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Call 911 with the aim of getting an armed response to somebody’s home during which they will at the very least be terrorized by armed men and perhaps even shot is wrong… depending on who the target is.
After Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows illegally interfered with an upcoming election by removing former President Trump from the ballot, a ‘swatting’ call to her house made media headlines.
The media has had a whole lot less interest in previous ‘swatting’ calls to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as her daughters, to Sen Rick Scott, the Lt. Gov of Georgia, John Paul Mac, who turned in Hunter Biden’s laptop, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Brandon Williams, a Republican, a number of Georgia state legislators, and well, a whole lot of other Republicans.
One basic difference in the media coverage is that it’s rarely politically contextualized. You can read through an entire story about Sen. Scott getting ‘swatted’ without ever getting a sense of who might want to do that or why.
No such problems with a story about Secretary of State Shenna Bellows where we get a lecture about the dangers of a particular party and movement, never mind the fact that the same party and movement had just been the target of such sustained attacks.
But, like everything from election challenges to misinformation, it’s not about the act, it’s about the party.
Swattings, like everything else, depends on who does it and to whom it is done.
Swatting is very dangerous. Someone is liable to get killed. Those Swat guys used to hold exercises in the playing field of my old elementary school. Not someone you want to mess with 🙂
Yes, SWAT teams regularly practice invading homes and killing people. The huge amount of innocent Americans killed through error attests to that. Which explains Swatting, as we know.
I can understand the frustration and anger associated with feeling the need to SWAT Bellows, but I really wish ‘our’ side wouldn’t do such things. I’m sure this comment will get me in trouble with some on ‘our’ side, and while I fully understand using leftist tactics against them from a militaristic battleground standpoint, we’re supposed to be better than this. If there is nothing outwardly that differentiates us from them, why bother voting at all?
There was a time when conservative politics was steeped in Judeo/Christian ethics. That’s still the case in some parts of the country, but with more and more Republican voters agreeing with abortion on demand and embracing alternative lifestyles, decency and morality has slid down the slope…and we’ve landed here.
I’d ask those who orchestrated Sheena’s swatting to consider this: Imagine if she or one of her family members flinched and was shot and killed. You OK with that? Even if you are, are you further OK with putting a target on every conservative’s back? This administration is looking for a reason to justify their “existential threat” label of Christian conservatives and that would most certainly fit the qualifications.
A war is coming soon enough. I for one would choose for it to be a righteous war, not because the other side was goaded into it with an innocent’s death.
War always has a catalyst, even “righteous” war. What would be the manner in which a righteous civil war would begin here at home?
A war that doesn’t require a conservative to physically be an agent provocateur to that war. Positions and beliefs will ultimately be enough to light this fuse, but physically striking the match puts us at a moral disadvantage.
So, righteous revenge?
Do you believe the American Revolution was righteous? If not, why?
Thank you for engaging with me. I value your thoughts.
Romans 12:19 “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”
How many of Paul’s most profound new testament writings were from behind prison walls? Few people have ever known greater reason to seek vengeance than he, but Paul learned that these situations he found himself in were for his benefit as well as others.
Was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand a righteous kill in 1914? While some might say yes, those people would be wrong in God’s eyes and the result was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
There is always a time for war and, undoubtedly, war we shall. As far as I’m concerned, we’re in the middle of one now, but a SHOOTING war; the physical taking of lives, should be brought to us and not instigated by us and should be entered into grievously and solemnly because as evil as their intent and motives might be, they’re still Americans. Meanwhile, before such gunfire, maybe like Paul we should take stock of our situation and glean anything we can from it for ourselves and others.
I think swatting is awful in every way. Ive read where family kids were traumatized and family dogs, who naturally behave protectively, were very close to being killed.
However, I challenge the idea that somehow we :morally superior non-leftists must never provoke or seek justice that the current legal system will not provide. Such passivity is a show of weakness that only provokes more victimizing. I don’t have a magic solution but many of us are righteously angry. At a certain point it is unnatural, unhealthy, and ultimately immoral to only express this in a meek and passive manner.
The initiation of the use of force is the line. Dems do that regularly these days, both illegaly, and under color of law via their soros justice dept, DAs, and police chiefs. Despite their claims, we didn’t weaponize the justice system, they did.
Who says that the “swatting” was done by someone on “our side”. Maybe this is a hoax in the Jussie Smollet model?
Yep, though they may make token apprehensions, like with no-kil pregnancy center attacks or threats to conservative SCOTUS members.
How do we know it’s ‘our’ side?
Remember Gabby Giffords?
8 Jan 2011, a psychotic atheist (born Jewish) registered independent (who became angry just at the sight of George W Bush) … shot and killed or wounded 19 people. The dead included a nine-year-old girl and a Republican judge. …
To this day, unless one was a skeptical type, one would still not know any of this. The Wikipedia articles on the shooting discuss all of it ‘backwards’ and in the fine print e.g. … and never just come out and say, ‘He’s not a Republican, a Christian, or a patriot.’
