AP Pushes New Leftwing Conspiracy Theory: "Puzzling" Number of Activists Connected to Ferguson are Dying (Usually by Suicide or Drug Overdose), And That Suggests They're Being Secretly Murdered by an Unidentified But Obviously White Cabal

The left pushes no conspiracy theories, according to the left and their kissing, under-the-shirt-but-over-the-bra cousins the NeverTrumpers.

Before getting into this article, let me just postulate that perhaps the "activists" tend to be people living on the fringes of society, able to get time off their "jobs" to go to a city to "protest" at a moment's notice, and therefore might be poor and have the generally poor health of the poor -- including mental health.

Marginal employment and chronic unemployment correlate with bad health outcomes and increased mortality.

And they might maybe indulge in the drugs a bit.

Let me also suggest that people willing to throw molotov cocktails at police also generally live lives which occasionally intersect with violence and may die early for reasons having less to do with conspiracy than with statistical inevitability.

That said, let's see what your leftwing media is cooking up to replace their Russiagate conspiracy theory.

Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose.

Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play.

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[S]ome activists say their concerns about a possible connection arise out of a culture of fear that persists in Ferguson 4 1/2 years after Brown's death, citing threats -- mostly anonymous -- that protest leaders continue to receive.

"Everybody is on pins and needles," Gray said of his fellow activists.

You know who might have really been on the needle? That guy who collapsed on a bus due to a drug overdose.

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Four others also died, three of them ruled suicides.

-- MarShawn McCarrel of Columbus, Ohio, shot himself in February 2016 outside the front door of the Ohio Statehouse, police said. He had been active in Ferguson.

He shot himself outside the front door of the Ohio Statehouse? I'm guessing that there was no Secret Second Shooter here. Seems to me like there'd be witnesses and surveillance footage of a Second Shooter.

-- Edward Crawford Jr., 27, fatally shot himself in May 2017 after telling acquaintances he had been distraught over personal issues, police said.

He told his friends he was distraught, then he killed himself. I guess he was in on the conspiracy himself, as he provided the conspirators with the Perfect Cover Story.

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-- In October, 24-year-old Danye Jones was found hanging from a tree in the yard of his north St. Louis County home. His mother, Melissa McKinnies, was active in Ferguson and posted on Facebook after her son's death, "They lynched my baby." But the death was ruled a suicide.

So a woman that jumps on a propaganda conspiracy effort in Michael Brown's case immediately starts a new propaganda conspiracy effort about her son -- who, by the way, did not himself have anything to do with Ferguson protests.

-- Bassem Masri, a 31-year-old Palestinian American who frequently livestreamed video of Ferguson demonstrations, was found unresponsive on a bus in November and couldn't be revived. Toxicology results released in February showed he died of an overdose of fentanyl.

Oh, okay -- not the needle then. An all-too-common drug casualty of the pill form of heroin.

So what we have is the same group that straight-up invented one fake execution of a black man now inventing further executions of protesters.

Say, AP, if we're going to give credence to this obvious crankery --

how about we look into the Clinton Murder List, too? I mean, people are asking questions about that, too.

Coming Soon: "Activists" argue that the very fact that activists are spreading propagandistic conspiracy theories about activists being murdered is strong evidence that there is a White Cabal doing something to raise suspicions.

Isn't that how it goes with the #HoaxHateCrimes? The very fact someone "felt compelled" to fake a hate crime just proves how genuine the hate crime epidemic is.

Think About It:

FACT: There are no suspicious deaths in Wisconsin.

FACT: Hillary Clinton never visited Wisconsin.

CONCLUSION: ???

posted by Ace of Spades at 03:35 PM

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