AC = Domestic Terrorists?

Miang writes "A video from a recent FOX 11 (Los Angeles) newscast has surfaced on YouTube. In the segment, reporter Phil Shuman investigates so-called "Hacker Gangs" comprised entirely of anonymous users. The segment, which focuses mainly on users at 4chan, 7chan, and 420chan, seems to confuse /b/ raids and motivational poster templates with a genuine threat to the American public. For added FUD, the FOX team inserted an unrelated video of a van blowing up — twice! Presumably, one is intended to equate anonymous posting with domestic terror. The story and video can be found on the local FOX website, so it does not appear to be simply a clever parody." Cringe as you watch this video explain terms like 'LULZ' and show inspirational poster parodies as evidence of the evils of this terrifying "Group".

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Responses: Fear vs Responsibility

[DaedalusHKX]

Where I live now, is far enough away from "the big city" (and all you lame government interventionists, conservative or "liberal" alike).

Here, kids are taught that a BB gun is merely what they use until they can handle the recoil on a REAL gun. Adults use BB guns to teach kids to be responsible with tools... after all, whether you're using a nailgun to nail boards to a wall, or shoot squirrels, that tool remains only that, a tool. Guns are no different, and neither are computers.

If that idiot with the BB gun pointed a "GUN" at any house here, and someone noticed, he'd likely be shot, and the sheriff would say "if he survives, would you like to press charges?"

After all, those taught responsibility with tools, weapons, computers, etc, know that you don't point a barrel or the aggressive/business end of something towards someone who refuses your offer. Whether that offer is to point a knife or gun at them (attack their life) or demanding their wallets (attacking their property) or a molotov cocktail at their house (attacking their home/property).

This is lacking in "big cities" because there, everyone expects everyone else to "play by the rules", and the only deterrent is a police department, which, as a friend of mine on the force once said "you'll be lucky if they show up on time 1% of the time, and then actually CATCH the bad guy".

Week after I left my last big city residence, there were nearly two dozen reported unsolved murders (only 3 with guns, an irony for those of you "for gun control", the rest with bare hands, knives, screw drivers, and household appliances). Nevermind the rest that were "solved".

This story, like everything I've listed above is simply "lack of responsibility". This will only get worse, not better, until the young and adult jackasses receive equal reply to their offenses. Waiting for the cops only guarantees you become a victim of the criminal. The government will NEVER solve this problem, because it is of their own making, just like every other "criminal activity". Lawmkers keep passing laws, and cops keep giving tickets, but that has yet to stop speeding. Cameras didn't do it, tagging people like cattle won't do it. Nothing will... because nothing ever has.

Only "real" crimes are aggression against the freedom, life and property of an individual. If someone, whatever their excuse (whether Crip gangbanger or Gestapo/Komitet thug) attempts to take your life, your liberty of action/thought or your property (including your body, if you see your life and limb as your own property instead of someone else's property), you have every right in creation/evolution (as your preference may be) to defend those things with equal or greater force to that of the aggressor.

If that was the lesson taught in school instead of "don't fight, let the teachers/authorities solve it" then we wouldn't be a nation of cowards, indifferent than any other nation of cowards on this globe, always begging someone else to "handle" or "manage" or "solve" what we collectively call, "our problems".

Until the mindset changes, the idiots will continue to believe that we're supposed to "call the cops and wait". Tell that to a woman about to be, or already being raped by someone, whether friend or foe regardless... If the animals of our society know that Joe and Betty and Jane are all willing to deal with aggression immediately and decisively, we won't have "threats" anymore. Threats are treated just like attacks.

Which brings me back to this story. The lady on fox (Mr. Chubby "Lives life on Myspace"'s mom) decides to get what? An electronic security system and a surveillance tripwire? To stop who? Supposed masters of electronic deception?? Isn't that an oxymoronic "defense"? If instead she had locked and loaded a 45, learned to use it ahead of time and carried it everywhere, she would know that its another situation like everything else... bad guy has to learn that his actions have consequences, worse ones than a stint at the prison book club