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Professor's Questions About Sandy Hook Shooting Recall Columbine Massacre
Believe it or not, there are actually people out there who are convinced that last month's horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was staged. Anderson Cooper opened his show tonight taking on these conspiracy theorists. He said that ordinarily, he wouldn't give much thought to insane conspiracies, but one of the people pushing them is a Florida professor who raises doubts as to whether the shooting "ever took place" in the way that the media described, and the whole thing was just a huge conspiracy to get the country behind gun control. And as if that wasn't unbelievable enough, he also suspects that some of the parents of the children were really actors. – Mediaite.com
Dominant Social Theme: Sandy Hook conspiracy theories are appalling and outrageous.
Free-Market Analysis: A recent CNN/Anderson Cooper "Keeping Them Honest" segment focused on a media professor, James Tracy, who has publicly claimed that the Sandy Hook shootings "may not have happened at all, at least ... the way they have been described."
An article by the Sun Sentinel describes the Tracy controversy as follows:
FAU prof stirs controversy by disputing Newtown massacre ... A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversy 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.
... In one of his blog posts, "The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information," 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 also has doubts about the official version of the Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9-11 terror attacks and the Aurora, Colo., theater murders.
"I describe myself as a scholar and public intellectual," he said, "interested in going more deeply into controversial public events. Although some may see [my theories] as beyond the pale, I am doing what we should be doing as academics."
Cooper is at his silky best in this segment, blasting away at the professor's theories and even implying that he ought to be fired for voicing such an opinion.
The program made attempts to get Tracy on air but the professor (perhaps wisely) declined. He did issue a nuanced apology in which he voiced regret that he had added to any family's pain with his views but he didn't retract his opinion that there was more to the Sandy Hook shootings than had been reported.
And while Anderson Cooper and CNN (and others) may find it "outrageous" for someone to state that professional reporting was inadequate in such cases, the case of the Columbine High School shootings provides us with a stubborn rebuttal to the idea that the mainstream press always reports adequately in such situations.
Two individuals – Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17 – were said to be responsible for the horrible shootings at Columbine High School outside Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, leaving 15 dead and 23 wounded. But as we've reported before, there are at least 100 reports of eyewitnesses claiming to see more shooters and others generally beyond the two young suspects that later supposedly committed suicide at the scene.
You can see a summary of these reports at Whatreallyhappened.com.
These summaries are cited in hundreds if not thousands of posts on the Internet and on such alternative media Web sites at Infowars. Below is a sampling; while the provenance of these reports is not always clear, the sheer number of them and the detail certainly warrant further investigation.
But that's not going to come from CNN or Anderson Cooper. He's too busy "debunking" the idea that mainstream reporting ever gets it wrong or that such massacres might not have been adequately explained.
Columbine: 101 witnesses can't be wrong
According to the final report of the investigation, only two people--Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17--planned and executed the mass shooting at Columbine High School outside Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, leaving 15 dead and 23 wounded. But at least 101 eye- and ear- witnesses remembered it differently:
1) Chris Wisher, sophomore (1261) He turned and saw two guys carrying shotguns, and wearing black trench coats. A 3rd guy wearing a white T-shirt and jeans was seen throwing bombs onto the roof.
2) Jake Apodaca, sophomore (653) He was at the soccer field, heard firecrackers. He turned and saw two guys carrying shotguns, wearing black trench coats and black T-shirts. A 3rd guy wearing a white T-shirt and jeans was seen throwing bombs onto the roof.
3) Jonathan Cole, freshman (749) He noticed two tall guys in black trench coats. He then saw a third male, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans. This person looked over to the other two suspect, and yelled "GO!! GO!!".
4) William Arapkiles, freshman (660) He states that he was at the soccer field, and heard firecrackers. He turned and saw 3 people near the West entrance. Two were wearing black trench coats, and carrying guns. The third was wearing a white T-shirt, and no visible gun. The person in the white T-shirt was pacing back and forth about 5' away from the two gunmen.
5) Channel 7 News at 12pm(noon) on 4-20 (EP 21-244) "Reporter said that numerous witnesses he spoke to who were not named said they saw 3 gunmen."
6) Lindsay Elmore, junior (332)"I believe there were 3 gunmen." (340) "...there was so much movement that Elmore thought there was more than two people."
7) ACSO Nelson (8810) "... a list of 3 names that the 12 witnesses ID'd from a yearbook were turned over to ACSO investigators to forward."
8) Jason Baer, sophomore (1759) Hid in greenroom off science hall "I heard more than two people yelling to each other saying 'over here' and stuff."
