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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:05 AM Jun 2017

Pizzagate Man gets 4 yrs.

Edgar Maddison Welch, the North Carolina man who brought loaded guns into a DC restaurant to investigate the "Pizzagate" internet conspiracy theory, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison.

The sentence was more than the 18 months that Welch's attorney argued for, but slightly less than the 4 and a half years that prosecutors sought.

The unfounded "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory alleged that Democratic operatives were running a child sex trafficking ring through the restaurant —



https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/pizzagate-gunman-is-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison?utm_term=.pq3ypW2Ge#.udMBXvAG1

Should have sentenced Alex Jones to the same time and made them bunk-mates at the local prison

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dawg

(10,610 posts)
1. I feel a little bad for him.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:21 AM
Jun 2017

The people he trusted told him that children were being abused. He believed them, and tried to do something about it.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
2. Don't worry, when he gets out he will probably try to rescue
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:29 AM
Jun 2017

those poor folks on Gilligan's Island. We know THEY are real.

dawg

(10,610 posts)
4. The professor would never allow such a thing to happen.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:45 AM
Jun 2017

He's trapped on an island paradise with two beautiful women and no real competition for their attention. That would explain why he can make a radio out of a coconut, but he can't fix a hole in a boat.

ProfessorGAC

(64,427 posts)
8. Even If He Couldn't Fix the Hole. . .
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 12:26 PM
Jun 2017

. . .you'd think he'd figure out how to make that coconut radio a transmitter!

But, if i was a single guy with Ginger and Maryann on that island, i'd probably not work on a transmitter, either.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
9. If you recall, they did try to fix the hole
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 01:36 PM
Jun 2017

in the first season. The glue disintegrated and left them with a pile of boards. Which I guess could have been used to build a new boat if they had some nails. Or glue. Or strong vines. Or...

Botany

(70,294 posts)
5. And what happens to Alex Jones for spreading the lies about "Pizzagate?"
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:50 AM
Jun 2017

The selling of hate and lies by the right wing is a cancer on America.

Did you know President Obama plagiarized his autobiography?

Did you know that Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster murdered to hide
Bill Clinton's drug running?

Did you know that Obama wanted to bring Hamas fighters to America to
take away "Patriots" guns?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
11. The imaginary children in the imaginary sex dungeon of the pizza place are real, as per Alex Jones
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:54 PM
Jun 2017

These children were NOT real, as per Alex Jones:

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