Thank you, Tricky Dick

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuiana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
—John Ehrlichman, Nixon counsel and assistant, in a 1992 interview

I've been reading a lot about politics in Nixon's time and subsequently and the way the Republicans have re-shaped the USA, and they've been so successful that they can't produce a rational candidate and they can't stop Donald Trump.

But how do you fix something like this? Revising the drug laws and getting a lot of minorities out of prison would do a long way in that direction, but it's not a full solution.

"You can't catch me, I'm a hacker!"

Yes, yes they can.

An idiot teen in Texas (I'm not being redundant, am I?) called in bomb threats and SWATted people in other states, while bragging that there was nothing they could do because he was a hacker. He even had 'leet' in his email/Twitter handles.

Unlike skilled hackers and security analysts, he didn't use lots and lots of proxy servers. He directly made threats from his home computer, the FBI had no problem linking the IP address to subpoenaed logs and arresting the 19 year old.

"... among several of the handles and e-mail addresses that the 19-year-old used was anonymously.lulzsec@gmail.com and the Twitter handle @RIURichHomie. The FBI simply filed a subpoena to Google for the records associated with that account and another to Twitter. They both showed that they had been accessed by the same IP address from a Comcast account served to a home in Cypress, Texas.

Authorities also found through a simple Google search that Morgenstern had previously controlled the Twitter account @ZackL337H4X0R."

He pled guilty and faces ten years in prison.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/despite-calling-himself-a-hacker-swatter-fails-at-opsec-pleads-guilty/