We finally hear from the ‘QAnon Shaman’: He’s not who you think he is, both in terms of what he did and where he came from

American Thinker ^ | 03/05/2021 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

If there is one person who became the living emblem of the incursion into the Capitol on January 6, it is the man dubbed the “QAnon Shaman.” Jacob Chansley showed up in several pictures with his face painted red, white, and blue; his body covered with shamanistic tattoos; and his head attired with a fur hat sporting large horns. This horror, the media told America, was the living emblem of the evil, racist Trump supporters who were committing a deadly, armed insurrection against the seat of the American government.

Interestingly, the best evidence that, as is often the case, Democrats’ narrative was a lie came from a video The New Yorker published. It shows that Chansley is an odd bird, but obviously was not acting violently. Instead, he engages very politely with a Capitol Hill police officer:

Because of Chansley’s costume (which he’s worn before – and more on that later), he was easy to identify and the government quickly arrested him. He’s been in solitary confinement ever since, with no bail. This is in stark contrast to the way in which BLM and Antifa protesters were treated last year. Despite their heinous acts of looting, property destruction, and attacks on police officers, they were usually released instantly, whether without bail or with monies from leftist celebrities who paid for their bail. And just yesterday, we learned that the Biden DOJ is dismissing Portland Antifa cases left and right -- or just left and left, I guess.

On Thursday, 60 Minutes+ put online an interview with Chansley. Without his rather magnificent costume, he seems very shrunken but, to his credit, he’s not going to accept the reporter’s accusations against him. (And again, just try to imagine Laurie Segall taking that antagonistic tone with someone from BLM or Antifa. )

[romanesq]

There’s no blanket immunity for what happened. People led by Antifa did stupid things.

Feel bad for the big furry because he didn’t do anything destructive or violent. He’s a victim but of the Qanon grifters and the Qult.

[grey_whiskers]

Read post #7, troll-boi.

[hank ernade]

This is straight out of the SS Handbook for Long Knifers.

Hitler’s pet butcher Reinhardt Heydrich dressed up his SS troopers in Polish Army uniforms and sent them to seize a German radio station in Gleiwitz by the Polish border.

He also arranged for inmates of a concentration camp, garbed in Polish Army uniforms, to be shot and left laying around the radio station as “proof” that the “attack” was done by the Polish Army.

The “Gleiwitz attack” was the pretext Hitler used to invade Poland in response to “Polish aggression”.

The Leftwing media has absolutely no problem with resorting to the tactics of their national socialist brethren.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Gleiwitz_incident

[kelly4c]

Exactly :(

[tsomer]

Could you cite me some sources confirming that Q incited any riots, or has been cheating people out of their money?

He, or they, never seemed more than a diversion—like the astrology column in the newspaper. He never seemed to me to wield much power or to be much more than a rumor-mill.

Besides, he’s moved on to new accommodations— the fevered minds of leftists.