re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Having generated antagonistic relationships with a large group of people isn’t circumstantial evidence against one man. The swattees all wrote negatively about a lot of the same people. You don’t seem to know that circumstantial evidence actually is.

Agreed. It could be anybody making the calls. They’ve collectively pissed off a lot of different people.

You also don’t explain your reasoning behind your assumption of Occam’s tilt. Why is it easier to think that the swatting is an opponent plot rather than a home grown publicity stunt? All you give is raw assertion with absolutely reasoning. Apparently it doesn’t strike you as odd that Erick Erickson claims he preemptively warned the police that he was likely to be swatted before it happened. I find that kind of behavior and apparent certainty of foreknowledge very odd.

Sure it’s possible that the wingnuts are swatting themselves but it just seems unlikely. They are prone to publicity stunts and fake videos, etc. If they are swatting themselves they are they are putting their own families in danger to manufacture these incidents. Using their own well known activists to make the calls and be recording and screaming at the top of their lungs to get a congressional investigation which sill surely result in their own arrests. Sure wingnuts are stupid but it’s unlikely that they’d hatch this grand conspiracy without someone bailing out getting nervous about the inevitable jail time.
Swatting has been around for a while mostly in Anon/4chan hacker types for quite some time. They would be the most likely suspects.
On the basis of the new voice comparison video, which is the only evidence of an inside job, I think it’s highly unlikely that the FBI is going to add Darby (or that other dude) to their list of suspects.