Many of you have followed our SWATTing ordeal over the last 10 months, but the larger stalking campaign against us has been so, so much worse and more insidious than we've publicly spoken about.
Silence isn't working, so here goes... 1/
If you've been along for this ride, you know my wife and I's home has been SWATTed by obsessed cyberstalkers 33 times. These criminals gather at new.onaforums.net, a website dedicated exclusively to their all-consuming fixation on trying to destroy our lives. 2/
What you didn't know is these criminals have been blasting us with harassing texts and voice-mails from literally thousands of spoofed phone numbers, dozens of times every day, for almost 5 years.
Among these threatening messages have been promises to SWAT our families. 3/
Last Tues, they made good on these threats and SWATTed my elderly parents for the first time at my rural childhood home.
Unlike the MPD, the County Sheriff's Department had no prior knowledge or experience with our SWATTings. They sent 6 armed deputies to surround the house. 4/
My mother and father, both in their mid 70's, were ordered by police to exit their front door with their hands in the air while guns were leveled at them.
Our stalkers have made many attempts on our lives, but last week, they tried to murder my parents in cold blood. 5/
We now know how our stalkers have SWATTed us so many times. Last week, out of the blue, @VICE dropped a simply excellent piece of investigative reporting into "Torswats," a criminal who runs an automated SWATTing "service." 6/ vice.com/en/article/k7z…
What we learned immediately after is our stalkers, who have been impersonating us thousands of times for years, used MY name to buy dozens of attacks on our home. They have spent well over a thousand dollars in their efforts to kill us and members of our family. 7/
From what we can tell, our stalkers used the personal information they've doxxed to open a Telegram account under my name and phone number, as well as a Gemini crypto wallet using my email address and possibly Social Security number which they've previously used for fraud. 8/
But as bad as all that is, the rest of their crimes are exponentially worse.
Last April, our stalkers escalated their campaign of terrorism by calling in a bomb threat against a conference I was attending just outside Detroit. Bomb-sniffing police dogs swept the hotel. 9/
Later last year, a bomb threat using my name was called into a hotel in Reno, NV, which is very strange because I've never even been to Reno. We haven't confirmed which, but it was most likely this incident from Nov 4th, a day we were also SWATTed. 10/ mynews4.com/news/local/hea…
Then, on Dec 10th, both the MPD and the Fire Dept received false calls to our home while we were out to dinner. Later that night, MPD came back again to inform us our stalkers had made a bomb threat against the Patti Labelle concert at Riverside. 11/ amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/11…
Two thousand people were evacuated from the theater, and several blocks of downtown MKE were shut down for hours. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost to the venue and Milwaukee taxpayers. There could have been a panic and a stampede. Lives could have been lost. 12/
Make no mistake here, this is domestic terrorism. Further, the stalkers after us are white supremacists and fascists. They picked Patti Labelle's performance because she is an African American icon, and her audience would be predominantly black. It was a hate crime. 13/
And it's not even the end of the bomb threats. They called in another threat against Miller Park for the home opener (I'm never calling it American Family Field, sorry) again using my name.
Twice now, local establishments I frequent have had bomb threats called into them. 14/
We're coming forward with all of this now because this isn't just about us anymore. We've been screaming for years to anyone and everyone in government and kaw enforcement that they're not dealing with "trolls" here. They are a nascent domestic terrorist cell. 15/
They have spent years self-radicalizing, escalating their attacks, and spinning ever-more insane conspiracy theories to justify and validate ever-more dangerous and violent acts against us.
And now, we've arrived at the point they're terrorizing entire cities in their quest. 16/
We've been down this road before and seen this playbook.
"GamerGate" started as anonymous online harassment campaign against a single female videogame journalist before metastasizing into a terrorist campaign against dozens of people. 17/
It was then weaponized by Stephen Bannon and transformed into QAnon, a delusional, anonymous, conspiracy-minded online hate mob that culminated in the January 6th Insurrection.
The time for law enforcement to confront these hate communities is when they're still in the crib. 18/
And it is long, LONG past time for our lawmakers to confront this online scourge head on and update our laws to reflect and address modern threats.
Please share far and wide. The best disinfect is and has always been sunlight. 19/19
Apparently the admin of OnAForums thinks it's funny to redirect his terrorism site to St. Jude's children's hospital.
Which is especially heinous because members have previously stolen the name of a child battling brain cancer while attacking us.
The "likes" on this thread are all out of wack to the views. Don't worry, we don't like it either.
A short FAQ.
-Yes, we contacted our reps at all levels of government.
-Yes, the FBI was contacted a year ago.
-Yes, we've talked to media.
-No, moving is not feasible or advisable.
We have strong reason to believe one of this terrorist cults members is either current or former law enforcement with access to government databases of private information. They have doxxed literally hundreds of people, often within minutes.
Move, and they'll just doxx us again.
Except now we're in a new city with no friends or neighbors, no support structure, and a new police force that has no experience with our repeated SWATTings, so when that first call comes in, we're right back to assault rifles, doors kicked in, and the real threat of death.
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