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Georgia Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene was swatted for "like the 8th time" on Christmas at her Georgia home. "I was just swatted," the congresswoman wrote. "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. I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!"

Okaloosa County deputies are charging two 14-year-olds believed to be part of a "national swatting group" following an investigation into a swatting call at Baker School in November. Those arrested are Landyn Whittington of Baker (19 felony charges) and Camwryn Gulley of Mansfield, Texas (four felony charges). Whittington is an online student from Baker. The sheriff's office says the group they are a part of -- called "LulzSEC" -- pays members with cryptocurrency to commit crimes. "Member Camwryn Gulley told investigators Landyn Whittington asked for a member of the group to swat Baker School," a release from the sheriff's office...

The president of Accuracy in Media — the group that deployed “doxxing trucks” to Ivy League schools mired in pro-Palestinian controversies — had his home searched by a cadre of rifle-toting SWAT officers in the early hours of Friday, The Post has learned. Accuracy in Media boss Adam Guillette was away from his North Florida home when he received a call from local authorities Friday notifying him that officers had searched his home around 1:30 a.m. after receiving a call falsely claiming that Guillette was at home and pointing a gun at his wife’s head. Guillette, who was out of...

Online anonymity is an important right that has been hotly debated in recent years. The case for preventing people from being “doxxed” was further reiterated yesterday when popular podcaster and Twitter star “Catturd” was swatted in the middle of his show. So, I was just swatted during my podcast. The caller pretended to be me and told the cops – "I've stabbed someone, had a gun, and was going to kill myself." This is the result of being doxxed over and over by leftist outlets. You can imagine how dangerous this is. I'm okay,… — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 25,...

During a Monday afternoon livestream, the man behind the conservative anonymous X account Catturd was swatted. Around one hour into In the Litter Box with Jewels and Catturd, episode 418, Jewels Jones revealed that Catturd had been swatted and wouldn't be rejoining the episode. Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec "Reportedly 911 was called by someone impersonating Cat, telling them that he had stabbed someone and was about to kill himself"

This article is a pre-amble to the main point. Authoritarianism in America is becoming more like authoritarianism in Communist China. This first phase has focused on using government power against conservatives. If the present trends continue, those who used the system of government against conservatives will soon find themselves becoming victims. To be smarmy, swatting will increasingly look like American authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics. What that begins to looks like is described below.

The Washington, D.C. home of right-wing activist Steve Bannon appears to have been swatted again. Police and rescue workers responded to a shooting call at Bannon’s Thursday morning.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former leader of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen Division pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.According to court documents, John Cameron Denton, 26, of Montgomery, Texas, is a former leader of the Atomwaffen Division in Texas. From October 2018 to at least April 2019, Denton and several others conspired together to conduct “swatting” calls. Swatting is a harassment tactic that involves deceiving dispatchers into believing that a person or persons are...

Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Michigan on Saturday night. A video shows her accusing Democrats of murdering Republicans, saying the "killings" have already begun. She referenced two local stories, neither of which appear to back the claim that Republicans are being hunted down. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene deceptively claimed at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Warren, Michigan, on Saturday that Democrats are murdering Republicans. "I'm not going to mince words with you all," Greene said. "Democrats want Republicans dead. They've already started the killings." Greene, who has repeatedly spread bizarre conspiracy...

A Word About Swatting…By J. JohnsonIt appears to be the new rave among the enemy hostiles among us: The art of calling 911 with false statements in an attempt to generate a possibly lethal interaction with law enforcement. Although the expected response is outrage and shock, if we look at this through a ‘war time’ lens (thank you Joe Biden for saying the quiet part out loud), an analysis may provide a few lessons on how to address these matters down the road since of course – this could happen to any Real American fighting for freedom.… and it probably...

Steve Bannon says a fake call sent armed police to his home on Thursday night. The practice of calling officers to a home under false pretenses has become known as “swatting.” Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was a recent victim, with police sent to her home to deal with a reported shooting that never took place. Police were summoned to Bannon’s Washington, D.C., home at 7:17 p.m., according to the Daily Mail. President Joe Biden delivered an address to the nation at 8 p.m. ET, labeling former President Donald Trump and his supporters as extremists who “[threaten] the...

Join Brian Glenn and RSBN for an exclusive interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene and never before seen security footage from the swatting event that occurred on the 24th & 25th of August.

This came across my Twitter timeline, I'll post link later but MTG is swatted again.

"This is not a new thing, but it has been further weaponized beyond its own name. What used to be a call about your refrigerator running…down the street, then became a pizza you did not order, and now it is facing down the barrels of multiple guns, and always for no reason. The current version began as ‘dispute resolution’ in the gaming community then changed into what the alt-far-left MSM claimed were “pranks on celebrities” is now being used to terrorize and silence one side of the political spectrum, the Right, just as if the police were the other side’s...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home was targeted in a “swatting” call for a second time in two nights, police in Rome, Georgia, confirmed on Thursday. “Officers responded once again to Mrs. Greene’s home and confirmed this was a second false report,” Rome PD said in a statement provided to Rolling Stone. Greene earlier on Thursday announced that she had been swatted again following an initial swatting early Wednesday morning at her home in Rome, Georgia.

“Last night, I was swatted just after 1 am. I can’t express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here in Rome, Floyd County. More details to come,” Taylor Greene wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “Swatting” is commonly defined as “the action of making a false report of a serious emergency so that a SWAT team (= a group of officers trained to deal with dangerous situations) will go to a person’s home, by someone who wants to frighten, upset, or cause problems for that person”. The act usually involves heavily armed police. The act of “swatting” has been...

A transgender Twitch star claimed she has been forced to move out of her home after being 'harassed and stalked' by people online - who allegedly sent a threat to local politicians under her name, which resulted in her being arrested at gunpoint. Clara Sorrenti, who goes by the name Keffals online, 28, said a SWAT team stormed her home in London, Ontario, on August 5, after someone pretending to be her sent alarming messages to Canada officials claiming she was going to commit 'mass violence.' She claimed that someone 'stole her identity and used it to weaponize the emergency...

"Well anyway, Bannon’s house got swatted. Nobody was hurt, but heavily armed police officers surrounded and swarmed his fancy Capitol Hill townhome on Friday afternoon, according to a report from the Washington Post. The police allegedly went to Bannon’s address in response to a crisis hotline report that there was an armed man inside a residence on the 200 block of A Street NE, who had shot someone. As a result, police shut down nearby streets for about an hour."

Truth-tellers are being targeted. MINNESOTA – On Monday, April 4, Stew Peters’ private home was “SWATTED” thanks to a dangerous “prank” call. Peters announced on Telegram that an unknown person called the police impersonating him on Monday night, giving his home address. The criminal prank caller said that he was holding a hostage and planned to shoot them. “I am PISSED,” Peters said. something that happened twice to Tim Poole, host of “Timcast IRL,” in the less than two weeks. Peters acknowledged that this type of thing has happened to “many conservative show hosts in order to have their homes...

YouTuber ‘The Quartering’ is putting up a massive $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or group responsible for a series of swattings involving podcast host Tim Pool. 2022 has been a crazy year so far, but for Timcast host Tim Pool, it’s been a dangerous one, to say the least. So far, Pool has had to deal with five separate swatting incidents with armed police showing up to his studio and now even his own personal home. With the dangers appearing to escalate, fellow YouTuber TheQuartering is stepping up to help his friend by...