Posted on 12/27/2023 6:52:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Authorities are investigating a Christmas Day swatting attempt at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence in Rome, Georgia, but the Republican congresswoman says enough isn’t being done to catch the offenders. A swatting call is a dangerous prank in which the perpetrator reports a severe crime to police to lure swat teams to the victim’s home in a forceful law enforcement response.
“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
As Greene has been the victim of repeated swatting incidents, the Rome Police Department was able to quickly ascertain that the call was a hoax and didn’t send officers to her home, a department spokesperson told CBS News.
According to Rome PD spokesperson Kelly Madden, the call came from a man in Rome, New York, who called the suicide hotline just before 11 a.m. Monday. The man claimed he’d shot his girlfriend at the address of Greene’s home and was going to kill himself next, Madden said.
Police contacted Greene’s private security detail to confirm she was safe and that there was no emergency at her residence, the Department said. When the call was determined to be a swatting attempt, the police response was canceled en route, Madden told reporters.
“We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she said. “Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on.”
A Republican U.S. congressman in New York was also reportedly targeted with a swatting call on Christmas Day.
The Cayuga County Sheriff’s office said it received a false report of a shooting at Rep. Brandon Williams’s house in central New York and sent officers to confirm that there was no present danger.
“Our home was swatted this afternoon,” Williams wrote. “Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving. They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!”
My home was “swatted” on Christmas. Someone hoped police might accidentally kill me and my family.
Today local “news” doxxed us by publishing a photo of my home, why? To make it easier to target my family?
You put my family’s lives at risk. Shame on you https://t.co/3nKMK8Yty7 https://t.co/GBTy1SOoPE
— Rep. Brandon Williams (@RepWilliams) December 26, 2023
MTG blasted the FBI for allowing the swatting attempts against herself to continue without any arrests.
“And after today, I have been swatted 8 times but the FBI can’t seem to figure out who is responsible for the swatting and says the law doesn’t allow them to track them down,” she wrote on X.
“The FBI can do so many things, has even abused FISA to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans, but can not figure out who wants me killed by a hail of bullets fired by a SWAT team responding to murder suicide calls supposedly coming from me,” she complained.
Thankfully my local police are far too smart, know me well, and know exactly what these swatting calls are. I know there are good FBI agents that are completely sick and tired of the Biden administration they work under.
Swatting is extremely dangerous and people have been killed as a result from swatting calls. It’s also a waste of police time and resources and harassment. I will be introducing legislation to track down swatters. Thank you to everyone who has sent well wishes for me and my family. I will never stop fighting for what is right and I will always put America first! No matter what or who attacks me.
Merry Christmas!! Christ is KING!!!
Madden confirmed that Greene has been the target of roughly eight swatting attempts.
The latest swatting attempt came just a few days after Greene’s life was threatened in a text message sent to her boyfriend Brian Glenn, the program director for Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN).
“Thursday Dec. 21, we received this death threat where this man is saying I will be shot in the head and skinned to make a “parasol” making a reference to Gein, who was a psychopath killer who would make things out of his victim’s skin,” MTG explained on X. “He also says he would like to smash Pres. Trump’s and Brian’s heads on a curb,” she added.
Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was a serial killer and body snatcher who committed horrific crimes in the 1950s around Plainfield, Wisconsin.
“Have a nice time looking over your shoulder shitbag,” the message from Ben McLean read. “Tell Marjorie that a high velocity projectile will soon find its way into her cranium.”
When told his menacing communications would be reported to the FBI, McLean seemed to suggest he’d had a prior relationship with the Bureau, and understood it to have an anti-conservative bias.
“If you do … Agent Priest. I like him, McLean wrote. “Because surely the FBI wouldn’t be on your side.” The disturbed individual then expressed a desire to “curb check” former President Trump’s “baby soft skull.”
He added, “they’re recruiting me!” next to a middle finger emoji.
MTG complained in a subsequent post on X that McLean has not yet been arrested. The Capitol Police contacted him and merely asked some questions over the phone, Greene said, going on to say it was “shocking” that the kook was not in police custody yet.
“They simply called him on the phone and [Capitol] Police sent us this email about what he said,” she wrote.
“The outright absurdity of this email response and the fact that they have not arrested this guy is shocking, thankfully I’m a gun owner,” Greene wrote.
But compare it to how the FBI and DOJ treats J6’ers, Pres Trump, and their political enemies. Why doesn’t the FBI just call J6’ers on the phone, like the man who says he wants to shoot me in the head and use my skin to make a parasol, and just ask them about what they said on January 6, 2021 instead of hunting them down and locking them up doing the bidding of the DOJ who continues to issue arrest warrants almost everyday for people who said the 2020 election was stolen.
