How QAnon's latest baseless claim terrorized and shut down Texas' National Butterfly Sanctuary

[Initech]

The National Butterfly Sanctuary in South Texas is just what it sounds like.

It’s a butterfly sanctuary. They are protected there. People can stop in and see them. It’s neat.

But people won’t be able to visit it anytime soon because QAnon — the dumbest folks you went to high school with — decided to take a break from moving the goalposts on election conspiracy and basely labeling famous individuals as pedophiles to cook up a theory that the people who run the sanctuary are actually involved in human trafficking.

And that, according to a Huffington Post report, made the sanctuary a target for “right-wing conspiracy theorists.” So much so that the people who ran the place felt it was getting too unsafe to have their employees come in.

“(The) Board has decided to close the center, but continue to pay staff, for the immediate future,” National Butterfly Center Director Marianna Trevino-Wright told the Huffington Post. “The board’s paramount concern is safety of staff, members and visitors,” she added. “So, for that reason, they have made the decision to close the center for the immediate future while they seek expert advice and formulate a plan that will be serve our interests and public safety moving forward.”
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/02/how-qanons-latest-baseless-claim-terrorized-and-shut-down-texas-national-butterfly-sanctuary-report.html

OMFG these people are fucking stupid!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Here are a couple more threads that relate to QAnon and the National Butterfly Center

for those who want to drill down for further details about why the center had to close.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/107859530

https://www.democraticunderground.com/107859635

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I've been supporting the National Butterfly Sanctuary for some time.

I got an email from them today about this travesty. Unbelievable, shocking, horrifying.

Goddamn the QAnon.

[Initech]

4. Interesting angle of this story - the Texas Butterfly Sanctuary was in the path of Loser45's wall.

Still doesn't excuse it though!

Link to tweet

[XanaDUer2]

3. Can these people be sued

For slander or something?