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Greene says she was swatted while at home with family on Christmas
The Hill ^ | 12/25/2023 | Jared Gans

Posted on 12/25/2023 9:24:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said someone reported a fake crime at her home on Monday, the latest in a series of apparent swatting incidents that have targeted her.

“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,” she said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Greene added that she appreciates the local police and her family is in “joyous spirits” c toelebrating Christmas.

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To: Mr. Jeeves

Ironic they can ID people in the rotunda taking pictures with their cells but not those doing this.


21 posted on 12/25/2023 10:52:11 AM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: Secret Agent Man

At some point this is going to have to be VIOLENTLY stopped, or it will not stop at all.

Let me be crystal clear: the swatter needs to end up shot dead, and that story needs to go viral, accompanied by official Law Enforcement warnings that swatters have home addresses, too.


22 posted on 12/25/2023 11:00:52 AM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Deo et patriae
what ever happened to trace a phone call????

IP phone calls are difficult to trace (not impossible!) without comprehensive network surveillance. Caller ID is easy to impersonate for the technically adept.

The local police do not usually have the expertise or facilities to trace such calls. For certain federal agencies, it is almost a trainee exercise. They can catch them if they want to catch them.

23 posted on 12/25/2023 11:06:04 AM PST by flamberge (The NSA is one of a few Federal agencies that actually listens to the American people.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And I’m nobody. But if I can imagine things...

Imagine if the US military got a false alarm at NORAD 8 times in a row. They would think of something. Nobody Federalfis trying to arrest the bad guys, and charitably, the cop response seems uncreative.


24 posted on 12/25/2023 11:11:26 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Trump20162020

The only problem is that is when it won’t be.

Not because mtg went nuts but because she’s under attack.


25 posted on 12/25/2023 11:43:43 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: KittyKares

Weird how everyone is upset that “swatting” takes place, but no seems to question the existence of militarized, Seal-Team-6-in-short-pants police, which are always the tool.


26 posted on 12/25/2023 11:56:19 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Trump20162020

That’s what they want.

Then, some cretins actually attack her family and kill them for fun.

Never underestimate the depravity of some semi-humans.


27 posted on 12/25/2023 12:17:01 PM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: KittyKares

The FBI is the on the case!. They’ve been looking carefully at people who attend Latin Mass, or parents who go to school board meetings.

They’ll find their man!


28 posted on 12/25/2023 12:18:13 PM PST by Fido969
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The left thrives on falsehoods and wrong headed control control of law enforcement by wrong unethical people.


29 posted on 12/25/2023 4:20:42 PM PST by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Yes and also conspiracy to commit same in either case


30 posted on 12/25/2023 4:44:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: HKMk23

Yup.


31 posted on 12/25/2023 5:00:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not ever being a criminal I don’t know what “swatting” If it’s phone calls, shut down the phones. If it’s bodies herding in your yard, get a trained attack dog to release.


32 posted on 12/25/2023 6:48:17 PM PST by WVNan
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To: WVNan
Shut down the police phones? You mean shut down 911?

And if you release dogs on the police they will shoot them. Actually they may if you don't release them.

How a SWATting works is someone calls 911 and reports that someone at a certain address has flipped their lid. Murder, rape, hostage taking, talking back to mothers, it is chaos! Get the police there right away!

The police show up, usually in full tactical gear because they expect to arrive to find a fire fight in progress. The bewildered home occupants are subjected to the police at minimum pounding on their door, at worst a dynamic entry with tear gas and flash grenades.

People can get killed. People have been killed. In my humble opinion people who do this kind of thing should be charged with attempted murder at the least.

33 posted on 12/25/2023 7:01:15 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: WVNan

Swatting is when some claims to be you, calls 911 and reports a false serious situation with weapons, in the hopes cops will bust in and hurt the target of the swat.

They hope the unsuspecting people believe their house is being broken into, they arm themselves to defend, and then the cops shoot them and their pets in the heat of the moment.


34 posted on 12/25/2023 7:11:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Leos are in on it. Either that or they are darn stupid!


35 posted on 12/25/2023 7:54:57 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: KittyKares

“Can’t law enforcement find the creeps doing this?”

They don’t use traditional phone lines that are easy to trace.


36 posted on 12/25/2023 9:22:43 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: KittyKares

Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the house,
Cops were searching for things, even under my blouse.


37 posted on 12/26/2023 4:17:44 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

They instead use cell phones which are easier.

However, you don’t get a physical location like a land line.

You get the phone number and the cell tower area.

Now if they can access the GPS location of the phone; you’re pretty much toast unless you can race away from the place you actually MADE the call from.


38 posted on 12/26/2023 4:21:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DesertRhino

The average person would get themselves caught.The average person wouldn’t know what police department to call or what city their target is in. They wouldn’t know to hide their location or even what to say to convince an officer something was actually happening.

These swatters are using uncommon knowledge.

I am suspicious the swatters are using government databases, training, and tools.

There is probably good odds the swatters are government employees with access to that stuff. Either rogue employees doing it themselves (or handing it over to outside groups)... or an off books organization stirring up trouble for a political benefit.


39 posted on 12/26/2023 8:33:02 AM PST by VetoBill
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To: WVNan

And your assumption of people not knowing urban terms relating to crimes not being criminals, is just plain flawed.


40 posted on 12/26/2023 8:36:30 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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