FAU prof says Sandy Hook massacre may have been gov’t conspiracy
A cogent argument against tenure, from Florida’s Sun-Sentinel newspaper:
A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversy 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.
Here’s hoping the good professor has no plans for a Connecticut vacation anytime soon.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Billy
January 9th, 2013
1:56 pm
Living proof that any knucklehead can get a Ph.D.
Devil's Advocate
January 9th, 2013
1:57 pm
Well dang…
PM
January 9th, 2013
1:58 pm
People like this are entitled to their opinions, and let them express in public what they feel, instead of in small back rooms, so the public will know who the idiots and fools are. Let them open their mouths and speak so they can be heard and seen and noted.
UGA Law
January 9th, 2013
2:00 pm
Would like to point out that any knucklehead can get a Ph.D., but it takes a real incompetent to hire a Ph.D. who believes that media reporting is a government conspiracy to teach media history to children.
clem
January 9th, 2013
2:01 pm
that guy would fit in well with some of the bloggers here
WTF?
January 9th, 2013
2:06 pm
This nut should be fired. No way decent people should let this idiot get away with this distortion of the truth. No matter what your views on gun control, this prof is either crazy or evil.
Denise
January 9th, 2013
2:09 pm
@PM…good comment.
gadem
January 9th, 2013
2:09 pm
I was wondering who the person was behind FB postings that I have seen. Believe you me, there are others out there that think exactly like him!!!
PM
January 9th, 2013
2:11 pm
Humans have a small ability to grasp fast change. Whenever there is a car accident or a shooting or a fire, you always find people who insist they first thought or hoped it was a movie being filmed instead of reality, despite the complete lack of any sign of a film crew. The idea that it’s some sort of fantasy is what they dearly want to believe because the actual truth is too harsh or impossible to accept, so it cannot be true. It just can’t, you know. It’s just a movie. A set. Faked. Rock stars
didn’t die, man didn’t walk on the moon, the Earth is not round, and a bunch of school kids didn’t die.
So, it is easier to believe that a school massacre was staged, despite the fact that there’s no evidence of that and despite the fact that nobody has ever staged anything like this in the history of the human race. It is impossible to accept any other answer.
Ellen
January 9th, 2013
2:11 pm
I’ll bet this nut job is a Republican. He probably thinks Osama Bin Ladin, Elvis and Michael Jackson are really alive, too.
Sister
January 9th, 2013
2:14 pm
Do your research…..So how did donation sites go up before the shootings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8HGPfF8ow . Wake up from your sleep people.
Fair
January 9th, 2013
2:14 pm
He sounds like he would fit in well in Georgia.
MarkB from Kennesaw
January 9th, 2013
2:15 pm
If this man is teaching a class of any sort, he needs to be FIRED, or retired due to mental health issues!
Online Degrees
January 9th, 2013
2:16 pm
This is what online degrees have given us…
If the government (our tax dollars) are in any way subsidizing his salary, he needs to be fired.
Saintmarks
January 9th, 2013
2:16 pm
@Ellen…. like the democrat nut jobs that keep wanting to make 9/11 an inside job? The nuttiness runs both directions…..
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:16 pm
i just knew he was republican
Harry Callahan
January 9th, 2013
2:17 pm
Cynthia McKinney said essentially the same thing about the WTC attack, and she got elected to Congress.
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:17 pm
saintmarks
like the racist birther movement embraced by the gop
Harry Callahan
January 9th, 2013
2:18 pm
McKinney’s districted included large chunks of Dekalb and Clayton counties, if I remember correctly.
Adam
January 9th, 2013
2:18 pm
How does a political affiliation relate to whether or not someone thinks another person is dead or alive? That’s some rationale that I’d LOVE to hear
Jim Dillon
January 9th, 2013
2:19 pm
Having read a few entries on this alleged media history professor’s blog, I’m struck by the sloppy writing. Is it possible that “memoryholeblog.com” is a ruse perpetrated by the vast anti-intellectual conspiracy with the aim of discrediting all us knucklehead PhD’s?
