Too many people are either sociopaths or just massively [dangerously?] unhinged ~ either way, this is disgusting beyond belief ~ there are many "live links" to more/corroborating info in original ~ Sooz

Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 8:49 PM UTC
Meet the Sandy Hook truthers
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 6-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 websites, 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.

The crux of the theory is a photograph of Parker’s sister sitting on President Obama’s lap when he visited with the victims’ families. The girl is wearing the same dress Emilie wore in a pre-shooting photograph of the family shared with media, so she must be Emilie, alive and well. “BAM! I cannot believe how idiot these people are [sic]… That’s her,” one YouTuber exclaims as he watches the two images superimposed on each other. (Apparently missed by these crack investigators is the possibility that the sister wore Emilie’s dress and that they look alike because they are sisters, after all.)

The supporting details to the hoax theory explanation are reminiscent of the arcana of any well-developed conspiracy theory. What about the car? What about the rifle? Why does someone off camera allegedly tell Parker’s father to “read the Card” (as in a cue card) before he goes on CNN? Why is he laughing? Who is the guy running into the woods? Why is there police audio referring to multiple shooters? Why does one boy who survived the shooting tell Dr. Oz it was like “a drill”? Why was the principal quoted by a local paper after she died? Why do some of the parents look like some of the victims of the Aurora shooting — are they “all actors”? All of these questions have simple explanations, but in each case, the theorists have sided more with less likely, but more nefarious possibilities.

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).

In an email exchange with Salon, Johnson said he initially “wanted to help the kids express their feelings and memorialize the victims … But then I saw how the local paper interviewed the principal after she was dead, and I realized it was 99% odds another psychological operation that was going on,” he explained.

Noting that he started the website on “12/21/12” he explained, “since I am the New Age Messiah, with my Look Your Heart in the Mirror™ as the new revelation from the Goddess Tefnut, aka Ma’at, of Egypt, I thought the date was significant.”

But the hoax theory has even earned the backing for some presumably more credible sources. James Tracy, a tenured professor of communications at Florida Atlantic University, sparked controversy this week after he wrote a blog post suggesting the parents were “crisis actors.” “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,” he wrote.

Websites owned by Alex Jones, the conspiracy theory pundit who helped start the 9/11 Truther movement and has millions of readers, are a virtual one-stop shop for Sandy Hook “false flag” miscellanea. So far, mainstream conservative figures haven’t hopped on board, though Gun Owners of American head Larry Pratt told Jones this summer that he thought there was a good chance the Aurora massacre was perpetrated by government agents.

Then there’s just the downright bizarre subgenre of theories. One posting on the community forum of Jones’ website connects Sandy Hook and Emilie Parker to Satanism, postulating that the school was a “recruiting center” for the Church of Satan. There’s even a low-budget slasher flick called “Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre” — could that be connected?

Whether there is a connection or not, we can count on the Internet’s conspiracy theorists to find one, even if it means denying the legitimacy of the mourning families’ grief.

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

To quote chaos, "The world has gone nuts."

I also believe this demonstrates the negative of the internet. Loons gather together and have an uninformed audience.

This commentary supports Kathy's "... negative of the internet" comment ~ there are "live links" to more/corroborating info in the original ~ bolding/emphasis below is mine ~ Sooz

‘Absolute Proof Sandy Hook Was Staged’ – ‘Newtown Truthers’ Hit A New Low (VIDEO)
2013/01/09
By Lorraine Devon Wilke

In the frightening world of paranoia and conspiracy that exists for many of the zealots in this country so terrified of losing their guns, so anti-government that they fabricate every kind wild theory they can conjure, the theory that the Sandy Hook shootings are a grand hoax created by the Obama Administration to ratchet up enthusiasm for gun control has to be the lowest.

Particularly for the families of the dead.

With a new meme trending, one group of “Newtown Truthers,” (if there was ever a perversion of the word “truth” this would be it), who have given themselves the dramatic name, Operation Terror, have created a video titled, “Absolute Proof Sandy Hook Was Staged,” in which they posit that one of the children murdered at Sandy Hook is actually alive and has been photographed with President Obama since the shooting.

