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FAU prof stirs controversy by disputing Newtown massacre
Sun Sentinel ^ | January 8, 2013 | Mike Clary

Posted on 01/08/2013 9:22:07 AM PST by Uncle Chip

A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversary at Florida Atlantic University with claims that last month's Newtown, Conn., school shootings did not happen as reported — or may not have happened at all.

Moreover, James Tracy asserts in radio interviews and on his memoryholeblog.com. that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the event's true purpose: gun control.

"As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shooting continue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers, there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends," writes Tracy, a tenured associate professor of media history at FAU and a former union leader.

In another post, he says, "While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described."

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Tracy cites several sources for his skepticism, including lack of surveillance video or still images from the scene, the halting performance of the medical examiner at a news conference, timeline confusion, and how the accused shooter was able to fire so many shots in just minutes.

Tracy said he believes the deaths at Sandy Hook may have resulted from a training exercise. "Was this to a certain degree constructed?" he said. "Was this a drill?

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But, he added, he has not seen bodies, or photos of bodies. "Overall, I'm saying the public needs more information to assess what took place. We don't have that. And when the media and the public don't have that, various sorts of ideas can arise."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; crisisactors; highcrimes; newtown; obamathugs; sandyhookshooting; treason; usualtrollatworkhere
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1 posted on 01/08/2013 9:22:12 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

My first impression was that this guy is a nutcase, but when you actually read his comments and questions, he is like a voice in the wilderness who, at the very least, asks critical questions that need answers.


2 posted on 01/08/2013 9:25:12 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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3 posted on 01/08/2013 9:27:15 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: cuban leaf

Yes he is a lettered NUTCASE


4 posted on 01/08/2013 9:27:26 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Uncle Chip

Call me looney, send me tinfoil, but I tend to agree with the prof, at least on a couple counts.

We STILL don’t have the whole story.

All we have is the rabid commie scum fired-up to encroach upon our liberties as free people.


5 posted on 01/08/2013 9:27:26 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; All

Pavlik Morozov.


6 posted on 01/08/2013 9:29:13 AM PST by j.argese (If Speaker Gingrich is on my state's primary ballot, I will vote for him.)
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To: Bidimus1

Tenure is a wonderful thing.
7 posted on 01/08/2013 9:31:20 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Uncle Chip

That’s about a ridiculous as thinking Obama would walk guns across the Mexican border to the drug cartels to blame Mexico’s gun violence on the USA gun culture.


8 posted on 01/08/2013 9:31:52 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Westbrook

I’m sure the incident did happen—I think it would be too hard to fake. That being said, the whole thing has a surreal feel of being just too convenient a propaganda opportunity for the Left. Tney have probably been waiting (and secretly hoping) for just this sort of thing to happen for a long, long time.


9 posted on 01/08/2013 9:32:06 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Westbrook

In this age of cellphone cameras why have we seen no pictures or videos of the broken glass in the front of the school, bulletholes in windows, 600 children escorted en masse from the school — just bits here and there.


10 posted on 01/08/2013 9:32:55 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

This fits with the way that each network was telling a different story, with different protagonists, and linking to different locales, where other supposed assassinations were supposed to have happened.

Much talk about “assault weapons” that never entered the school grounds, and no explanation of how the supposed assassin was able to get past the metal detectors that are known to exist at that school.


11 posted on 01/08/2013 9:34:13 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Bidimus1

And you appear to be an Obama control rod troll.


12 posted on 01/08/2013 9:36:54 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Uncle Chip
I think the professor's wrong, it did happen. My wife works with a woman from the town who grew up there and has lots of friends and family in the area. It happened.

That said and done, we still don't have the whole story and there have been so many false stories floated since the very day of this tragedy that there are bound to be questions and suspicions. We KNOW that obama and holder created and operated Fast and Furious. Knowing that I put absolutely nothing beyond them.

13 posted on 01/08/2013 9:37:12 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TexasCajun

Exactly. There have been a number of things the FedGov has done that don’t pass the “smell test”.

A complicit media is a powerful tool for pulling to wool over the eyes of the public.


14 posted on 01/08/2013 9:37:45 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Sine ullo desiderio vive et ama.... Carpe diem.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Let’s see what he says instead of believing what the MEDIA says he says.

South Florida media is EXTREMELY left wing.


15 posted on 01/08/2013 9:39:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Uncle Chip
The problem with conspiracy theories is that they depend on an ever expanding and interlocking series of conspiracies in order to remain credible.

Questions about Newtown, or the Kennedy assassination, get answered with, what else, but another conspiracy; more shadowy actors conspiring to keep everyone else in the dark.

Public servants do not all of a sudden rise to the level required to sustain such a conspiracy. Not in the numbers required anyway.

16 posted on 01/08/2013 9:39:55 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Uncle Chip
I believe a tragedy took place at Sandy Hook... It was then co-opted by the gun grabbers. I came to this conclusion after seeing the overhead surveillance video of LEO pulling the long weapon from Lanza’s trunk and then watching the coroner explain that all bullets removed from the victims came from a long rifle. Needless to say, it has deepened my distrust of government and the media.
17 posted on 01/08/2013 9:41:00 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: cuban leaf

Sandy Hook stinks to high heaven. We’re being played.


18 posted on 01/08/2013 9:45:34 AM PST by Noumenon (One individual with courage, determination and a rifle can change the course of history.)
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To: Westbrook
All we have is the rabid commie scum fired-up to encroach upon our liberties as free people.

All the shooters so far were on medication. Could they have been "nudged?"
There's no info on what was found on their computers. We know they were instantly confiscated.

What sends up a red flag is the lack of vital information on all the shooters. Who were they chatting with on the net? What groups were they part of? Who did they have contact with?
People died, and politicians ran to the cameras to "save us from ourselves." That's all we know about any of the players or the events.

19 posted on 01/08/2013 9:45:41 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Uncle Chip

Actually, where ARE the pics of bodies and surveillance vids???


20 posted on 01/08/2013 9:45:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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