MEET THE SANDY HOOK TRUTHERS

[DonViejo]

The worst Sandy Hook conspiracy theory yet

Theorists think they've found “absolute proof” that Newtown was a hoax. Have they no shame?

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

Yes, there really are Newtown truthers.

But in the crazy world of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, this one may be the worst yet. (Maybe you’ve already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunman’s family and the LIBOR banking scandal and a related theory about the Aurora shooting and the “Dark Knight Rises.”) Most of the theories are really pieces of a larger meta-theory: That the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, perhaps by the Obama administration, designed to stir demand for gun control.

In the latest angle, theorists think they have found “absolute proof” of a conspiracy to defraud the American people. “You reported in December that this little girl had been killed,” a reader emailed Salon in response to a story. “She has been found, and photographed with President Obama.”

The girl in question is Emilie Parker, a six-year-old who was shot multiple times and killed at Sandy Hook. But for conspiracy theorists, the tears her family shed at her funeral, the moving eulogy from Utah’s governor, and the entire shooting spree are fake. Welcome to the world where Sandy Hook didn’t really happen.

There are dozens of web sites, blog posts, and YouTube videos extolling the Emilie Parker hoax theory. If you Google her name, the very first result is a post mocking her father for crying at a press conference after the shooting. One popular video, which already has 134,000 views, was made by the producers of a popular 9/11 Truther film. “Just as the movie ‘Operation Terror’ shows the 9/11 attacks were a made-for-TV event, so too were the mass shootings… There can be no doubt that Sandy Hook was a staged event,” the narrator intones. He goes on to say that the adults who participated in the media coverage of the shootings “should be prosecuted as accessories after the fact in a mass murder” — i.e. the parents whose children were murdered in the massacre should be thrown in prison.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/the_worst_sandy_hook_conspiracy_theory_yet/

[Earth_First]

1. WTF?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. Just a reminder:

I suspect the majority of these people are "law abiding" gun owners.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. And you know this how?

[Capt. Obvious]

5. You bet

[bongbong]

6. They share another thing in common with Adam Lanza

They're mentally ill.

[snooper2]

10. No, the majority of people who believe shit like this and CGI planes are just fucking idiots..

A little further down the chain from woo...




I do have to give a pass to 2Pac and his illuminati paranoia though

[spanone]

4. just imagine if your six-year old child was murdered and you read this shit

wtf is wrong with people?

[ucralum]

7. They're here.

The only post I've ever alerted on was by one of these "people." Jury voted to leave it alone, though poster was soon PPRed.

[Capt. Obvious]

8. This guy should be taken seriously

One man has taken it upon himself to catalog all of the theories at SandyHookHoax.com. By way of credentials, creator Jay Johnson explains: “I am the only person in the world to solve LOST,” he writes (yes, the TV show).

[Sheepshank]

9. Why don't conspiracy theorists ever come from the location

they are theorizing about?

Now THAT would be news. A local townsman, towns woman, friend, teacher, PD, neighbor etc, coming out to say "It never happened".

[WinkyDink]

11. Many events perhaps can be faked (not this one), but reactions cannot be planned. THUS,

that many Americans were so shocked and repelled by the SH massacre that the call to ban certain weapons is moving a-pace, could NOT have been planned by the Obama Administration.

There goes the meta-conspiracy.

[KittyWampus]

12. Akin to denying the Holocaust. These conspiracies exist to help maintain hate-agendas.

[Capt. Obvious]

14. First "Legitimate rape" now denying the Holocaust?

Oh, nevermind.

[Odin2005]

13. This is what happens when you mix gun nuts with pathological paranoia.

[amuse bouche]

16. Yes

And that Jones character is living proof

Good grief what a frackin maniac. I was waiting for him to blow a clot on live TV

[benld74]

15. Next you'll be telling me they dont believe in the Sanity Clause!

[MineralMan]

17. Locking. Conspiracy theory posts belong

in the Creative Speculation Group. Not here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135