Surprise! ANOTHER wannabe vigilante is a right wing conspiracy nut. So apparently Alex Rosen, the fat loser from Predator Poachers who sent threatening messages to me after I exposed him as a fraud back in 2020, is a far right loon who recently took it upon himself to harass Dr. Peter Hotez, the man who helped develop the COVID vaccine, which saved millions of lives.
I've written about this before-- so many of these so-called "pedo hunter" groups are aligned with extreme right-wing conspiracies.
COVID-19 expert Peter Hotez harassed outside home by anti-vaccine advocates
Megan Fan Munce, Staff writer, June 18, 2023 Updated: June 19, 2023 1:43 p.m.
Less than an hour later, a Twitter user named Alex Rosen tweeted a video of himself talking to Hotez outside his home, shaking Hotez's hand and then asking him why he wouldn't debate Kennedy.
"I haven't said anything one way or the other," Hotez replied, "He just invited me, so we'll see."
Rosen then continued to yell questions about vaccines at Hotez as he attempted to re-enter his house. In the background, a third person can be heard yelling at Hotez.
"Don't come to my house," Hotez said to the pair before returning back inside his house.
Around 6 p.m., eight hours after Hotez's initial tweet, Rosen tweeted another video of himself where he purportedly attempts to turn himself in to Houston police for the interaction.
After being told it was legal for Rosen to ask Hotez questions as long as he remained on the sidewalk, Rosen repeatedly made provocative comments and then withdrew them, claiming he committed a hate crime and then clarifying that he did not, then saying that "shots were involved" before clarifying he was referring to vaccines and that no vaccines were administered during the interaction.
For the majority of the video, Rosen points the camera toward the floor. Nothing in the video visibly indicated that it took place in a police station.
Houston police could not confirm Sunday whether Rosen entered a station or whether the person heard speaking to him in the video was a member of the Houston Police Department.
Rosen has previously posted videos of himself following and shouting questions at U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, until being stopped by security during the Texas State Republican Convention last June.
In October, Rosen tweeted a video of himself being told by Harris County constables that he was banned from the Harris County Commissioners Court for being "disruptive." The video of the meeting at which Rosen spoke was not posted online, and in a video he posted himself of the meeting, part of his speech is censored.
Both Rosen and a Twitter user tagged in the video outside Hotez's home defended their actions on social media, claiming they were there to ask questions as journalists. But in the video, neither Rosen nor the second individual heard speaking say their names or identify themselves as journalists.
The Pulitzer Center's ethics and standards policy advises that journalists should identify themselves as such when speaking with sources, and the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists adds that journalists should be "honest" when gathering information and avoid "undercover or other surreptitious methods" of reporting.
Looks like Alex GROSS-en needs some Slim-Fast.
