9-Year-Old In Texas Charged With ‘Terrorist Threats’ Because of ‘Lord Of The Rings’

A 9-year-old fourth-grader in Kermit, Texas, got suspended** for telling a classmate he was under the spell of the "Lord of the Rings"! I'm telling you, this world is going to heck in a handbasket!

What had happened was: The boy's name is Aiden, and he had just seen the movie, "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies" over the weekend. So he brought a ring to school and pretended to be Bilbo Baggins. He went up to one of his classmates and told him he was under the magical powers of the ring, and I guess it spooked the other kid out. So that kid told the teacher, and the principal said that fell under the school's definition of a terrorist threat, and suspended Aiden.

The principal defends the decision to suspend Aiden because in the student handbook, it clearly states that any and all threats to a child’s safety -- including magical ones -- would be taken seriously by the school.

Are you kidding me? Make-believe magical threats is now considered "terrorism'. SHAKING MY HEAD SEVERAL TIMES!

**Aiden apparently has a history of getting suspended from school, so his parents were not even fazed when they found out about this.