9) Anthony Sammauro, freshman (5071) "Tony stated that two suspects came in the front door and one came in the side door."
10) Erik Sunde, freshman (4576) Saw two gunmen downstairs near cafeteria, runs upstairs and sees another person in trenchcoat in front of library doors.
(Video from Buzz Sourse's YouTube user channel.)
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Posted by bob on 01/16/13 12:56 AM
Something is not right. Just too many discrepancies.
So many kids are dead and no investigation.
On a "bright" side, more than 10,000 people attended a single gun-show in California.
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Posted by xflynhighx on 01/15/13 12:16 PM
The video has been removed. I guess our Nazi government doesn't want me to see it.
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Posted by Wrusssr on 01/15/13 04:00 AM
Starviego, a blogger, has compiled some interesting school massacre similarities. He says:
'There are many mass shooting-type events. School shooters, workplace shooters, family-ciders, politically-motivated mass shooters (like the Mumbai terrorist attack (11-26-08) seem to be the main categories. How many are manipulated and how many are non-manipulated events? I have only studied the school shootings in any depth, so the following characteristics may only fit that one category of a manipulated event.:'
(NOTE - Scroll down through this forum and read Starviego's entries of characteristics that he has compiled on school shooters, plus related information associated with these shootings, such as the time of day they began. Intermittent points from other readers sometimes separate his posts, so keep scrolling until you come to his next set of his characteristics.)
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Posted by Jed Smith on 01/14/13 09:24 PM
there's not enough information out there, as far as I can tell, to come to any conclusions.
I consider myself fairly 'awake', but what I found interesting to observe in myself was the first knee-jerk reaction I had when hearing about this FL professors opinion. - - - "How ridiculous sounding."
Now I hadn't actually read what the man said, only a headline or two about it. I guess we need to be aware of old habits.
As Einstein said, "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
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Posted by 1776 on 01/14/13 04:32 PM
Choose Your Own Crime Stats
An interesting look at Crime Stats in the United States using data from the FBI that doesn't seem to be getting much discussion from either the press or politicians. There has been a 50% reduction in the violent crime rate in the last twenty years and neither political party is taking credit for this? I thought politicians always wanted to take credit for good things? Perhaps they don't want to draw attention to the fact that higher crime rates seem to correspond with inner cities? The great thing about living in the United States is you're Free To Choose, at least for now, so feel free to Choose Your Own Crime Stats if you don't like these.
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Posted by 1776 on 01/14/13 04:32 PM
Choose Your Own Crime Stats
An interesting look at Crime Stats in the United States using data from the FBI that doesn't seem to be getting much discussion from either the press or politicians. There has been a 50% reduction in the violent crime rate in the last twenty years and neither political party is taking credit for this? I thought politicians always wanted to take credit for good things? Perhaps they don't want to draw attention to the fact that higher crime rates seem to correspond with inner cities? The great thing about living in the United States is you're Free To Choose, at least for now, so feel free to Choose Your Own Crime Stats if you don't like these.
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Posted by spekulatn on 01/14/13 01:50 PM
More wood for the fire. The comments with links make for good reading.
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Posted by 1776 on 01/14/13 12:19 PM
Rocket launchers surface during Los Angeles guns buyback
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Posted by walldecltd@yahoo.ca on 01/14/13 12:08 AM
Anderson cooper the poster boy for the iraq war .How much more can the public take from this blatant lier. I hope attention could be given to a petition to Deport this swine from North America
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Posted by Leviathanfighter on 01/13/13 09:46 PM
Anybody who would swallow Anderson Cooper's take on ANYTHING ought to have his head examined. He is an obvious media shill and a huckster for the power elite.
I wasn't born yesterday. I know a psy-op when I see one, and this was one. I've seen most of the video testimony, and I find the charge that they were lying most persuasive.
Most likely, the participants were crisis actors. I must say that they did not do a very good job. But then, it's pretty hard to fake grief and sadness persuasively, especially when video cameras are recording every expression and nuance of your face, voice, and testimony.
This was a hoax to further the aim of the power elite, namely "gun control." It's not working. The oligarchs are getting massacred in the blogs, on YouTube, and generally on the Internet. We know.
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Posted by weewilly on 01/13/13 08:59 PM
I guess by the strong propaganda media response to the obvious questions about Sandy Hook and how they are so "outrageous", there must be some validity to the questions. And guess what Mr. Cooper, your not fooling anyone who has their eyes open as to what agenda you are promoting.
