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.”
What about Alefantis’ Istagram account, where he posted a picture of a small child, with #chickenlover (or something like that, which means boy lover).
I thought it was illegal to display art of sex with children?
Why is he so powerful? Sleeping with someone doesn’t give them power.
How powerful is Media Matters?
>>> The McCann sketches(which I have said time and time again) were two different sketches(each one from a different composite artist) of THE SAME SUSPECT. Not two suspects. ONE SUSPECT. <<<
As I understood it, they were composites from the descriptions of TWO different witnesses, whom police ASSUMED was a single suspect.
Don’t have a clue and we will never know.
“IMHO, “this story” (the “pizzagate” story) is a tangent folks in Reddit’s “The Donald” forum stumbled onto (either accidentally or by misdirection) when they found an image file name “pizza.jpg” attached to an email in the “Podesta Emails” that were released by Wikileaks.
I examine/debunked the assertion there was a hidden Zip file in Pizza.jpg here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3495383/posts?page=181#181
But then folks read a bunch of emails that had various references to “Pizza” - and presto, the fixation of “pizzagate”, centered on the Pizza “code”, fed by some of the typical rainbow reprobate stuff you’d expect to be self-documented by the Commit Pizza crowd, was born.”
No, this pizzagate thing was going on for at least 2 weeks before that thread. The “pizza code” came first, from an anonymous 4chan poster, then people started searching for any email in the Podesta archive that had the words from the supposed code in it and trying to find a way to interpret them as something nefarious. That is why they were looking for hidden information in the “pizza.jpg” photo in the first place.
Others have pointed out the police sketches above were really of just one suspect initially, not two… but it is also two sketches from two different witnesses, so that doesn’t prove anything about how many perpetrators there actually were.
From the daily sheeple
Why does it seem shocking for some people to learn that many homosexuals are interested in sex with children? Really? What planet have you been living on?
We know there are pedo rings and there have been major busts. Someone runs them. We know high ranking politicians have been involved in underage sex scandals. I am surprised so many people say pizzagate is fake news. Sounds like it is at least quite possible.
Reddit and 4chan claim that chickenlover means boylover, however there is no source to back up that claim beyond reddit or 4chan. Yawn.
These folks are Austinites so I consider them guilty and thus worthy of death.
Walling off Austin is not enough.
Think neutron bombs.
I don’t doubt it. Remember the story of the blind men and the elephant? - it's kinda like that.
Trying to make sense of Pizza.jpg was where I started paying attention - so that’s where my perspective originates.
What do the Podesta emails document? It appears they document the internal communications of, and relationships within, the Clinton Foundation.
You’re asking for “proof” of related trafficking? It’s in Iraq.
Iraq is a source and destination country for women and children subjected to sex
trafficking, and men, women, and children subjected to forced labor. The
escalation of the conflict in 2014 with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) gravely increased the vulnerability of the population to trafficking, in
particular women and children. ISIL militants continue to kidnap thousands of
women and girls from a wide range of ethnic and religious groups, with a
significant focus this past year on the Yezidi community, and sell them to ISIL
fighters in Iraq and Syria where they are subjected to forced marriage, sexual
slavery, rape, and domestic servitude; there are reports ISIL executes captives if
they refuse to marry fighters.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/iraq/231771/PDFs/2015-tip-report-iraq-narrative.pdf
I think that's what the larger scope leaked Podesta Emails were supposed to reveal - not this "pizzagate" side show. There were folks in the Reddit forum saying as much too: "follow the Clinton Foundation money".
"Truth is great and will prevail, unless disarmed of her natural weapons - free arguement and debate"
--Thomas Jefferson
People need to work through the material and see the truth with their own eyes. It's messy. It's emotional. It's necessary.
Normal humans get really angry when they think of spirit cooking perverts laughing about little kids in metal coffins - But we all need to breath and focus.
What do you think of Webb's work - supposedly following up what Eric Braverman said "follow the money" - before Braverman disappeared?
[Day 40 - Where is Eric Braverman?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbhni75jYio
Pizza con salchicha at East Side is code for muchacha’s from Mexico
I've been studying homosexuality since the 1990s. "ChickenHawk" is a well known term in the homosexual community that means an older man who wants to have sex with boys, and the preference is for young boys.
The Homosexual community has long had a series of code words, phrases and symbology that is not well known beyond their community.
Everyone is familiar with the "Ear Ring" symbology. This stuff runs through and through the queer community.
“Reddit and 4chan claim that chickenlover means boylover, however there is no source to back up that claim beyond reddit or 4chan. Yawn.”
And if there was a source to back up the claim beyond 4chan would you believe something wrong is going on? Probably not. Well, “ChickenLover” is actually much worse than “boylover”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(gay_slang)
“Culture and Family Issues”. Gay Talk: Chicken = a young recruit
1. any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality “So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sander’s (sic) plantation”
3. to SODOMIZE a pretty boy.
“Chickenhawk” also indicates a man who uses underage boys for his SEXUAL PLEASURE. The usage was publicized by members of the controversial group NAMBLA in the 1994 documentary film Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys,[6][7] although Time magazine reported it in this sense in 1975
Now that you know the real meaning, let it sink in what he meant by tagging the baby boy. Still yawning?
Did you see the "art" representing little children with leashes around their necks giving a BJ to an adult? Also the images that appear to show the children (with leashes) being disintegrated in some manner that implies their spirit leaving their body?
There is no way to spin that art as something mundane. It implies all kinds of really sick interpretations.
Good one!
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
FTA (by paragraph):
1. conspiracy theory, fake, misinterpretations, claimed, fake, believers, conspiracy
2. conspiracy theory
3. fictional, rabbit hole, falsely, debunked conspiracy theory
5. wild, baseless
Don’t you love the way the media are able to pronounce with absolute certainty that something is true or false? No investigation required.
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FreedomStar3028 appears to be using a new form of concern trolling.
Democrat scandal control 102.
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Exactly.
The liberal tactic will be that they will pretend to accuse a few innocent businesses, then show there is nothing bad going on there, and by association try to lump Comet Ping Pong in with those that are innocent.
Don’t fall for it.
Instead of “guilt by association”, they will attempt to prove “innocence by association”.
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Yup!
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