As investigators look for a possible motive behind the Christmas Day suicide bombing that shook downtown Nashville, injuring three people and destroying several buildings, new details have emerged about the suspect’s peculiar beliefs.
NBC News reported on Wednesday that investigators had obtained evidence that Anthony Quinn Warner, who died in the explosion, may have subscribed to a conspiracy theory that many of the world’s most powerful figures, from Barack Obama to the late Bob Hope, are actually evil, lizard-like aliens in disguise. Officials told NBC News that investigators, who have been questioning friends and acquaintances and looking for clues to a possible reason for the bombing, took note of Warner’s statements about the lizard conspiracy theory – although it was not immediately clear what those statements were. Authorities also reported that Warner had made statements to others about hunting for possible aliens during previous camps he did in his trailer.
The so-called conspiracy theory of the lizard people has taken second place in relation to some of the most recent and widely publicized unfounded beliefs that have come to dominate the conspiracy scene in recent years. But in 2013, a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling found that 12 million Americans believed the country was ruled by lizard people in suits.
In a way, the lizard people ‘s believers were the forerunners of QAnon, the insidious pro – Trump conspiracy movement that has grown from the dark corners of the internet to major social media and even the halls of Congress in the past three years. Like QAnon, who was founded on the myth that President Trump is working secretly to dismantle a cabal of satanic “deep-state” pedophiles, the lizard theory says that a secret network of blood-eating “global elites” spawned tragedies of Holocaust on September 11. But it gets worse: the nefarious world leaders and Hollywood celebrities responsible for so much misery are not really human, but reptilian creatures that change their shape and descend from aliens.
While both conspiracies feature many of the same villains, like Bill and Hillary Clinton, QAnon is arguably more politicized, with Trump and his allies on one side and almost everyone else on the other. On the other hand, it is believed that the lizard people are lurking on the political spectrum. Blogs dedicated to identifying our reptilian lords have accused prominent Republicans like former President George W. Bush and South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham of being lizard people, in addition to the Queen of England, Madonna and Britney Spears.
Although the theory claims that lizards have controlled human society since ancient times, David Icke, a BBC sports reporter who became a conspiracy theorist and calls himself a New Age philosopher, is considered the main exponent of comprehensive philosophy since 1998, when published a book called “The Biggest Secret”, which claimed that members of the royal family were reptiles in disguise.
Federal investigators have been trying to determine whether Warner also believed in some of the more contemporary, but equally absurd, conspiracy theories that have been circulating on the Internet over 5G wireless networks. The Christmas morning explosion occurred outside an AT&T building in Nashville, disrupting 911 service and disrupting AT&T service across the state. AT&T is one of the American telecommunications companies involved in the launch of 5G, the latest standard for broadband cellular networks, which is expected to dramatically increase data transfer speeds. [Verizon, which owns Yahoo News, is also a provider of 5G technology.]
This spring, when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread across the globe, baseless rumors began to circulate online claiming that the new cellular technology was somehow linked to COVID-19, causing several cell tower fires in Britain and in other parts of Europe.
Although scientists have repeatedly denied claims that COVID-19 is somehow caused by 5G technology, the conspiracy theory persisted, gaining traction in the United States as well. As Yahoo News reported this week, law enforcement and intelligence agencies warned in May of the growing threats on social media, asking people to “target critical infrastructure, including cell towers, locations associated with the power grid. and other sites associated with impending government action. against citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. “
So far, authorities have been unable to identify a specific reason for the Christmas explosion, although Warner’s girlfriend warned the police more than a year ago that the 63-year-old man was building bombs on a recreational vehicle outside his home. If his aim was to free the world from the domination of reptiles descended from aliens in human form – well, he chose a very indirect way of doing this.
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