“Q” is a secret anonymous deep state individual with the highest security clearance. He (or she) is sending cryptic messages to his followers – the adherents to the Qanon conspiracy theory. According to him the Mueller investigation is fake and actually run by Trump in order to uncover a coup attempt by Obama, Clinton and others involved in such things a child sex trafficking. No, I didn’t make this up! Q supporters are now showing up at Trump rallies promoting violence. Q has not been mentioned by Trump one way or the other so far except to say they don’t condone violence.
Another bizarre and so sad theory is that the Sandy Hook killings were faked. Alex Jones, a powerful media commentator has promoted this theory which has influenced his followers to harass the mourning families. From the NYT: “In the five years since Noah Pozner was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., death threats and online harassment have forced his parents, Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, to relocate seven times. They now live in a high-security community hundreds of miles from where their 6-year-old is buried.
“I would love to go see my son’s grave and I don’t get to do that, but we made the right decision,” Ms. De La Rosa said in a recent interview. Each time they have moved, online fabulists stalking the family have published their whereabouts.”
The family is finally suing Jones, however he has filed a counter suit for defamation of character. So much hate and harm has been done that You Tube and Facebook have finally taken Jones postings off their sites. Click here for the full article.
I saw an interview lately where the harms of Facebook were felt to be greater than the benefits – and that it should be closed. What do you think? What kind of policing of “free speech” is realistic, useful and adherent to the first amendment? How can facts so easily get distorted or even disappear?
Read “Messing With the Enemy” by Clint Watts.