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 ...
Because if he was buzzed in or got past any metal detectors or whatever, then the school's new security measures were just proved to be major failures. Just like a gun grab would do nothing to stop sickos from doing this again. There are many unanswered questions and far too many things that aren't adding up.
It's was the freaky M.E.'s presser that sent up red flags for me. First, the cops said there were only handguns inside the school. Then we see a rifle being taken out of the trunk. The cops then say the rifle was in the trunk but still went with the story that the shooting was done with handguns. Along comes freaky coroner who says they were all shot with a long gun so IMMEDIATELY the cops change their story to there being one long gun inside the school. Then the msm start reporting there were one, two or three assault weapons used inside the school with more in the trunk and more at the house. Either the first cops are so dumb they don't know the difference between a handgun and a rifle and can't count past 2 or something's rotten in the state of CT.
What coincidences? The only thing we have was some blogger claiming these two men were going to testify in front of the Senate in some LIBOR scandal hearing. And he made these claims without any supporting evidence whatsoever to back these claims up. None! Go back and read the article yourself. No evidence these two men were slated to testify and, in fact, no evidence the Senate is even holding a hearing on the matter. In short, he made it up out of thin air, placed it on his blog and watched the conspiracy nuts run with it!
Good grief! I could write a blog tomorrow claiming Adam Lanza was Ben Affleck's cousin and this is why Affleck backed out of MA's Senate run, offer nothing whatsoever in the way of evidence or links to back me up and watch it spread like wildfire across the interwebs as conspiracy loons had a field day! No different that what "Fabian4Liberty" did.
It’s actually pretty simple. Lanza brought a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and two handguns—a Glock 10 mm and a Sig Sauer 9 mm—into the school with him. He used the AR-15 to shoot everyone else, and one of the handguns to kill himself. The shotgun was left in the trunk of his car, which is the gun seen being taken out of the trunk in the overhead video.
>> “Kind of gives me pause...” <<
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What here doesn’t these days?
If this were true, then the time for open rebellion would be now.
I will hold judgement until further information is available.
No way was she in a closet for 4 hours. The cops were on the scene within 20 minutes. I would imagine the initial group would enter at the front door and would search the front offices first. She would be one of the first escorted out of the building. The cops were giving pressers in less than 4 hours with number of victims and Lanza. Isn't she the one who said Lanza's mother worked at the school? Amazing how many of these people can't get their stories straight.
It's called evaluating circumstances and evidence, then coming to a rational conclusion.
There is plenty of evidence to support that there is questionable goings on here with this Sandy Hook shooting.
It's nice to have a place where thoughtful people congregate to discuss, debate and sort out the BS without trolls interrupting.
I'm glad you're impressed, sorry I can't say the same.
So true and so sad.
I think it was the day this happened I posted that I hoped we would just get the truth on this story....boy was I dreaming or what?
Just wait until you stand at the sixth floor Texas Book Depository window. I never believed the magic bullet and casually thought there was more to the story but didn’t have any tin foil investments. My earth shattering moment was when I stood at the window.
The problem with that is the feds told the media it was an AR 15 in the trunk, not a shot gun.
If the feds don't know the difference, then we really are screwed.
<>No way was she in a closet for 4 hours.<>
Sandy Hook Nurse, Secretary Hid in Closet for Four Hours
http://www.emsworld.com/news/10843400/sandy-hook-nurse-secretary-hid-in-closet-for-four-hours
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The nurse at Sandy Hook Elementary School says she and the school secretary stayed hidden in a supply closet for almost four hours after the Connecticut school massacre had ended, leaving 20 children and six adults dead.
Sally Cox told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that she knew “something terrible was happening” Friday morning when she heard loud popping sounds and the school secretary called out to her. She says she went under her computer desk, and the gunman entered her office. She says she could see his legs from the knees down, his boots facing her desk. He then left and closed the door.
She says the secretary raced into her office and they called 911 and hid in the closet. Cox says they were “petrified” and “didn’t know how many there could have been.”
From the media:
“Lanza, 20, fired a Bushmaster .223 semiautomatic rifle to kill many of the 20 children and six adults at the school Friday, Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said. He used a Glock 10-millimeter handgun to shoot himself in the head. He also carried at Sig Sauer pistol. A shotgun, the type of which was not identified, was found in the trunk of Lanza’s car outside the school. ‘The Bushmaster was used in the school, in its entirety, and [a] handgun was used to take his own life,’ Vance said.”
Well then anyone living up in Newtown or surrounding area can put this rumor to rest by going to the school and taking pictures of the entrance for us all.
I see three well known trolls on this thread who crawled out of hibernation to debunk this LIBOR thingy.
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Well if someone positing the truth of the LIBOR thingy would bunk it, the three well known trolls would not have to debunk it.
There has been not an ounce of evidence presented that the LIBOR thingy is true, not an ounce. You recognize that yourself.
Now I have to go back and figure out who the three well known trolls are.
I am all for examining things...but the page was originally created under another name on the 10th and then changed to be a RIP page for Vicki Soto after the event.
They are called troll pages and people use them to collect Facebook friends for marketing purposes by creating pages as big events happen because they know people will be searching facebook to see what they see.
I think this is more a case of the Obama administration using the event to steer the conversation then it is a case of a massive cover up or some sort of faked event.
you mean: the other two ....
One teacher who was wounded survived but there has been no follow up on her memories or her condition. You'd think there'd be several kids who were too tramatized to walk out on their own and would have to be taken to the trauma unit. How many kids when told to keep their eyes closed would really do that? One out of one hundred? You'd need to keep your eyes open to see where you're going. Can you imagine the law suit if a kid tripped and hurt himself after being told to keep his eyes closed - can't have that. As you said, not one cut themselves? No one slipped in the blood? The "keep their eyes closed" sounded too tree huggy at the time and even more so now. The clip of the practice event looked more real with all the "officials" running around performing duties than Sandy Hook did. I'm not sure what to believe. I'm going with something happened but what it might have been is anyone's guess. Too many people not to keep it quiet.
There was this announcement from the Repub Senators on the AG committee with regards to LIBOR.
http://www.ag.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/republican-ag-senators_call-for-ag-hearings-on-libor
There was that lawyer that just pulled his lawsuit against the State of Conn for the psych trauma of a student who survived. He withdrew it to evaluate new evidence.
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