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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:20PM
Ever heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon [wikipedia.org]? I bet someone as high profile as Clinton will connect to everything well under six degrees. Especially if you're going through online social networks where every tweet, post, like and event makes thousands of connections.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:23PM
Not the same at all. These are people the Clintons hire and socialize with regularly rather than someone who someone's brother's girlfriend's former roommate went to grade school with.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:04PM
Guilt by association is tricky. DC is pay-as-you-go social club. Industry, commerce, politics, crime... There so many people running in the same circles that you just can't judge the nature of a relationship based on a paycheck or social gathering.
The Bushs and the Bin Ladens ties are a good example: Very big families with lots of money and politics going back 40 years.
The Clintons and Trumps aren't immune from this. It's simply statistically more likely the more ties you have to associate yourself with corruption. Take a police officer: All their friends are cops. Hence, they're more likely to be friends with a corrupt cop. Now, multiply this over border crossing trades, dealing with foreign dictators, assassinations, regulations... It's a dirty game filled with dirty players.
Specifically regarding Clinton, there's already have enough to convict her over the leaks. All this child-abuse nonsense smells like a calculated attempt to divert resources and prolong the investigation into dead-ends. Just enough breadcrumbs to have the police running in circles until the masses forget about her real crimes. Now that, that's a conspiracy theory I can believe.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:50PM
... and if it turns out that the original cop was friends with a corrupt cop and was aware of the corruption without taking steps to correct it, then both are culpable.
The sheer number of convicted pedophiles in Podesta's social circle is alarming.