Oct 14, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 10 segments
Tom Shattuck and Steve Robinson walk through Troy Jackson’s letter blaming Republican news sites for his legal trouble. The panel covers Jackson’s Augusta District Court letter after his suit over an…
Shawn PackardPanelistSeamus OthotPanelist
Joe SokolPanelistI'm going to start somewhere a little bit different on the Seamus Othot story here.
It's funny, Seamus, this is a lot more than a simple, you know, prosecution in your normal police, kind of police blotter, you know, source stories.
Yeah, this, well, Sean probably can speak on this better than I can since he lives in Waterville and is running for office there, but I think One of the biggest things about this story is just how frequently this sort of thing seems to happen in Maine.
I feel like every month there's a new story of a bomb threat made against a school that causes the entire school to evacuate.
I mean, luckily they're all hoaxes so far, but I don't think the penalties for...
Whatever penalties they're leveling against people who cause these hoaxes, which require a big police presence, which require the school to be evacuated, it shuts down the operations for the entire day, is a huge expenditure on the taxpayers, and also... poses is a genuine threat that should be taken seriously they have to take it seriously um i don't think the consequences are big enough i think it's telling that the student them or we don't know that he was a student there 100 but the minor who was charged was only charged and not arrested and taken to long creek
And this came right off on the heels of an incident that happened at the junior high where somebody was brandishing a gun, not during school hours, but it seemed as though nobody really had any consequences from that.
And then it's nice to hear at least that this one got some due process put through, but it does still affect the taxpayer, affects the school system.
And it's funny to see, you know, what people's responses in a you know back to this uh whether it's emotional awareness or whatever um at the end of the day there still has to be consequences for actions and it's good to good to see that they're starting to do these things uh and follow through with it um kids should know that they can't get away with these things um or adults if if that's the case and uh in this case you know sounds like a a younger person um so it's it's good though um the schools have to go through a tremendous amount of precautions as it is.
In this case, the high school went to a private school where my kids are for their safety.
It was good that everything worked out okay, but I can imagine this could have gone sideways very quickly.
I'm going to start somewhere a little bit different on the Seamus Othot story here.
It's funny, Seamus, this is a lot more than a simple, you know, prosecution in your normal police, kind of police blotter, you know, source stories.
Yeah, this, well, Sean probably can speak on this better than I can since he lives in Waterville and is running for office there, but I think One of the biggest things about this story is just how frequently this sort of thing seems to happen in Maine.
I feel like every month there's a new story of a bomb threat made against a school that causes the entire school to evacuate.
I mean, luckily they're all hoaxes so far, but I don't think the penalties for...
Whatever penalties they're leveling against people who cause these hoaxes, which require a big police presence, which require the school to be evacuated, it shuts down the operations for the entire day, is a huge expenditure on the taxpayers, and also... poses is a genuine threat that should be taken seriously they have to take it seriously um i don't think the consequences are big enough i think it's telling that the student them or we don't know that he was a student there 100 but the minor who was charged was only charged and not arrested and taken to long creek
And this came right off on the heels of an incident that happened at the junior high where somebody was brandishing a gun, not during school hours, but it seemed as though nobody really had any consequences from that.
And then it's nice to hear at least that this one got some due process put through, but it does still affect the taxpayer, affects the school system.
And it's funny to see, you know, what people's responses in a you know back to this uh whether it's emotional awareness or whatever um at the end of the day there still has to be consequences for actions and it's good to good to see that they're starting to do these things uh and follow through with it um kids should know that they can't get away with these things um or adults if if that's the case and uh in this case you know sounds like a a younger person um so it's it's good though um the schools have to go through a tremendous amount of precautions as it is.
In this case, the high school went to a private school where my kids are for their safety.
It was good that everything worked out okay, but I can imagine this could have gone sideways very quickly.
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