Pizzagate

[Lauren Johnson]

Here are a couple of posts from Peter Levenda rejecting Pizzagate in the strongest terms.

As some of you may know, I was involved the past few months in a series of discussions concerning satanic cults and pedophilia, in particular the idea that there is an international cabal of satanic, devil-worshipping pedophiles. If you've been following this, you know my stand on the issue: that there are, indeed, international groups of those who traffic in children and who are engaged in child prostitution and child pornography rings, but that I do not find that dragging concepts like "satanic cult" into the mix does anything for the children who are, in fact, being trafficked. There is simply no evidence of the existence of a satanic cult specializing in the trafficking of children, and to insist otherwise only serves to devalue the discussion where real gangs and real organized crime rings are exploiting women and children around the world without the need of "satanic" trappings, rituals, or belief systems.

This discussion became overheated in the environment of "Pizzagate", the inclusion of performance artist Marina Abramovic and Democratic Party officials in that faked scandal, and the resultant shooting this past weekend at Comet Ping Pong (the pizza parlor implicated as the center of this alleged satanic-Democratic cabal of child abusers). My objection to those who scream "satanic pedophiles" and who insist that there is overwhelming evidence of same is that they are using "spectral evidence": a term coined at the time of the Salem witchcraft trials over three hundred years ago to denote evidence that no one can see except the accusers. Nineteen innocent people were executed on the basis of that "spectral evidence." Today, Pizzagate is a case in point.
However, to those who still believe in such things I have a suggestion.
(No, not that. Another suggestion.)
You know that I just published a novel about international terrorists and religious groups. One of the groups I write about in that book is called the Yezidi or Yazidi. For centuries these people were considered to be "devil worshipers" by Muslims and Christians alike. They are still considered that way by the followers of the Islamic State, which has undertaken a campaign of genocide against them. Thousands of Yezidi have been slaughtered. Thousands more women and children have been taken into slavery, a fact that the Islamic State brags about in their own publications and on-line. Women and children are traded, sold, and bought. They are raped by their captors, and then sold to another set of captors where they are raped again. Prices range from about ten dollars each to more than twenty-five thousand dollars, depending on the desirability of the victim. The children who have been victimized this way already are showing evidence of severe psychological trauma.
There is little information about the Yezidi in the media, other than the fact that they are being killed in large numbers, their shrines defaced and destroyed, and the most vulnerable among them being brutalized in ways I hope you cannot imagine.
But see: here is real proof of the organized abuse and murder of children by a gang of religious fanatics. It is happening now. In huge numbers. And the excuse the Islamic State uses to conduct this barbarity? The Yezidi, they say, are devil-worshipers.
You know. Like Marina Abramovic and Tony Podesta and James Alefantis. Right?
Yeah. Think about that.
If you truly believe in any of this despite all evidence to the contrary, and if you still insist that there is an international cult of satanic child molesters, then put your money where your mouth is. Do something for children who are being abused right now by just such a cult. Take a stand on something real, and help save a child or its mother right now.
You can send a donation via the website www.yazda.org. Or via UNICEF.
Do it. Show the world you're serious and that you really care about children, and that you care about them more than you do your own fevered fantasies. Show the world you have nothing in common with the bigotry of the Islamic State, or with shooting up pizza parlors on the basis of false stories and unsubstantiated, unsupported reports in un-refereed alternate media.

In other words, grow the f*** up.

