As QAnon and other conspiracy theories claim that Hillary Clinton and her blood-drinking minions are running child trafficking rings out of pizza parlors, this has actually been happening all over the world and the same people shrug.
Clergy members in the Roman Catholic Church in France sexually abused more than 200,000 minors over the past seven decades, according to an estimate published on Tuesday by an independent commission that concluded the problem was far more pervasive and systematic than previously known.
The long-awaited 2,500-page report by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church laid out in detail how the church hierarchy had repeatedly silenced the victims and failed to report or discipline the clergy members involved.
“The church failed to see or hear, failed to pick up on the weak signals, failed to take the rigorous measures that were necessary,” Jean-Marc Sauvé, the commission president, said at a news conference in Paris on Tuesday. For years, the church showed a “deep, total and even cruel indifference toward victims,” he added.
The right wing fringers do more than shrug. They put people on the Supreme Court who are dedicated to making religion (well, Christian) such a fetish that they are basically allowed to flout all laws and civilized norms in the name of freedom.
And it isn’t confined to the Catholic church. These institutions abuse their power just as they all do. And they are always defended by the same people — the ones who preach morality the most vociferously.
Update — as I was saying:
The old music box factory had been abandoned for years on the outskirts of the Swiss mountain town, with paint curling at the edges of its dingy grey and yellow walls.
It was the perfect hiding place for the young French mother and her 8-year-old daughter at the heart of Operation Lima, an international child abduction plot planned and funded by a French group with echoes of the far-right extremist movement QAnon.
Lola Montemaggi had lost custody of her daughter, Mia, to her own mother months earlier because French government child protective services feared the young woman was unstable. Montemaggi found people online who shared the QAnon belief that government workers themselves were running a child trafficking ring. Then she turned to her network to do what she needed to do: Extract Mia.