An Ugly Thought

     After reading Ashe Schow’s account of Matt Van Swol’s “SWATting,” a possibility occurred to me that I can’t dismiss. Indeed, the longer I dwell on it, the more plausible it becomes.

     Quite a few persons in the Right have been SWATted recently:

🧵 THREAD: Unmasking Swatting Patterns 🧵

Three additional MAGA X influencers got swatted today: @Beard_Vet , @matt_vanswol , @GrageDustin .

I used Grok to compile the following list of swatting victims and then ran it through both Grok and OpenAI’s deep research tools to find… https://t.co/mpuzUH2npt

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 17, 2025

     (There has also been a wave of false orders for home-delivery pizza aimed at conservatives with large public profiles. The Van Swols have been targeted that way, too.)

     This could well be intended to produce deaths in more than one way. Most plainly, a SWAT raid aimed at an innocent homeowner could bring about his demise and / or that of his family members at police hands. But somewhat less obviously, if SWATtings become sufficiently frequent, they could result in the police not showing up in response to a real attack on a conservative commentator. The Left’s activists have displayed enough propensity for violence to make that a significant possibility. Finally, ponder what could happen should a fraudulent late-night pizza delivery frighten an armed homeowner into responding to the banging on his door with gun in hand.

     Things are getting dangerous. Be alert. Be armed. And order any pizzas in-person at the pizzeria.