MTG swatted. Her two daughters swatted. Jack Posobiec parents swatted. Now Rick Scott, FL Senator was swatted last night. Fox News Legal Analyst Johnathan Turley gets swatted after talking about it on air. GA Lt Governor was swatted as well. MTG is saying on X many more Republican officials report incidents.
Of course, the FBI is too busy chasing grandmothers who were let into Congress to even bother investigating.
It isn't even 2024 yet, shit's already getting crazy.
A while back I actually asked a former law enforcer about this because it has been bugging me a lot, too. I asked "Why don't they perform a sitrep before storming a civilian's house ready to shoot on sight?"
His response was and was not shocking...
To paraphrase, he simply said, "Because the system isn't designed to work that way".
That's pretty much EVERY government system at this point, most of them belong in the 1960s let alone anything this side of the millennium..
I think in the '60s they still allowed a little room for common sense.
These days it's all "we have a procedure" or "I followed policy" when the policy in question is either nonsensical or illegal on its face. It's like some shitty civil servant Nuremberg Defense.
At least there won't be any reason not to replace all these idiots with AI or robots when the technology is there. They are already blindly following a logic flowchart without any critical thinking or consideration of the larger implications of their actions, so we're not going to lose anything by just delegating the job to a robot.
Plenty of them are a little too eager to do it. This happens in the other english speaking countries were it looks to be done on purpose even in countries like the UK with strict gun control kids are getting swatted for playing with toy guns.
The conspiracy theorist in me believes that this was designed this way on purpose for the long game, and SWATTING has been normalised enough so that if the state did want to use it for nefarious purposes -- like the very info in OP's thread -- they could much more easily get away with it by blaming it on the pranksters while utilising those services to publicly execute whoever they wanted.