There was a swatting incident on December 30, 2017 in Wichita, Kansas. I’ve been reporting on it on my other blog. Some of you might already know that my other blog deals solely with cyber abuse, whether harassment, stalking, swatting, threats, spoofing, or combinations.
Today after reading some articles and comments on Twitter about the most recent swatting incident, I asked myself if there is anything I could have done to make information more available; to inform the public that spill-over of internet harassment into the personal lives of target victims is dangerous. However, as with other issues, people don’t seem to take an interest unless major media reports it first or unless it happens to them. Then too, I’m only a drop of water in a vast ocean.
Swatting is a prank where someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of a happening…
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The Secular Jurist 
Never heard of this before. We live in a fucked up society with far too many mentally ill idiots around. What kind of sick mind thinks this shit up, let alone perpetrates it.
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That IS the question that needs to be answered. And, what about the police ignoring obvious inconsistencies in the false report?
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Right. This is just bat-shit nutty, and scary. Piss someone off, and they’ll “swat” you? Jesus, that is frightening.
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I think the only way to stop any of this happening is to demilitarize your police departments
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Agreed, but how?
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Change your gun laws. Remove guns from civilian hands. It is unlikely that the citizens will at any time in the distant future will overthrow the government with their guns.
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Your answer addresses the question of WHAT we should do to fix the problem; but, I asked HOW do we fix the problem. Specifically, how do we change our gun laws when those who control political power in the U.S. are steadfastly opposed to it?
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Active participation in politics that makes it possible for citizens to choose who their representatives are. Demanding accountability from elected reps and even power to recall them when such things happen. It takes time though
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Bingo! Indeed, it does take time; and, unfortunately, civic participation in America today is at or near historic lows. So, the question then becomes one of how to get people civically motivated.
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I think that may be changing. Perhaps I’m being overly optimistic, but Trump and his Republican minions have really seemed to light fires under the “good” guys. I may be wrong, but I truly hope I’m not.
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Oh yes, a fire certainly has been lit. But, it will eventually burn itself out unless the “good” guys learn how to translate their energy into real political power.
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Education that is not geared towards being employability but towards good citizenship.
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Bingo, again!
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Anyone who thinks they could overthrow the U.S. government with military tactics is delusional. We’re talking about the most powerful, technologically advanced war machine in human history. They can put down large civilian militias like swatting a fly.
We need to demilitarize police departments like Makagutu said, pass progressive gun laws and enforce them, fix our CRIMINAL justice system (make it more justice & less criminal), install better quality training programs for police officers, institute laws on a federal level to properly assess blame for crimes and make extradition less cumbersome) and fix our economy – by eliminating the obscene practice of business executives financial raping the rest of society.
One of the most important aspects of this issue is addressing not only mental illness, but of giving everyone an opportunity to have a salary (as well as the comfort of having a useful place in society), access to health care (physical and mental), access to an education (without going into debt for the rest of your life), justice in our courts and a basic acceptance of the sanctity of all life (not just human).
End of sermon. 😆
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Totally agree, but like I asked Mak: How do we do those things? Obviously, the opposite is happening.
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To be honest, I don’t know. I’ve almost always been somewhat optimistic. Though there is a pendulum swinging back and forth between brutally wicked politics and (less wicked) middle of the road politics in the U.S., I’ve always thought we’d eventually evolve beyond mindless greed and finally understand there is more to life than putting money into your own pocket. Eventually, almost everyone will have a family member in poverty or who is honest and works hard yet gets nowhere or any other situation in which people learn from even second-hand experience that maybe, just maybe our system needs a lot of work.
After trump won the election, I feel as if humanity is doomed to failing at the mercy of a majority of ignorant automatons who have no mind of their own and allow loud, obnoxious scam artists to think and speak for them. I really don’t know if any of the neessary legislation I mentioned will ever come about. It’s been 14 months since that dark day and I still haven’t been able to shake off all of the disgust for 1) people who voted for trump and 2) people who voted for Clinton in the democrat primaries. I try and I just haven’t been able to do it. I think of the younger people and the following generations (if trump doesn’t hit that button) as well as the homeless people and animals that have to survive horrid conditions and I just don’t know. I’m sorry to sound so dismally negative and gloomy, but I’m being honest. I often put on a “brave face” and act as if humanity has a chance, but every week that goes by I still seem to think that chance is equivalent to the proverbial “chance of a snowball in hell.”
I thought Occupy Wall Street was a blessing that was going to motivate the masses into seeing what is possible. There is a chasm between what we are and what we can be and the point of our existence on this planet (in my opinion) is to close that gap. Let’s see. As “Inspiredbythedivine” mentioned, trump has lit a fire under “the good guys.” What we need is for people to hit the streets, hit the offices of political leaders, boycott despicable companies, be seen and heard in corporate media and not give up until we see actual change.
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Bravo, I couldn’t have expressed those sentiments any better.
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Absolutely! Now is the time to seize that power. I’m hoping many will at the grass root, local levels at least. Far too many idiots/sissies in the Democratic higher-ups to hope for too much from them, but if we can change from the bottom up, it’ll be a start.
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Thanks. It felt very gloomy, but I have to be honest, right? Otherwise, I’d just be another conservative automaton. 🙂
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