On Monday, the image above was posted to the Life in Renville County Facebook group.
Perhaps we've missed a few stops, but the last time we noticed Meyer speaking in Minnesota was looking at videos of the ARISE USE Resurrection Tour at the Gilfillan Estate near Redwood Falls.
Big Bat USA's biography, Patriot: Bradley R. Meyer, provides a snapshot of what Wednesday's audience might expect:
. . . He was employed by Avera Health, out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His contract was terminated by his employer in March, 2021 after discussing the C-19 experimental injections with his patients and prescribing Ivermectin to treat C-19. Dr. Meyer used IV NAC after consultation with Dr. Edward. F Fogarty III MD, a Radiologist out of North Dakota to treat a patient in the hospital with worsening C-19 symptoms. Her illness dramatically improved, and she was discharged home from the hospital the day after Dr. Meyer was terminated. This experience emboldened Dr. Meyer to speak out against the Corporate Medical Industrial Complex and the control they exert preventing a physician’s autonomy in the practice of medicine. He most recently shared his story on the ARISE-USA Tour in Wahoo, Nebraska. He is working with Dr. Edward F. Fogarty III MD to bring a Hyperbaric, “mitochondrial medicine”, and Amino Acid Nutrients (“The Purple Powder”) to combat C-19 and treat many chronic medical conditions. Boji-MoPlatte Hyperbarics plan to serve the upper Midwest out of both Iowa and Nebraska, with the initial Wellness Center located in Okoboji.
On Tour:
3 June 2021, Wahoo, NE
4 July 2021, KEYSTONE, SD
5 July 2021, Pierre, ND
6 July 2021, Menoken ND
9 July 2021, Yankton, SD
Apparently, Meyer was added when the event was shifted from Alexandria to rural Redwood Falls. Readers can watch his talk here; he's introduced as a "local hero" by the local event host, 2022 National Cattlemen's Beef Association President, Kimball-area farmer Don Schiefelbein.
We'd posted about the event in UPDATE: Coming to Gilfillan Farm on July 8: Resurrection Tour, wrapped in vicious antisemitism. Meyer wasn't a focus of the post; rather it was the headline of the bill:
According to "Constitutional Sheriffs" group teams up with Antisemitic Conspiracist, Chuck Tanner and Devin Burger's article published on the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights' website:
On the Fourth of July, the “Arise USA” buses roll into Keystone, South Dakota, for the “Resurrection Tour.” The stop is the fortieth of the Arise USA: The Resurrection Tour’s scheduled 110-day, eighty-nine stop journey across the country.
At the Keystone stop, for $1000 per person, VIPs can visit Historic Deadwood, take group photos at Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, mingle with Arise USA speakers at a cash bar, and get a ride to the big rally. Beyond the pomp and circumstance, the stop is also billed as “the beginning of the second American Revolution.”[1]
Behind the bunting and vinyl bus wraps, Arise USA is a fusion of two far-right strands: deeply antisemitic Qanon-style conspiracies combined with a return of the Posse Comitatus as the solution to the “Deep State.”
The tour is organized under the auspices of the Earth Intelligence Network, a non-profit run by former CIA employee turned antisemitic QAnon conspiracy monger, in partnership with the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) of longtime militia figure Richard Mack
Lead tour organizer, Robert David Steele, is a prolific purveyor of antisemitism who spews conspiracy theories about “satanic Zionists” engaged in a global plot against white people; deems Jews “a secret society that believes itself to be exempt from all laws and customs of others;” promotes Holocaust denial; calls for jailing all Jews not sufficiently “loyal to the Republic;” and declares that we must “eradicate every Zionist who refuses to be loyal to their country of citizenship and the rule of law.”[2]
The irony of latest engagement? Tour organizer and COVID denier Robert David Steele died of COVID about seven weeks later. At VICE, David Gilbert reported on August 30 in QAnon Anti-Vaxxer Called COVID a Hoax Even as His ‘Lungs Stopped Functioning’:
Robert David Steele, a former CIA officer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed to be the first person to call COVID-19 a hoax, has died from COVID-19.
Steele, who was among the earliest QAnon promoters and helped the conspiracy theory move from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream, was hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19 earlier this month. But he continued to spread anti-vaccine and COVID-denial conspiracy theories until the end.
“I will not take the vaccination, though I did test positive for whatever they’re calling ‘COVID’ today, but the bottom line is that my lungs are not functioning,” Steele wrote in his final blog post on August 17, accompanied by a picture of him hooked up to what appears to be a ventilator.
“We will never be the same because now we know that we’ve all been lied to about everything,” Steele added. “But, now we also know that we can trust each other. I’m alive today because I had a network that put me into a good hospital in Florida.”
Steele’s death was confirmed by his friend and fellow conspiracy theorist Mark Tassi in a video posted to Instagram on Sunday evening. In the video Tassi says he was in touch with Steele in recent days and claimed the hospital had prevented the former CIA officer from using hydroxychloroquine tablets.
Mark Tassi today is announcing the death of his friend, former CIA officer Robert David Steele, of covid. Steele was a frequent guest on Alex Jones, and known for his vaccine, 9/11, and Sandy Hook conspiracies. Naturally, Tassi has a conspiracy that the hospital killed Steele. pic.twitter.com/4Ky5K8bVKe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 29, 2021
Steele was in Florida for the final dates of his Arise USA tour, a three-month trek across all 50 states, during which he spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19, election fraud, and former President Donald Trump’s supposedly imminent return to office. The tour had run out of money, but Steele was continuing to show up to events on his own.
Steele was joined for parts of the tour by Richard Mack, the head of the “Constitutional Sheriffs” movement, a group working to radicalize American law enforcement.
In his video, Tassi claimed without evidence that Steele’s illness may have been linked to the attention his tour had gotten, and added that he was forced onto a ventilator because “they” wanted Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis to look bad.
“Robert has died, and the whole thing is very suspicious,” Tassi said.
Steele helped take QAnon from fringe message board 4chan and into the mainstream in early 2018, helping the conspiracy theory reach a much wider audience.
Steele was also a frequent guest on Alex Jones’ Infowars show, spread 9/11 conspiracies, and shared deeply antisemitic opinions.
As documented in a recent report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, Steele has has long history of antisemitism, including the times he called for all Jews who are not sufficiently “loyal to the Republic” to be jailed, and said that we must “eradicate every Zionist who refuses to be loyal to their country of citizenship and the rule of law.” . . .
Hours after Steele’s death was announced, he was already being lauded as a “warrior to the end” on QAnon channels on messaging app Telegram. And just as the final years of his life were defined by conspiracy theories, his followers reacted to his death by boosting conspiracies about how he “really” died, including claims that he was poisoned or “killed with a heart attack.”
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