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1 posted on 12/24/2007 7:14:49 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

When a citizen causes someone to be swatted for a bogus reason, he faces criminal charges, fines, and payment of restitution. But when a police officer or police informant causes someone to be swatted for a bogus reason, no charges are filed, no fines imposed, and no restitution is ordered to be paid.


2 posted on 12/24/2007 7:20:10 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: LibWhacker

Of course this SWATTING is less effective than the disgruntled wife SWATTING, which takes place when the wife calls the cops and tells them you are barricaded in your garage workshop with several weapons and have threatened to harm anyone who comes near.


3 posted on 12/24/2007 7:20:38 AM PST by blackdog
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To: LibWhacker

Point of order: an AK-47 fires rifle-caliber ammunition, and is therefore not a submachinegun.


4 posted on 12/24/2007 7:21:28 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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It’s not even a monetary thing. This could be deadly. The way some SWAT teams act nowadays in terms of making entry? Somebody could be sound asleep and wake up to the sound of their door being broken in, and if their instinct is to grab for their gun in self defense...

}:-)4


5 posted on 12/24/2007 7:21:28 AM PST by Moose4 (Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
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"All await sentencing, and all face up to five years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and payment of restitution, according to court documents."

Looks like the punishment to SWATTING is a "BITCHSLAPPING".

6 posted on 12/24/2007 7:26:19 AM PST by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: LibWhacker

Just another attempt to give hallucinogenic drugs a bad name.


7 posted on 12/24/2007 7:26:25 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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... They were charged with conspiracy to use access devices to modify telecommunications instruments and to access protected telecommunication computers. ...

That's an interesting charge. I expect the authorities couldn't make anything else stick. Lying to police officers isn't a crime and filing a false police report requires, I believe, an actual written document.

17 posted on 12/24/2007 8:22:23 AM PST by Brujo (Quod volunt, credunt.)
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To: LibWhacker

I want to know how they manipulate the phones so the caller ID comes from the swat recipients number...I thought they went in to the PSAP as DID’s and the caller ID comes from the #5ESS


18 posted on 12/24/2007 8:24:22 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: LibWhacker
Well, if Proulx really had been high on drugs and shot up half his family, these pranksters would be hailed as heroes.

Did anyone ever think about that?

I’m just sayin’ is all...

22 posted on 12/24/2007 8:31:45 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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27 posted on 12/24/2007 9:50:29 AM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: Squantos
A thought just occurred to me, could it be “SWATTERS” playing the tip line with bad info and causing SWAT raids on bad information?
30 posted on 12/24/2007 4:04:28 PM PST by razorback-bert (Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: Squantos
A thought just occurred to me, could it be “SWATTERS” playing the tip line with bad info and causing SWAT raids on bad information?
31 posted on 12/24/2007 4:04:28 PM PST by razorback-bert (Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
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