Man shoots up DC pizza joint over fake child sex ring story

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Man with assault rifle enters D.C.'s Comet Ping Pong, asking about "PizzaGate" Clinton rumor

"A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.

Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police detained a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina. The deputy mayor for public safety and justice said on Twitter the suspect has been identified as Edgar Maddison Welch."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-man- ... ing-story/
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The "pizzagate" theory originated on alternative message board 4chan [alt-right], based on emails hacked from the Democratic Party and leaked by Wikileaks.

The restaurant's owner, James Alefantis, a Democratic Party donor, appears in the emails in relation to organising a Democratic fundraiser.

Users of 4chan and another message board Reddit claimed that words in the emails, such as cheese, hot dog, and pizza, were code for young children and sex acts.

The bizarre and unfounded theory has been spread online by right-wing blogs such as Infowars, which is run by Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones.

Mr Jones, a conspiracy theorist and talk radio host, said Mr Trump called him the day after the election to thank him and his followers.

The theory was also pushed online by Michael Flynn Jr, son of General Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's choice for national security adviser.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38205885
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Clearly, potential violent reactions to these fake news stories and internet rumors means that we need common-sense regulations on First Amendment rights. I mean right now, anyone can walk into an electronics store, no questions asked and no background check, and walk out with a device powerful enough to broadcast high-volume false information all over the world in seconds.
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TheHunterOfSkulls wrote:Clearly, potential violent reactions to these fake news stories and internet rumors means that we need common-sense regulations on First Amendment rights. I mean right now, anyone can walk into an electronics store, no questions asked and no background check, and walk out with a device powerful enough to broadcast high-volume false information all over the world in seconds.

Lol. RoastinginAZ actually has a license to broadcast via radio
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The son of Michael Flynn, new National Security Advisor - Michael Flynn, Jr has been tossed off of the Transition Team for promoting Pizzagate.
Trump transition officials later told the New York Times that the firing was related to Flynn promoting fake news stories, including a baseless conspiracy theory that led a gunman to attack Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.


Trump’s team sought to downplay the younger Flynn’s role in the transition after CNN discovered on Monday that he had an official .gov email address, indicating that he was working for the transition team.

In an MSNBC interview on Tuesday morning, Vice President-elect Mike Pence claimed the younger Flynn “has no involvement in the transition whatsoever.” Later in the day, Pence reluctantly confirmed to CNN’s Jake Tapper that the transition team had requested a security clearance for him.

“Well, whatever the appropriate paperwork was to assist him in that regard, Jake, I’m sure was taking place,” Pence said. “But that’s no longer the case.”

Both Flynn and his father frequently share links and conspiracy theories from fake news sources, including allegations of Hillary Clinton’s “sex crimes.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mik ... feb0da2866
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Article was originally from the gun prohbition rag The Trace.
http://www.vice.com/read/how-did-the-pi ... nal-record
It's also not yet clear where, or how, Welch obtained his arsenal—an AR-15 rifle, a .38-caliber revolver, and a shotgun. But it appears that despite his rap sheet, he is not what the FBI or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives deem a "prohibited purchaser," someone flagged in the federal background check system as unfit to receive a firearm in a gun purchase or transfer.
Broadly speaking, convicted felons are not allowed to own or buy guns in the US. A federal background check form asks prospective buyers if they are "an unlawful user" of drugs or "addicted to a controlled substance"—a vague classification that can include misdemeanor drug offenses. In the last two decades, the FBI has blocked hundreds of thousands of people with records of drug possession or use from buying firearms.