Harry Callahan
January 9th, 2013
2:19 pm
“like the racist birther movement embraced by the gop”
What makes you think race has anything to do with opposition to Obama?
Silly question, my bad. The race card is usually played when the libs have run out of intelligent things to say.
WTF?
January 9th, 2013
2:19 pm
I can’t imagine the pain that the parents are feeling. For this nut job to say that it did not happen is immoral. FAU needs to fire this prof before they lose all credibility.
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:20 pm
harry
but the whole repub congress is made up of lunatic birthers and fools trying to keep america safe from sharia law…thats why they will lose again in 2016
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:22 pm
harry
anybody who thinks the birther movement wasnt racist is probaly a bigot themselves…
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:24 pm
this professor will probaly present his “facts” on FAUX NEWS and the sychophants will eat it up
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 9th, 2013
2:25 pm
This must be the guy that dreamt up the “Republican War on Women.”
chc4
January 9th, 2013
2:27 pm
liberallefty = Cynthia McKinney.
Don't Tread
January 9th, 2013
2:27 pm
“despite the fact that nobody has ever staged anything like this in the history of the human race.”
Google “Night of the Long Knives”.
Not saying this was staged, but worse things have definitely been staged “in the history of the human race”.
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:27 pm
aesops
or the guy who said OBAMAS a muslim…lol..
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:28 pm
chc4= birther
Tina
January 9th, 2013
2:29 pm
Although I do agree it’s important to check facts, this guy is coming off as a serious nutcase. I too hope he doesn’t plan to go to CT anytime soon.
Holy Guacamole
January 9th, 2013
2:29 pm
See, Harry was right. Liberalefty ran out of intelligent things to say.
Mr Smiley
January 9th, 2013
2:32 pm
This loser needs to give his opinion in front of all the parents that don’t have their kids anymore and see what kind of reaction he gets. Unbelievable.
yuzeyurbrane
January 9th, 2013
2:32 pm
You better listen to this guy or he will surely exercise his 2nd Amendment remedies.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 9th, 2013
2:33 pm
Maybe this guy just wants to be the next Sandra Fluke?
Ken
January 9th, 2013
2:33 pm
America home of the conspiracy theory!! It is always easier to say something is a conspiracy when you don’t know what happened. So you really think the gov’t conspired to kill these kids?? People who spread stories like this are reckless and irresponsible!!
MANGLER
January 9th, 2013
2:36 pm
If he truly feels this was a made up event, then he should go there and ask around. Seriously. Go to Newtown and knock on the doors of some of the parents and ask them if it happened. 1 of 2 things will happen. 1) he will be made to feel like the moron that he is or 2) …. in reality, the first thing is the only thing that will happen.
Mr Smiley
January 9th, 2013
2:37 pm
Not sure how the birther debate has anything to do with sandy hook. Just because some nut job somewhere thinks this is a conspiracy? At least the birther movement was created from a president refusing to show his birth certificate (and many people thought it was a conspiracy). Sandy Hook is just a tragedy that one loser says is a conspiracy.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
2:37 pm
First off, this professor is completely out of his mind.
Second, I want some of you to think about this: If Obama was a white guy with a foreign sounding name, do you honestly think that anybody at all would have asked for his birth certificate?
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
2:39 pm
DJ – Obama is half white – his mother is caucasian. Race card fail. Next!
George
January 9th, 2013
2:39 pm
DJ Sniper WOW Really
Bobby
January 9th, 2013
2:39 pm
The Republican right wingers are making us into a nation of true nut cases. I’m sure Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh will be praising this man for his conspiracy theory.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
2:40 pm
I get so tired of people saying Obama “refused to show us his birth certificate.” Please show us any sort of law or documentation that requires the POTUS, whoever he or she may be, to show the American public his/her birth certificate. The mere fact that Obama was able to run for office proves that he’s a citizen, but it’s obvious that birthers don’t operate in the realm of reality. They should feel right at home with this crackpot professor.
Tina
January 9th, 2013
2:40 pm
I’m a Republican . . . and I am not a birther, and I believe that Sandy Hook happened. I also believe Oswald acted alone and that Obama is an American citizen.
