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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 Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:16PM
The email cited is on Wikileaks and it does say that. There is, apparently, such a thing as a "hanky code" (learn something new every day). That the emails were coded talk about pedophilia is not clear. Possible, but not established. I say possible because I'm a freemason and we employ coded language and symbols to communicate in the open. Not established, because it's highly circumstantial and means nothing without real evidence.
FWIW, I never saw, heard, or picked up on anything that connected the Clintons to pedophilia. It's also not necessary to know that they're bad people. Have we really arrived at a discursive space where somebody's really not all that bad until you can prove they're a pedophile?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:23PM
> Have we really arrived at a discursive space where somebody's really not all that bad until you can prove they're a pedophile?
I'd like to think we're in a place where we don't call people pedophiles until you can prove they're a pedophile...