Butterfly sanctuary closes as QAnon believers, thinking it’s home to sex trafficking ring

[ZiprHead]

Butterfly sanctuary closes as QAnon believers, thinking it's home to sex trafficking ring, plot caravan there

Butterflies are groundzero in the war between good and evil.

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Right-wing conspiracy theorists have already decided that pizza, furniture, and pictures of corn are all part of the vast secret and silent war between good and evil. So moving on to claiming that butterflies are part of the deep state isn’t a surprise. But a bizarre and still unfolding incident at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas isn’t just proof that conspiracy theorists see patterns in noise, but that social media hysteria and anti-immigrant sentiment can combine for terrible and violent results.

The National Butterfly Center, located less than a half-mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, is a battlefield in the conflict over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, which is still being built through federally protected land just south of the Center. But this week, the conflict took a distinctly more conspiratorial—and disturbing—tone when, according to an email blast put out by the Center, it was forced to close for three days “due to credible threats we have received from a former state official.”

Center director Marianna Wright “was advised by [a] former state official (whose daughter is the Hidalgo County GOP chairperson) that she should be armed at all times or out of town this weekend,” due to a caravan of attendees at a MAGA-themed border security conference taking place in McAllen, Texas, eight miles away, that same weekend. The “We Stand America” event is scheduled to feature speeches from a host of luminaries in the stolen election/QAnon/anti-vaccine/MAGA universe/build-the-wall universe, including disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, “Stop the Steal” advocate Rep. Mark Finchem (R-Ariz.), stolen election figurehead Patrick Byrne, and QAnon promoter Mel K.

National Butterfly Center closes indefinitely following threats from right-wing conspiracy theorists

The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas closed its doors for the "immediate future" for the safety of staff and visitors after reports of credible threats from a nearby right-wing rally, which happened this past weekend.

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The Center’s executive director, Mаriаnnа Trevino-Wright, made the decision to keep the nature preserve closed during the rally after she and her staff were allegedly physically attacked there last week by congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe and an aide.

Lowe is a Republican congressional candidate from Virginia and was originally set to attend the We Stand American rally. Trevino-Wright explained how Lowe attempted to witness migrant crossings at the butterfly center.

“I was on a conference call… halfway through the call… my son, Nicholas Allen Wright, interrupted me to say we had two female visitors enter who did not want to pay admission,” said Trevino-Wright on an affidavit filed in Hidalgo County. “(They) wanted us to open up the gate for them to access the back 70 acres of the property, so they could go see ‘illegals crossing on rafts.’”

Trevino-Wright quickly reviewed Lowe’s social media accounts and determined the women were there with the intention to trespass into closed areas of the nature preserve and broadcast information for which the conservatory has already received threats and harassment over the past several years.

“I’m federal. I work for the Secret Service, so nothing is off limits for me,” said Lowe’s aide, referred to as Michelle in the video, as the two women resisted leaving the Center.

A physical altercation followed in which Wright was thrown to the ground and Lowe and her aide attempted to leave the property in their vehicle with Wright’s mobile phone.

According to the affidavit, Trevino-Wright’s son attempted to close a gate in order to prevent Lowe and her aide from leaving the property with Wright’s mobile at which point “Lowe nearly struck him with her car, but in the now-deleted Facebook Live by Lowe, you can hear her screaming, ‘Get the fuck out of my way,’ as she speeds toward him and see she swerves to avoid the partially-closed gate.”

 

[laughing dog]

Nothing to see here, just nutjob Trumpsuckers patriots keeping America safe .

 

[Elixir]

OMFG.
We already knew that butterflies and snowflakes don’t mix, though.

 

[Trausti]

Don't know anything QAnon. But saw a story late last year that they gathered in Dallas awaiting the return of JFK. That's some crazy shit.

 

[Keith&Co.]

How many sex rings are they going to march on before they realize it's never really a sex ring?

