The Feral antiVaxx Qanon sovereign sheriff conspiracy movement is biggest threat of domestic terrorism this year

This fiasco in Hamilton reminds you how intellectually damaged Hamilton is and how insane the Feral antiVaxx Qanon sovereign sheriff conspiracy movement has become.

‘I’ve never seen it to that extent’ – city leaders flee conspiracy mob

Hamilton’s deputy mayor was among councillors subjected to an attempted citizen’s arrest at a public meeting overrun by hundreds of conspiracists, with Angela O’Leary calling it the most disorderly event she’s seen in 16 years in local politics.

The event, on Thursday night, has left officials grappling with how elected representatives interact safely with the public after a discussion over something as innocuous as urban design saw them shouted down amid raised fists and calls for an ‘overthrow’.

Fairfield Baptist church was standing room only as conspiracists and some genuinely interested members of the public gathered to hear what was billed as a discussion about 20-minute cities.

The event was hosted by the Hamilton Citizens and Ratepayers Association but also featured members of misinformation outlet Counterspin media among the crowd, including Kelvyn Alp​, who was last year charged with distributing objectionable material.

After 10 minutes, Deputy mayor O’Leary and councillor Mark Donovan were booed off the stage to chants of “cowards!” after barely having had the chance to explain what 20-minute cities are, or how they might affect Hamilton.

Everything you need – a job, grocery store, your favourite cafe or night haunt – all within a mere 20 minutes walk or cycle from home. That’s the principle of the 20-minute city. The concept is a geographical reality in many New Zealand towns already, irrespective of planning directives, but has been latched onto by some as the thin edge of a shadowy worldwide attempt to control the populace.

Without a designated MC, no speaking rules and an ease of access for the het-up audience to roving microphones, the meeting imploded on itself.

To kick off, ostensible MC Tony Armstrong asked the audience who the ‘witches’ were – to frenzied replies of “Jacinda!”

As the councillors departed a man from the audience of about 400 issued what he called a “writ” declaring a citizen’s arrest of the councillors.

Once the invited councillors had left, the floor was ceded to Counterspin’s Samantha Edwards​, who, speaking off the cuff as her slide show failed, only briefly mentioned 20-minute cities before seguing to “seismic generating ships” off the coast, “weaponry in street lights” and claims the government was attempting to legalise sex with children.

…how fucking deranged are these cookers? Raging meat bags with no spittle fleck for reason.

Remember, this is all over the idea of 20minute cities which are a plan to create everything you need within 20 minutes of where you live. It’s an urban design concept to look at density rather than urban sprawl, as the planet burns these Feral antiVaxx Qanon sovereign sheriff conspiracy lunatics believe the 20 minute city concept is a demonic plan by child abusing cultists to trap humans into a 20 minute open prison cell designed to control us with the vaccine.

Their argument is so fucking insane it’s beneath contempt to even respond, but these Feral antiVaxx Qanon sovereign sheriff conspiracy nutters are off the planet now. That they could become so angry over an urban design and attach inane fears that simply don’t exist in reality to those urban designs is terrifying in its unhinged understanding of the world.

These are people lost down rabbit holes generated by social media hate algorithms and they present a real danger to this election.

I had hoped after the mandates, that those alienated and isolated would somehow find their way back to us, but 400 swamping a meeting in Hamilton and an attempted ‘arrest’ all over an urban planning concept that they have attached superstitious conspiracies to tells us something far darker has rotted into these peoples soul and hearts.

People this unhinged are not going to back down.

I still fear a 50-50 chance of some terrible domestic act of political violence this election and the insanity of Hamilton doesn’t make me feel safer.

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