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

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: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 17 2015, @07:00AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday April 17 2015, @07:00AM (#171921) Journal

    So...rather than saying, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't send a SWAT team absolutely every time and go in with guns blazing," or, "Hey, maybe taking a Fallujah approach to policing is a bad idea and will lead to bad, bad things," it's, "Seriously messed up dude?"

    What is seriously messed up is that people across the land aren't jumping up and down and screaming about people in authority being totally out of control. You used to have a right to due process of law. Now you get a military strike team crashing through your door and throwing grenades into your baby's crib. And none of the punters says, "Seriously messed up dude" to that? You have cops strangling people to death *on camera* and then the cops don't even get indicted and none of the wags says, "Seriously messed up dude" to that either?

    Where are the criminal syndicates who have been running the police departments and courts in Missouri as for-profit extortion rackets being perp-walked into federal courthouses? I mean, it was the Justice Department of the United States itself that reported that, and they. Have. Done. Nothing. Zero. Entire swaths of a major state in this country caught dead to rights acting like the mafia, and they have done fuck all.

    That, my friend, is what I would call "Seriously messed up dude."

    So when the legislators who visit these nightmares straight out of Stalinist Russia on the citizens of the United States get a little taste of their own medicine, then I say it's about freaking time. More, please. Let them suffer the consequences of their actions and choices for once, instead of merely dishing it out to people who can't fight back.

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