Posted on 01/06/2013 7:04:56 PM PST by wesagain
Since last month’s horrifying and heartbreaking school massacre in Newtown, Conn., politicians and the press have, as everyone knows,.....
Other possible factors – from violent video games to the “failure of our mental-health system” to the unintended consequences of making schools “gun-free zones” – have taken a back seat to guns. Within hours of the gruesome mega-crime, the media had provided extensive, round-the-clock coverage of precisely which firearms, manufacturers and calibers the perpetrator had used, how he had obtained them from his mother, where they were originally purchased, and so on.
But where, I’d like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator – who had been under treatment for mental-health problems – may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”
It has been more than three weeks since the shooting. We know all about the guns he used, but what “medication” may he have used? (One brief mini-hoax emerged when the New York Daily News published a story claiming the shooter, according to his uncle, had been on the controversial antipsychotic drug Fanapt. That story was quickly withdrawn after the “uncle” turned out to be a fraudster with no relation to the murderer.)
So, what is the truth? Where is the journalistic curiosity? Where is the follow-up? Where is the police report,.......
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It’s only logical to assume also that he may have gone off his anti-psychotic drugs, resulting in his actions.
That report may well be true BUT its just words. Some Anonymous guy reports that a certain weapon was used and I am to believe it?
Sorry but no sale. I want a coroners report... no make that two. One by the Gub'ment and one by an independent source hired by the Alleged Shooter's family.
And even then I will still not be 100% sure I am being told the truth.
Remember we have been dealing here with demonic controled persons.
The issue is that the drugs don’t work the same way for everyone, and can stop working for a person.
The shooter was 20. He may have stopped taking his meds, cut the dosage, or they stopped working.
Meds won’t cure a condition, they treat the symptom. There are people who belong in institutions, non on meds.
Could also that is a cause why some of these shooters turn to devil worship?
Do we really know or have we just been told what he used?
Early reports I saw mentioned another camo-clad guy arrested outside of the school. Never saw any explanation for that.
A video I saw mentioned yet another guy, also never explained.
May be BS, but ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=greuYvcMLDk&sns=em
We learned that from the Japanese in WW2. They used 6MM that would only wound a GI. They knew that we did not leave our wounded like they did so every wounded GI took two able bodied soldiers off the battlefiled.
Just like they down played the Gabby Giffords shooter having an alter to Satan in the back yard....Simple spiritual warfare.
Maybe we should publish maps of current and past users of anti-psychotic drugs?
Which pose a greater danger of perpetuating mass shootings?
You got it.
I agree with all you said, every bit of it, and my view comes from personal experience with extended family who were downright dangerous and determined when off medication.
That said, I think the original article was a lame attempt to blame the drugs for the actions of the deranged.
The following was sent to me, and I have back-checked them as best as I could.
Pay close attention to #’s 6, 10 15, 17, 22 and 23. Special emphasis on #6 and #23. Number Six has NOT been debunked to satisfaction yet.
I personally think #8 and #31 are merely coincidence. But the rest of the list? Read on...
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1) As yet, we have not seen any concrete evidence that any child died.
2) As yet, parents have not been allowed to see their children. (Photoshopped pictures do not count.)
3) As of now, I have seen only one unambiguous statement from a grieving parent (Robbie Parker).
4) According to the official story, Adam Lanza was found with his older brother’s ID, and it was not stolen. However, older brother Ryan–who officials say is very cooperative–claims not to have even seen his brother since 2010. Where would Adam get this ID? And why does such use not qualify as a theft?
5) According to the official story, Adam Lanza was wearing a black outfit with a mask and bulletproof vest. Why would he want to hide his identity, and why would he wear a bulletproof vest, if he planned to kill himself?
6) The medical examiner asserts that all wounds were caused by a rifle or other long weapon, and police/FBI say that the school was littered with .223 (rifle) casings. But Adam Lanza was found dead in the school with only handguns – a rifle and shotgun were found in the trunk of his car. But then he could not possibly have been firing the rifle, and could not have committed the murders. Who did?
7) According to the official story, the killing was tightly confined to two classrooms. But then why were so many children told to close their eyes while leaving the building?
8 ) Joanne Didonato, the principal’s secretary, called in sick on Friday–something she rarely does. So presumably, she must have been awfully ill. Yet she then felt well enough to give an interview. “Of all days,” she said, emphasizing the strange coincidence.
9) The hospital went into lockdown and cleared four trauma rooms, but received only three patients, two of them dead children (according to the official story) and one mildly wounded adult.
