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New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted

posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-desserts dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A New Jersey state legislator who is sponsoring a bill against swatting, has himself been swatted:

According to a report by NJ.com, Moriarty received a phone call at his home on Saturday from a police officer asking if everything was okay; the assemblyman was then informed that someone had anonymously called in a report of a shooting at the home. He was then told to describe his clothing and step outside, where he saw a crowd of officers armed with "helmets, flak jackets and rifles."

There was no mention if the legislator questioned the over-militarizing of the police or no-knock raids...

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 17 2015, @02:10AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 17 2015, @02:10AM (#171847) Journal

    making him just another violent hypocrite

    Interesting, isn't it? I mean, the linked Cato report.

    if only he really thought this, then he'd be shooting alcoholics and cigarette smokers

    You can include food in the highly addictive substances class: you mother gets you used with it after birth and if you cease taking it regularly all your life, well... nasty withdraw symptoms, comma then death are sure to happen.
    Even more, I hear the addiction is transmitted from mother to the unborn baby during pregnancy!!!

    (Offtopic: there may be a point into the above madness.
    After all, we humans are sacks of chemicals [xkcd.com], which is awful indeed.
    My point: don't you dare tell me that smoking kills - I know it already, just let my tobacco alone, will you?)

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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Friday April 17 2015, @04:39AM

    by tathra (3367) on Friday April 17 2015, @04:39AM (#171882)

    My point: don't you dare tell me that smoking kills - I know it already, just let my tobacco alone, will you?

    i don't give a fuck if you use nicotine, so long as you don't use it in a way that forces me to do it too, ie, don't smoke or vape it in my breathing space. drugging somebody against their will is never acceptable.

    at any rate, my point is that if they're going to be all, "Drugs are the devil! Drug users are sub-human scum that should be executed!" they need to apply it to all drugs, or none. it'd be one thing if the drug laws were actually based on safety and scientific studies instead of racism; it'd also be something if drug laws were uniformly enforced [www.leap.cc] instead of selectively enforced almost exclusively against non-whites.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 17 2015, @05:03AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 17 2015, @05:03AM (#171889) Journal
      Got that, my message was tongue-in-cheek anyway (an extrapolation of your comment I was replying to, I hoped with good signal of agreement). My apologies for not being explicit.
      (not to worry, I do take care about others while smoking).
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