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The owner of the Red Hen, a small farm-to-table restaurant in the western part of Virginia, politely asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family to leave her restaurant last weekend. Since then, Sanders and President Trump have both tweeted about the incident and the restaurant (like others that share the same name) has been receiving harassment and death threats from right-wing trolls in what Cristina López at Media Matters accurately described as Pizzagate-style targeted harassment.
Today on Infowars, Jones joined in and encouraged his listeners to further harass the restaurant.
If somebody smartif you want to dedicate something to your country, you need to go sit out in front. I wish I had the money. Id put [private investigators]if I had billions of dollars, I would, every day, have teams of P.I.s all over the country. Id say, Get on this site, and I would have P.I.s just watch the Red Hen, show when somebody firebombs it, God forbid, or somebody knocks the windows out, or somebody paints a swastika on the door, we can follow them to their house and you know who theyre going to be, dont you? Jones said.
Jones said that if the Red Hen was tarnished or destroyed, it would almost certainly be because of an attack carried out by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, or anti-fascism protesters.
Im telling you. The left is going to hit the Red Hen in the next 48 hours, 99 percent chance. And when they do hit it, we can blow their operation in another devastating victory if somebody just politely goes and sits there and watches it with a camera rolling, Jones said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-encourages-secret-surveillance-of-restaurant-that-asked-sarah-sanders-to-leave/
Great now we can add felonious crimes to the list of reasons why Infowars is dangerous.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That presumes you've had at least one already. What a kook.
Initech
(100,149 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Kotya
(235 posts)From here on out, there will always be patrons that make the staff feel nervous and an element of fear will always be present in the air.
Initech
(100,149 posts)I know Pizzagate was a steaming load of horseshit, and even Alex admitted it, but the damage was done.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Initech
(100,149 posts)rickford66
(5,534 posts)Maybe offer them coffee and doughnuts.
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)a secret!
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)they are making an example out of it. I feel sorry for the staff and the owner. Its difficult for small business owners to take a stand. Most airlines were united in refusing business so no reprecussions for them. Virginia is full of alt right militia groups.
Initech
(100,149 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)This sonofabitch is DANGEROUS. His devotees are utter and complete cretins who would be all too happy to win their delusional "stern father's" approval. The concept of "busting Marxist leftists" makes them semi-erect.
The restaurant will be involved in another incident now, for certain. The psycho army has been tasked and turned loose. I only hope that violence and property damage can be avoided.
Initech
(100,149 posts)That place had better have extra security on hand.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 5, 2018, 09:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Which doesn't mean they're any less dangerous. On the contrary, these are the types who typically are susceptible to any authoritarian voice.
Remember the December, 2016 headline that read: "N.C. man told police he went to D.C. pizzeria with gun to investigate conspiracy theory"?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)Kilgore
(1,733 posts)walkingman
(7,706 posts)cynical but this is not new. I do think it is getting worse. I just wonder if our nation can recover from this madness?
Cha
(298,077 posts)attitude about the future of the Red Hen.
Sending them Brilliant Vibes and here's a link to buy a gift certificate even if I can't go.. Too far!
https://redhenlex.com/gift-certificates/
Fuck the Hypocritical Vicious Deplorables. VP Biden was Not served in a restaurant.. that guy had to be real shit head.. ryan had him at the 2012 Stupid Convention. but, I wouldn't try to ruin his damn business.. I think he has enough problems being who he is.
Initech
(100,149 posts)On the same day they call for "civility" is the same day they threaten to murder the owner of the Red Hen and burn down the restaurant, while they heckle and boo Jim Acosta for doing his job.
And we're now supposed to be civil? We're supposed to hold hands and sing kumbaya? Are you fucking kidding me?
Cha
(298,077 posts)cult leader.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A local restaurant refuses service to someone. That person then posts a tweet about the incident. She claims the high ground, characterizing herself as polite and respectful, unlike the restaurateur. Her employer posts a supportive tweet, and throws in some unfounded allegations about the restaurant's cleanliness.
And all hell breaks loose. Who could have foreseen the tempest that followed?
Well, everyone. This incident would never have amounted to anything except the woman and her boss used their official government twitter accounts to publicize to the world their butthurt. Their unhinged partisans swung into action over it, just like Sarah Sanders and Donald Trump wanted them to when they posted their tweets. Citizens are being told, in no uncertain terms and from the highest levels, that our government is not to be disobeyed, is not to be challenged, is not to be questioned.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Maybe Brett O'Keefe was inspired by Jones.