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.