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FAU prof stirs controversy by disputing Newtown massacre
Sun Sentinel ^ | January 8, 2013 | Mike Clary

Posted on 01/08/2013 9:22:07 AM PST by Uncle Chip

A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversary at Florida Atlantic University with claims that last month's Newtown, Conn., school shootings did not happen as reported — or may not have happened at all.

Moreover, James Tracy asserts in radio interviews and on his memoryholeblog.com. that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the event's true purpose: gun control.

"As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shooting continue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers, there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends," writes Tracy, a tenured associate professor of media history at FAU and a former union leader.

In another post, he says, "While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described."

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Tracy cites several sources for his skepticism, including lack of surveillance video or still images from the scene, the halting performance of the medical examiner at a news conference, timeline confusion, and how the accused shooter was able to fire so many shots in just minutes.

Tracy said he believes the deaths at Sandy Hook may have resulted from a training exercise. "Was this to a certain degree constructed?" he said. "Was this a drill?

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But, he added, he has not seen bodies, or photos of bodies. "Overall, I'm saying the public needs more information to assess what took place. We don't have that. And when the media and the public don't have that, various sorts of ideas can arise."

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; crisisactors; highcrimes; newtown; obamathugs; sandyhookshooting; treason; usualtrollatworkhere
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To: concerned about politics

That’s a nonsense rumor. Neither GE (GE Capital or any other division) nor FICO are LIBOR contributors, nor is there any evidence that the father of either shooter was ever scheduled to testify regarding anything concerning the LIBOR scandal.


61 posted on 01/08/2013 10:57:46 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: willyd

>>Please don’t repeat this without putting your tinfoil hat on...

I don’t believe anything without substantial evidence. However, I have seen videos of this Facebook site (which is now taken down) with a date marker and on cache. It proves nothing other than there are some strange circumstances.

The latest shootings are also very strange. It seems that the media peppers everyone with information until something solidifies 3 to 4 days later. No one is allowed to look at the evidence (even the parents of the dead), get near where it occurred, and any questioning of it makes the questioner a “tin-foil hat” guy.

I also find it hard to believe the medical examiners testimony of “yeah, I examined them but I don’t know anything about them.” There is also a blog he was interviewed by in which he compared guns to bacteria in a wound. He is vehemently anti-gun.


62 posted on 01/08/2013 10:58:39 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: machogirl
I would still like to know why Lanza was at the school the day before? Whom he had an “altercation with”?

That story was dropped like a lead balloon. 3 of the 4 he supposedly had the altercation with were shot dead, and the 4th [the secretary] was home sick that day and simultaneously hiding in the closet with the school nurse for 4 hours.

The whole thing is a choose the story and line and statement that you want to believe and go with it. There is no official anything.

The nurse's interview is particularly bothersome.

I believe I read yesterday that Lanza shot up cars in the parking lot first?

That would have to have been from bullets that originated from within the school as he was shooting at kids running out of the classroom, but we have no pictures of the crime scene or broken glass or bulletholes in the windows -- merely anonymous statements from anonymous sources that change with the wind.

63 posted on 01/08/2013 11:05:36 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Drew68

Is trolling really that fulfilling?

What gets you up in the morning?


64 posted on 01/08/2013 11:08:21 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
Is trolling really that fulfilling?

Put up or shut up.

Several threads on this ridiculous LIBOR scandal shooting connection have been yanked from Free Republic and for good reason. Jim doesn't want this Alex Jones-type garbage sullying his site. Or is Jim part of the conspiracy too?

65 posted on 01/08/2013 11:17:28 AM PST by Drew68
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To: editor-surveyor

As I said, a fine line between a rational line of thought and baying at the moon.


66 posted on 01/08/2013 11:19:27 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Drew68

Put up or shut up.

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Drew, they can’t. Becuase then they’d have to admit that they got the story off of DU on 12/16, which linked to wordpress blog which stated that the Fabian4liberty blog was the source of the information about the fathers having to testify.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022005746


67 posted on 01/08/2013 11:43:59 AM PST by dmz
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To: Drew68
Put up or shut up.

"This rumor is 100% false,” a Senate Banking Committee aide, who asked not to be named, ..... “The Senate Banking Committee does not have any LIBOR hearings currently scheduled, and has never considered either of these men as potential witnesses.

This was debunked by "someone" on the banking committee, and aide, and you're fine with that? It's a banking scandal for crying out loud!

Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE and the chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, had Peter Lanza as a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial, and you believe the administration had nothing to do with moving massive amounts of cash around in a banking scandal to help GE?

