Swatting Attacks Target Conservatives Voices across America
Conservative journalists and social media influencers are under a new wave of attack across the country that carries life-threatening risk for them and their families – swatting. People have been calling 911 with false reports of some dangerous crime at the house of popular conservatives, thus triggering an emergency police response involving essentially raiding the reported house, usually aiming guns the resident(s) while searching the place for the reported crime and victims.
The dangers of swatting are obvious; the targeted residents can make any mistake and get shot by the police or end up shooting a cop in error or misjudgment. Thus the people making these false crime reports are unleashing emergency law enforcement action on conservatives that can be dangerous for them. In these recent and seemingly political incidents of swatting across the country, the target is always a popular conservative figure.
The latest victim of such an incident is journalist and commentator Owen Shroyer of InfoWars. Shroyer’s home in Austin, TX, was swatted on Wednesday after somebody called the law enforcement on him with a false report that he had shot someone at his home. Shroyer posted video clips from the incident to his X (Twitter) page and blamed the Democrats and their “street thugs” for this attack. He also called out AG Pam Pondi and the FBI for not taking any real action against these criminals.
https://twitter.com/OwenShroyer1776/status/1902229468048969762
Shroyer’s swatting incident came hardly a day after popular conservative social media influencer Juanita Broaddrick posted a video clip of her own house getting swatted. Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, wrote that she was told that the caller reporting her to police claimed that there were 2 masked men and people inside her house had been shot. She added, “This shit needs to stop.”
https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1901867626457956608
A number of other conservative media and social media personalities have been targeted in this series of false crime calls leading to swatting of their houses. Gunther Eagleman, Dustin Grage, Shawn Farash, Joe Pags, Larry Taunton, and Walter Curt are some of the many conservatives that have recently been made targets of swatting via false crime reports. Phillip Buchanan, popularly known as Catturd, was also swatted last week, making it the fourth time it has happened to him. Joe Pags was interviewed on Fox News about his swatting experience.
The channel reported that Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel have both assured the public that their respective offices will take appropriate action against the perpetrators of these attacks on innocent people. Swatting is illegal and swatters can be federally charged with felony while in some states it is only treated as misdemeanor unless it leads to get someone killed or hurt.
Gee, now that it’s happening to the right, The Dumpster is horrified…… how brave.
The term Swatting was invented by the FBI around 2008, Webster discovered it in 2015 and it took off in the time of Trump 1, 2017, as Trump and his minions gave out addresses while vilifying the occupant. Notable Trump 2023 swats include: Jack Smith, Michelle Wu, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (the day after she removed Trump from the state’s ballots due to his involvement in the January 6 United States Capitol attack); Tanya Chutkan, Arthur Engoron, George Soros. The difference is that many of these folks were identified by Trump, sometime with addresses, after being called hateful names like traitor. What’s a patriot to do when the President calls someone a terrorist or traitor.
Also in 2024, dozens of blue state capitols received bomb threats, leading to evacuations of government buildings like Connecticut, Georgia, and Hawaii.
Swatting is wrong, been going on, mostly from the right, but NOT totally from the right, since Obama. Suddenly it seems important to Republicans. Go figure.
Buckle up buttercup. We feel your pain, seen it, felt it, been there ever since Trump starting vilifying people, naming names, and providing addresses.
Hell, he’s going after U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, the guy stopping his illegal disappearing of VZ immigrants, supposedly illegal, supposedly gang members to El Salvadorian max penitentiary gulags where they will probably die. No rule of law, no convictions, no day in court, just disappeared to never be seen again. We don’t even know their names. Well, Trumpy went after this judge, called him an agitator, a traitor, a terroist claiming his right from election was more relevant that this guy’s selection to th bench by fucking Republicans. The guy is a Republican, has leaned right IF he leaned at all, and by all measurements is a superior Federal Judge.
Ask the Georgia volunteer election workers what it is like when the President outs you, claims you are a traitor, calls you the ugliest of names and keeps saying: someone needs to do something…….. That’s not a cry for the rule of law….
Frankly kids, this has been around since folks order pizza’s for others for a joke. It took off as a political tool in the time of Trump and the right is merely adopting what you have been doing for over 8 years. It’s wrong, it should be stopped. Then again, the flagrant lies on the internet are wrong, should be stopped, yet you guys are still celebrating the right to deceive, probably want to put it in the Bill of Rights.
The swallows have returned to Capistrano, enjoy.
Maybe if police/FBI/etc. published names phone numbers and addresses of swatters, they could get a taste of what they’re dishing out.
Note: Unlike leftist poster here frank danger (no caps in his name, so he has the same opinion of himself as we do of him) I’m not pointing to either party or either party’s sympathizers.
BTW, frank, just because you write long doesn’t mean you’re right.
wb46: Did I say something in error, factually wrong, or is your head just that far up your ass?
You say: ” I’m not pointing to either party or either party’s sympathizers,” as you call me: ” leftist poster here frank danger (no caps in his name, so he has the same opinion of himself as we do of him.” You betcha.
I had said: “Swatting is wrong, been going on, mostly from the right, but NOT totally from the right, since Obama. Suddenly it seems important to Republicans. Go figure.” Guess you were trump-blinded as to the truth again. It happens.
As far as I am concerned, arrest em all, convict them, and Trump can pardon the Republicans, again. Whatever floats your boat.
And FYI, it’s not my long-writing, it’s your inability to read fast. Just like you missed my “swatting is wrong.” And the caps/no caps of my name seems to be machine driven. They go it as all caps just so you know. Like it matters, but appears to mean something to you. Must be “the code.”
Its your long-writing…
Joe, you know what they say: short writing = short……. Your’s was the shortest piece ever 😁 heh heh.
Frank isn’t worthy of respect. He’s in lock step with the communist But things are looking up. Chuck scummer is going away. Maybe before the election. But no gain. The shithole state of New York will probably replace him with someone worse. Like AOC? Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the people. We just happened to show more common sense last election. But Frank should just go away and pout. All he does is whine and bitch. He should try to get on the tv show called the view. Maybe whoppee would sit on his face. And make whoppee.
Hammon, cry me a river. You want cheese with your whine? Schumer? AOC, whatta rant. I’m from NJ, not NY. Super Booker, Josh, Mickey, try them.
Common sense to elect the Felon King of Sexual Abuse? The King of Tax Cheats? Payer of Porn Stars for a good spanking? Yeah sure, your sense was common all right. Heh. Heh.
I’m glad that he’s our president. I don’t care if he raped your mother. It’s scary to think about how much damage that the ho would have done to our country if elected. If you want cartels and human trafficking get the hell out of our country. You’re not an American. Just an anarchist working against the country. And I know what shithole state that you call home.
Hammon. That’s cute. Very mature. Talking about raping my dead mother. What a gentleman. Sorry, family been here since 1866. Not going anywhere except exactly where I fucking want to.
Not so. Sooner or later you will be moving out of the country. By your own choice. But the American communist party is winding down. My mother is dead too. But make fun of her if you wish. She would get a kick out of it.