Sackville resident Sara Rideout reads her statement expressing QAnon claims
Sackville resident Sara Rideout followed procedural rules when she registered in advance for a two-minute presentation to Tantramar Town Council last week.
After Mayor Black called her name, Rideout began by quoting the Bible, Luke chapter 8, verse 17:
“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.”
She then referred to what she sees as hidden truths that the outbreak of COVID-19 brought to light over the last five years.
“What we called a pandemic was not truly about a virus,” she said. “Instead it revealed the deep control woven through every system: education, healthcare, politics, business and finance at every level from local to global.”
In a reference to theories advanced by adherents of the group QAnon, Rideout mentioned an ongoing secret military campaign against the “deep state” that some believe U.S. President Donald Trump is now leading.
“Behind the scenes, there has been a covert military operation working for decades to cleanse the earth of darkness and deception that has held humanity captive and in slavery through the systems of control,” she said, adding that central to what she called “the Q-Plan” is the protection of children who are abused and tortured by liberal elites.
“This truth is about protecting God’s beautiful children from horrific evils, human trafficking, adrenochrome, organ harvesting, money laundering, and all forms of darkness.”
Vaccine safety
In an interview outside the council chamber, Rideout rejected the argument that COVID-19 was a worldwide public health emergency.
“When in your lifetime were people forced to wear masks and to take injections?” she asked.
“The time that I was in the military, not once did we ever close borders for a worldwide flu,” she added, referring to her 12 years as a supply technician in the Canadian armed forces.
When reminded of quarantines in the 1940s and 50s for infectious diseases such as polio, scarlet fever and whooping cough before the development of vaccines to protect against them, Rideout asked:
“Have you done any research on what’s in any of the vaccines?”
She then referred to heavy metals, chemical substances and fetal cells:
“Aluminum, barium, also formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, which allows heavy metals to cross the blood-brain barrier,” she said.
“There’s lots of ways to find information about what I’m saying,” she added. “People worldwide know exactly what I’m telling you right now.”
From McGill University: Should We worry about metals in vaccines?
From Government of Canada: COVID-19: Vaccine safety and side effects.
From the American Academy of Pediatrics: Fact Checked: Vaccines Do Not Contain Fetal Cells.
From the Canadian Paediatric Society: Vaccine Myths and Facts.
To read a transcript of Sara Rideout’s presentation to council, click here.
Tell this woman to go enlist as a trump maga supporter where she may find some other like minded obstructionist malcontents or she is free to go live off grid as her thinking is already in that category.
Hmmm … interesting !!
I wonder how Ms Rideout would explain the vast masses of people around the globe who died when the pandemic first hit, compared to the relatively miniscule number of deaths we see now – 5 years later – after the vaccines have had time to take effect and do what they were intended to do. Coincidence?? I think not.
In the end, what was Sara’s objective in raising this issue with town council? Was there a particular “ask”, or policy change that she wants to see based on the information presented?
My question would be to Council: why program this presentation? Is this a good use of your time and/or taxpayers’ money?
Didn’t realize town council offered a soapbox for any nut with a load of idiotic conspiracy theories that she wants to spread around like a virus.
She missed her chance to demand that Tantramar ban chemtrails. Something to look forward to in her next presentation.
Her paranoid gibberish doesn’t sound like it was “anti-COVID” so much as anti-vax and anti-reality.
Really? In my time on council that best response was “Thank you for your opinion.”and then to move on. People have strange ideas. Best to let them speak and move on.
Agreed. Refusal to hear them feeds the conspiracy claim.
Giving them a platform sets a precedent that anyone, with any load of gibberish, can take up the time of the town council. If there’s no selection, people could do this at any council meeting about anything.
This nut’s rambling statement was a crazy manifesto she came up with about non-existent issues. They’re non-issues that have nothing to do with local politics. She made no requests to council, and addressed no local issues. It was a waste of time, the same as if someone wanted to take up council’s time giving a manifesto on her belief the earth is flat, or the sun goes around the earth, or that elves are real. Those aren’t municipal issues. If someone wants to make a fool of herself about them, she can do it on social media, or Youtube, or in run for political office, not waste the town council’s time.
She sounds harmless, like she needs some medical care, but her manifestos don’t belong at the town council because they’re totally irrelevant to municipal politics.
Question 1. Why was this woman allowed to present this absolute garbage to the Council as if it was something important to be said? At best these things belong on some Dark Web forum.
Question 2. If she’s so willing to think the Fanta Felon in the US is such a great leader, perhaps she should leave Canada to join the US in their cult of lunacy.
Normally I have respect for people who serve in the military, but in this case, there is an obvious exception. Conspiracy theories should be kept to private life, else they lead you to do silly things.
Sara Rideout presented at the beginning of the council meeting and the transcript of what she said is at the bottom of this story.
No questions from Andrew Black and town councillors? Well what could they say as our duly elected politicians, town hall staff, public healthcare workers, pharmacists, teachers, school principals, police, politicians and of course local workers at the university etc. were made to conform locally to their whacky covid narrative with help from people like news reporter Erica Butler and her counterparts at the CBC and so I must say that I respect this woman “Sarah” for saying what she felt she had to say. No hate from me. No insults. Just acceptance for the views that she holds.. and the time she took to put herself out there to the public face and name.
Thanks Bruce. Seeing all the people upset here in the comments is entertaining.
Yeah, upset…
That she dismissed an obvious pandemic as some sort of lie.
That she dismissed the death of literally millions as a ‘conspiracy’.
That people with her view are what is the current push for measles upticks in the world.
It’s one thing to have an opinion – wrong or not – it’s another to push it out there in a public space, especially this kind of public space, and expect people to think it’s amazing or even valid.
Covid was hard enough to deal with for everyone, including – and especially, people who had sick loved ones, elderly, or worked in Health Care – that for people to continue this kind of lunacy belittles EVERYTHING we went through.
So upset? Yeah, upset.
And to add in QAnon, which is a KNOWN to be a Conspiracy theory meant to benefit the Cult of Trump…
That time could have been given to someone else who had an actual point that matters to local issues. Like your obsession over a skate park.
You know Elaine.. some people would say “coviet people” are conspiracy theorists .. it all depends on who you speak to.. you seem to speak at people.. that’s a character flaw I reckon.
I admit sometimes I can talk “at” people.
But then, so do you, so I guess it’s okay then? 🙂
Coviet? Well aren’t you silly, throwing out names like a middle school kid who wants to be part of the cool kids club.
What, exactly, would be the conspiracy theory about Covid? How it started? Okay, sure, I can agree that there’s still questions about the source of it. How it ran wild through humanity and killed millions? That isn’t a conspiracy. How people all over the world cried out for a way to stop the deaths, or mitigate symptoms? Not a conspiracy. How the mRNA vaccine came about? Not a conspiracy. Have doubts about the vaccine, sure, everyone sane had doubts (including me) but in the end, I went with logic, actual science and got what was needed to protect the people I love, and others.
Fear of a vaccine having a microchip or was some sign of the Devil or a tie in to Bill Gates or anything else like that, those were conspiracy theories. You want to talk those things, find other tin foil hat people like this lady; but belittling and dismissing people who, again, went through Covid and missed deaths, missed births, missed life, is so overdone and it needs to stop.