N.H. Tea Party leader defends Confederate flag, suggests Charleston shooting a false flag operation
The leader of the New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition has posted messages on Facebook and Twitter suggesting the Charleston church shooting was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. government.
“All the ingredients were there..” her Facebook message read, “the photo trail of ‘racist’ activities, the drugs and the DRILL. Plus the fact his best friend who is BLACK says the racism bit is totally untrue. Who to believe?”
The messages link to a four minute YouTube video that claims to have “solid proof” that federal agents and local law enforcement were conducting an “Active Shooter Drill” in Charleston on the day of the shooting. “They were already in position and this is why FBI was on the scene like lightning,” the author wrote. “There is no denying the Proof we now have. Evidence continues to mount!”
Writing on Facebook under the pseudonym, “Chris J Gadsden,” the New Hampshire Tea Party leader also changed her Facebook profile picture to an image of the Confederate battle flag and compared it to the Gadsden flag, which is favored by Tea Party supporters.
“If we don’t stand for freedom of speech for EVERYONE, we could be next,” she wrote. “Support free speech. Remember they tried to do this to our yellow tea party flag too.”
“After all, if they can accept a white woman falsely posing as black,” she wrote, referring to former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal, “they can overlook a piece of cloth that simply represents a time in history….”