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Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Swatting is Not Funny, Swatting is a Murder Attempt

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2026

“Swatting is not harmless. It is a serious crime that can lead to dangerous situations and divert law enforcement away from someone facing an actual emergency. What callers may believe to be a ‘joke’ actually risks the public safety of our communities and can carry lifelong consequences for those responsible”

-Attorney General Nessel (2026), Michigan Department of Attorney General

Attorney General Nessel quote

Previous Parts:

2026-10-12 Intercontinental Brigading - Part I - The Failed Attempt to 'Swat' Our Series About the Attacks and Crimes Committed Against Us
2026-10-13 Intercontinental Brigading - Part II - An Outline of This Series
2026-10-14 Intercontinental Brigading - Part III - Reporting Harassment From America to British Police
2026-10-16 Intercontinental Brigading - Part IV - Harassment Registered With the Police Before Projection Attempts Made From America
2026-10-16 Intercontinental Brigading - Part V - Keeping Linux Under Users' Control, Not Microsoft's (NSA) Control, Leads to Weaponisation of Cops (Killing the Messengers)
2026-10-17 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
2026-10-18 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VII - Weekend Abuse Reported to British Police (Rogue Actors Take No Breaks)
2026-10-19 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VIII - How We Convinced British Police That the Americans Were Just Manipulating and Tricking Them at the Expense of British Taxpayers

This series concerns swatting attempts dating back to 2023 and 2024. What we call the GGG brigade ("Restricted Boot" Garrett, "Microsoft Plagiarism" Graveley & "Gas The Jews" Lozza) attempted swatting against my wife and I. It was attempted from across the ocean. And "fwiw," a reader has reminded us, "'swatting' == attempted murder-by-cop ; it is not by any means a prank..."

'Working' (or 'pranking') from afar gives them protection from liability. They can lie to cops and to courts here in Britain without risk of being arrested for it. Last night, for example, Garrett was mocking someone from Australia for not coming to a hearing [1, 2]. In this particular outcome, Garrett is "on the same side" as Reform UK - a pyrrhic victory. How very tactless of Garrett; he himself failed to show up for 7 days of his own hearings (all of them!), so this is projection and hypocrisy. His strangling friend from Microsoft never showed up for any of his own hearings either. Maybe they think it's "funny". It's anything but funny/acceptable for the British taxpayers.

In cross-examination, after Garrett had chosen to swear on the Bible, I could ask but did not ask him if swatting was also 'funny' to him. He would probably have evaded the question anyway. He fancies a bit of gore. Violence is a "joke" to him.

GMP

Later this week I'll share a lengthy PDF I sent to British Police after attempted (very botched) swatting. It was an attempt by Lozza.

Garrett still talks to Lozza these days, sometimes in the open too. Garrett's hired guns are very uncomfortable about this. And what with all the racism [1, 2], which includes their primary client [1, 2].

Garrett still despises me because I criticised back doors including Restricted Boot, which he is promoting. He promotes all sorts of other Microsoft back doors [1, 2] and this week his spouse openly says that "he doesn't know how to use computers". That's right. After more than a week of hard work he could not even fix his own laptop. He's all bark, he cannot bite. But he barks a lot and foams at the mouth.

People who say "secure boot" is for security are on Microsoft's payroll and cannot even secure their own blogs.

Lawfare is weaponisation of courts (e.g. for "revenge" after being exposed as a strangler of women). Swatting is weaponisation of cops. When done from overseas there's no accountability.

These people's violence fetish extends to pets [1, 2]. █

'Fuck you vigorously with a chainsaw. Your continual whining and conspiracy theories have done more to encourage me to stab people to death than anyone else in recent history.' -Matthew Garrett

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