Те, кто раскручивает QAnon (особенно если они сидят на берегах Невы), должны особенно радоваться, когда им удаётся сподвигнуть членов культа не только на посты в Интернете, но и на активные действия.
Oath Keepers president Stewart Rhodes has thrown his weight behind a conspiracy theorist who’s been nicknamed “Screwy Louie” by other members of the militia movement and who's made allegations that are too wild even for the king of conspiracy theories, Alex Jones. Rhodes, whose group claims to be made up of tens of thousands of current and former law enforcement and military personnel, posted a “call to action” on the Oath Keepers website on June 6, telling his members to go to Arizona to help with an “operation” begun last month by Michael Meyer, who commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur. Meyer’s group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), claimed to have uncovered evidence of child sex trafficking at an abandoned industrial site near Tucson, Arizona, and that law enforcement was not taking the situation seriously. His group has also claimed to have discovered what it said was a “child’s skull” in the desert miles away from the site. Local and federal law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told BuzzFeed News they investigated the matter and found no evidence of crimes at what was likely a homeless encampment. The local sheriff’s department released a statement saying the skull found was that of an adult. <...> Alex Jones, whose website InfoWars routinely markets some of the wildest fictions to a massive audience, threw cold water on the notion of a child trafficking ring in Tucson last week. (Facing a potential lawsuit, Jones apologized last year for his website’s role in promoting Pizzagate.) Jones said in a June 8 note posted to InfoWars that he believes what law enforcement on the ground has said about the matter <...> Jones claimed the Arizona operation is designed to discredit people, like himself, who believe that "globalists and multi-national corporations" are involved in sex trafficking rings. He called the Arizona situation a "honeypot" and urged his audience to stay away from it. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/12/oath-keepers-boss-stewart-rhodes-goes-all-conspiracy-theory-too-wild-even-alex-jones
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Антиправительственная организация Oath Keepers насчитывает десятки тысяч членов (и, можно сказать, стволов): https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1367314.html?thread=45350162#t45350162
Ныне они рыщут в Аризоне в поисках свидетельств теории заговора, которую Алекс Джонс признал нелепой выдумкой.
Oath Keepers president Stewart Rhodes has thrown his weight behind a conspiracy theorist who’s been nicknamed “Screwy Louie” by other members of the militia movement and who's made allegations that are too wild even for the king of conspiracy theories, Alex Jones.
Rhodes, whose group claims to be made up of tens of thousands of current and former law enforcement and military personnel, posted a “call to action” on the Oath Keepers website on June 6, telling his members to go to Arizona to help with an “operation” begun last month by Michael Meyer, who commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur.
Meyer’s group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), claimed to have uncovered evidence of child sex trafficking at an abandoned industrial site near Tucson, Arizona, and that law enforcement was not taking the situation seriously. His group has also claimed to have discovered what it said was a “child’s skull” in the desert miles away from the site.
Local and federal law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told BuzzFeed News they investigated the matter and found no evidence of crimes at what was likely a homeless encampment. The local sheriff’s department released a statement saying the skull found was that of an adult. <...>
Alex Jones, whose website InfoWars routinely markets some of the wildest fictions to a massive audience, threw cold water on the notion of a child trafficking ring in Tucson last week. (Facing a potential lawsuit, Jones apologized last year for his website’s role in promoting Pizzagate.)
Jones said in a June 8 note posted to InfoWars that he believes what law enforcement on the ground has said about the matter <...>
Jones claimed the Arizona operation is designed to discredit people, like himself, who believe that "globalists and multi-national corporations" are involved in sex trafficking rings. He called the Arizona situation a "honeypot" and urged his audience to stay away from it.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/12/oath-keepers-boss-stewart-rhodes-goes-all-conspiracy-theory-too-wild-even-alex-jones