I wish i had the video skills to take one of the scenes from House where our hero snaps, "It's never lupus." and make him say, "It's never a sex ring."
Or Caddyshack. "I want a hamburger... no, cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I want a milkshake. I want potato chips. I want..."
And make it,
Spaulding: "I want a sex club, no, a sex trafficing club! I want pedophiles, I want Biden, I want HUNTER Biden, I want-"
[gets cut off by Judge Smails, who grabs him by the arms and yanks him to their table]
Judge Smails: "You'll get bupkes and like it!"

 

[Rhea]

I hope these attackers are arrested and prosecuted. Including the “secret service” person who was abusing their office.

 

[Elixir]

I hope these attackers are arrested and prosecuted. Including the “secret service” person who was abusing their office.

Some USSS are idiots.
One called me one day and ordered some med gear we had designed just for them and Air Marshals. Gave me the credit card# to charge, then hung up.
I wanted to call him back for the delivery address and say “yes, I know it’s a secret, but…”. However I didn’t even have a phone number for his field office.

 

[ZiprHead]

Don't know anything QAnon. But saw a story late last year that they gathered in Dallas awaiting the return of JFK. That's some crazy shit.

I just saw a report today that there are still crazies in Dealy Plaza awaiting the return of JFK and JFK Jr.

 

[ZiprHead]

I hope these attackers are arrested and prosecuted. Including the “secret service” person who was abusing their office.

As I understand it, she's only a candidate and has no office yet. I also wonder about claiming to be working under the color of law as an SS agent can be chargeable.

 

[ZiprHead]

QAnon Crazies Are Dangerous

Michigan Man ‘Down Q Rabbit Hole’ Killed Wife, Shot Daughter

“He had a sense of reality,” Rebecca Lanis told The Daily Beast. “But then after 2020, when Trump lost, he started going down these crazy rabbit holes.”

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A Michigan man’s obsession with the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory culminated in a Sunday incident in which he murdered his wife and badly injured one of his children, his daughter told The Daily Beast.

Igor Lanis, a 53-year-old resident of the Michigan city of Walled Lake, was killed Sunday by police after he started shooting at them with a shotgun, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the injured child, a 25-year-old woman, managed to call police around 4:11 a.m. after being shot by her father. She couldn’t provide any information, like the location of the house, but dispatchers triangulated the call and officers arrived at the home about five minutes later.

Lanis came out the front and opened fire at them using a Remington 870 pump action shotgun, the statement said. Walled Lake cops and Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies fired back, killing Landis.


“Officers observed the 911 caller/victim, a 25-year-old female, at the front door... attempting to crawl from the home,” the statement said. “They dragged her to safety. She stated that her dad shot her and her mother.”

That year, Lanis became fascinated by QAnon and the idea that Joe Biden stole the election.

“It’s a very big contributor to what happened,” Rebecca Lanis said of her father’s QAnon beliefs.

Igor Lanis’ mental health worsened as he became drawn into the conspiracy theories, according to Rebecca Lanis. He insisted that family members watch conspiracy-theory videos about the 5G cell towers, vaccines, and the election. He started to believe that some world leaders were in fact alien lizard-people in disguise, a fringe conspiracy theory even among QAnon supporters. Rebecca Lanis said family members tried to pull her father out of his beliefs, but arguing with him was “pointless.”

The Walled Lake shootings are just the latest killing tied to QAnon. A California man who allegedly murdered his 10-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son in Mexico told police that his crimes were motivated by QAnon, according to prosecutors. In 2019, a QAnon believer allegedly killed the purported head of the Gambino mafia family in a misguided attempt to bring him to a QAnon tribunal. That suspect was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial. Earlier that year, a Seattle QAnon believer convinced his brother was a lizard person murdered him with a samurai sword.

 

[Rhea]

These stories are why I think the term “consipracy theory” fails to properly describe the situation.

Discussion of a new name for it

Renaming Conspiracy Theories to match reality

The term “Conspiracy Theory” gives far too much legitimacy to these kooky ideas that get floated mostly by the right wing extremists. I am pondering what would be a more apt name. Paranoid Fantasy Paranoid Accusation Unhinged Rant ?? What do you think would be a good descriptor for the thing...

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