Laura Loomer - Loomered: How I Became the Most Banned Woman in the World

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Loomered:

How I Became the Most Banned Woman in the World

2021 by Laura Loomer

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COWARDS DIE MANY TIMES BEFORE THEIR DEATHS;

THE VALIANT NEVER TASTE OF DEATH BUT ONCE.

William Shakespeare, Jul ius Caesar

TO ALL AMERICANS

who believed in me when I
decided to do things th e hard way

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I ts obvious, the first time you meet her, there is something different, something special, about Laura Loomer. She isnt wired like other people. Its as if her brain doesnt process information like the rest of us. She appears to be functionally immune to fear, to shame, and to embarrassment. She has Kryptonian reserves of energy. Sometimes her behavior is described as a loose cannon, but thats by people who do not know her. Rather, she is startlingly brave, with a large reserve of courage that allows her to extend right up to the line without crossing itmost of the time.

I met Laura at David Horowitzs 2014 Restoration Weekend. My initial fear was she might be a mole. She seemed a bit too eager, pursuing me down the hallway of the Breakers Hotel after my video journalism presentation and refusing to take no for an answer. She was relentless and emphatic about her willingness to work in any capacity for Project Veritas.

She reminded me of Calvin Coolidge: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Several months later, I spontaneously called her to come up to New York and work with us on a few projects. She was on a plane the very next day. On January 20, 2015, during her first training assignment, Laura wore a hidden camera to a Black Lives Matter rally. She visited the Staten Island Ferry Terminal alongside Project Veritas Executive Producer Joe Halderman. Laura obtained undercover video of Erica Snipes, daughter of Eric Garner, the man who was put in a chokehold and killed at the hands of the NYPD.

In response to, So, what do you think of Al Sharpton, is he kind of like a crook in a sense? Like you think hes like. Erica: Hes about this! rubbing her thumbs and fingers togethera hand gesture universally indicating cash or currency. Money was the true intent behind Al Sharptons activities.

The exchange was memorialized on the front page of the New York Post with a picture worth more than just a thousand words. It led to CNNs Chris Cuomo saying, James OKeefe is definitely someone who is identified with the right, but Eric Garners daughter isnt and shes the one who said that Al is all about the money. CNNs Alisyn Camerota interjected, She was caught on tape not knowing she was being videotaped. Cuomo quipped back, Sometimes thats when youre the most honest.

But the reactions to the action are sometimes greater than the revelations themselves. Laura, then undercover and operating without a byline, went on to generate an extraordinary series of events with each piece of footage. First, she would gather incendiary cinema verit , generate a firestorm of local television coverage, and most importantly, force reactions wherein her subjects would trip over themselves, choking on their own words and hypocrisy.

Legendary undercover reporter Gnter Wallraff would describe the educative drama that would unfold during the release of his investigations with a series of acts, in which at the onset the journalist appears as the director and as the actor who carries forward the plot. When the videos are released. The balance of political forces is changed. David assumes new strength, while Goliath is attacked on all sides. The hunter becomes the quarry.

Each of the dozen or so investigations Laura was involved with at Project Veritas unfolded in precisely this way. Laura was, has since, and continually is willing to take enormous risks to capture men and women carrying out evil deeds, saying evil things, and supporting unjust actions.

While in Wallraffs quote Laura is certainly David, the underdog, she, like the historical King David, is willing to take the fight to the immoral. She doesnt merely walk toward the fire, per the late Andrew Breitbarts familiar injunction; rather, she hurls herself onto the nearest mount and gallops into the blaze like a Valkyrie.

In another investigation, and while a student at Barry University in Miami, Laura created a group named Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. On hidden video, she asked a Barry University administrator if they approved of sending flashlights and other aid to ISIS, because they dont have night vision and stuff.

The Barry administrator suggested she rename the group Sympathetic Students in Support of the Middle East as opposed to ISIS. It created a Florida media firestorm, and she was kicked out of the private Catholic university. Barry Universitys president said she was incensed, not at the staffer for suggesting a workaround to fund a terrorist organization but at Laura for exposing it. There was even a threat of criminal charges against Laura for filming on campus.

At great legal cost, Project Veritas launched a massive and successful campaign so that Laura could get her diploma. Laura graduated a few months later with a perfect 4.0 GPA and posed for a picture with her diploma that was mailed to her since she was banned from attending her own graduation and banned from ever returning to the campus. The picture with Lauras face blurred was posted by Project Veritas to social media. One can imagine the look on the faces of the Barry University administration watching Laura come out clean on the other side of that imbroglio. The hunter became the quarry, indeed.

If all of this sounds like terrifying experiences, it is. But, as you get to know Laura, you realize that her fearlessness and penchant for living dangerously are kept in check by a robust, personal, lifelong commitment to justice and an unambiguous grasp of right and wrong. This is what led to her pursuit of journalism, while her other gifts have conspired to transform her street interviews into performance art.

Much like Forrest Gump, she would seemingly show up anywhere fraud and misconduct were happening. There was the time at a Teachers Union Conference in Atlantic City, NJ, when a health teacher offered Laura cocaine. The high school health teacher was later suspended. (Project Veritas walked into his school to video PVs offering him a certificate of Excellence in Drug Abuse Awareness just before busting him.) He looked interesting, Laura said afterwards, like the kind of guy who would sleep with a student and want to brag about it.