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This is an excerpt from an artcle in October - which talked about congressmen that voted no to condemn Qanon
Because QAnon is so over the top, it is easy to dismiss it as a fringe confined to the darkest places on the internet. But that is far from true. There have been multiple violent incidents inspired by QAnon, and at least one murder. Moreover, QAnon has been hijacking the serious issue of child trafficking. In August, QAnon supporters held rallies in more than 200 cities across the country under the banners of Save the Children and Freedom for Children language that makes the conspiracy theory seem more palatable for newcomers.
[link:https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/qanon-conspiracy-theory-save-children-pennsylvania-congress-resolution-condemning-20201006.html|
April 2020: A man is charged with intentionally derailing a freight train near the navy hospital ship Mercy in Los Angeles.
Eduardo Moreno, a train engineer from San Pedro, California, admitted during an interview that he had run the train beyond the track because he believed the Mercy was part of suspicious activities involving the coronavirus, according to prosecutors, the Los Angeles Times reported.
3 July 2020: Corey Hurren, a reservist in the Canadian Rangers, allegedly rams a truck through the gates of the prime ministers residence in Ottawa.
March 2019: In Staten Island, a 24-year-old man allegedly murders a leader in the Gambino crime family.
Weeks before the alleged killing, Comello was in New York City, attempting to make a citizens arrest of the citys mayor, as well as the Democratic congresspeople Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, the Staten Island Advance reported.
June 2018: An Arizona resident blocks a bridge near the Hoover Dam with an armored vehicle. He later pleads guilty to a terrorism charge.
Matthew Wright was unhappy that Trump had not yet made the mass arrests QAnon supporters had anticipated, the Arizona Republic reported. Police said Wright had two military-style rifles, two handguns and 900 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle,
][link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/15/qanon-violence-crimes-timeline|
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)An Oregon man who is alleged to have fired shots into a federal court building in Portland last week had, over the preceding months, expressed increasingly violent and conspiracy-minded beliefs across a range of online platforms.
[link:https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/19/man-who-fired-shots-portland-federal-building-posted-about-qanon-election-conspiracy|
Initech
(100,099 posts)No, it's not Nancy Pelosi's "rhetoric" that led to the Capitol Insurrection. It's Donald Trump, and it's the MAGAs, and it's Q Anon. Relly, fuck these people.