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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: 5, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:15PM
Not a lot to verify, to be honest, there's just a bunch of circumstantial and often tenuous connections pulled in from all sorts of different directions. Even if we were to assume that all the individual pieces of information are true, there's not enough holding it all together to give it any credit. It's Dan Brown stuff, where if you pick the right sequence of words or letters out of the bible you can get it to quote the free software manifesto, Mein Kampf or the script to the Star Wars holiday special.
"As we can see, Trump is wearing a RED tie. Now RED is a colour often associated with communism, including such organisations as the USSR (Or, in Russian, the CCCP). Now, throughout his career Trump has had dealings with an organisation called the Casino Control Commission, or the CCC. In the 1980s, a prominent member of the Pennsylvania branch of this organisation, or the CCCP..."
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:20PM
S'what I'm saying. Don't assume. Check into it yourself.
Right at this moment, there's not a serious case by my digging but I was anything but thorough. I'm neither giving them the benefit of the doubt nor withholding it, which is where any intellectually honest person should be at this point.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:38AM
I find that there is just enough circumstantial evidence there to warrant suspicion. It's certainly not enough to justify the conclusion given, but it's not as contrived as your analogies make it out to be either. I'm not saying all the conclusions are necessarily solid, but the pizza emails are reasonable evidence that there could be something amiss there, even if it's just drugs and hookers.
Just because someone has an an elaborate conspiracy theory doesn't mean there isn't a conspiracy.