Modest proposal about reporting on mass murderers - let's never use their real names.

[TroubleMan]

A lot of the mass murderers want their names memorialized, for better or for worse. They have an audience, and that small cadre of deplorables reveres them as some type of noble martyr.

For example, Dylann Roof, is mentioned as a hero on alt-right sites. Elliot Rodger became a hero among the incel community. I'm sure that New Zealand guy who shot up a mosque is a 4-chan or 8-chan hero. Their actions inspire other would-be-murderers, not only in a lead-by-example type of way, but in a "I'll be a hero in my group" type of way.

My proposal is let's get the media (all media) to stop using their real names. Let's make a mass murderers list of names, like hurricane names, that repeat every year. Make them pejorative names. For instance, let's make the first mass-murderer or terrorist of 2020 Farty McShitsalot. The next one will be Ben Dover, and the next one Dweeber Tinybritches or Bobby Doodoohead. Never, never, never use their real names. Get the media and the police (along with the courts) to use aliases, such as they do with underage crime victims. Also, recycling the names every year is important. We don't want to make them feel special....who wants to go down as the third Terry Peedhispants? They're not special; they're just horrible pieces of shit, whom nobody will remember.

Yes, eventually the names will leak out, but by that time the 15 minutes of fame is over. By then, they're already known famously by the other name. These guys become household names, and that is some of the motivation. Instead of, oh yeah Dylann Roof, he's the guy who shot up that church, it would be "oh yeah, Smelly O'Pukey, he's that mass-murderer guy."

From a legal standpoint, this also protects falsely accused, like Richard Jewell. So that could be the "legal" justification.

No, it doesn't stop the problem, but it addresses some small part of the motivation.

One more point (on edit). Make them A to Z like hurricanes. You notice when we get to the letters near the end of the alphabet, everybody is like "wow that's a lot hurricanes this year." The deeper we go in the alphabet will highlight how bad the problem is.

[hlthe2b]

1. MSM in Denver worked with LE on this. LE wants the names released (usually with photos) the first

few days or week or. so... in order to elicit/solicit public information that may be pertinent to the investigations. After that short period, they can be referred to as perpetrators only, but those first days are vital in most cases to ensure LE is getting as much related information as possible to id others involved or related threats.

Given Colorado and Denver area specifically have the unfortunate distinction of having to deal with more of these mass murder incidents in the past 20 years than almost anywhere else, I think the work of this task force should be taken seriously.

[raccoon]

2. Sounds like a great idea! Great names you choose. nt