By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com
Sanford police are investigating antisemitic literature left at several area homes this week which ascribes “the Covid agenda” to Jewish people.
SPD Major Vinnie Frazer said authorities are aware of the fliers being distributed in Westlake Valley, Westlake Downs and Brighton Point, all neighborhoods in west Sanford. The Rant hasn’t learned whether any of fliers were reported outside the Sanford city limits. Frazer said the SPD received word of the literature on Wednesday and has detectives looking into the situation.
The flier – which The Rant has decided not to reproduce here in full – claims “every single aspect of the Covid agenda is Jewish” and lists multiple Jewish government and business officials it claims are connected to Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline – manufacturers of the Covid-19 vaccine – as well as “practically all of the media.” It bears a link to a website connected with an antisemitic and white supremacist organization that contains multiple other similar fliers detailing alleged Jewish connections to the media, the slave trade, “Disney child grooming,” gun control, abortion, the Joe Biden administration, donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Ukraine-Russia war, the Federal Reserve, the JFK assassination, and more.
Other fliers on the site claim the Jewish Talmud is Satanic, and that Jews are involved in child sacrifice, child sexual activity and “anti white hate.” Another includes information about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fraudulent Russian text first published in 1903 detailing a fabricated Jewish world domination plot that was often used in Nazi German propaganda.
The flier distributed in Sanford also includes a Star of David – a symbol of Judaism – opposite an ostensibly Satanic pentagram, and includes a verse from the Book of Revelation which references “the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” The flier has been cited in news reports dating back to 2021 and 2022, although many of the people it lists left government service around that time or before. A 2023 Newsweek report said the same flier had turned up in Alabama, California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida, Vermont, Texas, and elsewhere, and referenced reports of “similar” but not identical fliers in Greensboro.
Although language on the fliers claims they were “distributed randomly and without malicious intent,” city leaders are treating them seriously. Sanford City Councilwoman Linda Rhodes was contacted by one of the people who received the flier and urged them to report the incident to police.
“I was very disappointed with the covert distribution of such vile and indecent material,” she told The Rant. “I am relieved that several of the recipients spoke out and provided the opportunity for us to work with our police department. Our community will remain united against this propaganda and the cowards that distribute it.”
Frazer said anyone who has found a copy of the flier on their property should contact the SPD at (919) 775-8268.
It is difficult to have an impact on the distressing events taking place on a federal level. We can, however, take strong and effective action on such despicable local activities. No one who knows anything about these deplorable fliers should stand by in silence. There is no place for this hatred in a civilized society.