Maine secretary of state targeted with 'swatting call' after ruling Trump ineligible for ballot

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Maine secretary of state targeted with 'swatting call' after ruling Trump ineligible for ballot
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How in 2024 do we not have the ability to find and prosecute offenders of false 911 calls like this?

We do but our cops are fascist and want Trump to win.

Ding Ding Ding!

I managed to quite royally piss off a paranoid county contracted bounty huntress by showing her Trump's mugshot.

Good thing she needed me as a witness.

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If the caller has more than two braincells, they'll user a burner phone, rented phone number etc.

These types of things are next to impossible to trace if done right

Yeah but if GOP voters were smart they wouldn't be voting for the GOP, so should be pretty easy to trace.

Criminal minds don't necessarily have to be smart, they have to be criminal.

Nah, they get caught all the time. There is just an endless supply of brain-dead conservative cultist to keep doing it.

Remember Cesar Sayoc?

Yep, that's why I included the two brain cell clause, covers a good 50% of the population, perhaps even more than that

people who do that are found frequently... but if they're not completely dumb, they would be untraceable. (basically a burner phone)

i remember one guy, who eventually got caught anyways, had a swatting service where he used some aol service that would transcribe phone calls for the blind, and contacted them over tor...
i think it should be hard for cops to track people... it should be possible to defy the gov

e.g. if drumpf becomes dictator, it'll be good to have a way to escape...

Police are only obliged to protect private property. Especially large collections of private property. Not people.

That’s why it’s the role of the fbi to investigate any threats to officials

I really appreciate all the people responding with valid well thought out counter points and examples. Not simply smashing the download button because they can't prove otherwise but still don't like it.

  • Edit I really appreciate all the people responding with valid well thought out counter points and examples. Not simply smashing the down vote button because they can't prove otherwise but still don't like it.
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