Dean of School
January 9th, 2013
2:41 pm
CONGRATS that Communications degree at FAU has just been deemed worthless. Employers will be on the lookout for recent grads….to decline job offers too. Further proof college might be a waste of money.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
2:41 pm
Tina, you automatically have more sense that the majority of our elected GOP officials.
markie mark
January 9th, 2013
2:41 pm
a PHD friend of mine says it stands for “Piled Higher and Deeper”…..this guy is the epitome of that…
Kris
January 9th, 2013
2:41 pm
I would chip in a few pesos to send him to Newtown, Conn, to explain his stupidly to the parents.
My God give the poor parents a break….I’m sure they have heard and seen enough whack jobs.
clem ….Welcome to the blog!
mike123
January 9th, 2013
2:44 pm
You all better listen to what this guy is saying. The is such a thing as false flag attacjs and they are real.
HAA
January 9th, 2013
2:45 pm
No one would have asked for the certificate because it would have been able to be easily found in public record like everyone elses but Obama.
Jaybird
January 9th, 2013
2:45 pm
Having attended FAU myself, this is no surprise. They have a lot of idiot professors. Thank god I transferred to FIU.
The Truth
January 9th, 2013
2:45 pm
For the record….
Cynthia McKinley never said that the WTC attacks never occurred or that it was orchestrated by the US Government. She said that George W. had knowledge of an imminent attack using planes as weapon and that he did nothing. That turned out to be a proven fact!
bronc62
January 9th, 2013
2:46 pm
Hold on guys..I am not saying this guy is right however consider this story below: liberal media will show what liberal media supports..
*On Sunday,** just 2 days after the CT school shooting, a man went to a
restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most
of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman
followed them and entered the theater so he could shoot more people. He
started shooting and people in the theater started running and screaming.
It’s like the Aurora, CO theater story plus a restaurant!
*
*Now aren’t you wondering why this isn’t a lead story in the national media
along with the** Connecticut school shooting? Here’s WHY!***
* *
*There was an off duty**,** county deputy at the theater. SHE pulled out
her gun and shot the man 4 times before he had a chance to kill anyone. So
since this story makes the point that the best thing to stop a bad person
with a gun is a good person with a gun, the media is treating it like it
never happened. Only the local media covered it. The city is giving her a
medal next week. Just thought you’d like to know.*
Sandy
January 9th, 2013
2:49 pm
My recollection is that Cynthia McKinney’s reward for her conspiracy theory was to get run out of office by the voters in her district.
you can't fix stupid or Democrats
January 9th, 2013
2:51 pm
By comments against GOP
yep you just can’t fix stupid or Demoncratics
Ronald
January 9th, 2013
2:52 pm
He should be hired by Fox News, he would fit right in.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
2:53 pm
Wakeup, you are the one who failed. Obama may be bi-racial, but take off the rose colored glasses and realize that, to a lot of people in this country, bi-racial=black. It amazes me how people who don’t want to acknowledge how race plays a part in this will always accuse you of playing the race card.
HAA, Obama’s BC is a matter of public record. Stop believing what the idiots at Fox News and WND tell you.
Did somebody really come back with the “liberal media” excuse again?
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:54 pm
wakeup
yet nobody calls OBAMA derogatory white names onlY vile black names…race card proven
On My Way
January 9th, 2013
2:55 pm
I still don’t believe we landed on the moon.
Todd
January 9th, 2013
2:56 pm
I remember when Bush caused a hurricane and was behind the 911 attack. Dont think that any party has a monopoly on crazy.
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:56 pm
mr smiley
‘
spoken like a true birther…the birther movement was started because OBAMA is black…afterall we never seen them do a white president like that..
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
2:58 pm
todd
the gop is definitely the party of angry crazies…birthers
Buckhead Boy
January 9th, 2013
2:58 pm
An unknown professor at a little known institution makes utterances so outrageous that they garner attention; which will indubitably lead to paid speaking engagements with the right-wing media and fringe groups; and then who knows what. Now where have I seen this before? It was right here in Georgia about thirty-five years ago, I do believe.
liberalefty
January 9th, 2013
3:01 pm
this guy will be hired by FAUX NEWS…
honested
January 9th, 2013
3:03 pm
liberalefty,
I was thinking more along the lines of Governor deal’s office.