Robert Holmes worked as an anti-fraud scientist for credit scoring company FICO. Get it? Anti-fraud?

And you're good with what this "ghost" aide had to say about it?

68 posted on 01/08/2013 11:47:48 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: billorites

I don’t really buy the conspiracy theory. That it did not happen. But completely can believe that the anti gun cartel have been planning for a long time on how to react when a shooting they could exploit came along. And had the plan staged for short term activation.


69 posted on 01/08/2013 11:52:43 AM PST by Kadric
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To: dmz
Drew, they can’t. Becuase then they’d have to admit that they got the story off of DU on 12/16, which linked to wordpress blog which stated that the Fabian4liberty blog was the source of the information about the fathers having to testify.

Thanks. And it looks like I unfairly disparaged Alex Jones as well. Even he's not buying this crap.

No Viable Connection Between Peter Lanza & US Senate LIBOR Hearings

(courtesy of planet.infowars)

70 posted on 01/08/2013 11:59:06 AM PST by Drew68
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To: chris37
They are the same people who tell us Obama is a genius and that his wife is beautiful.

Okay, that is just to dang funny. You NAILED it!!

LMAOLOL!

71 posted on 01/08/2013 11:59:40 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: concerned about politics
The problem with the LIBOR rumor is that there is no record of Senate hearing to be held, now or in the future.

Have you seen a witness list, an official announcement of the hearings?

Neither one of these men would have anything to do with setting international borrowing interest rates anyway, which is what LIBOR is.

72 posted on 01/08/2013 12:04:06 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: concerned about politics
This was debunked by "someone" on the banking committee, and aide, and you're fine with that? It's a banking scandal for crying out loud!

So do you got anything besides an entirely speculative Fabian4Liberty blog?

See my post above. Even Alex Jones dismissed this garbage.

You got anything? Anything at all?

73 posted on 01/08/2013 12:04:38 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Da Coyote
With respect to the first - I object to someone with a marshmallow degree possessing the diminuitive intellect of an Obamadork being called a professor.

Depends on what level we're talking about here.

Ever been to a NAB Show? Communications is a highly evolved technical industry and is far more complicated than you might think.

And that is just on the commercial level.

74 posted on 01/08/2013 12:08:26 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Drew68
You got anything? Anything at all?

Nothing other than too many coincidences to make it NOT real. I'm surprised how people dismiss the connections.
We live in a world of mutually assured economic destruction. The merging of economies has taken the place of atomic warfare. Instead, we threaten each other financially. If too many nations fall, we all fall. Those the top of the Federal Reserve can and do manipulate everything.
The banks are all connected, and money moves to and fro. How can you NOT take a second look at this and think "Maybe. Just maybe, there is something going on here?"
I find it hard to believe you can NOT see the multiple connections and players , and simply dismiss it because those who are deeply involved in the scandal are saying there's nothing see here - just move along.
In your mind, isn't there just a little bit of doubt that maybe, just maybe, there's a bigger game being played here? Maybe it's not just coincidence?

75 posted on 01/08/2013 12:21:06 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: editor-surveyor
Nothing false about it Drew, up to your old tricks still?

No doubt drew is a troll, but I have yet to see any evidence of Senate hearings being scheduled let alone a witness list.

I'm not say it couldn't be true, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was, but I don't see any evidence to support it.

BTW, with regards to what the two fathers do for a living has no connection what so ever to what LIBOR is, why would they be essential witnesses even if there were hearings?

76 posted on 01/08/2013 12:22:04 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: editor-surveyor
Hmmmm, maybe I should rethink my last post to you.

I see three well known trolls on this thread who crawled out of hibernation to debunk this LIBOR thingy.

Kind of gives me pause....

77 posted on 01/08/2013 12:28:10 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
BTW, with regards to what the two fathers do for a living has no connection what so ever to what LIBOR is, why would they be essential witnesses even if there were hearings?

Wow! Even you're not buying this LIBOR shooting conspiracy crap? I'm impressed!

78 posted on 01/08/2013 12:33:50 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Hehe :D

On the serious side though, the evidence that the media lies to us all the time is all around us.

I am honestly beginning to wonder if they ever tell the truth or if they even know what that word means.


79 posted on 01/08/2013 12:46:10 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Uncle Chip
At this point in time in our Nation, you can NOT believe, trust or accept ANYTHING the media says or does..! They seem to have been infiltraed by every mother's son in the WORLD who hates the USA......!
80 posted on 01/08/2013 1:03:40 PM PST by unread (Eagles don't eat flys...)
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