QAnon Type Groups: Reveal a "Clear & Present" Danger to Our Basic Democracy

 

QAnon is widespread and dangerous

(Like other Domestic Terrorist Groups)

Remember Jake Angeli from AZ on January 6

(Just before he entered the Capitol)

QAnon member hiding in plain sight: First what is QAnon (explained here from the SPLC). Then this story from the BBC (where did QAnon come from). 

The main story for today is about that prominent QAnon member hiding in plain sight here from Business Insider. 

Also, this very excellent timeline of events on January 6 when the Capitol was stormed and attackers thinking their action would enable the EC vote count to be stopped thus keeping Trump in office – seen here from Forbes.com.

First, however, please watch this excellent 8-minute video about QAnon from the BBC Newsnight program – it is truly educational:

Approximately an 8-minute video

Now the main story: Craig Longley, originally from Texas, has been living a double life for several years; running a popular QAnon channel on Telegram, and working as a healthcare professional (practicing chiropractor) in Colorado and he has gone to great lengths to protect his true identity since 2017. 

Now he has been identified through images of him used on his social media channels and by those in Denver who know him Vice linked story.

Longley has spoken to people who now know him about Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary Clinton, and the Obamas – all popular boogeymen in the QAnon world.

Longley also has been identified via content he shared on his QAnon accounts. Three individuals, who were granted anonymity, told Vice reporters that a profile picture of him used on his “InevitableET Twitter account and an Instagram video” of him reciting the QAnon Oath matched the image of Longley.

A Vice review of content posted shows that Longley has embraced many far-right views for at least four years. He has supported election fraud myths, COVID-19 denial, and the popular QAnon lie that Democratic politicians are part of a shadowy cabal of pedophiles.

Much of his the conspiracy content has also focused on vicious antisemitism. For example, Longley has taken part in the “Blue the Jew” movement, where Antisemites photo shop notable Jews blue to identify them.

He also claimed in Instagram that Jews are attempting to enslave the world and has endorsed material from the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” - an infamous Antisemitic conspiracy theory from the early 20th century.

In 2019, Vice reported, Longley achieved any QAnon influencer's dream: He was retweeted by then-President Trump. In one, he had falsely claimed that “Trump has not been impeached.”

But, following the January 6 insurrection, his Twitter account was suspended. 

That banishment led him to establish the “We the Media Telegram” channel which now is one of the most popular forums for hardcore adherents of the discredited QAnon movement with over 200,000 subscribers.

(I Note: That site is loaded with very, very sick and false posts).

Longley's clout in the QAnon world has also provided him with an opportunity to speak at an upcoming conference in Dallas, Texas. That will be at the “For God & Country Patriots Roundup” Memorial Day weekend event alongside controversial figures like: discredited Trump team Attorney Sidney Powell, former NSC Advisor (and pardoned by Trump crimial Michael Flynn, current Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and former GOP Rep. and RNC Chairman, Allen West (R-FL).

My 2 cents: As this article plainly shows and we can see the national threat of groups like QAnon, the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, Oath Keepers, and other far right extreme radical domestic terrorist groups (how the FBI recently labeled them and rightly so) is not over. It will very likely get worse as time marches on. 

But, We the People must stay vigilant and alert and demand legal and proper action be taken against them or any other radical rioting groups wherever they exist across the country. They truly are a clear and present danger as January 6 showed.

This article is but one member hiding in plain sight and folks that is the worst kind of enemy in and against our democracy: Someone or a group that is hiding plain sight.

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