Posted on 09/03/2022 7:13:26 AM PDT by jimjohn
As reprehensible as swatting is, when one side in any conflict uses a diabolical weapon it always opens the door for the other side to use it too. Two way street that radical leftists never think others will use.
You know more about it than I do. Thanks for sharing your insights.
No comment.
And just whom do you think prosecutors will throw the book at?
Those sandwich shops by the same name?
Thank you.
Seems like this is not an incentive to find the Swat perps.
Swatting has existed for a long time. The problem is the cops. And they’re too dumb to understand it. Begging the cops not to kill you when somebody swats you is just a pathetic sign of how screwed up this country is.
And if the “hell hath no fury” is a LEO?
The person/people who swatted MTG used some sort of abuse hotline website. No phone needed and they used a VPN to prevent tracing.
It is clear to me that those being swatted in Democrat controlled areas (e.g, government, LE, etc.) won’t get any help from those agencies in terms of being aware of the potential beforehand and taking caution to not harm anyone there.
However, those like MTG who have been swatted probably have a better insurance from LE, local government on any future occurrences solely because they aren’t infested with leftist zealots in LE and Government.
Ping
Some are waiting for the pendulum to start swinging back..
How far to the left does the left want to push it?
We’ve been awakened to just how far by their treatment of one man, Trump..
And that one man, Trump, may be the one man that says okay, ‘ now it’s my turn’
And that will be a wonderful time of comeuppance that is way overdue..
bkmk
And, sadly, they are right.
The right has too much integrity to stoop to the levels that the left uses to intimidate and frighten.
Yet, something needs to change because passive resistance is not working, but I know violence would only backfire because it would be the excuse the left uses to really clamp down on us and impose martial law and Jan 6 a whole bunch more people.
I was swatted by my alcoholic brother a week ago. He used to live with me briefly a few years ago. He’s been calling the new suicide hotline and police were sent to my home for a “wellness check.” Apparently the CA law states it’s legal to abuse the new hotline (prank calling it repeatedly).
My brother later apologized for swatting me but I explained to my teen daughter (who watched the police come and talk to my husband through an open window) how dangerous it is to interact with police. Things can escalate or be misinterpreted and my husband could have been shot through the window.
If a prominent Democrat gets swatted, you can bet the perpetrator will be tracked down within hours and arrested the next day.
These calls can always be traced. It is more work than the police normally want to do. But they will do it if the heat is on from the bosses. The local force may not have all the necessary technical capabilities, but the Federales most certainly do.
And they can always just "round up the usual suspects". That works too.
Leftists use techniques like swatting and doxing opponents because Leftists are tacitly protected by the Government. The "Patriots" are not so protected.
When the "rules" of conflict are so one-sided, they are ultimately abandoned altogether. That is the future which radical leftists never consider. They are much too dependent on their protected status under the current "rules".
They won't thrive in a world where everybody plays by the same "rules".
I can’t remember how long ago this happened, but it was before the internet.
I started getting magazines in the mail that I had not subscribed to. I thought it curious, and didn’t think much more of it at the time. Then I started getting the bills for subscriptions I didn’t take out. I wrote to each publisher explaining that I did not take out any subscriptions and please cancel. A few did, and a few kept hounding me, threatening me with collection if I didn’t pay. I had to get nasty right back, a couple of them sent me copies of subscription cards that I did not fill out, with my name and address on them. Clearly someone was doing this.
I finally got everyone off my back when it became obvious that it was a prank.
I never did find out who did it, but I’m fairly certain it was a family member, for whatever reason.
Low tech “swatting” from years ago.
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