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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: Scythian_Reborn

Bttt.

5.56mm


81 posted on 12/05/2016 1:51:10 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: HollyB

Everytime you turn around there’s an actor somewhere in these type events.


82 posted on 12/05/2016 1:52:03 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Stingray51

The media keeps saying the fake news is saying Hillary Clinton and Podesta were trafficking children. I have yet to read where anyone has accused Hillary of trafficking children. They are not being honest about any of this.


83 posted on 12/05/2016 1:52:16 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012
said, "I have yet to read where anyone has accused Hillary of trafficking children."
Hillary headed the Clinton Foundation at the time she helped release Laura Silsby from prison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Life_Children%27s_Refuge_case
84 posted on 12/05/2016 2:00:50 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: ilovesarah2012

I share your confusion. Local Fox station said at all broadcasts today that the so-called fake news had implicated Hillary Clinton in running a child-sex ring from the location. I’d challenge the Fox station to show one citation to substantiate that claim. Never heard it until they broadcast it.

Also, calling something a fake news story requires that the objective news reporter explain why the adjective is used.


85 posted on 12/05/2016 2:01:40 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

PizzaGate is an internet conspiracy unlike the allegations that the Pennsylvania voting machines may have been hacked. /S


86 posted on 12/05/2016 2:02:14 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

The Comet website lists Media Matters on their “friends” list and MM was founded by David Brock. How does a pizza restaurant owner end up in the big leagues if D.C.?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/02/david_brock_paid_gay_lover_850_thousand_in_hush_money.html


87 posted on 12/05/2016 2:26:18 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Nothing accused Hillary of trafficking children.


88 posted on 12/05/2016 2:28:58 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Welch’s couchsurfing page - “Countries I’ve Lived In Haiti, United States”

https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/madddog


89 posted on 12/05/2016 2:33:08 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Chad N. Freud
Edgar Maddison Welch just came from Haiti working with his father who is the executive director of "protect-a-child." His father seems like a good man.

The whole thing looks like pieces to a very large puzzle

90 posted on 12/05/2016 2:39:16 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

It is quite a leap from Laura Silsby to the DC pizza place.

BTW- Did Edgar Maddison Welch while he was running around the pizza place pointing guns at people and firing his weapon in a crowded restaurant find any victims of child trafficking or evidence that child trafficking was being organized out of the pizza place?

If not, why not?


91 posted on 12/05/2016 2:39:23 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: bgill

yes, I just read that to. very odd. Don’t know what to make of this. Edgar Maddison Welch is a failed actor and is in trouble with the law over a traffic accident.


92 posted on 12/05/2016 2:44:25 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Chewbarkah

I’m going with:

4) All of the above.


93 posted on 12/05/2016 3:00:17 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Timpanagos1

Perhaps because he wasn’t aware of the secret doors. Seriously. Watched a video today of the place. The restrooms don’t have signs or door knobs or hinges on the outside. One doesn’t notice the doors because they’re blended in with the wall and must be pushed on to open.


94 posted on 12/05/2016 3:06:41 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Chewbarkah; Steve Van Doorn

Ted Gunderson, FBI, said they actually found the McMartin case tunnels. Make of it what you will.

This is too much coordinated smoke.


95 posted on 12/05/2016 3:06:57 PM PST by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: Sontagged
Parts of this story doesn't make much sense.

The time line has no mention of a guy with a weapon. It wasn't until after he was captured that they found a weapon AR-15. No mention of a shooting while he was in the building only after he left. The witnesses doesn't say anything about a shooting or a guy with a gun.

96 posted on 12/05/2016 3:26:36 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: bgill

It would appear hat the entire reason he went into the pizza place, sticking a gun in people’s faces and discharging his weapon was to find evidence of tunnels and hidden cells where children were held.

It does not seem he found any thing like that.

The only cell he will find is his prison cell.


97 posted on 12/05/2016 3:35:14 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

That street is covered with cameras. I bet you will not find him on Camera walking into the pizza place with a weapon. An AR-15 which is hard to not notice.


98 posted on 12/05/2016 3:40:06 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

What’s the name of it? Oh yeah, false flag operation. As a Christian, I believe the more we truly ask the Lord to expose this dangerous hoaxing of the American people... He will expose it.


99 posted on 12/05/2016 3:41:26 PM PST by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

The traffic camera right outside of the place was taken down yesterday or the day before.


100 posted on 12/05/2016 3:46:55 PM PST by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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