Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 9, 2016
The guy who rushed Pedo Pizza with an assault rifle has told the NYT that he regrets that move.
The man accused of firing an assault rifle inside a Washington restaurant says he regrets how he handled the situation but refused to completely dismiss the false online claims of child sex trafficking that brought him there.
Edgar Maddison Welch has been jailed since his Sunday arrest and spoke to The New York Times in a videoconference Wednesday.
Welch told the newspaper he wanted to do good but went about it the wrong way. He said he started driving to Washington from his North Carolina home, intending only to give the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant a “closer look.”
But while he found no evidence of a child sex ring, Welch wouldn’t completely dismiss the online claims, saying only that there were no children in the building.
I would have to agree that it was a stupid thing to do. Obviously, with all of this internet discussion of the issue, they wouldn’t have any child sex going on there now. If he was going to go ahead and do something for which he will spend several years in prison, he should have tried to find the tunnels. Though I think that is probably pretty difficult. If they exist – and I imagine they do – they would be seriously covered by this point.
People in the various forums, bloggers and YouTubers are now saying that this move by Welch was bad for the investigation. I can see the angle (though I would advise everyone to stop talking about the idea that he’s a crisis actor, because that makes us all look stupid), but I’m not really agreeing with it.
I don’t think it would have been possible to sneak in there and find the tunnels anyway. There’s a possibility that Welch, going in there with an assault rifle, could have found them – I guess. But nobody else was going to.
And what Welch’s act did was force the media to discuss the issue. Of course, they just keep saying “FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS,” but the fact is, a lot of people who hear this on the news are going to at least click around on YouTube themselves and see the questions people are asking – and notice that the media isn’t addressing any of them.
There are some basic questions which the media isn’t even mentioning, which people who hear the story of the man rushing the place with a gun will find being asked if they look into it.