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The worst Sandy Hook conspiracy theory yetTheorists 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 youve already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunmans 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 Utahs governor, and the entire shooting spree are fake. Welcome to the world where Sandy Hook didnt 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
(14,910 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)I suspect the majority of these people are "law abiding" gun owners.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)They're mentally ill.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)A little further down the chain from woo...
I do have to give a pass to 2Pac and his illuminati paranoia though
spanone
(135,831 posts)wtf is wrong with people?
ucralum
(89 posts)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
(9,002 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)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
(51,311 posts)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
(55,894 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Oh, nevermind.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)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
(9,904 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)in the Creative Speculation Group. Not here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135