tapitsbo » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:37 pm wrote:"Witch hunt" would be more accurate if we were at the stage where people, perhaps innocent people, were getting in trouble like the witches of yore are said to have
I take your point, and I agree. It's not a "classic" witch hunt in the American sense where people are being called out by the mainstream press, politicians, or their coworkers and are losing their jobs and reputations over it. That'd be an example of, perhaps, an
institutional witch hunt. I'm seeing the pedo hunt as more of a societal thing, mostly on the Internet. We were talking about Cory Feldman not too long ago, and about the pedo activity in Hollywood. We were making best-guesses at who the criminals were/are.
Even look at this election. There was some attention thrown at Trump for the alleged rape of an underage girl. The same accusations have been made about Bill Clinton. Now with Pizzagate, these accusations are spreading further.
And not without cause.
We know this shit is out there.I was just in a work training today where they warned us to be watchful for signs of human trafficking. We were shown some crime stats for the state of Florida and how our county in on the main transportation line for human traffickers from Miami up through the state (same for drugs, too), and we saw some stats of actual cases prosecuted in our area. Involving children.
It's real. I take it seriously.
Which, I think, is also why I'm cautious about it. There are a lot of creepy things in this Pizzagate, and, certainly, the connections are easy to make. I'm not here to dismiss it, so I hope I'm not coming across that way.
I could care less about Podesta, et al. I think the whole group of Democrat elites is rotten to the core. I'm just wary of making connections and accusations through cross-referencing social media.