Cowards, Keyboards and Corpses: The Fucking Truth About Swatting

And what we must do to properly punish the bastards who do it.

Part One: Murder by Telephone

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

George Orwell, 1984

Some crimes reveal something deeply unsettling about the age that produced them. Pickpockets belong to crowded streets. Highway robbers belong to lonely roads. Swatting, however, could only …