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And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville,
Hmm, yes, it's the left that need to tone down the rhetoric.
Let's see, start from the conclusion that liberals are satanic pedophiles. Use non-law enforcement to identify liberals who must also be pedophiles. Entrap them and use whatever means necessary to take these evil satanic pedophiles off the streets.
Sure, what could go wrong?
They are just desperate to find a Liberal child molester
And that's because...
53 pages, 1325 entries. So far.
Kinda funny how the party that isn't sexually repressive or regressive doesn't prey on children. I wonder what inferences could be drawn between conservative rhetoric and the sheer number of conservatives busted for child abuse. Is it just the power imbalance?
I think there are many reasons. For one thing, they have the Christian vote locked up, and the sort of Christianity they preach is one where you can do any manner of atrocious things, ask forgiveness, be forgiven, then repeat the cycle. So many clergy that are even in prison for being sex offenders still get defended by their former parishioners.
Another is definitely a power imbalance thing, especially when there is a lot of evidence tying psychopathy to business success. Lacking any real moral code is fine when you're a rich CEO. As Trump said, "when you're wealthy, they let you do it."
A third is that there are a lot of Republican voters who are so rabidly anti-left that they will literally elect a sex offender (Jim Jordan) over a Democrat.
I'm sure people can suggest others.
Well this is all part of the cult indoctrination that has made conspiracy theories a cornerstone of how they interact and interpret the world.
It's going to take decades (or likely generations) to undo the damage done to the critical thinking of so much of this country. The fact that as you stated they would elect known sex offenders (Trump/Jim Jordon/Matt Gaetz) but still think it's the "Radical Left" that is the demonic pedophiles is just cognitive dissonance at an alarming level.
Here's the thing. I really believe that the Republican party is loaded to the gills with criminal creeps. However, if I were to share this list with any of my right-wing Christian acquaintances or (sigh) family, they'll respond with "Democrats are worse!"
Is there a similar list of Democrat Sexual predators, abusers, and enablers?
Without a corresponding list, it makes it look like it's just trying to make Republicans look bad (as opposed to just showing what they are).
Why not just ask them to provide one? If they're even worse, it should be easy to find supporting information.
Which is funny to me, because I've had two coworkers in two different orgs catch a set of bracelets for enticement of a minor using a computer, and neither one was a liberal.
Weirdly, same. Two different guys, both publicly pillars of the community. Both arrested for raping kids. In each case, they were just not at work one day, and our supervisors would just say, "So-and-so isn't employed here anymore."
That happened to me (kinda) the first time. I found out early because I got a a call about taking the on call phone (while already on call), and we were told not to talk about anything about it and he was totally coming back. But looking up the filing, we knew he wasn't ever coming back.
...and throw them into a pile of people with less qualms around torture and tell them to go ham.
Torture doesn't work anyways. People will say anything to stop the torture.
That and the suffering is the point.
Well they're not doing it because they want answers, they're doing it for fun.
Holy fucking shit. This is BAD.
Two of the men were introduced to the group as "prayer warriors," who are part of a group that believes the battle against human trafficking is a battle against "demons."
Frightening that we have so many of these lunatics in the country right now, pushing and pulling one another further into psychotic delusions.
"And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville," Sawyer said.
The inability to see the difference between pedophiles and your political opponents suggests to me that you aren't of sound mind to vote, posses firearms, or be around children.
This shit should be investigated by the FBI. This police chief should be suspended during the investigation, as well as any officers who participated. This kind of bat-shit crazy thinking must not be tolerated in positions of great power over others. This is truly terrifying.
This shit should be investigated by the FBI.
The FBI already investigate LEO across the country more than a decade ago and found that white supremacists were actively infiltrating our police force. Nothing has been done about this finding.
This is truly terrifying.
Yes. It is.
I think the implications are pretty clear when you read between the lines of painting your political enemies as pedophiles. It's a very easy way to rile people up into a lynch mob. Here's the fascist playbook on this: target a minority (LGBTQ in particular) as some kind of deviant or predator, legitimize vigilante violence against this group, extend that to the next group or anyone who tries to defend the first group. Rinse and repeat until you are able to consolidate power and successfully kill or imprison your political enemies with impunity.
I hate people who make a big show of being "outraged" over child abuse as a way to cover for their own repugnant, violent beliefs and behaviors.
It's the same way some prisoner who murdered an entire family will beat or kill pedophiles in prison because he thinks he somehow redeems him on some level by having a "code". In reality he's still a massive piece of shit.
It's deeply self-serving exploitation of a very serious issue.
For those who didn’t read the article, take note that one of the women involved ran for office as a Republican (obviously) and has been indicted for child abuse
But it’s also very much like how homophobes watch gay porn. These people are deeply religious, and that fruit comes from the same tree that gives us the virulent homophobes talking about how “everyone has gay thoughts and it’s our duty as soldiers of Christ to ignore them because it’s the demons.” They think everyone else is just acting on the same impulses they have, and this is just them being weak to “demon influence.”
These people are dangerous for kids just like they’re dangerous for everyone else.
You gotta make an effort to go up against child predators and manage to come out looking like the bad guy.
Isn’t there some other word for “ignoring laws”?
Back in 2018, Sawyer took a Tucson TV crew to a camp that he suggested might have been used for child sex trafficking.
In fact, police said it was just a camp used by homeless families.
The problem of unhoused people has been solved. Homeless are now pedophiles. Let them get killed in jail.
Isn't the term for this extrajudicial?
"And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville," Sawyer said.
There it is.
you know, not to make it political
Immediately makes it political
What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge?
Well here in America of A, that's just Wednesday.
Jus another day -ending in -day
The best way to not be caught as a child predator is to pretend you are fighting them.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered hours and hours of videos where Shawn Taylor has appeared on podcasts associated with the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.
Source: link in the OP article to part one of an eight part series.
Editorial: A local news station investigated, uncovered evidence, and appear to be interviewing those involved about what they find analyzing the evidence, then reporting in a series of lengthy articles full of direct quotes. True journalism lives.
POLICE and MAGAS ignoring laws that are inconvenient for them??!! I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.
Ok, from everything I know about republicans, there is undoubtedly a massive amount of projection going on. How long until we find out that him and 90% of his little renegade militia task force have CP on their devices? Maybe a a year? couple months?
He's going to claim it was evidence from some minority he citizens-arrested
Just a little preview of a second Trump presidency...
The whole city government of Millersville, TN is a corrupt as fuck shit show. News channel 5 and specifically Phil Williams have been covering all the goings on for years if anyone wants to do a deep dive. Honestly the right thing to do at this point would be to fire all the commissioners, police, fire, literally everyone and one of the neighboring city's just absorb the town. Lived there 9 years and it's nothing but an embarrassment.
I don't care if Republicans are Kidnapping their Neighbors and Torturing them. The LEFT needs to COOL it with their Violence!
Did they do anything right...?
I mean in the most general of sense going after pedos is good, they just immediately went wrong from there on out.
And now that private group and any police officers associated with them are all going to prison for lengthy sentences.
Right America?
Right?
Of course. Now investigate them and discover they are the predators. Projection is emerging as their core trait.