In many ways, the story of no wave is also the story of New York. But as attentions turned to London, back in Manhattan and just at the point the history books end, something very exciting was happening. Since Jan.More often than not, the official history of New York’s late ‘70s scene ends in the scuzzy confines of CBGBs, and the birth of American punk (or New Wave, to use its proper nomenclature).Įqually reductive is the historian’s conception of the American punk bands themselves, who often are assessed only in relation to the role they would play in the genesis of British punk, with CBGB acts like Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Ramones and Television reduced to mere footnotes in the greater story of the Pistols and co. New Haven’s Bandy takes such support to a new level. This week a New York City police precinct came under fire simply because cops retweeted QAnon postings. During the presidential campaign in 2016, an online conspiracy theory that predated QAnon but that trafficked in many of the current group’s elite-child-sex-ring obsessions led a North Carolina man to shoot up a Washington pizza establishment that he believed was the epicenter of a Hillary Clinton-connected global child sex-trafficking ring.
Fueled by updated versions of older conspiracy theories, QAnon portrays President Trump as a savior against hidden forces threatening the country’s survival.Īs the movement’s adherents question whether the pandemic is a hoax, or an orchestrated means of government control, concern has risen over the movement damaging the ability to contain the spread of Covid-19, disrupting mail-in-voting and other aspects of the 2020 elections, and sowing violence throughout the country. It is quickly becoming a force in American politics. Nine episodes later, Bandy still held the suspicion that liberal-leaning celebrities - like Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jimmy Kimmel - are “all part of this elite cabal, child-trafficking Satanic cult shit.”īandy is part of a fast-growing nationwide online movement: QAnon’s profile has risen in recent weeks as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Republican candidates for Congress (estimates range from 11 to 59) embraced or promoted the movement’s theories. “Is this really a sickness? … I believe it’s a biochemical weapon. In that same show, he opined on the novel coronavirus during the early weeks of the pandemic. They’re trafficking these children and all these other rituals that they do. “These elites are torturing these kids,” Bandy said in a March 22 podcast. “I put a lot of the QAnon and connecting of the dots info just because I want people to open their minds up.” “I’m scared for humanity, bro,” he told a guest on one episode. The FBI ( in this 2019 alert) labeled the online “extremist” group behind it part of a domestic terrorist threat based on “anti-government, identity based, and fringe political conspiracies”. In doing so, he has emerged as one of the more public law-enforcement adherents to a set of conspiracy theories that, by proliferating online, have earned thousands of followers across the U.S. Officer Jason Bandy has been promoting those theories with a weekly podcast called “For The Love.” QAnon has a New Haven cop getting the word out to the public - podcasting conspiracy theories about how members of a Satan-worshiping international ring including China, billionaires, the Illuminati, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey are raping and drinking the blood of kidnapped children in pursuit of the “fountain of youth” while convincing people to risk their lives wearing masks in an orchestrated Covid-19 pandemic designed to, among other evil deeds, prevent President Donald Trump’s reelection.