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FBI Identifies Man Arrested Over Seizure-Inducing Tweet to Dallas Journalist Kurt Eichenwald
Dallas News ^ | March 17, 2017 | Liz Farmer and Tom Steele

Posted on 03/17/2017 6:16:02 PM PDT by Auntie Mame

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To: Figment

Oh look at you slinging a lot of crap based on nothing but emotion.

Looky, looky, looky.

You mad, bro?

Did I pee in your cereal?

Bark on, little rabid dog, bark on.

Woof!


61 posted on 03/17/2017 8:58:44 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: chris37

Calm down Francis. You act like this supposed crime of sending a strobe to someone is really a crime that should be investigated. It isn’t. Get over it


62 posted on 03/17/2017 8:59:20 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Figment

My name is Chris, not Francis.

And I am calm.

You’re the one throwing a fit.

Not me.

And according to the thread, the FBI thinks it’s a crime that is being investigated.

So you you get over it.


63 posted on 03/17/2017 9:03:10 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: chris37

You think the FBI would even be involved? Even resulting in death? Maybe local DA and police. But the FBI when there’s no evidence of even injury?? Eichenwald is the protected class whom the law has been contorted to serve.


64 posted on 03/17/2017 9:29:12 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: Figment; chris37
Strobing videos have, and do cause seizures. It's a real and serious thing. You don't have to have epilepsy to suffer the seizures either.

As I read this, I recalled a case where a Televised cartoon triggered seizures in hundreds of Japanese children. I just looked up to provide the link below (I was surprised to find that the incident I was thinking of occurred 20 years ago. Tempus fugit.) Although this comes from CNN, it is actually true.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/

65 posted on 03/17/2017 9:38:20 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Oh, I don’t know. I got an idea, lets read the first two sentences of the article-

“The FBI has arrested a man accused of sending Dallas reporter Kurt Eichenwald a tweet that triggered an epileptic seizure.

The agency announced that John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Salisbury, Md., was arrested Friday morning in Maryland on a cyberstalking charge”

Do you think the FBI would even be involved?

I think the FBI is involved, what especially after reading how the FBI is involved.


66 posted on 03/17/2017 9:39:53 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Oh yes, I know, and seizures can and do kill, but most of the sooper geniuses in this thread say that’s okay, because the guy who got the seizure inducing link is a liberal douchebag, so anyone can do whatever they want to him without any fear of legal consequence.

He shouldn’t have been on the internet anyway since he knows he has epilepsy.

I guess people with peanut allergies should never go in grocery stores either, since they sell peanuts and peanut butter in there.

/s


67 posted on 03/17/2017 9:49:38 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: chris37

I know he FBI was involved in this Eichenwald case. I meant would the FBI be involved in your scenario involving a 16-year daughter? Maybe a local DA would file charges but it would not be a federal case.


68 posted on 03/17/2017 10:18:53 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: AC Beach Patrol

I’m not sure.

I imagine that if any such tweet was sent across state lines, they would be.

In this case, the man arrested was in Maryland, and the victim in Texas, so I assume that is the reason for the FBI’s involvement, otherwise I am not aware and cannot currently find out if cyber stalking is a specific federal crime that would immediately involve the FBI simply upon being committed.

I can’t really tell in the article whether or not it is a specific federal crime, but look at this -

“According to a criminal complaint, messages sent from Rivello’s Twitter account mentioned Eichenwald, saying “I know he has epilepsy,” “I hope this sends him into a seizure” and “let’s see if he dies.”

That’s really messed up.

I know Eichenwald is a total lib douche, but this almost looks like attempted murder.

I can’t and won’t offer any defense of this. Very stupid, he’s probably going to have extremely serious legal problems as a result, and deserves them.

As far as my scenario of the 16 year old girl goes, I offered that because a lot of people seem to be seeing that since this guy is such a lib douche and made a total fool of himself on Tucker Carlson, this is okay, but it’s not okay.

Change around a couple of details in this story, and it’s outrageous.

If someone did what I described to my daughter, for instance, I’d be hunting them down.


69 posted on 03/17/2017 10:57:38 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Auntie Mame

Yes, he will sue God and the ground he walks on.


70 posted on 03/17/2017 11:06:32 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: chris37

Seems that they already have him on his stated intent and act of transmission, per 18 USC § 2261A(2), depending on the statutory definition of “interactive computer service.” No seizure required, just “substantial emotional distress.”


71 posted on 03/17/2017 11:07:34 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: chris37

What if you knew he was, and sent him the link and weren’t stupid enough to refer to it, but just put “hey dude, this is pretty trippy! Check it out!”

Muuuaaahahahaha...;-)


72 posted on 03/17/2017 11:13:44 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

I don’t know, I’m not really interested in hurting the guy.

Yes, he is stupid. Yes, he was really annoying on Tucker.

But he never did me anything.


73 posted on 03/17/2017 11:25:23 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Trod Upon

I think the guy definitely and needlessly placed himself in serious legal jeopardy.

And all for what, because some guy on tv made him mad? Stupid.


74 posted on 03/17/2017 11:26:55 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Right Brother

I had a seizure watching that jackass in that clip.


75 posted on 03/17/2017 11:44:16 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: chris37

Nor is there any evidence that there was an actual seizure other than the lying leftard’s claims.

SJWs always lie.
SJWs always project.
SJWs always double down.

The pattern of bogus claims of harm by SJWs is far far too well established to ignore.

And the precedence in process of being set is horrendous and plays straight into the leftard’s already known and used playbook.

It’s just a new version of SWATing.


76 posted on 03/17/2017 11:45:00 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

I don’t think you actually know what evidence there is or isn’t.

I don’t think you have any idea if his claim is bogus or not.

FBI doesn’t think it’s bogus.

Looks like dude here set himself up for a real good fall by doing a lot of stupid things on the internet, and typing about the stupid things he was doing on the internet while he was doing said stupid things, and then he got caught, and I don’t feel sorry for him.

And to be perfectly honest, you don’t seem to be doing anything other than whining about whatever random crap you think of, and frankly, it’s pretty damn boring and pointless.

So have a nice night with your thoughts or whatever.


77 posted on 03/17/2017 11:56:17 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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Should have sent via e-mail.


78 posted on 03/18/2017 12:00:54 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: chris37

I’ve been following this since it happened.

There is no proof that there was a seizure.

At worst, it was an a**hat move by the sender of the tweet.

Now, with this arrest, it is becoming established that any offense given to a leftist online can be deal with by inventing or hyperinflating an accusation.

What is known to an absolute certainty is that this is how the left operates now. The evidence for that is overwhelming.

PS. I’m actually not trying to convince you. I’m simply informing you that there’s been a sea change. The left has been seriously rebuffed and they are not going to accept that peacefully. They never have. They never will.

Every possible dirty trick will be pulled. That is all the left has left to it besides outright violence. And that violence is building up. Guaranteed.

To assume that a leftist is in any way truthful on any issue, especially in accusations against others, is an incompetence. These are not normal people of normal motivations. These are vile, malicious liars. Their entire ideology is lies on top of lies beside lies based on lies and surrounded in lies. It is an ideology that can only appeal to pathological liars.

You can have the last word if you want it. I’ve said all I wish to say on the subject.


79 posted on 03/18/2017 1:11:12 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: chris37

Then, like the coconut allergy, he would certainly chose to avoid twitter, altogether. In schools they place kids at “the peanut table” if there lunch isn’t peanut free. That my friend is why these kids will fail, no PB&Js. This guy they arrested did nothing wrong, and he was arrested.. in Dallas? Texas continues its march to communism that started in Houston.


80 posted on 03/18/2017 4:14:33 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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