It can sometimes take more than three days to sort out the specifics of a would-be buyer's drug record. If that happens, sales automatically go through—sometimes with calamitous results.
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Now the conspiracy theory has spread to New York and Austin pizza parlors.
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — The bizarre and wildly implausible conspiracy theory that led an armed North Carolina man to storm a Washington, D.C. pizzeria over the weekend is apparently sparking action against restaurants in other cities as well.
Roberta’s in Brooklyn has now received threatening phone calls as well, according to the Associated Press. Social media users have linked Roberta’s to Comet somehow, and the threatening calls have referenced emails from Clinton’s private server and a birthday party the Clintons once attended at the popular Brooklyn restaurant.
East Side Pies in Austin, Texas has reportedly been dragged into the conspiracy now. The pizza joint’s logo features an eye that social media posts have interpreted as a reference to the secret world-ruling “Illuminati.”
Noah Polk, co-owner of East Side Pies, told KEYE that the restaurant has been the subject of harassment and threats over the last couple of weeks. One of its delivery vehicles has been vandalized and a man recently attempted to livestream from the restaurant on Periscope because a woman was playing dominoes with her children.

Owen Shroyer of conspiracy theory website InfoWars posted a two-and-a-half our video on YouTube last week laying out his dubious evidence that East Side Pies is somehow involved in the Clinton-linked child sex ring, which, again, does not exist.
http://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/piz ... harassment

We now have a President Elect and his supporters that has never met a conspiracy theory they didn't like and believe.
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Is anyone else somewhat disconcerted about this post-truth reality we are living in? Cranks like Alex Jones should be wearing sandwich boards and selling pencils from a cup, but not only does he have a huge mouthpiece, he's managed to attract a huge number of similarly uninformed cretins to join him in his delusions. Shit like this keeps me up at night.
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DispositionMatrix wrote:The Trace
Speaking of fake news. It pains me to say that, when it comes to anti-gun propaganda, many of us on the Left are just as susceptible to fake news as the Right. People simply don't look critically at information when it supports their own views. Nor does it help that many on the Left are utterly ignorant on the topic of guns, which is perhaps why even the New York Times gets it wrong so often.
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rerack wrote:
DispositionMatrix wrote:The Trace
Speaking of fake news. It pains me to say that, when it comes to anti-gun propaganda, many of us on the Left are just as susceptible to fake news as the Right. People simply don't look critically at information when it supports their own views. Nor does it help that many on the Left are utterly ignorant on the topic of guns, which is perhaps why even the New York Times gets it wrong so often.
Thinking critically takes work, and most Americans are lazy.

Most Americans don't know that 90% of the media they consume is owned or controlled by only six transnational corporations. The lazy ones accept what they consume as far as media goes.

This "new" shit cannot be allowed to become normal.

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highdesert wrote:The son of Michael Flynn, new National Security Advisor - Michael Flynn, Jr has been tossed off of the Transition Team for promoting Pizzagate.
Trump transition officials later told the New York Times that the firing was related to Flynn promoting fake news stories, including a baseless conspiracy theory that led a gunman to attack Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.


Trump’s team sought to downplay the younger Flynn’s role in the transition after CNN discovered on Monday that he had an official .gov email address, indicating that he was working for the transition team.

In an MSNBC interview on Tuesday morning, Vice President-elect Mike Pence claimed the younger Flynn “has no involvement in the transition whatsoever.” Later in the day, Pence reluctantly confirmed to CNN’s Jake Tapper that the transition team had requested a security clearance for him.

“Well, whatever the appropriate paperwork was to assist him in that regard, Jake, I’m sure was taking place,” Pence said. “But that’s no longer the case.”

Both Flynn and his father frequently share links and conspiracy theories from fake news sources, including allegations of Hillary Clinton’s “sex crimes.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mik ... feb0da2866
Yes, but dear old dad is still there, and he used his twitter , facebook , etc. To drive people to thia story his son posted, calling it a "Must Read"



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dandad wrote:Yes, but dear old dad is still there, and he used his twitter , facebook , etc. To drive people to thia story his son posted, calling it a "Must Read"
Yep, they were lucky to have spare scapegoat. Next time, and there will almost certainly be a next time, they'll have to talk themselves out of it. Or, perhaps the Donald can send out another outrageous tweet, a shiny lure to get the media to look in a different direction.
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