10) Why were there such persistent reports that Mrs. Lanza was a kindergarten teacher, and that she died at the school, when the new official story is that she was not connected to the school and was killed at home?
11) What happened to the report that Adam Lanza’s girlfriend and another friend were missing in New Jersey?
12) What happened to the woodsman in a black jacket and camo pants who was arrested and handcuffed outside the school? He actually shouted to parents, “It wasn’t me!” Who was he and what was he doing there?
13) What happened to the dark van or SUV that the police surrounded in the parking lot, or the maroon sedan with a blown-out back window they were on the lookout for?
14) The official story is that Nancy Lanza was a gun collector who obeyed the law. But since 20-year-olds are not permitted to buy guns or ammo or carry guns in Connecticut, why would she allow her “autistic” son access to both guns and ammo? (NOTE: this one kind of lost, because Nancy wasd the first to die...)
15) Why were parents told on Friday that “if you haven’t been reunited with your child by now it’s already over”? Does anyone imagine that real parents of real children would simply say, “Okay, the show’s over, let’s go home now”?
16) Would real parents of real children really be satisfied with (possibly photoshopped) pictures of their children? Wouldn’t they demand to see their children one last time firsthand?
17) According to the official story, 28 people died but only 1 was wounded. The dead included 20 small, squirmy children – difficult targets even for professionals. How could Adam Lanza achieve such amazingly deadly accuracy, in such a short length of time?
18 ) A child asserts that he/she heard someone say, “Put your hands up,” followed by the reply, “Don’t shoot.” This indicates that the police took a suspect into custody inside the school. But if that was Adam Lanza, how did he kill himself after that point?
19) Another child asserts that he/she saw a man pinned down to the ground with handcuffs on. Again, this indicates that the police took a suspect into custody. If that was Adam Lanza, how did he then kill himself?
20) When Ryan Lanza was falsely identified as the shooter, who deleted his Facebook profile and created many others in his name?
21) Is it reasonable for a geeky 20-year-old to carry two pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition while wearing a bulletproof vest and a mask?
22) Why did the police say on Friday that they were going to leave the bodies rotting in the school until Sunday, then Saturday morning announce that they had spirited the bodies away in the middle of the night? Perhaps to ensure that the transport, if any, would go unrecorded on photos or video?
23) Why won’t police tell us where they found the Henry repeating rifle, the Enfield rifle, and the shotgun?
24) Did the school have one or more security cameras? What do they show?
25) Why did a police officer specifically mention, on radio, that “they’re coming at me through this wood,” followed by a fellow officer saying, “This is it”?
26) One officer in the school said, “We’ve got one suspect down.” Who was that? Down in this situation generally means in custody (on the ground and cuffed), not dead.
27) Why didn’t Adam’s uncle see anything out of the ordinary in Adam when the two saw each other in June?
28 ) Why is Adam Lanza reported to be a loner when a teenager said (oxymoronically), “[Lanza and his friends] always gathered alone in a corner in school”?
29) Why did police assign an individual state trooper to every grieving family, whether the family wants such “protection” or not?
30) Why are Ryan Lanza and his roommates still in custody, and why are the police pretending that it’s for their own benefit?
31) Is it a coincidence that Nancy Lanza’s brother is Kingston Police Officer James Champion, who lives next door to the former Lanza home?
Discuss.
The guy who was in the woods was someone in the building who ran out. So you really don’t need that tinfoil.
That said, there is a crying need for major news outlets to do a non-editorializing full summary of what is *known*, especially given the fecal exhibition that the early reporting was. I do not expect this to happen.
“We’ve got one suspect down.”
Means dead. “In custody” means alive.
32) Why did the Newtown gunman and the Virginia Tech gunman both destroy their computer hard drive? What were they hiding?
NFHale, please see rockinqsranch’s #19.
Beyond that, I am two degrees of separation from a first responder who spent considerable time on-scene. I have known the guy in between me and the first responder for a long time. He lives within 10 miles of the school, is related to the first responder, and says the relative/first responder knows his stuff firearms-wise, as does my friend.
The report I get from my friend, from his relative/first responder, is that there was 5.56 brass all over the school.
Take it for what it’s worth. Personally, I believe there is no tinfoil required here - just a lot of work keeping on top of our political class in the aftermath.
“So I always bipolar meant jerk.”
You are so wrong.
Everyone knows bi-polar means Bitch, silly.
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