According to their posted video (see below), 6-year-old Emilie Parker appears, in the same dress worn in a school picture, on President Obama’s lap after the shooting. They also claim that Emilie’s father was coached and guided during a video appearance made after Emilie’s funeral. From Salon:


The group behind this latest video is also behind a claim that 9/11 was staged for a made-for-TV movie (named Operation Terror, from which they get their name); that the death of Osama bin Laden was a “cover-up for the fact that the President outed his long-awaited long form birth certificate, and the experts all agree it was made on Photoshop.” They’ve also managed to twist Alex Jones recent appearance on Piers Morgan as a boon for the gun faction (which, if you followed the story and saw the video, speaks volumes about their propensity for delusion). Quite a group, that Operation Terror.

As mentioned in the Salon piece, there have been other conspiracy theories put forth by the fringe looking to minimize the horror of Sandy Hook by claiming it’s something it’s not. Talking Points Memo ran a story in December detailing the theory that Peter Lanza, the father of the Sandy Hook shooter, who works at GE Financial Services and was supposed to testify before the Senate hearing on the LIBOR banking scandal, was somehow involved in an effort to hide financial wrongdoings.


This particular fringe also attempted to connect this same theory to Robert Holmes, father of the Aurora, CO, Dark Knight Rises shooter, who also works in finance. The theory was debunked on his end, as well.

But that doesn’t stop the conspiracy theorists. There’s an entire site devoted to both these conspiracy theories and likely a few other slants (I didn’t have the stomach to spend much time on the site) @ Sandy Hook Hoax.

Fringe conspiracy theorists have been around for centuries and have flogged convoluted scenarios about everything from WWI, the Cuban Missile crisis, the Kennedy murders, right up to 9/11; but now, with the ease and reach of the Internet, their ability to propagate and stir frenzy among other like-minded paranoids has never been higher. And when their theories involve the deaths of children, deaths that have devastated families, a town, and the country-at-large, their perverse need to turn tragic events into diatribes against the government becomes profoundly immoral.

There is a parallel to be drawn between gun zealots who see any attempt to improve gun control laws as an attempt to “confiscate” their weapons – and who frame their often irrational passion for guns as a much-needed buffer between them and the government, the bad guys, the immigrants, the liberals, the monsters under the bed, the….anything and everything that might be coming after them – with those who attempt to twist tragedy into convenient conspiracy. If actual events shine a negative light on a shooter, a weapon, a high-capacity magazine, an assault rifle, or large numbers of gun deaths, trust the hoax meme to appear.

Tragedy multiplied by the insanity of zealots, whose refusal to face truth compels them to pervert it.

See the Operation Terror video on Sandy Hook “hoax” and judge for yourself:



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/09/absolute-proof-sandy-hook-was-staged-newtown-truthers-hit-a-new-low-video/

Anyone propagating such nonsense should be put on the no-fly list and barred from owning/having access to any weapons whatsoever.
They are clearly "unhinged".

If America wasn't a free country, the makers of that video would be taken away and shot.

The stress diathesis theory in psychology attempts to explain that behavior is a predispositional vulnerability together with stress from life experiences. The diathesis, or predisposition, interacts with the subsequent stress response of an individual. Stress refers to a life event or series of events that disrupt a person’s psychological equilibrium and potentially serves as a catalyst to the development of a disorder. Thus, the stress diathesis model serves to explore how non-biological or genetic traits (diatheses) interact with environmental influences (stressors) to produce disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia. The stress diathesis model asserts that if the combination of the predisposition and the stress exceeds a threshold, the person will develop a disorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diathesis% ... ress_model

All this stuff bubbles up. Adam Lanza's aunt stated the mom was a Doomsday Prepper and was stockpiling for an economic collapse and the end of the world. Then there was all the Mayan end of the world stuff going on.

I watched an episode of "Doomsday Preppers" which airs on National Geographic station. It's on demand with Xfinity/comcast. They show paranoid people building bunkers and manufacturing weapons to protect themselves against us, normal citizens, really. People who will be going after them because of their means during an economic collapse. I sent them an email to get rid of this show.

I don't think you can get rid of everything that causes stress in the world. Stress is always going to be among us, but sometimes things are just too much. This manufactured BS stuff causes harm,

I don't understand what "truthers" get from their own UNtruths ~ Gene Rosen, who sounds like a genuinely decent guy, does NOT deserve to be pilloried by thugs on a self-anointed mission ~ ~ there are "live links" to more corroborating info in original ~ Sooz

Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 12:45 PM UTC
This man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it
Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists.
By Alex Seitz-Wald

"I don’t know what to do,” sighed Gene Rosen. “I’m getting hang-up calls, I’m getting some calls, I’m getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that I’m lying, that I’m a crisis actor, ‘how much am I being paid?’” Someone posted a photo of his house online. There have been phony Google+ and YouTube accounts created in his name, messages on white supremacist message boards ridiculing the “emotional Jewish guy,” and dozens of blog posts and videos “exposing” him as a fraud. One email purporting to be a business inquiry taunted: “How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the ‘shooting’. What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov’t sponsored hoax anyway?”