He would do well to head the Ministry of Truth.
Todd
January 9th, 2013
3:06 pm
Lib
I thought liberals didnt stereotype.
Michael More Listening?
January 9th, 2013
3:06 pm
This theory is ALMOST as stupid as Michael Moore’s movie about G.W. bombing the World Trace Center for his “oil buddies”.
Hamad Meander
January 9th, 2013
3:07 pm
I will honor his inalienable right of freedom of speach. It allows him to show how stupid someone with a PhD can be…..well, he was a union leader so that has been proven already.
However, I will agree with him that the government is making heaps and heaps of political hay from this tragedy and their reasoning is flawed and overreaching. One would hope our second admendment rights will be upheld as just as important as our other nine rights as citizens of this country.
Just Saying..
January 9th, 2013
3:10 pm
Has he been offered his own show on Fox News yet?
George Johnson
January 9th, 2013
3:11 pm
Wait! How is this any different than the left wing morons that said George Bush actually steered hurricane Katrina to New Orleans in order to make it more white again?? Or just because he hated black people!?
You left wing dolts are just SUCH hypocrites!! God, you make me sick with this double standard. Just once, I would like to hear you speak out when your side says something stupid. ONLY THEN will I be behind you when a right winger says something stupid. Because *I* will NOT play your stupid, sick, double standard, hypocritical, BS game.
Jibberjabberish
January 9th, 2013
3:11 pm
This is just more of the same: incoherent babbling from the far right.
He fits right in with all the other conspiracy theorists.
Maybe he can run for Congress as a Birther or Tea party candidate.
I bet he has some keen insights into the Benghazi cover-up or the imminent threat of Sharhia law in ‘Murrica.
Todd
January 9th, 2013
3:13 pm
Why are people so fascinated the Fox News? CNN is liberal and Fox is conservative. They are both terrible tabloids.
Smartest Conservative in Georgia
January 9th, 2013
3:14 pm
When is that dadgum election?
We’re gonna beat the socks off that soshelist Obama this time, I tell ya!
And they can pry my guns from my cold dead but.
ylojkt
January 9th, 2013
3:15 pm
Look at the evidence before you condemn one as crazy, lack of interest in pursuing the truth is pervasive in our media, as much so as portraying incidents in the way which you want the public to perceive them in order to meet your goals. Mr. Galloway has made a living out of doing exactly this, yet some people take his words as the perfect truth, while others denounce them as falsehoods.
If everyone critically examined this incident at Sandy Hook, they would have questions as well; apparently, it’s easier to let the news network choose what items you should be examining and close your mind to other ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8&feature=youtu.be
Todd's unretarded brother
January 9th, 2013
3:16 pm
Todd! For the last time, Fox is conservative and MSNBC is liberal.
CNN is neutral.
Good grief, man, Just stop. You’re embarrassing me.
Carrie
January 9th, 2013
3:18 pm
Republicans sure do LOVE a conspiracy theory. Fits in with their Faux News bubble.
Bob
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
he’s right you know…
td
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
2:40 pm
I get so tired of people saying Obama “refused to show us his birth certificate.” Please show us any sort of law or documentation that requires the POTUS, whoever he or she may be, to show the American public his/her birth certificate. The mere fact that Obama was able to run for office proves that he’s a citizen, but it’s obvious that birthers don’t operate in the realm of reality. They should feel right at home with this crackpot professor.
Wrong my friend. It just proves that the election officials refuse to enforce the Constitutional requirement that a President must be a “Natural born Citizen”.
