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Post by ironbite on Aug 25, 2011 15:55:28 GMT -5
And they're blue.
Ironbite-awesome.
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Post by canadian mojo on Aug 26, 2011 12:44:12 GMT -5
;D
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 27, 2011 18:03:42 GMT -5
That .gif is crazy awesome.
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Post by dasfuchs on Aug 28, 2011 0:00:09 GMT -5
Some guy shouting death threats on the web is never a threat, until he carries them out. Basically this. Problem is, how do you pick that one out of thousands till the crime is committed? |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 28, 2011 0:41:29 GMT -5
The fact that he knowingly threatened the police kind of told me that he at least had to be considered as a potential threat. That suggests the person is either very unbalanced or very stupid.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Aug 28, 2011 0:50:43 GMT -5
The fact that he turned up in person at a PZ Myers event (I think it was Myers, anyway) also made the whole thing much more disturbing, even if he didn't harm anyone while he was there.
It's impossible to be 100% certain of who is and isn't a threat, but there are indicators to watch out for, many of which were displayed by Mabus. His act went way beyond the usual internet tough guy routine. Same with that guy who calmly posted that he "needed" to assassinate Obama on some conservative site, and ended up with Secret Service agents at his door (after the owner of the site reported him & gave them his IP, etc.).
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Post by gyeonghwa on Aug 28, 2011 2:09:08 GMT -5
Aye,
T'was at PZ's event, if my memory be faithful. He was uttering incoherent things, apparently.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 28, 2011 2:18:39 GMT -5
There's a shocker.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Aug 28, 2011 8:19:55 GMT -5
Problem is, how do you pick that one out of thousands till the crime is committed? That's something that drives police officers crazy. All the civvies want them to cut down on crime but a lot of crime requires them to be telepathic/seers. |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Aug 28, 2011 19:41:08 GMT -5
And a lot of the measures that can be taken to cut down on crime (funding education through social programs, government assistance for low income families, etc.) end up being opposed by the same idiots who are obsessed with the whole "tough on crime" mentality.
Not that social programs are going to magically erase all criminal activity, and we do need to be tough on certain particularly damaging activities, but the link between poverty/lack of education and crime is pretty clear.
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