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Posted by dkmeller1 on 01/13/13 07:09 PM
Both government and the "news" media they use to disseminate (dis)information, lie about everything else. don't they? Within minutes after reportage, glaring discrepancies become visible, perfectly reasonable questions go ananswered, a stock-response is emitted from all responsible sources, e.g. "They hate us for our freedom","Weapons of Mass destruction", "unprovoked and dastardly attack", "too many 'assault weapons'", and any other equally or more credible explanations are ignored and rejected out of hand.
Not only CNN, President Obama, and Senator Feinstein, but all of the public figures concerned about school shootings ONLY talk about guns, NOTHING ELSE. No question about did prescription drug abuse induce violent behavior, No discussion, even at this late date, about what there is in the exceedingly dehumanizing environment of 'publik skoolz' that may induce such horrific behavior in young men who apparantly may already be implacably antisocial, no talk about the possible effects of divorce, "single motherhood" and resultant fatherless home environment in the raising of possible killers...
Any, or all, of the above explanations are at least as plausible as access to firearms, and yet, absolutely NO discussion of any of them in any mainstream forum. The sidestepping of such discussion is rendered even more significant if one considers that relatively simple legal reform could address some of these problems quite adaquately, e.g prohibiting school officials from recommending drug consumption for children and prohibiting psychiatrists from prescribing such "medications". Even if pharmatoxins weren't responsible for ALL of the mass-shootings, they seem to have been implicated in many of them, and certainly finding better ways to accomodate normal childhood boisterousness and so-called (hyper)activity would do both schoolchildren and their families and communities much better than futile, divisive, and hopeless efforts at gun control, which in any event punishes the innocent gun owner, and lets the guilty off!
I could continue, but I think that I have made my point. Intense scepticism of any official explanations and accounts is entirely justified, and we are absolutely right in demanding that ALL likely (and even some not-so-likely) explanations are explored, especially when the official accounts or focus are so defective and misleading!
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Posted by AlSledge on 01/13/13 05:34 PM
I might also remind Mr. Cooper that it is "UNPOPULAR" speech that the First Amendment protects from Congress (read as government). Noted in Sandy Hook, just as in all other shootings, drugs are never mentioned. Just coincidence that drug companies are the major advertiser to the mainstream media.
It is getting really difficult to believe known pathalogical liars.
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Posted by MetaCynic on 01/13/13 05:05 PM
I don't hear any high profile politician calling for a ban on anti-depressants even though anti-depressants are linked to all mass shootings dating back to at least Columbine.
In fact, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, professional grievance counselors, shilling for BigPharma, are calling for an even wider distribution of mood altering prescription drugs to deal with the trauma caused by school shootings! We are now told by so-called experts that the substances which cause people to unhinge and become suicidally murderous should be dispensed even more freely than they are now.
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Posted by freedomguy on 01/13/13 03:55 PM
After you watch the video I just posted Click to view link then go to this web-site for 4800 news stories linking similar forms of senseless violence to anti - depressants ; Click to view link
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Posted by freedomguy on 01/13/13 03:50 PM
The ONE common denominator of all the perpetrators of violence like this since the 80's is anti-depressants. Please watch this 11 minute video:Click to view link
Then check out this web-site: Click to view link
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Posted by 1776 on 01/13/13 03:05 PM
In the wake of December's horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Vice President Joe Biden is chairing a panel of experts that will make gun-control recommendations to President Barack Obama by the end of the month. The president has said that enacting new restrictions on guns will be one of his highest priorities.
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Posted by NotPorC on 01/13/13 03:01 PM
The exciting part of what is transpiring, is that more and more people are recognizing the fallacy of the news disseminated by the mainstream media (MSM) - and was pleasantly surprised to see this info featured on the front cover of a weekly local newspaper - Click to view link
We should always challenge the "official" story since more often than not, we've been lied to. Here is plenty of documentation that was compiled on the subject of media manipulation.
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Posted by dr_renegade on 01/13/13 02:47 PM
Here is the smoking gun :
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United Way web page put up THREE DAYS ahead of the shooting and caught by Google's web spider and timestamped. NOTE WELL : this only tracks the url capture date, not the page contents. A newtown united way page was created and captured, its original contents are unknown.
An unnamed google tech said that it was a 'glitch' as a sys admin this is not credible : all well-managed data centers require accurate system clocks otherwise routine system task don't operate correctly. it would also create several million identical errors.
Readers can draw their own conclusions from the primary source system log.
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