California dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds claim

[UpInArms]

A California surfing school owner who was charged with killing his two children in Mexico is a follower of QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories who thought the children "were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them," federal officials alleged.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was charged Wednesday with foreign murder of U.S. nationals in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son and his 10-month-old daughter, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Authorities said Coleman confessed to the killings and told the FBI that he used a spear fishing gun to stab them.

A criminal complaint alleges that he told the FBI that he killed his children because he believed they "were going to grow into monsters" and that conspiracy theories led him to believe that his wife had passed down her "serpent DNA" to the children.

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According to the complaint, Coleman said that he knew what he did was wrong but that "it was the only course of action that would save the world."

More at:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-dad-killed-his-kids-over-qanon-serpent-dna-conspiracy-n1276611

Mass psychosis in a manner never seen before has afflicted our society

[vercetti2021]

1. Put him to death

Monsters like this are a huge danger to normal society. Along with the ones putting out these conspiracies like Alex Jones and those other freaks

[wnylib]

21. He's obviously psychotic.

[GulfCoast66]

29. Absolutely not. The death penalty is an abomination.

Does he deserve it? I guess you could make the argument. But too many condemned to that fate are the ones in our society are victims of circumstances of birth.

Not saying I want him to ever see freedom again. I don’t. But I hate the death penalty.

[vercetti2021]

32. Murdering children should be automatic death

Taken from a chance to live a full life. I don't think the death penalty should be there due to innocent people who are wrongly convicted. But this asshole confessed. He should be rotting in hell asap

[GulfCoast66]

33. Well, I don't believe in hell. So there's that.

But I think we would be a much better nation if we agreed that our government will never kill us under the color of law.

[obamanut2012]

37. The death penalty is murder

Do you also believe the state should sentence rapists to corrective rape? I mean, if the state can murder, they should be able to rape, too, right?

The death penalty is what barbarians do.

[maveric]

40. This happened in Mexico. No death penalty there.

[Demovictory9]

36. yeah... life in prison is enough

[jeffreyi]

2. A mental.

Dammit, when you are crazy, leave the innocents out of it. This is...depressingly sad.

[abqtommy]

3. I do sincerely hope that the new infrastructure provisions allow for expanding mental health

services to the scale that everyone who needs help will get it and we won't have to read about the
murders of innocent children.

[Justice matters.]

25. QAnon (who ever is running it) is above the law it seems.

How much more damages that a--hole will be able to get away with scot-free?

[GulfCoast66]

31. Whoever it is has not made a 'drop' or whatever it is called for 8 months

Now it’s just the crazies feeder themselves.

I never signed up for Facebook or any other social media site. I saw early on it was toxic.

It allows people to live in an insular environment.

Like what supports your preconceptions opinions. Ignore what does not.

[Marcuse]

4. It seems he knew the nature and consequences of his act and that it was wrong.

[Blue Owl]

5. Good lord...

The monsters are not his kids — it’s the man in the mirror

[David__77]

6. There is a brand of antihumanism that promotes this savagery.

Web phenomena like 4chan are aligned with this. That they have gotten hundreds of thousands of “normies” to engage in mass psychosis is a great victory to them.

[dalton99a]

7. Release him to general population

[ornotna]

10. Can you find a pic without the children

[niyad]

22. Maybe it is just me because I have read this post. . . The woman's smile is genuine,

the little girl looks scared, and there is something creepy about his grimace/bared teeth. Note the dead eyes.

[KT2000]

8. have not talked to my cousin in a year

that is normal. Yesterday she called me to tell me to watch FAUX news because they tell the truth. Then she rattled off every RW trope you could think of. I held my own but this was just nuts. That was all she wanted to talk about and I suspect she has crossed the Rubicon. Two down, who knows how many more in my family will go over the edge.

[Initech]

9. This shit is dangerous for your health - both physically and mentally.

[Upthevibe]

11. I've brought up several times

that I ended a friendship in September because of QAnon.