Lois
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
Actually, I had read this same idea just a few days after the shooting. Several bloggers and websites have similar arguments…discussing the inaccuracies in the media’s coverage of the incident – two shooters that turned into one, Adam Lanza; how he gained access to the school; how at first his mother was a teacher there then she had no connection at all. Many people are trying to link the CT shooting to the one in CO. Some folks are also trying to connect both to the LIBOR scandal. So, this guy is not the first and he certainly isn’t the only one who believes that there is some type of conspiracy involved.
pb
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
No the “Truth”, facts did not bear out what Cynthia suggested. There was no proof G W Bush ignored any warnings of a specific threat. No matter what you Bush haters say, that is not true. Cynthia was rewarded for her foolish, irresponsible statements, and slapping the DC cop, by being voted out by her constituents. She is a nut of the left wing, just like this professor is a nut of the right wing.
Idontgetit
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
My first thought was that I hope the AJC doesn’t waste print and paper on this. Then I saw how many people took the time to comment – really?
Bo Schembeckler
January 9th, 2013
3:23 pm
My apologies on behalf of the professor. We may have overused him as a tackling dummy at practice this season. He’s scheduled for an MRI on Tuesday.
Middle of the Road
January 9th, 2013
3:27 pm
Actually, the massacre was a public relations stunt engineered by Bushmaster to sell more assault rifles, high-capacity clips and ammo. And the good news is that it worked!
Spike
January 9th, 2013
3:28 pm
What rock did this clown crawl out from under?
Lois
January 9th, 2013
3:29 pm
Additionally, I think it is very unfair to label anyone, because of their political affiliation, Democrat or Republican, a nut job…Both parties have value and they also have enormous problems. We all must work together if we are ever going to have any hope of solving our country’s issues. I think most of us have a quite a bit in common – more so than we realize – if we would just let go of Democrat-this vs. Republican-that.
jadaveon Shawty Lo
January 9th, 2013
3:29 pm
Obummer would do anything for his gun grabber agenda, including killing these kids to make it look like we need more laws
advice
January 9th, 2013
3:30 pm
This guy is just one of many crazy people running around in our society. For example, @Bronc62, who posted that there was some conspiracy to hush up a story about a couple of people getting shot in San Antonio because one of the people doing the shooting was an off duty deputy. Look, any story about people getting shot is an arguement for getting rid of guns and the fact that he heard about it is proof that it wasn’t “hushed up” by some sinister conspiracy. The sad thing is that an event where only two people get shot isn’t newsworthy. It’s no big deal anymore. Of course, I’d be a crazy person if I thought that Americans would ever have their hundreds of millions of guns taken away. The cow is way too far out of the barn for that to happen.
Jenny
January 9th, 2013
3:32 pm
All this joker needs to be saying is Hello to the unemployment office…..If FAU keeps him on staff, SHAME ON THEM!
Larry
January 9th, 2013
3:33 pm
Now answer this question: what parents with more than double-digit IQ’s would allow their students to attend any college or university that would tolerate such an imbecile?
bjohndawg
January 9th, 2013
3:37 pm
After reading the sun article, it appears the professor is taking this position as an academic exercise of asking ” what if this was not caused by what we are told, but was really caused by Y”, and he is taking this devil’s advocate position without any true evidence or support, and in total disregard of the extreme sensitivity of the actual murders of 20 innocent child/people. He mentions a possible “training exercise”, With no regard to providing anything that would indicate a training exercise. Almost the same as saying ” no the earth does not revolve around the sun….it bounces off a black hole and Kim Kardashians back side. And then saying ” I know I have no evidence to prove this, but because I ask what if, it now becomes a theory of what actually happened and should be investigated and debated because it is coming from a college professor.
20 people dead in this tragedy. this professor should spend his time doing something more constructive then stirring up nonsense.
TB
January 9th, 2013
3:39 pm
Tell that to my brother who saw the whole thing!
Rick
January 9th, 2013
3:42 pm
Tina, good for you! Isn’t it interesting that a reasonable Republican would seem like such an oddity? Come join us on the Left Bank.
mike
January 9th, 2013
3:47 pm
im sure that many people involved could keep a secret too.. lol
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
3:48 pm
TD, it’s obvious that you’ve jumped on the birther train and lost whatever credibility you may have had. First off, Obama was born in Hawaii. Second, even if he was born overseas, the fact that his mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth automatically made him a citizen. Please stop subscribing to right wing paranoia.
