Posted on 12/07/2016 6:46:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
East Side Pies co-owner Noah Polk first heard of the conspiracy theory known as “pizzagate” around the time of the presidential election. The fake news story was started by an online community, fueled by misinterpretations of emails released by WikiLeaks, that claimed associates of Hillary Clinton were behind a child sex-trafficking ring headquartered at the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. The fake story turned into a real crime scene on Sunday when a gunman walked into that Washington restaurant and fired a shot. Now, Austin police are investigating harassment and vandalism that’s been waged against the local restaurant by believers of the “pizzagate” conspiracy.
For Polk’s restaurant, the conspiracy theory first hit home when someone he’d never met left a review on East Side Pies’ Facebook page. The comment mentioned “pizzagate” and Comet Ping Pong owner James Alefantis. It was the commenter’s second post in a few days. The first had referenced pedophilia.
That day Polk was also alerted to a thread on the message board Reddit suggesting East Side Pies might also be a part of the fictional sex-trafficking ring. Once he went down that internet rabbit hole, Polk was shocked to find myriad posts falsely tying East Side Pies to the debunked conspiracy theory.
East Side Pies is continuing to suffer sporadic harassment and name-calling via social media, and one of its delivery trucks was vandalized with a scrawled epithet.
The online posts have made wild and baseless accusations about East Side Pies. They interpreted the restaurant’s logo as a symbol of the “Illuminati,” questioned the meaning of photos of pizza-eating children on East Side Pies’ Facebook account, inferred that a picture of staffers with former Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell was proof of nefarious political ties and claimed co-owner Michael Freid, an alumnus of the Culinary Institute of America, had “connections to the CIA.”
“This is absolutely insane and unfounded and ridiculous,” Polk said Tuesday of his thoughts after reading the initial posts. “The dots they are trying to connect are so ludicrous. I was not happy about it.”
Polk said he became worried about the safety of his employees, as well as his restaurant’s reputation, and he contacted Austin police and the FBI on Monday.
Austin police on Wednesday confirmed that a report for criminal mischief had been filed Tuesday involving one of the restaurant’s vehicles. A police spokesman said profane and sexual statements had been carved into the vehicle in the 5300 block of Airport Boulevard. The complete report on the incident and additional details weren’t immediately available Wednesday.
The online targeting of East Side Pies had gained steam Saturday when Owen Shroyer — who hosts a live-streaming podcast called “Engage Liberty” and makes videos for the Austin-based conspiracy-fueled website Infowars.com — hosted a 21/2-hour broadcast detailing his visits to multiple East Side Pies locations.
In the broadcast uploaded to YouTube, Shroyer said he was “weirded out and creeped out” by his visits to East Side Pies. What he saw, he says, left him “gripping my gun tighter every night.”
The “weird stuff” he encountered? Employees with large-gauge piercings and blue hair, a “weird locked-up grate in the back” of one location, disturbing rock music and band fliers with “satanic” symbols. The “coup de grace,” according to Shroyer: two children playing dominoes in the presence of an adult.
He also thought the restaurant’s logo, a pizza in the shape of an eye, with the catchphrase “We know what you want,” was a nod to the Illuminati.
While the other accusations probably don’t require much explanation from a laid-back, family-friendly, rock-and-roll pizza joint in the Live Music Capital of the World, Polk offered a quick back-story on the name and logo.
Polk, who opened the restaurant with Freid in 2006, wanted to name the restaurant East Side Pies, written as three separate words. When he told a friend, the guy immediately quipped, “ESP. We know what you want.” Thus was born a clever piece of marketing, soon to be accompanied by a logo with a circular pizza minus a slice representing an eyeball.
Polk has received about a half-dozen calls over the past several days from people using unidentifiable phone numbers requesting interviews with East Side Pies management or ownership.
The co-owners refused the requests from the suspicious callers, because, in the words of Polk, “You argue with the fool, you’re the fool yourself.”
On Sunday, a North Carolina man was arrested in Washington, D.C., after entering Comet Ping Pong with a semi-automatic weapon and firing at least one shot. Police said he later told them he was “self-investigating” conspiracy theories about child slaves there. The incident, which made national news, reaffirmed to Polk that his instinct to contact law enforcement was correct.
“Luckily nobody got hurt during the shooting, but I do believe it’s come to light now, it’s a national story, about fake news,” Polk said. “I do believe people who’ve been on the fence or thought maybe there was something to it … now most thinking people will realize that this is fake and not to get behind it or think there is any truth to it.”
Freid and Polk said the false accusations and character assassination has been “alarming, disappointing, disconcerting and scary.”
“The biggest thing: It was unfair,” Freid said. “We have too many other things to do just to keep our business going every day. It’s completely unfounded and ludicrous. It is absolutely absurd.”
Not true, at all, and everyone knows it. The pedophiles in the Catholic church operated for decades before they were brought down. Since you obviously are so uninformed about such things, you should put a muzzle on if you can't control yourself. I mean anyone that knows anything at least knows about how many years that abuse went on, yet you rant endlessly like none of it ever happened.
If Comet Ping Pong and associates were conservatives, you would dismiss the “evidence.”
