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The audience at a meeting last month of the Ankeny, Iowa, school board exploded over the prospect of the board reinstating a mask mandate, with parents shouting at board members who supported the mask rule.
We know where you live! one parent yelled at the school board members. Were going to stalk you!
The scene, which ended with the board voting to reimpose the mask rule, looked like so many other school board meetings across the country this year over coronavirus restrictions. But the Ankeny school board has become a larger flashpoint in the fight over mask mandates in schools, thanks in large part to a leather-clad, tomahawk-toting QAnon personality named Scott McKay.
McKay, a middle-aged former bodybuilder whose followers call him Patriot Streetfighter, has used his sizable online platform and frequent use of violent rhetoric to turn the Ankeny mask debate into a national event among followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, urging his followers to bombard specific school board members with complaints.
Despite his bizarre demeanor and online presence, McKay has marshaled his fan base to engage in sometimes hostile activism at school board meetings against mask mandatesdespite his own recent experience with a COVID outbreak at one of his rallies.
McKay inserted himself into the Ankeny mask debate in late August when he devoted an episode of his online Patriot Streetfighter talk show to the Iowa Mama Bears, Ankeny mothers Emily Peterson and Kimberly Reicks. The pair have become rising right-wing personalities for their opposition to mask requirements in Ankeny schools, hobnobbing with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) and QAnon celebrities like former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-tomahawk-toting-qanoner-terrorizing-school-boards?ref=home
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"We know where you live"? OK, where does HE live?
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)I used to work in Iowa. Seems to have gone completely batshit now.
packman
(16,296 posts)Arrest his ass
Celerity
(43,337 posts)lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)elected officials.
Even if that means that we on the left cannot follow some shit-bag into a restaurant.
But we must stop these assholes from intimidating school boards and city councils.
They don't like something... they are free to speak at the town square, they are free to run against whoever they don't like in the next election. They cannot be free to carry weapons to meetings and shout they "they know where you live, where your children go to school."
AllyCat
(16,184 posts)They dont get to disrupt official meetings. They DEFINITELY dont get to threaten people.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)of us have to put up with this.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Violent, body builder type with a fake tomahawk.
What do they see in these people?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Maybe they would like on-line education better? If staff and students cant be made safe from infection at school the alternative should be to send everyone home and work from there.
Inconvenient? Hell yes - but thats the way the cookie crumbles.
mac56
(17,566 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)Really? Or does he INSIST he be called that? What a nimrod.
Some people just dont act well when they have no friends or any meaning in their lives.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)law enforcement doesn't want to arrest him?
twodogsbarking
(9,739 posts)Anyone?
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)Where else but in current America can a flaming asshole nobody, become an immediate national hero to so many, by just spouting right wing rhetoric and bullshit????
We have our own, right here in Colorado, with the "election" of Bang Bang Boebert Bimbo..........
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)and threats are a crime. Stalking is a crime in the right circumstances. How is this allowed to continue?
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Grins
(7,217 posts)I have questions...
Scarlet Begalas
(25 posts)Patriot, my ass!
dchill
(38,482 posts)"You know it, I know it and the American people know it."
- Bob Dole, channeled by Dan Aykroyd.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)These un-American pukes did the same thing when Obama won. The issue then was healthcare. They called themselves teabggers and disrupted public meetings. Bunch of sore losers.
I actually had some fun with them. I went to repuke public meetings and disrupted the meeting. When they asked why I was doing it the answer was simple. Your teabaggers started it. I had to roll in the grass with one guy.
Hekate
(90,673 posts)whose side do you think the cops are on? End of discussion.