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How an Internet conspiracy theory led a gunman into a DC pizza parlor
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Posted on 12/05/2016 10:37:32 AM PST by Scythian_Reborn

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman may have lost his handkerchief on Martha’s Vineyard one day in September 2014 – and two years later that incident has spawned a convoluted conspiracy theory involving a supposed pedophilia ring run out of a Washington, D.C., pizza joint.

How we got from John Podesta’s hankie to claims of a child sex ring – and an armed man arrested Sunday at the pizza parlor attempting to “investigate” the claims – is a disjointed tale that reveals how a toxic Internet story is born, fed and spread without evidence.

Edgar Maddison Welch, a 28-year-old North Carolina man, was arrested Sunday afternoon on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, after police say he fired his rifle into the floor of the pizza place. No one was hurt, but the incident sent customers running. Welch, who told authorities he went to the establishment to “self-investigate” the sex ring claims, allegedly was spotted looking for rumored tunnels filled with hidden children, a nearby store owner told The Washington Post.

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To: Vic S
"James Alefontes (runs Comet Ping Pong) name in French translates to J’aime L’enfants, or I love children. Probably not his real name."

Gosh, it should be easy enough to find out if that is his real name. Must have gone to high school (college?) somewhere, no?

61 posted on 12/05/2016 12:21:00 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: 91B40
Didn’t the Rats once say (re Iran-Contra) that, “The very fact that there is no evidence means that we must investigate?”

The Dems love to say that. Jill Stein said it just a few days ago:

She demanded a recount.
Why? Were their irregularities in the voting?
No ... no evidence of that ... but you'd need a recount to be sure, right?

62 posted on 12/05/2016 12:22:13 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: El Cid
I'm coming over there to strangle you. For real. Just kidding.
63 posted on 12/05/2016 12:27:21 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The pizza restaurant owners Instagram before being taken down

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wStAfQuzf1U&feature=youtu.be


64 posted on 12/05/2016 12:29:41 PM PST by HollyB
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To: ilovesarah2012
The media has declared the story false though none have said how they know the story is false. I really dont trust CNN or MSNBC.

That is one of the biggest lessons out of the 2016 election cycle: The presstitutes work for BIG BROTHER.

If Big Brother tells them the Earth is green cheese, that will be the headline story on the evening news.

65 posted on 12/05/2016 12:33:16 PM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: Timpanagos1

We will have to follow up.


66 posted on 12/05/2016 12:34:18 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Vic S

Actually James in French is James. Or Jammes. Or even Jacques, it ain’t J’Aime. And as for Alefontes no, that doesn’t “translate” to anything in any language. This isn’t good investigative work, it’s pure idiocy. It’s Bible Code ridiculousness where you guys make up “evidence” based on pure hokum, and now you’re getting random idiots firing off guns in pizza parlors.


67 posted on 12/05/2016 12:39:27 PM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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To: Timpanagos1
said, "How about they start with some actual evidence?"

Laura Silsby was convicted of Child human trafficking out of Haiti the Clinton foundation helped got her off. This was done by the assistance of a lawyer that was prosecuted for pedophilia. Laura Silsby founded the company "New Life Children's Refuge."

There is clearly evidence of criminal activity with regard to the pizzagate. The question is where do you go from here? Can we find more victims linked to this racket? I don't know of any I haven't seen them as of yet. That is why it needs to be investigated.

What we're doing is looking at this from the inside out rather then finding victims that trace back to this group.

68 posted on 12/05/2016 12:55:12 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Scythian_Reborn

Thank goodness it’s all just conspiracy since Sasha Obama’s parents are moving her into a house two doors down from a pizza owner’s house filled with sick perverted child porn artwork and spirit cooking dinners. Still, it might be advisable not to pick the bedroom on that side of the house.

Thank goodness there’s no reason to question why that house has changed owners so many times. Hey, Podesta’s just another guy in the neighborhood.


69 posted on 12/05/2016 12:58:00 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: marstegreg

This guy’s got a pretty well laid out article and it does include Brock http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/11/james-achilles-alefantis-and-his-comet-ping-pong-network/


70 posted on 12/05/2016 12:59:29 PM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

“Can we find more victims linked to this racket?”

More victims?

There is not even a first victim.


71 posted on 12/05/2016 12:59:51 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1
Said, "There is not even a first victim"

The courts have already prosecuted Laura Silsby for the trafficking of 33 Haitian children. It was the children's parents that went to their local police of there children being abducted.

72 posted on 12/05/2016 1:12:22 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Vic S

Here’s a guy who went to Comet Pizza just to see and got tossed out within moments. There’s three parts to the videos. The second one has him going to Besta Pizza and again he was tossed within moments but not before he noticed some weird creepy stuff and the child sex symbol. What business owner opens his pizza joint right next to another pizza joint?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaHl7BL9zhU

Wow, what a dump Comet Ping Pong is. Nasty filthy. Walls dirty and paint peeling. What employee doesn’t know what a Foosball table is and doesn’t know if it is free or customers have to pay for games. Obviously no one ever plays so the games are nothing but props. That was some kind of weird. More weirdness is the restrooms. The health dept. should be all over that place.

It just so happens it’s located by a school bus stop.

What’s the odds of at least two of the businesses on the block had owners named to the top 50 powerful people in DC?


73 posted on 12/05/2016 1:13:20 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Steve Van Doorn

How is Laura Silsby connected to this pizza place?

Did she take kids from Haiti to the pizza place?

Did she work at the pizza place?

Has she ever ordered from this pizza place?


74 posted on 12/05/2016 1:23:41 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1
The shooter, Edgar Maddison Welch, is an imbecile, probably too stupid to stand trial.

He sounds like one of those guys that the Clinton campaign used to start trouble at Trump events as documented by O'Keefe's Project Veritas.

Maybe he was sent to create a news story that would benefit Podesta and the the Clinton camp.

75 posted on 12/05/2016 1:24:27 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing
Maybe he was sent to create a news story that would benefit Podesta and the the Clinton camp.

Please!

If there's something true in the story, why would Podesta and Clinton want to give it more publicity?

And if there's nothing in the story, isn't that all the more reason why they'd want it to die, rather than bringing it to wider attention?

76 posted on 12/05/2016 1:31:23 PM PST by x
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To: Vic S
Thanks for the link. Informative video.

Speaking of symbols, this one is a creepy one that had a lot of discussion in Sandy Hook. It's the name of a hair salon there.


77 posted on 12/05/2016 1:40:03 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Timpanagos1
Laura Silsby is connected to the Clinton foundation.
Monica Petersen was murdered in Hatti while investigating the Clinton foundation and the abducted children.

Looking at a pizza company or a building it's anyway of conducting an investigation. You have to look at who is involved with the children being abducted. In this case with regard to the pizza company that would be James Alefantis who owns these places

78 posted on 12/05/2016 1:46:29 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Scythian_Reborn

http://wearechange.org/internet-sleuths-convinced-podestas-kidnappers-police-sketches/


79 posted on 12/05/2016 1:49:35 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: WayneS

The guy shoots into the floor because he believes there might be tunnels full of kidnapped children...under the floor. Is he a:
1) dangerous moron from the Tinfoil Planet;
2) false flag operator;
3) recipient of the same training that led federal LE to burn down the Branch Davidian compound to help the children inside.

(I’m going with #1.)


80 posted on 12/05/2016 1:51:04 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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