Wrong again, of course. Conservatives aren't like liberals that will circle their wagons, no matter how egregious the offense. Conservatives are the the first ones repulsed not only by abhorrent behavior, but by traitors to our cause, which is exactly why you are being labeled now. Guys like Hastert and Foley got zero support when they were found out. So again, either you were living under a rock and are amazingly ignorant on such matters, or they are beyond your ability to comprehend, or recall. Everyone else here remembers though, so expect further ridicule until you get up to speed, or learn some basic history before you speak again.
A traitor to our cause?
I don’t want to be part of a witch hunt. You know a guy showed up with a gun and threatened CPP employees the other day, right? Because of “pizzagate.”
You think it’s okay to accuse people of serious crimes without an official investigation, nor any evidence that would hold up in a court of law.
A traitor to our cause?!
You’re off your rocker, FRiend.
It’s because the DOJ, and law enforcement agencies around the country are THE biggest collectors and distributors of child pornography.
They don’t destroy it. They distribute it, and arrest the people they distribute it to. It’s money in all their pockets, keeps their salaries rolling in, keeps polygraphists in business, keeps counselors in business, all under the guise of “protecting children.” But when the child is unborn in a womb, they don’t care. Because there is no $ in protecting the unborn. Just killing them.
It’s everywhere. All progressive politicians are child molesters. Stay away from pizza places, pizza is code for child molestation.
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I think potential crimes should be investigated, and also think it’s clear that the mainstream media and FBI etc can’t be trusted to investigate right now. Apparently you do want everyone to shut up and not question anything, and just be quiet little zombies that do what they’re told, but as of today that’s more of a liberal mindset than a conservative one.
I also don’t advocate anyone taking up arms over this issue, but likewise I don’t think the media should just be able to whitewash this story without at least one tough interview of Podesta and this pizza shop owner. Until they do that, I won’t be surprised to see things further escalate, but if it does escalate it’s on the media for not properly putting the story to rest.
Alright. Fair is fair then.
How about I start investigating you. I find some “weird e-mails” and I make up some code words referencing official sources like the FBI without proof. Then I find a friend of yours on FB that you haven’t seen in a decade that has a picture of a kid with some random person you don’t know posting that your decade old friend is a “chickenlover.”
Then I post all that up on reddit, and 4chan claiming that you are a child molester, because WOW look at all this INCRIMINATING evidence. WOW look at this ART! It’s actually a sexual abuse victims art who has been in and out of psychiatric institutions for 20 years. But I won’t tell ANYONE that! I will control and spin the narrative, easily fooling tons of ignorant people to believe my lies. It’s entirely possible one of the people I fool is a crazy vigilante and shows up at your door one day shoving a gun in your face!
That’s fair and right and JUST! In fact, it should be ENCOURAGED!
Well I have to assume by taking on what could be paid trolls like you something like that coukd happen, don’t you think? No mattter, my soul is sound and my salvation is waiting, so your threats mean little to me.
But were it to happen I can assure you I would defend myself, unlike John Podesta, who seems to have gone missing of late. In fact he’s not been seen since this story really broke right after the election Yet not one media person seems to be looking for him either. Which is apparently how you like things, just let the nedia decide how to handle everything, and attack everyone who doesn’t fall in line. Such a boring existence, it must be, but to each his own.
The real question is, why do you spend more waking hours a day than most people are awake, “debunking” pedo pizza-gate? With the clear goal of shutting up the discussing, pretending that you are All Knowing?
You’re full of shit and probably several of you are pretending to be one person.
So you’re saying that all LE agencies including the DOJ are child pornography users.
Do tell.
And you call people concerned about pedo pizza gate crazy.
Just insane. I’ve never said anything about the media in any of this thread. Not once.
Just putting words in my mouth, and taking things out of context. Just like pizzagate supporters.
I said collectors and distributors.
Which is true.
I don’t spend more waking hours a day than most people are awake debunking anything. You can look at all my posts in this thread today, with time stamps, and clearly see that.
But keep lying.
I’m not pretending to be All Knowing, and have never claimed as such.
You have absolutely no reason to believe anything you just said to me. Absolutely none.
I’m just about done arguing with you and Golden Eagle.
I haven’t even come close to attacking you like you have me, and that’s also a fact.
Really? Tell that to Andrew Breitbart and check out his last posts only weeks before his death.
How large is your disinformation pay.
Jefferey who?Oh you mean the "fictional" guy,who doesn't exist in the minds of many here, who took Bubba to his private island 20 times and hillary at least six times where pedophilia is featured..Nahhh.... nothing to that. You are not supposed to chat about that. Move on to the budget, or the debt or something else. Reddit,Breitbart, Gateway,here,American Thinker and many other blogs are just gathering page hits there is no truth there. MSNBC told me its all fable. They are always right.
http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/11/huge-breakthrough-in-d-c-pedophilia-ring/
Here’s 30 or so references to Alefantis and his Comet Ping Pong pizza place.
Taken individually they are interesting but taken all together you have to be deaf dumb and blind not to get a pattern.
Of course there are those who just don’t want to see a pattern of pedophilia,now aren’t there.
