Posted on 01/10/2013 11:55:45 AM PST by Uncle Chip
When 20 children and 6 adults were murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre we, like most other people, were shocked and horrified at what appeared to be an act of senseless brutality. When a person experiences the tragic and untimely loss of a loved one, particularly in unusual or apparently inexplicable circumstances, the initial intense feelings of grief usually give way to a desire to understand HOW and WHY the tragedy occurred, in an effort to make sense of it and achieve some kind of 'closure'. This is a very normal and natural human reaction. We have an innate need to understand the world around us and how things 'work'. In our modern, technological world, most of what we understand about our world and how it works is provided to us by some authority or other. And most of us accept the conclusion of those authorities as being true. In some cases, those explanations are true.
In relation to the Sandy Hook massacre; while the HOW of the attack has been explained, as yet, there seem to be few authoritative answers as to WHY the massacre occurred. That is to say, WHY a lone gunman decided to walk into a school and murder 20 children and 6 adults. At this point, three weeks after the event, it seems that the world will ultimately have to accept the narrative that a lone, disturbed individual murdered those children because he was, well, disturbed. Specifically, it is claimed that Lanza had 'Asperger's Syndrome', yet according to experts, people with this condition do not run a higher risk of killing others or themselves and indeed that they 'rarely harm others'. The 'disturbed individual' answer is, therefore, a rather unsatisfactory one, but it's an answer nonetheless.
But here's a question. What if the explanation provided by authorities about how something happened doesn't make sense in any truly objective way? More to the point, what if you have reasonable cause to suspect that the official version of events may not be accurate? Logically, you'd think that the same desire to make sense of the tragedy and find closure would remain unsatisfied in such a case. But you'd be wrong to think so, because it seems that most people, particularly those affected most directly by a tragedy, will gratefully accept the first plausible official explanation that is offered to them, even if, as in the case of the Sandy Hook massacre, it doesn't really explain WHY the tragedy occurred. The reason that most people react in this way is probably due to the same desire to find closure and 'put it behind them'.
With that in mind, we'd like to state that our previous analyses of the Sandy Hook massacre were in no way motivated by any desire to 'stir up some shit just for the sake of it' (as several individuals suggested). Our motivation was, rather, to satisfy our desire to find a more satisfactory explanation of HOW and WHY the massacre occurred, a desire that really resulted from our inability to simply ignore the outstanding inconsistencies in the official story.
But first however, we'd like to draw your attention to some of the more outrageous and false claims being made about the Sandy Hook massacre.
Good point, I'd forgotten about that, but didn't they at least let on they had one? I can't remember. One foot on Alzheimer's, the other on a banana peel, and one's slipping! (don't know which one yet)
I thought there might be an aurora borealis tonight and I was picking up a signal from the past...or future...maybe from a fireman.
Funny how CBS just...dropped...that whole bit of evidence.
This is where he is getting it. A you tube video of a real network broadcast in which the bimbo reporter gets a lot of stuff wrong but says it so convincingly that people believe her. Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-vf2tO5c-L0
The nurse never saw the killer eye to eye and never said she did but the bimbette says she did and people believed her. The bimbette then goes on to comment on how the nurse felt about the killer son of a kindergarten teacher at the school — wth???.
Does that nurse look stupid enough to not know that Lanza’s mother was not a kindergarten teacher at the school???
There are too many of these mindless bimbos in front of cameras who don’t know what they are talking about.
The Newtown massacre is an ongoing investigation. The toxicology report probably hasn't even been concluded. Because of pending lawsuits, I doubt you will see a comprehensive report released anytime soon.
Investigators have to check out every rumor and allegation.
What a “killjoy!”
If you can’t sit here and speculate and rumormonger, what the hell good is the thread?
Some of the world’s best conspiracy theories have sprung to everlasting life from such frothiness.
FACTS? We DON’T NEED NO STEENKIN FACTS! Just ask Barry and holder and gang. Facts NEVER bothered them, so why should the bother us?
If the top heavy blond says it on TEEEVEEE, it's GOTTA be true, even truer than the Internet and French Models.
If the internet can't lie, then the talking heads on TEEEVEEE, are even MORE believable.
I'll stop now, my cup of sarcasm had done gone and runeth over.
“Their “best information” could be wrong. It’s better to withhold judgment until you get the comprehensive police and signed report.”
It could be wrong, but I don’t think it is likely to be wrong. Determining what caliber caused a wound in an autopsy is a pretty routine procedure not prone to a lot of error, so I don’t have much reason to doubt the medical examiner on that count.
As for what’s better, well I would say that withholding judgment until you get the official report is not a bad position. However, spreading rumors based on old muddled media reports, in contradiction to the best information available, is not a better position to take. People are doing that, and this isn’t a website where that type of kookiness is encouraged, so I choose to counter them with the best information available.
Then you DKS about investigations.
at what point MUST the free press stop reporting facts.
Who is preventing the free press from reporting facts? Who has prevented them from making erroneous reports? How about if you request that the free press retract all the misinformation and nonfactual bullshit that they've presented as "facts".
“Presuming you refer to Medical Examiner Carver, are you certain that his...uh...performance at that...uh...press conference solidifies everything he said into indisputable truth?”
It’s hard for me to even respond seriously to such an innuendo laced question. It doesn’t matter to me whether it’s the indisputable truth, all that matters is that it is the best and most likely to be reliable information on the matter available. It’s orders of magnitude more reliable than the sources other people are relying on for their irresponsible conspiracy theories.
“Are you willing to vouch for his...uh...statements...as statements of fact?”
It’s not my job to vouch for him. He’s a public official, and by that standard, his official statements, absent extenuating circumstances, are presumed to carry a certain amount of weight and reliability.
“Many “reasonable” FReepers still have unanswered questions about what ME Carver has said which, as in many previous such events, never are answered satisfactorily for all who are interested.”
There’s nothing wrong with having unanswered questions. However, some people are spreading rumors based on obviously flawed sources and information, which is just irresponsible.
Okay, now I gotta know about this French Models stuff.
I’m not certain exactly when it became public knowledge that they had footage. I don’t remember hearing about it anytime very soon after the shootings though.
Well who would be investigating a massacre of school children in Newtown, Ct.? How about local, state and federal authorities and possibly even insurance and PIs.
thanks for your on-the-fly free analysis of what I don't know
You're welcome. It wasn't difficult.
I don’t think that the official report is going to vary far from what is now on Wikipedia.
Nowhere near that group. "Kookiness" comes from the Obama Administration who are known to lie from any position.
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