and

First, let me say that I was pleased and humbled by the response all of you gave to my last post, the one on Pizzagate. I half-expected a lot of angry comments by Pizzagate believers and while there were a few there were not as many as I expected. I even hesitated publishing the post because I rarely get into a public snit over something but I felt it had to be said.Second, I was even more surprised and gratified to see the level of serious discourse that this posting generated. You were not only making statements, you were talking to each other about this very serious situation politely and that is always a good thing. Kudos to all of you for that, both believers and skeptics.
Third, I was about to apologize to anyone who might have been offended by the very last line of the post. I don't usually resort to profanity to make a point (well, not in print anyway!), but then I noticed something unusual and … well … synchronistic. Some of you will probably come away with the feeling that there is a conspiracy out there somewhere and that this is the proof, but I hasten to tell you that this came as much of a surprise to me as it may be to you, too.
I posted my "rant" yesterday, on December 7th. That very same day, it appears that Stephen Colbert did his own rant on the very same subject: Pizzagate. He took a humorous approach, of course, rather than my more sober one, but ultimately he ended his "rant" the exact same way I did: "Grow the f*** up!"
That was a little freaky, I must admit.
For those who missed it (as I did, until today) you can watch the entire ten minute segment here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXWXNItF_Y
So: same theme, same day, same sign-off.
So, what does all this mean?
My friend Tom Mellett notified me that there have been other pizza parlor-related conspiracies the past few days, with reports on death threats and other intimidation tactics at pizza parlors in Austin, Texas and in my own beloved Brooklyn. A YouTuber felt that the Austin-based East Side Pies was an Illuminati front because, well, the slice of pizza in their logo looked … you know … pyramidal. Like the back of your dollar bill. And so on.
My take-away from this is that this concerted attack on independently-owned pizza parlors has been orchestrated by … Papa John's.
I mean, we know that the founder and CEO of Papa John's is a GOP supporter, right? (Like James Alefantis of Comet Ping Pong is a Democrat supporter.) And he has everything to gain if independent pizzerias go out of business, thus giving him even more motive. But are there coded messages at Papa John's?
I'm glad you asked me that question.
What does "Papa John" really mean? Think about it.
Italians know that the word for Pope is "Papa" as in il Papa, or "The Pope." So, who was Pope John? Well, there have been quite a few, but my bet is on Pope John VII, otherwise known as "Pope Joan." Pope Joan was a legendary figure from the thirteenth century: a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to become Pope. In other words, a transgendered person or, at least, a transvestite. Papal historian Bartolomeo Platina wrote that she became Pope by her "evil art." Thus, we have a pizza chain run by a GOP supporter and named after a satanic Papal impersonator that has as its demonic goal the eradication of independent pizzerias everywhere in order to replace them with their own, really crappy, product. And they are global. They have franchise locations all over the United States and the world. In fact, if you overlay a global map of child trafficking countries over a map of Papa John's worldwide operations you will see a suspiciously contiguous relationship between the two. A seemingly innocuous business enterprise fronting for an international criminal operation named after a cross-dressing Catholic Papal Satanist? Cool.
Or, wait! There's more (as Tom would say).
What if it isn't Papa John's at the center of this massive PSYOP campaign? What if it's … Domino's?
Domino comes from the Latin dominus, meaning "lord" or "master", clearly a reference to BDSM. And then there is the domino mask: a means of concealing one's identity from law enforcement and Reddit posters. Remember all those "Eyes Wide Shut" references in the Pizzagate postings on social media? Or the creepy painting of a nude woman wearing a domino mask, La femme au masque, by Henri Gervex. (The painting doesn't actually appear in any Domino's restaurant that I know of, but that shouldn't stop us from making the connection, right?)
But wait! There's more!
What about Godfather's Pizza? What more blatant a reference to organized crime and their satanic cult of made men, murderers, human traffickers, dope peddlers, and pimps could there be?
And Little Caesar's? Let's not even go there. I mean, that image of a toga-clad Roman male impaling two "pizzas" on his … well … his spear …
It's all coded messaging, baby. It would make a semiotician like Umberto Eco work overtime decoding it all, or a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park busy biting the heads off kippers to the wee hours and, in the end, it would all come to make about as much sense and provide as much evidence as any of the alleged cultists in Foucault's Pendulum.
Remember that novel? It was written by Eco, an Italian (and therefore ethnically if not etymologically linked to pizza). Eco's novel revolves around three employees at a publishing company who decide to create their very own conspiracy theory, basing it on all the crazed manuscripts that cross their desks every day, taking a little from here and a little from there the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, etc etc until other conspiracy theorists believe that the fake conspiracy is a real one, with dire consequences.
Sound familiar?
So here is my contribution to Pizzagate: it's a conspiracy by the alt-right to suppress small business, performance art, tasty pizza and other fine Italian foods, and to replace it with a global network of factories that produce a substance that tastes like cardboard in order to prepare the sheeple for the day that all food will be made from wood pulp, high fructose bodily fluids, and fecal by-products, thus rendering resistance (and intelligence) futile.
And the joke's on them, because wood pulp, bodily fluids and fecal by-products are what all of us Satanists use during our performance art/occult rituals in the basement of C Street Center in Washington, D.C.
You want anchovies on that?