David
January 9th, 2013
3:50 pm
Well, if this isn’t the worst million tons of salt on a wound I don’t know what is. There is no respect for families and friends of the children and staff that lost their lives that day. What a tragedy to even think something like that could occur and if it were true (which I believe it is not) anyone planning, thinking, authorizing and actually participating in such an event should be punished by a life sentence without parole. Senseless.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
3:51 pm
TD, here’s what the Constitution actually says:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
The Constitution doesn’t offer up an explicit definition of “natural born citizen”, but even it did, you can clearly see that a person has to be a natural born citizen OR a citizen of the US to run for President. Bottom line: Obama qualifies, so all you birthers can exit stage left.
Gurn Blansdon
January 9th, 2013
3:56 pm
What exactly is the offending quote from this prof?
td
January 9th, 2013
4:00 pm
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
3:48 pm
TD, it’s obvious that you’ve jumped on the birther train and lost whatever credibility you may have had. First off, Obama was born in Hawaii. Second, even if he was born overseas, the fact that his mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth automatically made him a citizen. Please stop subscribing to right wing paranoia.
Never have been or am currently on the birther train. Now I am on the making sure the Constitution is followed train and that tells me that any person running for President or VP should have to prove to the nation that they are a natural born citizen. If you want to call that being a birther then so be it.
DumbMasses
January 9th, 2013
4:09 pm
Bless your hearts. You guys actually believe that there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. That is exactly what they want you to believe. They both work for the same company and don’t want that company to fail. Keep right on doing what they want you to do and believe there is a difference. Sheeple. Hey at least American Idol will back soon for you complete idiots.
NY
January 9th, 2013
4:13 pm
Hope he does not own a gun. If so make sure FBI takes that away.
jbean3
January 9th, 2013
4:16 pm
Seriously!??!?! Why would ANYONE want to LIE about the death of their child??? This nut needs his head examined!
Myron Cojen, M.D. Psy.
January 9th, 2013
4:21 pm
I have not had an opportunity to meet with this gentleman, Prof. Tracy, but based on his statements I would speculate that he is suffering from acute paranoid delusional syndrome aggravated by Seasonal Affective Depression Disorder (SADD). Basically, what happens is that during the winter months (yes, even in sunny Florida) when the days are shorter we tend to sleep more. When we are sleeping, we are susceptible to misfiring neurons and chemical imbalance in the brain. Serotonin is a chemical in the brain that affects mood and it’s reception and absorption in certain areas of the brain is linked to depression. In other words, too much sleep leads to bad dreams, which causes the sufferer to wake up feeling depressed by the bad dreams, and the cycle repeats itself.
The depression aggravates feelings of paranoia and can lead to acute symptoms, which may involve believing the President of the United States is involved in a conspiracy to mislead the public regarding his birthplace. When the SADD sufferer is exposed to dramatic or sensationalized versions of “news” or current events, such as by watching Fox News, the problem may be exacerbated.
In my professional opinion, this professor needs to take 40 mG of Prozac every day and should not be allowed anywhere near school campuses.
Lacey Peters
January 9th, 2013
4:23 pm
The only thing more insulting than this guy’s comments is the Westboro Baptist Church people protesting at the funerals for the victims.
BigAintheBigA
January 9th, 2013
4:25 pm
I’m surprised anybody’s expressing shock. Our entire culture is chock-a-block with space cadets like this.
Redcoat
January 9th, 2013
4:26 pm
I bet he believes in man made climate change too!
Shine
January 9th, 2013
4:29 pm
He’s a nut. Of course he is no nuttier than the gun grabbing loons all over the news these days. They are as kooky and fruity as the “dont tax the rich” crowd on the right and deserve the same boot to the nuts as the right wing kooks just got.
Boot a nutjob democrat along with a right wing kook!!
