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Radical Rightist Reactionary Top Florida RNC Official Peter Feaman Spreads Covid-19 Conspiracies, Calling Vaccines The Mark Of The Beast

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(Maybe he should urge his followers to refuse vaccines and die like real 
Christians did back in the good ole iron age days)



Top RNC official in Florida spreads Covid-19 conspiracies, calling 
vaccines the 'mark of the beast'



Updated 11:12 PM ET, Mon August 2, 2021



Amid recent surging coronavirus cases in Florida, a top Republican 
National Committee official in the state has spread anti-vaccine rhetoric 
and misinformation, comparing the Biden administration's vaccine efforts 
to Nazi-era "brown shirts," and twice calling the vaccines "the mark of 
the beast," comparable to a "false god."

A review by CNN's KFile found that Peter Feaman, a lawyer and RNC 
committeeman from Florida made the comments on his blog the "The Backhoe 
Chronicles," which he publishes regularly in a private group on MeWe. The 
social media platform bills itself as the "anti-Facebook" app.

"The Biden brown shirts are beginning to show up at private homes 
questioning vaccine papers," Feaman wrote on July 20, incorrectly implying 
government officials would be showing up at people's homes to question 
their vaccination status, comparing them to the Nazi Party paramilitary 
wing.

Previously, he supported far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who used 
the term and faced swift backlash.

In May, Feaman called Covid-19 vaccines a "mark of the beast" -- a 
reference to a symbol from the biblical Book of Revelations showing 
allegiance to Satan -- and called Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen 
Whitmer "diabolical" for encouraging vaccines. "Diabolical Michigan 
Governor Whiter wants her citizens to get the Mark of the Beast to 
participate in society," Feaman wrote.

"Now the Michigan Democrat has announced that she is going to prolong the 
state's suffering until residents submit to getting 'the jab' and if 
enough of them comply with her demands, then she and Joe Biden might 
permit them to celebrate Fourth of July," he added, seemingly referencing 
the Biden administration's goal to have 70% of the US adult population 
with at least one dose of the vaccine by that holiday. (The goal was not 
met.)
He later added, "Hey Whitmer, we will not bow to your false god."

CNN reached out to Feaman and the RNC for comment multiple times but 
neither responded.

Feaman is one of three officials representing Florida in the governing 
body of the RNC, the political committee which leads the Republican Party. 
He has served in the position since 2012.

His reelection to the position in 2020 at an annual Florida Republican 
Party meeting was supported by state party chairman Joe Gruters, and he 
was previously appointed to nomination commissions for state and federal 
judges by Sen. Marco Rubio and then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He also 
served as an elector in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election.
On Sunday, Florida broke its record for coronavirus hospitalizations just 
one day after the state recorded the most new daily Covid-19 cases since 
the start of the pandemic.

On Thursday, Feaman attacked new US Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention guidance suggesting wearing masks indoors in places with high 
rates of Delta variant transmission.

"The wolves want control and power," he wrote. "As for me and my house--we 
will fight them."

In addition to peddling medical misinformation, Feaman spread conspiracy 
theories. Feaman pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen 
from former President Donald Trump, peddled Capitol insurrection 
conspiracies suggesting that the January 6 insurrection was a "set up to 
make the Trump folks look bad" and implied the event was a "false flag" 
operation carried about by Democrats to seize power.

In another post from February, Feaman shared an article by conservative 
talk show host Dennis Prager in which the author compared Democrats' 
actions after the Capitol insurrection to Nazis who used the Reichstag 
fire as a means to seize power in 1933.

"What the left is doing in demonizing conservatives and Trump supporters 
exactly follows what the Nazis did in 1933," Feaman wrote on MeWe, but 
said Trump supporters were "not afraid," adding, "Unlike in Germany in 
1933, they have guns."

In addition to his blog, Feaman also wrote two books — "Wake Up, 
America!" in 2007 and "The Next Nightmare: How Political Correctness Will 
Destroy America" in 2012 — that claimed "Islamofascism" was the greatest 
threat to Judeo-Christian values and the United States.

One of the books appears to feature a doctored blurb from The New York 
Times Book Review. At the top of the front cover of "Wake Up, America!", a 
blurb reads: "'Wake Up, America! presents a compelling argument Americans 
cannot take for granted--that the world of today will not necessarily 
exist tomorrow.—'as seen in The New York Times Book Review." A similar 
blurb exists on its Amazon book page.
A spokesperson for the Times confirmed that the publication did not 
publish a review or cover the title in any way and said they were 
reviewing the unauthorized use of the Times' name on the book.

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