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Florida college fires wacky professor who claimed Sandy Hook shooting was staged by government
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Posted on 01/06/2016 6:33:46 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

A wacky Florida college professor who has long insisted the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged by the government was fired Tuesday, just a month after the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Connecticut attack accused him of taunting them.

James Tracy, a tenured associate professor of media history at Florida Atlantic University has made headlines by claiming on his blog that the school shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed by a mentally ill gunman, never happened. He made similar claims about the movie shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., later that year, the 2013 Boston marathon bombing and other mass shootings.

“Tracy is among those who have personally sought to cause our family pain and anguish by publicly demonizing our attempts to keep cherished photos of our slain son from falling into the hands of conspiracy theorists,” Leonard and Veronique Pozner wrote in a Dec. 10 opinion piece for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

The Pozners’ son Noah was one of the children killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre. The still-grieving parents claimed that Tracy sent them a certified letter demanding proof Noah ever existed, then ridiculed them on his blog when they refused to respond.

Tracy previously told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel he considers his conspiracy-mongering a scholarly endeavor.

“I describe myself as a scholar and public intellectual interested in going more deeply into controversial public events,” he said. “Although some may see [my theories] as beyond the pale, I am doing what we should be doing as academics.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; education; florida; sandyhook
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At least one college gets it right.

Another thought, the offended parents might try to litigate for damages under the tort of "Outrage."

It would be a long shot case, but they might just get a jury that is an angry as most Americans over the idiocy that our higher education system has become.

1 posted on 01/06/2016 6:33:46 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

He taught a class called Conspiracy Theories...

He’s no more or less nutty than the typical libtard professor.


2 posted on 01/06/2016 6:36:44 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

re: the “Outrage” claim:

Tracy had the right to make his wacky claim, but when he demanded the parents perform a certain act that they had no obligation under the law to perform, then publicly demeaned them when they didn’t, Tracy has opened himself up to litigation.

Then add the “circumstances” to the “liability” shown above, and actually it might not be that difficult a case to win.


3 posted on 01/06/2016 6:39:24 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe he just referenced the wrong shootings


4 posted on 01/06/2016 6:39:42 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

What’s his Freepname?


5 posted on 01/06/2016 6:40:24 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (I shot Schroedinger's cat with Chekhov's gun.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
Correct decision. The First Amendment gives him the right to spout whatever nonsense he wishes, but it is not a license for him to harass people who disagree with him.
6 posted on 01/06/2016 6:40:45 PM PST by wideawake
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Watched this youboob about it the other night.

Lots of valid points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzibL8UN0vo


7 posted on 01/06/2016 6:41:14 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: jsanders2001

Van Jones said 9/11 was done by the American government. He held some type of post in this administration.

Leftists blame the U.S. government for everything. I don’t see how this is that controversial.


8 posted on 01/06/2016 6:41:43 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Just curious, why is this “father” whose daughter ‘died’ caught laughing before he spoke before the cameras?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkCB2Ee9cqw


9 posted on 01/06/2016 6:42:25 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

“At least one college gets it right.”

One could also say, “what took them so long?” This guy is a loon, and at least initially, the “university” was allowing him free rein.


10 posted on 01/06/2016 6:43:29 PM PST by vette6387
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
I made the mistake once at looking at a few Youtube videos regarding the conspiracy theory.

The videos showing the depositions of the maintenance person and how the district fought tooth and nail against every question posed was a little freaky to watch.

It appeared that the attorney asking the questions was trying to make a point that the school wasn't even in session and was in fact a closed facility. There was photo evidence of the decay of the building and the attorney was simply trying to ask about maintenance records and was fought tooth and nail.

Very bizarre to me that the district would fight so hard over simple maintenance records.

11 posted on 01/06/2016 6:44:00 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Trumpee Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I wasn’t going to intimate that affiliation but I was going to post “pubbie or dhimmi?”


12 posted on 01/06/2016 6:44:15 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Most of the CNN interviews were actually actors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhTqMoccVmY


13 posted on 01/06/2016 6:46:18 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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What's his Freepname?

Lazamataz.

And BY GOD, I will teach again!

14 posted on 01/06/2016 6:47:33 PM PST by Lazamataz (If the Oregon occupiers are occupying a National Wildlife REFUGE, are they not now REFUGEES?)
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To: max americana
Most of the CNN interviews were actually actors.

I like the picture that was shown where the 'SWAT' person still had property/price tags on his outfit.

Oh, and some of the video footage local news showed that was actually showing a different school's parking lot.

15 posted on 01/06/2016 6:48:21 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Trumpee Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Silly, stupid fool. Of course you were fired.
Do you have a government credential? No. So - you should be quiet, or be fired, or die.
Asshole. To think you imagined otherwise!


16 posted on 01/06/2016 6:52:18 PM PST by golux
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To: TigerClaws
Leftists blame the U.S. government for everything. I don’t see how this is that controversial.

IMHO, you have to be nuts if you think anyone in the government is even competent enough to pull off a scam as big as Sandy Hook or 9/11. Most have a hard time even walking and chewing gum at the same time and even the smartest can't keep a secret for more than five minutes. (See Hillary's e-mails)

This 'professor' is among the total nut cases we have teaching our kids.

17 posted on 01/06/2016 6:52:29 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

I don’t know who did it but personally visiting the community shows many sons and daughters died that day. That’s a fact and very sad...there are documented kids and gravestones.


18 posted on 01/06/2016 6:57:43 PM PST by lancium
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To: max americana

“Just curious, why is this “father” whose daughter ‘died’ caught laughing before he spoke before the cameras?”

Probably for the same reason people laugh at funerals. Seriously.


19 posted on 01/06/2016 6:58:31 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Funny how there was no footage from more than 10 cameras on the school grounds and no death records of the “victims”.


20 posted on 01/06/2016 6:59:52 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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