“The quantity of the material is overwhelming,” he said. So much so that a friend shields him from most of it by doing daily sweeps of the Web so Rosen doesn’t have to. His wife is worried for their safety. He’s logged every email and every call, and consulted with a retired state police officer, who took the complaint seriously but said police probably can’t do anything at the moment; he plans to do the same with the FBI.

What did Rosen do to deserve this? One month ago, he found six little children and a bus driver at the end of the driveway of his home in Newtown, Conn. “We can’t go back to school,” one little boy told Rosen. “Our teacher is dead.” He brought them inside and gave them food and juice and toys. He called their parents. He sat with them and listened to their shocked accounts of what had happened just down the street inside Sandy Hook Elementary, close enough that Rosen heard the gunshots.

In the hours and days that followed, Rosen did a lot of media interviews. “I wanted to speak about the bravery of the children, and it kind of helped me work through this,” he told Salon in an interview. “I guess I kind of opened myself up to this.”

The “this” in question is becoming a prime target of the burgeoning Sandy Hook truther movement, which — like its precursor that denied the veracity of the 9/11 terror attacks — alleges that the entire shooting was a hoax of some kind. There were conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting from Day One, but the movement has exploded into public view the past two weeks, and a Google Trends search suggests it’s just now picking up steam. It’s also beginning to earn the backing of presumably credible sources like a professor and a reporter.

Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist who now runs a pet-sitting business and volunteers to read books to kids in schools, initially called me to ask if I thought he should reach out to the FBI about the harassment. I said it probably couldn’t hurt. When I asked if I could tell his story, he was reluctant at first. “Here’s my fear: If I start talking like this, will one of these truthers read this and will it embolden them? Will they say, screw that guy, how dare he impugn our credibility or question our intellect, I’m going to go one step farther? Am I being stupid?” he asked.

After thinking about it, Rosen decided that he had to speak out: “I talk to you about this because I feel that there has to be some moral push-back on this.” Rosen said he’s a staunch believer in free speech, and realizes there is little legal recourse possible unless he gets direct threats, so he had a different idea.

“There must be some way to morally shame these people, because there were 20 dead children lying an eighth of a mile from my window all night long,” he said, choking back tears. “And I sat there with my wife, because they couldn’t take the bodies out that night so the medical examiner could come. And I thought of an expression, that this ‘adds insult to injury,’ but that’s a stupid expression, because this is not an injury, this is an abomination.”

The harassment has turned Rosen’s life upside down, and made him feel things once foreign to him, like searing rage. “I was sitting in a restaurant the other night and these guys who were part of a car club came up to me and shook my hand and said, ‘You know, you’re a hero to me.’ He had seen me on TV. So I said thank you. Then I’m sitting there and I hear this other guy, ‘Oh yeah, it was a conspiracy.’ He was a big guy,” he said.

“I tell you what, I had evil thoughts. I wanted to go over to the first guy, and he had about 15 big guys with him, and say, ‘I’m going to go talk to this other guy — just watch my back.’ And then I wanted to go over to the other guy and get up in his face and say, ‘See those guys over there, just know they’re keeping an eye out for me.’ And then I wanted to say, ‘I want to see what you look like. I want to see what a person who generates this kind of evil shit looks like. I want to look at your face and tell you you’re an asshole,’” he said.

He didn’t do it, of course. “But it tells me how rageful I am. And I am rageful about it, both for the children and for the mother of the child who came to my house looking for her son, and I wanted to look at this guy and I wanted to just fucking decimate him. That’s my rage.”

But when he starts to feel that way, Rosen can think of the first man. And the countless others out there who see Rosen as a hero, and not a tool of some shadowy conspiracy. Because for every angry call or email, there any many, many more praising ones: “I get the most beautifully written cards, wonderful calls.” Let’s hope they continue to be the majority.

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/this_man_helped_save_six_children_is_now_getting_harassed_for_it/