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I. Implications James Alefantis is running a pedophile ring out of Comet Ping Pong
A. Sexual references made in Comet Ping Pong and by Alefantis online
First. Comet Ping Pong advertises itself as a “family place for parents and their kids”
This website here shows that a reviewer mentioned the presence of hidden doors in the establishment (it also revealed that the Food Network show host Guy Fieri has done an episode there). Link and screenshot of relevant portion here:
http://www.sashalordpresents.com/comet/
Despite it’s claim to be “family friendly” the restaurant has a number of disturbing sexual references inside and James Alefantis makes a number of references to pedophelia both overtly and implicitly online. Alefantis actually posted a photo of an “art” photo piece which appears to show a man vaginally penetrating what could be an underage girl. I have decided not to share it here but it has been archived. He has since deleted the photo.
EDIT: People suggested I post an edited version of the photo. Here it is, with all NSFW parts removed:
Here is a photo showing the inside of Comet Ping Pong where graffiti saying “shut up and fuck” and “Amen” are clearly visible:
He posted a disturbing image of a little girl taped down to a table in Comet Ping Pong:
He joked about purchasing infants:
Here he posted a photo featuring a man wearing a shirt that says “I love children” in French:
Here he reference a “boom boom room” which sounds disturbingly like a play on the phrase “boom boom” used by foreign prostitutes to describe sex:
More on the above photo:
A photo showing children engaged in some strange ceremony or ritual:
Another odd photo someone tagged at Comet Ping Pong:
Here Alefantis posted a photo of a man with a yellow bead necklace around the head of a young boy. A quick search reveals yellow sex bracelets imply analingus, and the hashtag #chickenlovers in the instagram post is a pedophile reference to adult men who are attracted to underage boys. Links below:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sex%20bracelets
B. References to pizza in a was that is either sexual or involved children
Alefantis and others clearly use the term “pizza” to allude, at the very least to sex (I believe it to mean sex with minors). Here are a number of references from Alefantis and others tagged at Comet Ping Pong making sexual innuendos about pizza and children:
C. Innuendos to systematic child abuse and trafficking
Comet Ping Pong’s posters for the “concerts” played at their venue show references to abuse and pedophilia.
Here is an poster which may refer to the out of body experience children have when experiencing extreme abuse:
Here is one showing a band called the “Lolitas” played at Comet Ping Pong:
More disturbingly Alefantis has posted a number of photos showing very suspicious rooms, construction of underground chambers and openly joked about “filling them” with his friends on Instagram.
Here is a photo Alefantis posted showing men digging a hole. Him and his friends joke about “filling it” and a commenter claims his hole has “been full for quite some time now.” They also joke about doing a “line up” at the hole in the near future.
Another photo he posted appears to shows a large freezer, which could appear to be a location used for some kind of imprisonment or torture. Commenters on the photo joke “rinse it off when you’re done” and “kill room.”
The man who commented “kill room” on the above photo has a number of images on his Instagram appearing to show he makes child sized coffins:
Here is a disturbing Wikileaks email where a “torture chamber” is referenced:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56492
Finally, people have noticed that pro-Hillary groups own ALL the properties on the block where Comet Ping Pong is located.
As noted in the previous picture, some of the company logos of nearby groups who have offices near Comet Ping Pong look similar to known images used by pedophiles as per this FBI document:
What can we do about this?
It seems fairly likely that the DC police and FBI will not do anything about this situation. Raise public awareness! Our best tool to combat the people in power on this issue is to build publicity until the public demands a change. Get the word out!
Credits to all the anons on /pol/ who have been working around the clock on this, as well as our own nimble navigators, especially /u/dota2_scrub who found the Soros/Obama documentation.
EDIT: /u/omfgzlolz has pointed out that “ping ponging” is sexual slang for a threesome.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ping+pong&defid=1386116
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The odds of every person in a position of authority in the DOJ, and all LEO agencies, being purveyors-for-profit of child porn is zero.
The odds that some of the highest ranking members of government are active in child abuse/porn, and are thus in a position to shut down any investigation that starts uncovering the rot, is ~99.9%. Otherwise, a few mos’ investigative effort that uncovered 5,200 felons would have exploded into by far the biggest scandal of our lives.
Just fake news stories. Nobody printed a thing about Pizzagate but not everyone is talking how FAKE it is.
I didn’t think there was any evidence but the MSM sure seems in a panic.
And... you are correct that is what is happening.
Notice the huge emphasis on immediately declaring it faux news with no need to cover "that". Whenever you see that,a rush "not" to cover something, know that there "is" need to cover "that".
Maybe not, but people are rightfully judged on their actions, not just their words. And it's obvious you've spent every one of your long hours here carrying the media's water for them by attacking Freepers, insisting that anyone who just wants the media or law enforcement to ask a few basic questions of these bizzare people (at best) are somehow the problem, instead.
So go ahead and keep trying to twist this into a story about what a great job the lazy/corrupt media is doing, and how horrible we all are for not quietly going along, but most every true conservative sees this differently. And how you've already tried to misrepresent how we conservatives would react if the shoe was on the other foot, shows you're clearly not one of us either.
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