by Aaron Warner
After watching the various townsfolk berate Hartford Select Board member Lannie Collins for speaking in opposition to fellow board member Ally Tufinkjian’s praising the Drag Queen Story Hour that was attempted to be held in downtown White River Junction it was incumbent upon me to defend Mr. Collins.
[Editor’s note: The Hartford Police Department and state police investigated multiple hoax bomb threats that were received by email on Saturday afternoon and evening, Jan. 6, 2024. The hoax threats targeted the Barrette Center for the Arts / Northern Stage (where a DQSH was scheduled), and Planned Parenthood in White River Junction, and the Target store in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. In addition, the homes of four private individuals were named in the threats. The emails, which were sent to members of the news media and some of the threatened locations, falsely stated bombs were in place and would be detonated shortly.}
Professor Wilfred C. Reilly of Kentucky State University has chronicled over three hundred hate crime hoaxes since the turn of the century (2000) in his book Hate Crime Hoaxes: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War. The critical piece of his discovery ? The supposed victims are the ones committing the hate crimes against themselves. This practice has come to be known as “stochastic terrorism” which is a random type of terrorism perpetrated by those in the leftist movement to either scare, or conversely, curry sympathy and favor from those outside of it. For what it’s worth professor Reilly is black which is why he speaks out against groups like Black Lives Matter for using minorities as easily manipulated pawns in their Marxist culture war game.
Also chronicling fake hate crimes is the aptly named fakehatecrimes.org website. Here you can find nearly five hundred reported hate crime hoaxes and who ultimately perpetrated them. Some examples include: a black woman who wrote threatening notes and painted KKK on houses in her neighborhood; activist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) falsely tweet out a man was struck by a car of Israelis yelling “kill all Palestinians” when in fact he’d been beaten by his brother; BLM and Antifa activists committing arson while trying to frame the Proud Boys for it; LGBTQ activists on MIT campus hoaxing hatred to counter the school’s free speech policy; gay man found throwing bricks at gay bar in act of revenge rather than an anti-LGBTQ hate crime as reported.
The list goes on, and on, and on…
Many of us in independent media have known about these tactics now for years, however the good people of Hartford tend to live quiet lives and likely don’t take the time to investigate these things, nor are they particularly suspicious in general. Despite the activists in town pushing for Hartford to become more “inclusive” and “accepting”, I don’t know anyone in Hartford who wasn’t exactly both of those, hence the need to speak up. It may be the perfect small Vermont town for them to run their agenda for this very reason.
Which is why the bomb hoax that was obscured by an encrypted Russian server from whom the hoax emails came needed to be addressed. It very well could have been someone opposed to drag queens reading to children (and Target’s Pride Month controversy), however the assumption that it was, which lead to people bashing Mr. Collins as “insensitive” and using “poor timing”, needed to be addressed given the data. The opposite was more likely the case – someone sympathetic to DQSH employed the terror tactic to manipulate allies in town to clutch their pearls and make a blanket accusation against anyone willing to voice their disapproval of men dressed as hyper-sexualized women reading to children.
Collins simple rejoinder to Tufinkjian “not everyone in town thought it was a positive experience” didn’t even denounce the event but merely stated a fact. Tufinkjian reveals her activism per children on her personal website with quotes like “disrupt them” and her commitment to “reflexive praxis” which is a woke term for essentially programming children into Marxism, parents wishes be damned. Of course she considered it positive.
However, events that elicit bomb threats are obviously not going to be viewed universally as positive, even for those not choosing a side. Yet the activist class seizes on these opportunities to usurp “righteousness” and flip the denunciations on anyone who may object. In this case it was Mr. Collins, who was verbally abused by townsfolk for the mere act of speaking on behalf of other town members equally concerned for children. I told them they owed him an apology. They still do.
As for the drag queens (including those who have read at DQSH) I shared photographic evidence of them presenting themselves online almost exclusively in a sexual context. Emoji Nightmare’s Youtube channel includes a burlesque version of “Boot Scootin’ Boogy” where Katniss and another woman either partially disrobe or otherwise offer sexually suggestive takes. Another video from Emoji is simply titled “Pictures of your d**k”. Virtually none of their online content is child-friendly, in fact it’s the opposite. The parents in Hartford need to be made aware given children are now becoming a predator class across the pond in the UK where DQSH is also popular.
Furthermore, based on the Sexual Grooming Model presented by Psychology Today it categorically is sexual grooming of children. To wit:
Stage 2: Gaining Access and Isolation
- Involved in youth-serving organizations (i.e school, youth groups, scouts, sports).
- Manipulates the family to gain access to minor.
Stage 3: Trust Development
- Appears charming/nice/likable.
- Has insider status/good reputation/”pillar of the community.”
- Is affectionate/loving with minor.
- Gives the minor attention.
- Engages in childlike activities (e.g., stories, games, sports, music).
Stage 4: Desensitization to Sexual Content and Physical Contact
- Asks questions about minor’s sexual experience/relationships.
- Uses inappropriate sexual language/dirty jokes. (see their social media)
- Use of accidental touching/distraction while touching.
- Exposes their own naked body to the minor (i.e. changing/showering). (see their social media)
- Seemingly innocent/non-sexual contact (i.e. tickling/hugging/sitting on lap).
Lastly the activists in town trotted out the term “hate speech” both in person and on the town Facebook page. This of course satisfies the narrative that people want to bomb them and silence an innocent group simply trying to engage children to read. I felt it necessary to remind the town hate speech is constitutionally protected in our country and in fact needed. No doubt people in the room have felt comfortable voicing their hatred for Donald Trump, the war in Ukraine, anti-semitism or what-have-you. I’m sure if someone proposed a Nazi Story Hour or Wife Beaters Story Hour the requisite voices of denunciation would emerge faster than you could stuff a ballot box.
So in the spirit of protected hate speech I offered to them the things I hate as it related to the matter. They are:
- I hate people who practice deception
- I hate the sexual exploitation of children
- I hate it when the good citizens of my town are lied to by activists
- And I hate our tax dollars being used to fund programs that unfairly malign the good people of this town as bigots
I know for a fact I am not alone in the town of Hartford for hating these vile practices. New Select Board members will be voted in this March 5th, which can’t come soon enough. (To watch my comments to the board click the link to the video here.)
The author is a White River Junction resident, businessman, reporter for the Vermont Daily Chronicle, and candidate for the selectboard.