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A recent article in the New York Magazine about conspiracy theorists who believe Sandy Hook was a hoax. Some insight into just how depressingly shitty some human beings can be.
A father of one of the victims talks about being contacted by some of these wacka-doodles and asked about everything from proving he wasn’t an actor participating in a hoax and his son’s existence, to exhuming the boy to prove identity and weapon used.
Sure, wingnut conspiracies abound - look at post 911, Kennedy assassination, and others - but some of the nutjobs here are completely off the heads, producing photos that they say prove the victims were still alive, and simply dismissing evidence and making ridiculous claims, like it was all a FEMA exercise. Not surprisingly, a good number of these hoaxers and conspiracy theorists are anti-government / pro-gun.
Here is a link to site for one of the nuttier hoaxers, where you can download his book detailing the FEMA drill.
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A father of one of the victims talks about being contacted by some of these wacka-doodles and asked about everything from proving he wasn’t an actor participating in a hoax and his son’s existence, to exhuming the boy to prove identity and weapon used.
'As the families grieved, conspiracy theorists began to press their case in ways that Newtown couldn’t avoid. State officials received anonymous phone calls at their homes, late at night, demanding answers: Why were there no trauma helicopters? What happened to the initial reports of a second shooter? A Virginia man stole playground signs memorializing two of the victims, then called their parents to say that the burglary shouldn’t affect them, since their children had never existed. At one point, Lenny Pozner was checking into a hotel out of town when the clerk looked up from the address on his driver’s license and said, “Oh, Sandy Hook — the government did that.” Pozner had tried his best to ignore the conspiracies, but eventually they disrupted his grieving process so much that he could no longer turn a blind eye. “Conspiracy theorists erase the human aspect of history,” Pozner said this summer. “My child — who lived, who was a real person — is basically going to be erased.”'
Sure, wingnut conspiracies abound - look at post 911, Kennedy assassination, and others - but some of the nutjobs here are completely off the heads, producing photos that they say prove the victims were still alive, and simply dismissing evidence and making ridiculous claims, like it was all a FEMA exercise. Not surprisingly, a good number of these hoaxers and conspiracy theorists are anti-government / pro-gun.
Here is a link to site for one of the nuttier hoaxers, where you can download his book detailing the FEMA drill.
SOURCE
