I'm not much of a conspiracy theorists, but anytime something takes national headlines, my antennas do go up for foolishness. Bottom line, our government don't tell us everything and they have the power to manipulate the media, so nothing shocks me anymore. I wouldn't go as far as harassing or threatening anyone to find the truth, but that's just me. And according to this report from UPI.com, not everyone has the same boundaries:
On the morning of the Sandy Hook massacre, retired psychologist Gene
Rosen found six first-graders and a school bus driver in front of his
Newtown home. They told him they had run away from the school because
someone had killed their teacher, 27-year-old Victoria Soto.
Rosen, who gave a series of emotional interviews in the days following
the shooting, invited the terrified children into his home for food and
juice while they waited for their parents.
"I comforted them because I'm a grandfather," the 69-year-old Rosen told "Today" a few days later.
Rosen is now a prime target of a group of people dubbed the Sandy
Hook Truthers -- conspiracy theorists who believe the Sandy Hook
shooting is part of some kind of media or government cover-up, or a ploy
to enact stricter gun control laws.
“I don’t know what to do,” Rosen told Salon.
“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?’”
“The quantity of the material is overwhelming,” Rosen said of the
rumors flooding the Internet. “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."
The Sandy Hook Truther movement has gathered steam in recent weeks. Gawker points
to a 30-minute video, "The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed," which
summarizes most of the conspiracies circulating the Internet. Posted
January 7, the video now boasts more than 8.5 million views.
"When Sandy Hook first happened i just had a feeling like it was all
too perfect," the man behind the video explained to Gawker. "I just had
this feeling deep down that these people and the whole town had this
artificial vibe about them."
One of the Truthers' seemingly more mainstream voices is Florida
Atlantic University communications professor James Tracy, who wrote in a blog post:
"The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in
its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world
where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and
controlled."
And for anyone wondering where all of this is stemming from, here's that 30 minute video:
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