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A Word About Swatting
self | J.Johnson

Posted on 09/03/2022 7:13:26 AM PDT by jimjohn

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1 posted on 09/03/2022 7:13:26 AM PDT by jimjohn
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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.


2 posted on 09/03/2022 7:20:18 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes econd" LStar)
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You know more about it than I do. Thanks for sharing your insights.


3 posted on 09/03/2022 7:21:38 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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And unless the cops are plain stupid

No comment.

4 posted on 09/03/2022 7:21:52 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Qwapisking
it always opens the door for the other side to use it too

And just whom do you think prosecutors will throw the book at?

5 posted on 09/03/2022 7:22:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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>>public figure in some circles

Those sandwich shops by the same name?

6 posted on 09/03/2022 7:27:18 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: jimjohn

Thank you.


7 posted on 09/03/2022 7:27:35 AM PDT by flamberge (Those who pose the greatest danger to you are living within five miles of you.)
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hazardous-duty pay - I am curious about the amount of police HDP, specifically the post midnight kind.

Seems like this is not an incentive to find the Swat perps.

8 posted on 09/03/2022 7:28:55 AM PDT by corkoman
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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.


9 posted on 09/03/2022 7:29:01 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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And if the “hell hath no fury” is a LEO?


10 posted on 09/03/2022 7:33:01 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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Let’s think about what we know about the SWAT-er: They have the location of their target. They are probably using a “safe”, possibly untraceable phone (or at least they think). And unless the cops are plain stupid, the perp is probably somewhere in the vicinity of the target, or in contact with someone who is.

The person/people who swatted MTG used some sort of abuse hotline website. No phone needed and they used a VPN to prevent tracing.

11 posted on 09/03/2022 7:35:40 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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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.


12 posted on 09/03/2022 7:35:41 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: jimjohn; null and void; Travis McGee

Ping


13 posted on 09/03/2022 7:37:50 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Qwapisking

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..


14 posted on 09/03/2022 7:40:17 AM PDT by delchiante
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bkmk


15 posted on 09/03/2022 7:40:21 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chanece favors the prepared mind.)
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did the same cops show up all the times Marjorie-Taylor Greene (MTG) was swatted?
seem they should have been suspicious the 2nd time and did a call back.
16 posted on 09/03/2022 7:41:23 AM PDT by stylin19a (Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites)
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To: Qwapisking
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.

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.

17 posted on 09/03/2022 7:41:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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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.


18 posted on 09/03/2022 7:53:07 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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...Two-way street that radical leftists never think others will use.

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".

19 posted on 09/03/2022 7:54:30 AM PDT by flamberge (Those who pose the greatest danger to you are living within five miles of you.)
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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.


20 posted on 09/03/2022 7:54:30 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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