Theorists think they've found “absolute proof” that Newtown was a hoax.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.

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

[TheBlackAdder]

1. And these guys are to be trusted with firearms?

When someone is that delusional...

Who knows of that bag of skittles you are carrying could be mistaken for a gun?

[Buzz Clik]

2. Why do we want to know of the existence of these people and what they think?

Please stop.

[MineralMan]

3. I suggest that we give those morons no more space on DU.

How does that sound to you?

[Agschmid]

4. Sounds really good. n/t

[Brickbat]

5. Why these people get any attention at all is beyond me.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Cause Those Who Want To Distort The Issue Will Ensure It Gets Attention...

This is another ploy to divert attention from the fact that it's long past time to get some serious gun control and enforcement in this country. Any time we get a massacre you see the gun nuts find every excuse or tactic they can to avoid discussing issues such as background checks, closing the gun show loop hole and other reasonable laws or funding the enforcement. The corporate media will glam onto this "theory" as there are those who will continue to push it and soon we'll get this as yet another false equivelency game in hopes that the "noise" will die down and nothing will get done. This tactic has worked for decades...while the massacres continue...

[Initech]

6. OK part of me is now hoping these batshit crazy psychos actually do get their guns taken away.

They are clearly not to be trusted with them.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. You know, when I see stuff like this...

...and the comments you see on news articles and sites like Yahoo! and others like GLP (google it, I won't link) and you see the raw stupidity and genuine insanity that passes for discourse, it is very discouraging. And it all becomes clear why this country is so fucked up beyond recognition or repair.

We are one sick, sick society.

And I agree with the posters above: this sort of trash should not be given a forum here in GD. If you want to discuss this bullshit, take it to the Creative Speculation forum over there, in the basement where it belongs ---> http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135

[mike_c]

9. best argument yet for strict gun control....

These loonies can own guns.

[Hugabear]

10. There are a lot of people who buy into this bullshit

No surprise, many of these consider themselves to be "Tea Party" types. They view everything as one giant conspiracy. I know some of these people personally, I've actually heard them say that they think this was all manufactured as an excuse for Obama to grab their guns.

[MineralMan]

11. This is clearly Conspiracy Theory nonsense, and thus doesn't meet

the SOP for GD. It would be better posted in the Creative Speculation Group. I am locking it.

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