Conspiracy theorist and QAnon sympathizer Lara Logan headlined a Moms for Liberty chapter launch in Gillespie County, Texas. While Logan barely spoke about education, she did find time to recite a number of unfounded conspiracy theories.
In her 45-minute speech, Logan managed to work in outlandish claims of Hollywood elites using the blood of babies to maintain youth (a popular QAnon conspiracy theory referring to “adrenochrome”), the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting being an inside job, microchips in vaccines, the Rothschilds hiring Karl Marx to develop a “system of social control,” and tech companies creating “a human terrain map for each and every single person” to control the entire population, but mainly conservatives.
Logan also described health care for trans youth as “murder,” compared The New York Times to the Nazis, and claimed books in schools are teaching kids “that every white boy they meet is a rapist.”
Moms for Liberty’s entire mobilization strategy relies on its ability to manufacture and sell conflict, panic, and outrage to the parents of schoolchildren. And the fact that the group welcomed Logan – a well-known conspiracy theorist who has very publicly split with conservative outlets like Fox News and Newsmax over her outlandish commentary – speaks volumes about its worldview.
The overall theme of Logan’s speech fit this agenda perfectly, as she repeatedly referenced an amorphous “war” they are all supposedly fighting.
“I’m not going to surrender,” Logan said near the end of her speech, “I mean, even if they throw me in a prison and execute me. Until my last breath, I’m going to be fighting.”
Logan’s speech is not out of the norm for a group built on a foundation of conspiracy theories and hate.
Moms for Liberty has recommended reading from a slavery sympathizer and extreme conspiracy theorist, has fearmongered about “globalists, utopians, socialists, totalitarians and the UN” using public schools to “undermine freedom and Christianity,” and actively pushes anti-LGBTQ “grooming” and “critical race theory” misinformation.
Below are a handful of lowlights from Logan’s bizarre speech:
LOGAN: “Karl Marx was hired by Henry Rothschild, by the Rothschild family, to develop a system of social control.”