And that wasn’t even a false flag inspired by FBI informants: Which was the case in the Garland shooting 3 May 2015, e.g., where the FBI informant drove the shooter to the event. …
When we assume it’s ‘our’ side when a target of violence is ‘their’ side … I always want receipts. Never rule out Left-on-Left violence. Never rule out a hoax. Never jump to the conclusion that anyone fitting the stereotypical American type committed political violence. Until and unless there’s solid evidence.
… Now, if someone claims a pedophile, a wife beater, a burglar, and a career criminal were shot while attending a mostly peaceful riot … that shooter might be one of ‘ours’ …
Happy New Year!
I should note there’s no actual basis for the idea that Jared Loughner, the Giffords shooter, was Jewish.
This was a misleading claim spread by Ron Kampeas of JTA, one of the worst fake news jornos out there, which was also used to push the claim that Loughner was a Nazi, rather than what he actually was, which is mentally ill.
Those who dug into it found no evidence of it
https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/jared-loughners-mother-is-not-jewish-and-how-to-fight-a-false-story/
“(Born jewish)”, like nancy and joe were born Catholic. I’m always aware of the difference, and the left’s habit of blaming Jews or Christians, for their own atheist ideology. Happy New Year Dan!
Yes, obviously a terrible idea. It’s cowardly, risks innocent lives (including those of the officers) and accomplishes nothing.
A civil war is very different than domestic terrorism which is what this is. And it’s a particularly crude and cowardly form of it originally practiced by sociopathic teenage boys.
The day when a civil war is fought may come, but it won’t be fought and won with death threats and prank calls. If it will be fought and won, it will be by strong men willing to stand up for what they believe in, who are following a plan, rather than lashing out and running away.
“First practiced by sociopathic teenaged boys,” don’t know about teenaged, but the first time I saw Swatting was someone trying to eliminate the competition in an online gaming tournament.
I agree. Whoever swatted that criminal, subversive piece of shit, Bellows, should’ve taken her out themselves instead of having endangered people around her. Murder is illegal but so is Swatting. There’s no way for criminals to responsibly break the law but there are less reckless ways.
I would love to see on the news that Bellows had been killed, along with plenty of other criminal subversives in our federal and state governments but I doubt will anytime soon.
No trouble ET1, I agree, but it could be a leftist, or bellows herself, doing it for publicity. If the culprit isn’t caught, we’ll know. The fbi probably could ID the parties responsible for swattings if they wanted to, and the nsa certainly could. But they don’t, when it’s a dem doing it. Very telling. Like the DC pipe bomber, and almost all of the leftists destroying or vandalizing no-kill pregancy crisis centers(they had a few token prosecutions), they ‘can’t’ be ID’d or caught, even when they’re caught on video doing it. So I take the swatting of dems with a huge grain of salt.
Thanks to Mr. Greenfield for explaining what “swatting” means. It sounds like a John Belushi prank from the movie “Animal House.” A lot of contemporary politics falls into that category, like when two Democ-rat election clerks in Georgia were awarded 148 million dollars in civil damages against Rudy Giuliani (you know, America’s mayor on 9/11) for questioning their integrity. A dishonest Democ-rat? Oh, the calumny. Apropos Democ-rat Senator Ben Cardin’s horny male staffer who videotaped himself being anally invaded by a grunting male accomplice on a conference table in a vacant U.S. Senate hearing room last month, I have one question for Mr. Greenfield about the pornographic tryst which was posted on the Internet. In 2024, would calling the police on the Democ-rat sodomites be considered “swatting?”
I thought swatting was real big with drag queens.
What is gay “swatting? Butt busting? I did a web search and some blurred out videos turned up but no way am I going to look at those.
I spare myself on a lot of things too, Jeff, lol. Some things, I’ve gotta sit through, disturbing as they are, just to bear witness..
Wait, he was not the guy on top? So, who was the other guy? OK I don’t really want to know …unless its a Democrat. Because everything is political
Blutarsky became a senator. Who knew parody would become reality?
Bellows needs to be totally relived of her job and be the Washer Woman wit Mop and Bucket
She should be assigned to toilets only. In public parks.
I’ve done that job as a man. People like her would starve first. She’d never hesitate to take a cut of the money anyone else earns doing that though.
The origin of the swat phone calls can, and probably was, determined. It’s time to start filing FOIA requests for the what ever data exists. My guess is that the various government agencies will clam up claiming their usual “national security, sources and methods” dodge.
The only plausible reason why none of the swatters were caught is that if they catch one responsible for Bellows or other protected individuals, it means that the Feds would have to acknowledge that they can, in fact, find the swatters.
It’s childishly easy to make calls anonymously that are really hard to trace without involving high end fed gov agencies.
All they need is a burner phone, a voice generator and a busy location with no security cameras
And that’s without delving into proxies or smart devices being hacked to make police calls.
A lot of this is being done by teenagers and they’re way ahead of law enforcement.
Those high end government agencies exist though Daniel, and we must bear in mind that they could catch them all if they wanted.