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‘Someone Wanted to Get Me Killed’: Rep. Greene Responds to Being
‘Swatted’ 2 Nights in a Row

https://www.theepochtimes.com/someone-wanted-to-get-me-killed-rep-greene-responds-to-being-swatted-2-nights-in-a-row_4689679.html

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was sound asleep in her Floyd
County home when the doorbell and knocks on her front door woke her
up. There were flashlights and people outside her bedroom window.

Quickly, she jumped out of bed, got dressed, and walked to the front
door. By instinct, she reached for her gun, although something told
her to put it down.

The decision to not take her gun may have saved her life.

At her front porch were five police officers with their guns ready.
They told the confused congresswoman that they were responding to a
report of a fatal shooting at her house—a man shot five times in a
bathtub, with a woman and children still in the residence—indicating
violence could escalate.

“I think you got swatted,” the police told Greene after they realized
what was happening. Swatting, the act of using prank calls to send
tactical police to the victim’s home, is a federal crime and has
previously led to serious consequences.

“So what that is is someone wanted to get me killed,” Greene said on
“Capitol Report,” a program on The Epoch Times’ sister outlet NTD.
“They wanted to send the police to my house, into a situation where
they thought there was murder happening, in hopes the police would
kill me or someone else in my home.”

The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Aug. 24, would mark
the first of two successive swatting attempts in 26 hours targeting
Greene over her stance on transgender issues.

In the first prank call, the caller claimed to be from a Virginia
crisis line. After the police responded to the report, the suspect
called back using a computer-generated voice, saying they were
connected with a website called “kiwifarm.net,” a site that supports
cyberstalking, according to the police report shared with The Epoch
Times. The person said they were upset about Greene’s position on
“trans-gender youth’s rights.”

Greene a week earlier had proposed a legislation called the “Protect
Children’s Innocence Act,” which would make it a class C felony for
anyone to knowingly perform medical treatment on a minor meant to
alter their biological sex. The penalty under her bill is 10 to 25
years in prison with a maximum fine of $250,000.
Congress Greene Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks to the media
during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July
20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Speaking about her bill on Thursday morning, the lawmaker appeared
unflinching. “We need to protect kids and allow them to grow up before
they make these life-altering decisions that can never be undone,”
Greene said.

A second fake shooting call came the following day just before 3 a.m.
In the call, made through an internet chat, a person claiming to be
Wayne Greene said they “came out as transgender,” had shot their
family members, and threatened to turn the gun on themself, according
to a. Aug. 25 police report.

“If anyone tries to stop me from shooting myself, I will shoot them,”
said the caller, who warned that “they would be waiting for us,” the
report stated.

Two officers went to Greene’s home and alerted her to the situation at
her front door.

The police couldn’t determine the caller’s location due to the person
using a VPN, a tool that encrypts a user’s internet history, according
to the report.

Greene expressed gratitude for the local law enforcement’s handling of
the incidents.

“They are on the ball, and they definitely know what’s happening now,”
she said, adding that she has deep trust in the local officers and
feels “very safe” with them.

But such an abuse of police resources has to stop, Greene said, noting
that her local police department is now hiring an additional 18
officers.

“They’re already undermanned, so they don’t need to be coming to my
house for someone who’s trying to politically target me, they need to
be able to respond to any other serious situation in our area,” she
said.

Greene accused the mainstream media of being “complicit” in what
happened to her. Recent news headlines have painted her as “targeting
trans kids, which is such a horrible lie,” she said, noting that some
former transgender youths have come out to share their regret in
public.

“They went through the hormones that have changed their voices
forever, puberty blockers that will give them lifelong problems like
low bone density and chemical castration. These are serious things,”
she said. “But the mainstream media, the way they lie about me, they
are targeting me in such a dangerous way that they may get me killed.”

“It’s coming to a point where I may start having to sue them for what
they’re causing people to think about me,” she added.