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What in the world does this have to do with Bolshevism?
Bolshevism is the belief that the system must be destroyed by an onslaught of random chaos before the glorious revolution will be possible.
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We don't have data to say that it's not working.
It's still happening... is that data?
How many deterred murderers do you think need to exist for it to be worth prosecuting and harshly punishing murder?
Though even after knowing your answer to that question... I'm not eager to live in your experiment's "murder is fine" group...
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What in the world does this have to do with Bolshevism?
Bolshevism is the belief that the system must be destroyed by an onslaught of random chaos before the glorious revolution will be possible.
Does anyone know more about the mental state that inspires people to commit arson? Drug dealing or murder often have selfish or monetary gains; but what is gained from burning the wildlands? Is it a power thing? Calling all armchair psychologists
Interestingly enough, arson was one of the original capital offenses in many traditions of justice systems as the building techniques of primitive cultures are often not terribly resilient in the face of malicious fire starting.
Granted I live on the west coast and fires have been very much on my mind in the past few years, but I do wholeheartedly support the most draconian punishments for arsonists who start wild fires. It’s going to have to be a part of our climate changed future to deter criminals.
Do you also support draconian punishments for people and organizations who blocked controlled burns and other wildfire control measures?
EDIT: I also feel like you're (believe it or not) politicizing this as conservatives and libertarians in favor of controlled burns and arson (yes, that is exactly what you sound like), and hippie dippie out of touch leftist urbanites being the real root cause of all this because of their supposed intolerance of controlled burns.
Looks like the perpetrator made an entry on Google Maps attempting to make a PAC[0]: Dr. Gary Maynard For President 2020 Exectutive Committee and PAC "My First and NOT the last Run for the Presidency of the United States of America - this is my PAC and you can donate to my cause once you have seen who I am and why I am running! I am Dr. Gary Maynard - Social Scientist and Nearly Unmatched Understander of ALL Human be…
> They have names, addresses, This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
Looks like the perpetrator made an entry on Google Maps attempting to make a PAC[0]: Dr. Gary Maynard For President 2020 Exectutive Committee and PAC "My First and NOT the last Run for the Presidency of the United States of America - this is my PAC and you can donate to my cause once you have seen who I am and why I am running! I am Dr. Gary Maynard - Social Scientist and Nearly Unmatched Understander of ALL Human be…
> They have names, addresses, This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
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Some of this was done out of greed and political corruption so that developers could build more unaffordable housing for the wealthy - I would say the gp has some merit in their comment.
I have never seen that claim before. My understanding is that lack of wild and controlled burns can be attributed to two factors: 1) Emotion driven environmentalism trumping environmental scientists 2) Political deferral due to the risk of blowback from out of control burns.
Quoting the alleged arsonist himself:
“Donald Trump’s lack of or unwillingness to self-reflect in order to self-improve, and his lack of empathy while being threatened with his first major, public, political and personal defeat, might activate a sense of the need for the use of violence, violent protests by his supporters or outright sabotage of the nation by locking down the economy or some other major act to damage the nation before he is forced to leave office, if he loses,”
TDS to the max and not remotely rational at all. Free rent in his brain to this day,
Curious how and why they were tracking this guy initially. It seems like this would be the most difficult crime to prove. Not against throwing the book at him if there is substantial proof.
Once he became a suspect to the level, a court order to get phone records would be easy.
The moment your phone is on, it is constantly keeping a full data handshake and connection to any base station nearby and to phone company switching computers. You are constantly "under surveillance" in a geographic sense if you have a cell phone turned on (with or without a valid SIM card - the phones serial number gets logged even if an account isn't validated). Having it this way is the only way an in-coming call could ever be routed to you!
Remember phone switches are all Unix based and they have log files constantly filling just like any desktop system. Literally just "grep" the files. The most amusing experience related to this I ever had was being able to talk to my uncle who was blue-collar AT&T technician. But he knew his Unix.