Chris
January 9th, 2013
4:36 pm
Funny how you slam a person for their opinion but you put no thought or effort into seeing if it has any foundation. You are the same people who the government loves to have has voters… stay in your proper place little minions and don’t ever question big brother! http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 9th, 2013
4:36 pm
This guy is just trying to use the Sandy Hook tragedy to advance his cause, kinda like obozo is.
mcdaviddawg
January 9th, 2013
4:40 pm
Didn’t have a very high opinion on Florida Atlantic before this, but this drops to the level on the TV schools. What a fool and the news media doesn’t need to give him an coverage.
curious
January 9th, 2013
4:44 pm
Paul Broun has invited him to speak at his next town hall.
JustSaying
January 9th, 2013
4:45 pm
How does an article about a man saying something about a conspiracy theory about killing children turn into politic baiting? That is sad! Anyone who thinks that the government killed these children for any reason has SERIOUS MENTAL ISSUE no matter what your party affiliation is!
Tough Guy for the Next 15 Minutes
January 9th, 2013
4:45 pm
There is a difference between reacting to an event and exploiting it.
The President has done nothing to further restrictions on anyone’s gun rights in the last four years, but all you lemmings run around spending your entire pathetic pay checks stocking up on guns and ammo based on rumors started by the NRA to trick you into spending money. The NRA doesn’t represent gun owners or gun rights. They represent the people who manufacture and sell guns and ammo. You got tricked into thinking your gun rights were in jeopardy, just like you got tricked by the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch into thinking you had anything in common with rich people or that Obama was gonna raise your taxes.
Now who’s the naive one?
curious
January 9th, 2013
4:46 pm
Aesop’s Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 9th, 2013
4:36 pm
“This guy is just trying to use the Sandy Hook tragedy to advance his cause, kinda like obozo is.”
What cause is that? Reduce mass murders?
If it walks like a duck........
January 9th, 2013
4:47 pm
I think it was George Bush’s fault. I wonder who this guy voted for in November?
JustSaying
January 9th, 2013
4:48 pm
@Chris it is on the internet so it must be true! Okay stop watching television commercials!
People Kill People
January 9th, 2013
4:51 pm
I own multiple semi automatic weapons… Would love to see the government try and take away my 15 round magazines!
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
4:53 pm
Dumb Masses-
I couldn’t agree more. The majority of the people on this board have been brainwashed by mainstream media for too long. If CNN doesn’t report it, then it isn’t so. Furthermore, I agree with you on the party issue. It’s all by design. Hey Sheeple – why don’t you find out who owns the AP and all of other major news outlets. It’s not a coincidence. Don’t despair, DM people are waking up, slowly but surely, and when the lights get turned on, won’t they all be surprised!
Plow
January 9th, 2013
4:54 pm
@Sister….you should be ashamed of yourself.
Plow
January 9th, 2013
4:56 pm
That goes for you too @wakeup…I hope the parents of those angels never see your idiotic comments.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
4:57 pm
Chris –
Don’t waste your time. It’s a typical defense mechanism for them to name call. It’s based on fear and nothing else. 10 years ago, you would have never been able to convince me that our own government could be so evil, but oh how wrong I was!
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
5:01 pm
Plow –
Don’t hate just because you can’t think for yourself. I’m surprised you took a break from flipping the channels between reality TV and CNN – with the news reels on repeat and the crawl at the bottom of the screen. Brainwashing at it’s best. I’m not ashamed at all – you should be for feeding into the moral decline that is now called TV. Read a book!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 9th, 2013
5:04 pm
tough guy – obozo did raise taxes.
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
5:08 pm
Please explain to me how the Sandy Hook situation relates to Obama and raising taxes.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
5:10 pm
@ DJ – I see…so if someone is bi-racial – they automatically default to black? Thanks for clearing that up. It’s a tired argument. If blacks didn’t have such a chip on their shoulder it would be a non issue. Don’t even try the slavery thing because that is also, a tired argument. Racism goes both ways.
Sofa King WTI
January 9th, 2013
5:11 pm
No, Congress did not renew tax cuts. But keep on posting stuff. No one on here knows the difference anyway.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
5:16 pm
Tough Guy- what rumors has the NRA started? The groundwork for tighter gun laws has been going on since Columbine. In a perfect world, we’d keep the guns out of criminals’ hands and call it a day. In reality, no law in the land will ever stop a criminal from getting a gun. Obama has been flirting with tightening the laws for some time now and it’s oh-so- convenient that incidents like this are happening – and all over the news for days on end. Herd the sheep, herd the sheep!
