The FBI is now investigating the pro-gun Armed Queers SLC, a Salt Lake City group whose transgender leader openly supports violence, for possible connections to alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson.
Ermiya Fanaeian, who worked on Democrat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign, was asked by a reporter: “Some people say that it takes a violent protest to get people to listen. Do you agree or should they remain peaceful?”
“I agree. I absolutely agree,” responded Fanaeian, a student at the University of Utah.
“I’m a member of the LGBTQ community and our liberation, our rights came after the Stonewall riots.”
Ermiya Fanaeian, leader of the transgender militia group that’s under FBI investigation for possible connections to Charlie’s ass*ssination, says that violence should be used to achieve political goals. @fbipic.twitter.com/v8Ay5SuCzl
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“I wouldn’t even be able to be a student at this school if it wasn’t for a violent riot that took place within a span of three days.”
“So I absolutely agree that sometimes violence, protests and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change.”
The New York Post reports: “Armed Queers SLC quietly scrubbed its online presence after Kirk was assassinated, but a law enforcement source told The Post that all open-source information on the group was downloaded and handed over to the FBI.”
“Fanaeian and Armed Queers SLC are on investigators’ radar as the FBI has widened its probe to include a potential ‘extended network’ that could have aided Robinson in the Sept. 10 sniper attack at Utah Valley University.”
As always follow the money (and the smell of rotting flesh)!
Here Senator Elizabeth Warren is on stage in Utah with Iranian immigrant, Ermiya Fanaeian, founder of Armed Queers Salt Lake City, at one of their events in 2019.
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Fanaeian was originally an anti-gun activist, having founded the local chapter of March for Our Lives, a group belonging to David Hogg, a well-known activist pushing gun restrictions.
But in 2020, Fanaeian launched the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols “whose mission is to arm LGBTQ people,” according to KUER Radio which profiled Fanaeian.
“I used to think that guns were a scary thing,” Fanaeian told the public broadcaster. “Back then, I would have agreed with Joe Biden’s assertion to take everyone’s AR-15s away. And now I own one.”
In an interview with the Deseret News that same year, Fanaeian indicated: “The left’s idea of a ‘gun nut’ typically is white men who are upper class and see this as a hobby that will make their egos bigger.”
“But the reality is this is a form of empowerment for me.”
“As working-class people, we should not be disarmed,” Fanaeian said. “There is everlasting violence against LGBTQ people that oftentimes politicians, on whatever side of the aisle, are not addressing, and we need to be able to protect ourselves. And because of that, I came to this understanding that the March for Our Lives goals do not align with my goals.”
The Daily Utah Chronicle reported that Fanaeian in 2022 co-founded a new student study group at the University of Utah for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, or PSL, “to teach common socialist ideologies, history, texts and lessons about philosophers such as Karl Marx and Vladmir Lenin.”
The inspiration came from “historical communist and socialist revolutionaries of the mid 1900s including Fidel Castro, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
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