Incredible double standard.
MTG also expressed concern that McLean claimed to have a contact at the FBI.
“Also, if you read McLean’s messages he says he knows the FBI, names an agent, says he likes them, and says the FBI is recruiting him,” she wrote. “Is the FBI recruiting a man who is threatening to kill a member of congress and crush the skull of President Trump?”
Sounds like they need to be defunded. If only she had, say, the power of the purse.
““We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she said. “Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on.””
Personnel were called off/back in this latest incident so how did her security know there was anything attempted?
> “Is the FBI recruiting a man who is threatening to kill a member of congress and crush the skull of President Trump?”
obviously
The police called her security detail to make sure everything was OK. They told her security detail why they were calling.
“The FBI can do so many things, has even abused FISA to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans, but can not figure out who wants me killed by a hail of bullets fired by a SWAT team responding to murder suicide calls supposedly coming from me,” she complained.
MTG is right. I pointed this out several days ago.
FBI= the forth Branch of Government.
Terrorizing a member of Congress is a local issue?
Not at all.
If Kerosene Maxine were swatted the FBI would be filing charges of insurrection against the person in mere hours.
Making the incident publicly known and publishing a photo of the home are two different things.
I can't believe you would blame Williams for the publication's doxxing of Williams.
It’s a sitting congressman, over interstate phone lines. Violates all kinds of federal law. FBI should be right in this.
They only act on Barry’s orders.
Hey, they have limited resources because of trump. They can’t be expected to track down grandmothers who may have walked into the capitol through open doors, being waved in by cops, And look for actual terrorists. They have priorities. They are part of the anarcho-tyranny we’re in. It comes down to who can do what to whom.
Lots of people have considered both possibilities.
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I believe the first one is extremely unlikely - as in "no, they are not doing that". Why would they bother. There are plenty of leftist volunteers who will jump into action without the slightest direct encouragement from the FBI.
They might have some informants in the groups who are doing the swatting. Which brings up "door number 2".
The second possibility approaches 100% certainty in my mind that the FBI executives are OK with random leftists terrorizing conservatives. At best, they don't want to make the effort to track down the perpetrators, and they are told not to do so. Most of the effective methods are actually illegal, even with FISA warrants and the pretense of "parallel construction."
Why risk a letter of reprimand in the personnel file for "unauthorized activities out of scope with assigned duties".
They are not going to go after perpetrators unless they get the cover of directions from higher levels to do that. Or unless the perpetrators start boasting on social media, somebody gets killed, and the victims are high-ranking members of the protected classes.
At worst, they are looking the other way when known leftist groups start bragging about their swatting exploits. A supervisor with a couple of trainees examining bank transactions of certain "Non-Government-Organizations" and "Non-Profit-Organizations" would make some interesting connections very quickly. They are not doing that. They are not allowed to do that, by management instruction.
Leftist terrorist activities are funded by a network of such "Non-Profit-Organizations". Almost all of them receive federal grant money of some kind. Follow that money. You'll find the swatters, buying equipment with it. They are living in their parent's basement bedrooms and chatting with their friends about their projects. They are volunteers with little or no money of their own. It is all about ego rewards and bragging rights about their projects. That last aspect is how they are most likely to get caught.
The guy who gets the equipment for them works as a "community organizer" for one of the NGO's. That job does not pay very well, but the work is exciting, and the projects vary quite a bit. Plus, there is some paid travel with a chance (illusion) of advancement in the organization. And the NGO's often will hire felons or other persons who might be otherwise unemployable. There are lots of those "community organizers" out there. Some of them might even have side-gigs as paid Agency informants.
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The fcc can stop these with a regulation that phone providers whether voip or traditional land lines end the ability to spoof numbers. I can set up a pbx on my home computer using free software then set it to make outbound calls that show my outbound number to be anything I like. Then set it loose to call every number in an area code. There are methods they can use to require an outbound call check back to validate the number. Phone providers don’t like it for some reason but it can be done.
On the contrary...
The photo of the home got published because Brandon made is swatting public. I’ve been on this throughout several threads.
Making the swatting public allows the perp to validate a successful operation..
... or in this case, causing the victim to inadvertently doxx themselves.
*Until then it’s a local cop issue.
Terrorizing a member of Congress is a local issue? Not at all.*
Anyone remember speaker Newt’s conversation being taped by that ‘innocent’ couple? You know the recording that ended up in the democrat hands?
Nothing happened to them. Perhaps a fine. We don’t scare them.
Chris Wray not answering the phone.
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