A 31-year-old man in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky was arrested last week after he posted lyrics from the band Exodus on his Facebook wall last week, WFIE reports.

James Evans said he posted the lyrics of the song “Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)” on his Facebook wall on August 24, 2014. “Student bodies lying dead in the hall, a blood splattered treatise of hate,” the lyrics read. “Class dismissed is my hypothesis, gun fire ends in debate.”

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The Muhlenberg County school district received what its resource officer, Mike Drake, claimed were “multiple reports” about the posted lyrics, and contacted the sheriff’s office, which arrested Evans for issuing terroristic threats. According to his arrest warrant, he had “threatened to kill students and or staff at school.”

He was held in police custody for eight days, and upon his release called the charges against him “nonsense.”

“I feel like my civil rights have been violated,” he said. “You know, First Amendment, freedom of speech, [all went] out the window. Even all the guys I was in the cell with they thought it was nonsense themselves. I had several officials tell me it was nonsense and that there was no reason why I should have even been [there].”

Members of the band Exodus released a statement: “Exodus does not promote or condone terrorists, threats or bullying,” it read. “That being said, the band is somewhat baffled by the fact that this man being charged for what seems against his first amendment rights of Freedom of Speech.”

Exodus guitarist Gary Holt elaborated, saying that “the idea that an individual in this great country of ours could be arrested for simply posting lyrics to a song is something I never believed could happen in a free society. James Evans was simply posting lyrics to a band he likes on Facebook, and he was locked up for it.”

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He noted that the song “Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)” was “written as a view through the eyes of a madman and in no way endorses that kind of fucked up behavior. It was the Virginia Tech massacre perpetrated by Seung-Hui Cho that was the subject and inspiration to write the song,” he said, then added that the band “put the brakes on playing it live after the Sandy Hook shooting, as we did not want to seem insensitive.”

[Exodus concert photographs via Fred Pessaro on Invisible Oranges]