Wednesday, January 16, 2013

First You Have 9/11 Non Believers, Birthers And Now sandy Hook Non-Believers

From The New York Daily News: Sick conspiracy theorists who say the Sandy Hook school massacre never took place are harassing one of that dark day's heroes.
Gene Rosen, the retired Newtown, Conn. psychologist who comforted six scared first-graders following the shooting, has been flooded with hateful emails and ridiculed on online bulletin boards over the last month.
“The quantity of the material is overwhelming,” he told Salon.com.
The messages have been vicious, and have come from people who apparently don't believe that Adam Lanza killed 20 young children and six adults at the elementary school before taking his own life.
“How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the 'shooting,'" one email read. "What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov’t sponsored hoax anyway?"
On the day of last month's shooting, Rosen found two boys and four girls on his driveway 15 minutes after hearing what sounded like gunfire. “We can't go back to school," one boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher." Victoria Soto, 27, was one of the victims of the massacre.
Rosen was hailed as a hero, but he soon became a target as well. He started getting the nasty emails, and a white supremacist message board called him that "emotional Jewish guy," according to Salon.com.
He says he and his wife are scared.
“I don’t know what to do,” Rosen told Salon.com. “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?'"
Conspiracy theorists have been spouting nonsense for years, saying that the Holocaust, 9/11 and other events never happened. Recently Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy suggested that the Sandy Hook massacre never took place.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/massacre-deniers-harass-sandy-hook-grandfather-comforted-survivors-article-1.1241181#ixzz2IDKgrSTD
While there really hasn't that much information by the cops released so far and many questions need to be answered, to say that 26 kids and staff and the mother of the shooter were not killed is just plain stupid.
Yes, politicians, like President Obama and many Democrats, have politicized the shooting, and their actions are just as grotesque as  these non-believers of the shooting, but that still doesn't excuse the non-believers behavior of harassing people who are heroes in the shooting.

1 comment:

  1. Ack! False equivalence, Dan. Really, Obama's as bad as wacky conspiracy theorists? Phooey. Those people are nuts.

    As for "politicizing" the shooting, immediately after, I heard many, many conservative commentators politicizing it plenty.

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