. all i can say is if it's important to you to preserve your right to masquerade in a ski mask or any other kind of mask in a public or private establishment, so be it. I'm not saying he has a right to be in a store or bank or whatever in a ski mask. I'm saying he has a right to only be charged with violating laws that he did commit, and that people don't have a right to shoot him just for entering a place like a store in a ski mask. Could you pull a gun on him? Well I wouldn't condemn you for it, but you can't rightfully just blow him away and the government shouldn't charge him with a crime he didn't commit. Tim