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Yesterday, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders. The DOJ statement reads:
The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.
The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking of children; and (4) travel across state lines or to foreign countries and sexually abuse children.
The announcement was seen as validation by conspiracy theorists who have long-since obsessed over their belief that members of the political, media and corporate elite are part of an international network of pedophiles and that the Trump administration would soon be putting those figures in jail.
On The Goldwater, a news site built specifically for 8Chan users, an author named Red Pill wrote an article thanking AG Jeff Sessions, the ICAC Task Force, and all agencies involved in the process of making America safe again. The Twitter account for An Open Secret, which is a film about Hollywood pedophiles & convicted sex offenders shared the news to its followers.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/former-pizzagate-and-current-qanon-believers-say-the-doj-has-validated-them/
God I wish these morons would go away. There is no satanic pedophile ring. Period.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)These are the very essence of the Trump supporter...
1) an impervious shell to reason
2) an innate desire to be "right" at any cost
3) a loathing of all things counter to their view
4) a deep need for authority figures who "tell it like it is" (ie. - who reinforce 1,2 and 3)
That is these people in nutshell. Our problem is that 25-35% of the population fit into that basket of yes, deplorables. The bigger problem is the 10-15% of otherwise sane people who go along with them to be on the "winning team".
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)When I served on a federal grand jury, they briefed us on these huge operations and they usually took a little while because they're trying to throw the widest net possible to catch as many as they could. They're working with other agencies, too.
No reasoning with trumpsters. They're a cult.
Initech
(100,102 posts)And that is what makes them scary and dangerous. The sooner they go away the better.