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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 08:17 AM Jun 2018

Right-Wing Group Thinks Crosses in the Desert Are Symbols of Clinton-Connected Pedophile Ring

Source: The Daily Beast




Right-Wing Group Thinks Painted Crosses in the Desert Are Symbols of Clinton-Connected Pedophile Ring

An Arizona veterans group is pushing the next Pizzagate, but experts say their evidence isn’t as sinister as they claim.

WILL SOMMER
06.14.18 5:30 AM ET

A group of conspiracy-minded citizen investigators hunting for proof of child sex trafficking networks in the Tucson desert have hit on a new piece of supposed evidence: white crosses painted on the ground.

The group claims that the crosses are symbols meant to guide human sex traffickers.

“The coordinates in this video show a human trafficking corridor,” Michael Lewis Arthur Myer, the leader of one group promoting the theory, says in one Facebook video. “‘X’ marks the spot.” But while the theory’s proponents see the crosses as more evidence of an international pedophile conspiracy for the benefit of global elites, experts say the crosses are just left-over tools from aerial mapping surveys.

The crosses are the latest fixation for believers in what they’ve dubbed “Operation Backyard Brawl,” a storyline started by an anti-homelessness group called “Veterans on Patrol” that’s proliferated on right-wing social media. But even as prominent figures on the conspiracy theory right have denounced the Arizona theory as just the latest iteration of Pizzagate, videos about the supposed sex camp continue to draw in tens of thousands of viewers via Facebook and YouTube.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-group-thinks-painted-crosses-in-the-desert-are-symbols-of-clinton-connected-pedophile-ring?ref=home

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Right-Wing Group Thinks Crosses in the Desert Are Symbols of Clinton-Connected Pedophile Ring (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Mentioned in another post about right-wingers using pedophilia vercetti2021 Jun 2018 #1
Oh it's insane. Initech Jun 2018 #10
That, or the CT nuts are running a pedophile ring themselves meow2u3 Jun 2018 #2
Veterans on Patrol apparently set patrolled camps Hortensis Jun 2018 #3
Churches are part of the conspiracy IronLionZion Jun 2018 #4
"If you see someone with a cross on a chain around their neck eating pizza, hide your kids" Johnyawl Jun 2018 #7
Were empty pizza boxes found nearby? n/t Still In Wisconsin Jun 2018 #5
Trump supporters are idiots and racists Gothmog Jun 2018 #6
several r's have been caught up in AmandaRuth Jun 2018 #8
They're just jealous rocktivity Jun 2018 #9

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
1. Mentioned in another post about right-wingers using pedophilia
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 08:20 AM
Jun 2018

They seem to be obsessed with the idea of a pedophile ring or anything to do with child trafficking. I'm starting to think they're compensating for their own sick fantasies by projecting it as a bullshit conspiracy theory.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
10. Oh it's insane.
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:56 AM
Jun 2018

I've documented most of their theories in the Top 10 and they are completely obsessed with pedophiles, pedophilia, and child sex trafficking. These are horrifying crimes, yes. But really they should take a look at their own ICE. If they truly cared about children they'd look at what ICE is doing to them and think differently. But they don't. And probably don't care.

To paraphrase a quote from something Lewis Black said a while back - "It's like playing a game of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree and Kevin Bacon is a satanic pedophile!".

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
2. That, or the CT nuts are running a pedophile ring themselves
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 08:30 AM
Jun 2018

So they have to concoct an elaborate pack of lies to cover up for themselves.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Veterans on Patrol apparently set patrolled camps
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 08:56 AM
Jun 2018

for homeless veterans mainly, good intentions, but seemingly getting in over their heads even before we learn those heads are up their asses searching for Martian colonies.

This article from a small local media site suggests the kind of problems these well meaning but not well balanced types were running into in 2016.

http://www.azfamily.com/story/30580618/veterans-on-patrol-operates-3-camps-to-watch-over-homeless?clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass

IronLionZion

(45,457 posts)
4. Churches are part of the conspiracy
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 09:04 AM
Jun 2018

and KKK rallies

And anyone who has ever eaten pizza is probably guilty

If you see someone with a cross on a chain around their neck eating pizza, hide your kids.

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
7. "If you see someone with a cross on a chain around their neck eating pizza, hide your kids"
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 09:46 AM
Jun 2018

That's not bad advice if you're in a Catholic Church.

AmandaRuth

(3,105 posts)
8. several r's have been caught up in
Thu Jun 14, 2018, 11:32 AM
Jun 2018

sex scandals with underage teens. Maybe the Arizona group is confused.....

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