Alienation   Clearly Jake Bilardi was targeted and radicalized but the first step in this process was extreme alienation (1). A video has surfaced from his school days which shows Jake Bilardi being ‘happy slapped’ – a bullying tactic which sees a group of people slap their victim, film it and upload it on-line to humiliate him. (5) Jake clearly had problems at school with alienation and bullying, and at home where his parents divorced and later his mother died from cancer. His teachers and relatives hoped his problems would ease, but instead, they manifested themselves in a schoolboy who … Continue reading Alienation