Ron and Jim Watkins are believed to have started "Q".

Something needs to be done!

[David__77]

12. I don't understand why things like 4chan haven't been smashed.

It would not be hard and there could be no fingerprints.

[IronLionZion]

14. It's whack a mole, they keep starting new sites when they get shut down

usually their hosting provider or security service drops them after something bad happens like a mass shooting. Those guys are Americans living in the Philippines so the laws are different there.

[David__77]

17. If the sites are kept on the run, it helps prevent them from being organizing centers.

I’ve thought perhaps another country might take initiative on that front- maybe Germany or another country interested in countering fascist-type organizing and hotbeds of murder.

[madville]

18. The US government can't shut them down of course

That pesky 1st amendment. Have to rely on corporations to police their platforms but that gets trickier when they are based/hosted offshore.

[joshcryer]

35. Yeah, I agree.

Gore sites have been squashed but somehow 4chan still persists. My belief is that 4chan is a honeypot for psychos/crazies and you hear from time to time guys going to jail for posting crazy shit there. The thing is the mass killers who post on sites like that (Christchurch) will not leave traces, they will post one link and it'll immediately be deleted by the mods then they'll go on their spree.

Meanwhile the psychosis that is permitting them to become that way is allowed under the guise of some idea of free speech. It's mind poison. There are no doubt many many people on that site who have severe mental issues and it is only being bolstered by trolls and other people with mental issues.

[NJCher]

13. i did a google image search on them

I wonder if their followers would be following them if they knew how squirrely they look.

[IronLionZion]

15. They openly started the Qanon superpac

to help candidates who believe in Qanon conspiracies. Those 2 are up to their eyeballs in Q.

[bringthePaine]

16. throw away the key - that creature is beyond reach

[Jon King]

19. 'Religion' based stuff like this has been going on forever.

How many mothers and fathers have killed their kids because of religious possession beliefs? Been going on forever.

Qanon, Jonestown, parents killing kids to rid them of demons.....sadly, the people drawn to Qanon have always been drawn to some deranged beliefs.

[fierywoman]

20. How many of them are right-to-lifers?

[FakeNoose]

23. Some people should never be allowed on the internet

I believe we should all be required to pass a test for critical analysis before we're allowed to surf the internet. There's just too much wackiness out there.

This guy is a perfect example.

[wnylib]

24. Qanon does not create the psychoses

that their followers demonstrate. It intentionally targets people with mental issues and feeds their mental imbalances.

[Jon King]

26. Exactly, cults target the already mentally ill or very vulnerable.

No doubt this guy has exhibited mental illness from a young age.

[oasis]

27. Q-Anon. Out of touch with reality.

[KS Toronado]

28. We can add Matthew Coleman to the "No critical thinking skills" list.

What a shame for children so young, and all because right wing news media brainwashed him.

[calimary]

30. Send him straight to Death Row.

PLEASE!!!

[GulfCoast66]

34. All this mental illness talk pisses me off. That's not mental illness.

It’s a person who has bought into a theology of hate.

Were the Crusaders Mentally ill? Were the Islamic fighters who conquered North Africa and Spain Mentality ill? Were the Nazi’s? Or Stalin and his henchmen who killed millions? Or the Aztecs cutting out the still beating hearts of their captives? I could state a hundred other examples. And keep going.

Killing in the name of ideology is as human as breathing. It is not at all mentally illness.

It’s what we rational, science based people fight against.

This dude knew exactly what he was doing and why he did it. He knew the consequences. That not mentally ill. He admits it.

I have loved ones who have true mental illness. If they stop taking their medications they become a danger to themselves.

There was no medication you could give this guy because he was thinking clearly the entire time. He just believes in a batshit crazy religion. And have not doubts, it’s now a religion.

[mainer]

38. Or he could've sent them to school without masks

That’s how other Qanon parents kill their kids.

[sakabatou]

39. WTF?