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[Joe]

Before I get to anything else, could you explain what you mean and/or have heard about his sealed indictments? Any links you can provide would help



Marco.

It's from the Q-Anon lot, who got all excited about a large number of 'sealed indictments', which I took to refer to the targets of Trump's anti-EVIL crusade. See this link for more details and de-bunking (the article's from 2018, but the Q-Anon claims still seem to be doing the rounds):

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/seale...on-conspiracy/

'The central claim of the #QAnon conspiracy theory is that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has filed thousands of sealed indictments against Democratic leaders, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy elites.

All are guilty of a variety of misdeeds, horrific sex crimes, affiliation with the “deep state,” and/or intent to harm the president and his administration.

And when the time is right, Trump will order the indictments unsealed, prompting a massive wave of arrests, with the accused tried in the field and sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention.

For months, the theory has lurked in the shadows of the internet, but this week it exploded when Q followers made their presence known at a Trump rally in July, prompting an outpouring of media coverage.

[...]

An indictment is simply a formal accusation of serious wrongdoing, sought by a federal prosecutor, voted on by a grand jury, which usually leads to an arrest.

The Fifth Amendment requires the federal government to obtain an indictment from a grand jury in order to prosecute someone for a felony, and it’s important to remember that only grand juries hand down indictments. Judges can’t do it, nor can federal agencies. Or the president.

[...]

Sealing indictments is a routine legal procedure, done in most cases so that the subject of the indictment doesn’t know they’re about to be arrested. Some criminal cases are sealed due to the age or high-profile nature of the defendant, while some are sealed for dubious or unclear reasons.

[...]

Meanwhile, sealed indictment mania is a conspiracy theory that feeds itself, and will continue to, by adding more numbers to an essentially meaningless tally, and pretending it’s a portend of things to come.'

[struth]

Didn't hear about those.. Sounds farcical tbh, but anything with a trumpet on usually does

[Joe]

Didn't hear about those.. Sounds farcical tbh, but anything with a trumpet on usually does

I won't link directly to the Q-Anon site. There's some fairly unpleasant stuff on there.

[Gazjam]

Stay well away.
Crackpots.

[struth]

I NEVER GO TO STRANGE PLACES.. UNLESS IM VISITING GAZ

[Marco]

It's from the Q-Anon lot, who got all excited about a large number of 'sealed indictments', which I took to refer to the targets of Trump's anti-EVIL crusade. See this link for more details and de-bunking (the article's from 2018, but the Q-Anon claims still seem to be doing the rounds):

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/seale...on-conspiracy/

'The central claim of the #QAnon conspiracy theory is that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has filed thousands of sealed indictments against Democratic leaders, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy elites.

All are guilty of a variety of misdeeds, horrific sex crimes, affiliation with the “deep state,” and/or intent to harm the president and his administration.

And when the time is right, Trump will order the indictments unsealed, prompting a massive wave of arrests, with the accused tried in the field and sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention.

For months, the theory has lurked in the shadows of the internet, but this week it exploded when Q followers made their presence known at a Trump rally in July, prompting an outpouring of media coverage.

[...]

An indictment is simply a formal accusation of serious wrongdoing, sought by a federal prosecutor, voted on by a grand jury, which usually leads to an arrest.

The Fifth Amendment requires the federal government to obtain an indictment from a grand jury in order to prosecute someone for a felony, and it’s important to remember that only grand juries hand down indictments. Judges can’t do it, nor can federal agencies. Or the president.

[...]

Sealing indictments is a routine legal procedure, done in most cases so that the subject of the indictment doesn’t know they’re about to be arrested. Some criminal cases are sealed due to the age or high-profile nature of the defendant, while some are sealed for dubious or unclear reasons.

[...]

Meanwhile, sealed indictment mania is a conspiracy theory that feeds itself, and will continue to, by adding more numbers to an essentially meaningless tally, and pretending it’s a portend of things to come.'

Thanks for that. I've also read similar, so just wanted to check you were referring to the same thing. I don't know about 'thousands' of sealed indictments, but I believe that there are a few, and that the people in question (some of whom you've mentioned) will be brought to justice before Trump's stint as US president is up.

Marco.

[Joe]

Q-Anon is also the bunch behind the false claims made about the Pirbright research institute:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53061563

'Researching viruses in farm animals is essential rather than glamorous work, and The Pirbright Institute in Surrey excels at it. But recently they've been getting some very unwanted attention.

For months they've been unwittingly drawn into the orbit of conspiracy theorists, including those who accuse Bill Gates of planning the coronavirus pandemic. It's led to hate mail and threatening phone calls.

"We'd never experienced anything quite like that. Some of the commentary was quite vicious. Calling us murderers, that type of thing", says Teresa Maughan, head of communications.

Teresa remembers one particular phone call. The person had rung up before, leaving a colleague in tears after shouting down the phone accusing them of creating coronavirus and using it as a bioweapon.

"He then called me pretending to be Mrs Doubtfire, so it was pretty obvious it was somebody putting on a voice. He said something sexually abusive to me and I obviously put the phone down."

It all started in January with misleading social media posts about a patent.

Jordan Sather, a YouTuber who promotes the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy in the United States, posted a series of tweets linking The Pirbright Institute to a patent "for the coronavirus" granted in 2018.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses known to cause a range of illnesses in both animals and humans. The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 only emerged at the end of 2019, so the suggestion being made was that the institute had identified this virus much earlier and lodged a "patent" for it.

The institute does hold a patent, but it's linked to research into a vaccine for a previously known coronavirus that affects chickens.

[...]

Online abuse was hurled at staff. An email to Dr Erica Bickerton, an expert in molecular virology, read:

"You know the composition of this Virus so you know how to destroy it...SO PLEASE I REQUEST YOU NOT LET MY FAMILY DIE AND TELL ME THE ANTIDOTE."

"Personally I found the misinformation spreading quite difficult", says Dr Bickerton,"because the work we're trying to do is to help livestock and other animals and understand this virus."

Someone even went to the trouble of setting up a fake "Pirbright" website offering to sell a coronavirus bioweapon.'

[struth]

I read about the Pirbright attacks today actually. Typical get half the facts and then ho off on one

[Gazjam]

I NEVER GO TO STRANGE PLACES.. UNLESS IM VISITING GAZ

[walpurgis]

I read about the Pirbright attacks today actually. Typical get half the facts and then ho off on one

The world is full of ignorant nutters. Next they'll be blaming the virus on Lord Lucan, when we all know it was really from Shrek droppings!