Anti-vaxers who called for bomb attacks is guilty of terrorism

A conspiracy theorist for Covid who called for the overthrow of the government and violence against teachers and nurses in protest of the vaccination’s rollout may go to jail after being found guilty of terrorism.
The 55-year-old Patrick Ruane threatened to blow up drug companies with bombs and even had the CEO of Pfizer assassinated using the social media platform Telegram.
He also supported “whacking” Professor Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, over the head with a rounders bat.
Over the course of ten months, Ruane used two Telegram chat groups to spread his message to 26,000 people. Semtex was a common topic of conversation, as was his allusion to attacks on lawmakers and Parliament.
Ruane, of Westbourne Terrace in Paddington, was found guilty of inciting terrorism at the Old Bailey on Friday by a jury. He was found not guilty of a third charge of possessing material that could be of use to terrorists.
He is due to be sentenced on November 8.
Because of his posts in Telegram chat groups like “The Resistance UK” and “Great Reset,” which hinted at conspiracy theories, Ruane was sued.
The groups were hired in 2021 to spread the myth that Covid-19 and the vaccine were hoaxes meant to manipulate the populace.
After learning that kids would be getting the Covid-19 vaccine, Ruane posted on Telegram, saying, “I say we storm the headquarters and where the bastards live and send them all back to hell where they came from, pitch forks, axes, chainsaws, pick axes, sledge hammers, machetes, and torches.”
“If a group of us show up tooled up, the police will s**t themselves; it is time to start sending those bastards back to hell.”
“Now that unrestrained violence is all these fers understand, it is time to start hurting them,” he wrote. The jabbers who are spreading the poison must be located, and both they and the fing teachers who are tolerating it must be removed.” in a different article.
According to Bethan David, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division, Ruane was “a dangerous man who was prolific in encouraging violence” due to his strong conspiracy theory beliefs.
“During a time when the nation was suffering from a devastating pandemic and many lost loved ones,” the statement stated, “Patrick Ruane was using Telegram to spread false and damaging information and encourage violence and terrorism.”
He truly posed a threat to public safety and peace, so it is only fitting that he was found guilty today. To protect the public, the CPS will always work to prosecute such heinous criminal behavior, whether it occurs in person or online.
The court heard “Burn all the big pharmas offices manufacturing plants and infrastructure to the fing ground,” Ruane proposed to the Telegram group’s members. He specifically called out the CEO of Pfizer, a company that makes vaccines, saying that someone needs to “kill that c” and inciting people to “bomb the fucking labs.”
He was fiercely opposed to the lockdown and immunization program that the previous administration implemented in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker stated that the messages were motivated by this ideological cause.
Naturally, it is not against the law to hold any particular ideology. Regardless of your personal opinion, it is not unlawful to simply hold opinions or advocate for change.
“Mr. Ruane is facing charges of terrorism because of his repeated references to serious violence, rather than sticking to his platform of advocating change through argument or protest, for example.”
In response to a post about “big pharma” and “crimes against humanity,” Ruane wrote, “I am all for hunting them down and fing executing them where they stand as too many people have fing died and its not going to stop until we start killing them back.”
In response to a post that featured a nurse giving a child the vaccination, he wrote, “I am not going to say anything but if you drive and you see the jabbers on a zebra crossing knock them up in the air with your car.”
In a police interview, Ruane acknowledged that he lost his business during one of the Covid lockdowns and that he consumed a bottle of vodka every day.
He told the officers, “It is foolish of me sometimes,” but he would not answer questions in detail.
Shortly after Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France on suspicion of not doing enough to stop criminal activity on the platform, Ruane was found guilty.
Until his sentencing hearing, Ruane is free on bond.