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
5:17 pm
Wakeup, stop trying to twist things around. We all know that America tends to view bi-racial people as black. And you continue to prove my point about how some people are unwilling or unable to admit how race plays a part in all of this. If Obama was a white guy with a foreign sounding name, I guarantee you that the birthers wouldn’t have made an issue of whether or not he was a US citizen.
If you think that race doesn’t part of this, then go talk to some of these white people out here who have specifically stated that they don’t want “a n****r in the White House.”
DJ Sniper
January 9th, 2013
5:20 pm
Wakeup, here’s a prime example: At the CPAC conference last February, Wayne LaPierre told the crowd full of wingnuts that Obama was trying to lull people into a false sense of security so that he could repeal the Second Amendment. Those idiots bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Neo-cons have been claiming that Obama is coming to get their guns ever since he got elected, yet that didn’t happen. Just more fear mongering from the right.
WAW
January 9th, 2013
5:20 pm
The conspiracy was not from the liberal government, but rather by the NRA ahd the Fire Power Marketer’s Association of America. It worked. At gun stores you have to “take a number” to buy your own personal M16 knock-off.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
5:21 pm
Ok DJ – I see your point – but let me go on record and say that I am not one of those people. My point is- I think it is idiotic for people to play the race card BECAUSE Obama is biracial. Why does biracial mean black? Why not white? It’s ironic, really.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
5:26 pm
I don’t think it is fear mongering. I have no malice towards Obama at the end of the day, because all he is is somebody’s “boy”, just like all those before him. Let’s be real and say that there really is no “Democratic and Republican” party. As someone stated earlier, it’s all the same “company” and until more people realize that, and start working together to take this country back from Big Government, then we, I am afraid, are doomed.
MamaD
January 9th, 2013
5:29 pm
Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
RGB
January 9th, 2013
5:33 pm
“Here’s hoping the good professor has no plans for a Connecticut vacation anytime soon.”
I agree. All the Leftist-Statists there are looking for someone to take a pound of flesh from and when the liberati are desirous of proving they are against violence, that’s when they become the most violent.
WAW
January 9th, 2013
5:36 pm
Well now the truth comes out. In another down-the-page article in the AJC, a professor in Florida has reported: “Gun violence is just one of many factors contributing to lower U.S. life expectancy”. It’s all about Social Security. Get rid of the old farts. Then the life-time pay and perks of members of Congress is the only thing really secure.
burntgrassroot
January 9th, 2013
5:46 pm
First, condolences to the loved ones of those who died in the Newtown CT tragedy. Second, every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. In this matter, the tragedy’s “two or three witnesses” would be 1) media coverage, 2) the responders, and 3) the bodies. Third, once these witnesses discredit Dr. Tracy’s assertion, no more attention, media or otherwise, should be given to the discredited assertion. A discredited assertion is either more aptly called a lie, fiction, or delusion. This delusion actually speaks more to the need for an objective national discussion about mental illness and its many facets. Foolishly, Americans confuse pride with dignity; many would rather die (or kill) than admit defeat, dishonor or disease. Finally, free speech is protected by our US Constitution’s First Amendment, but this protection only prevents Congress from prohibition of speech. A reasonable person understands that there are consequences to speech (e.g. termination of employment, litigation, therapy), and one cannot say anything, everywhere (e.g. Don Imus, Rob Parker).
lynnie Gal
January 9th, 2013
5:49 pm
So I guess the professor thinks the Newtown children and their teachers are just hiding from their families, maybe somewhere in the Cayman Islands where Romney’s money is hiding. Geesh.
Peter Phillips
January 9th, 2013
5:57 pm
James Tracy isn’t promoting a “conspiracy” theory regarding Sandy Hook, but rather saying the mainstream media distorts the news, and doesn’t follow up on important questions. There were reports of more than one shooter in the Sandy Hook case. Tracy is not denying that it happened, but he is saying that when such events do happen it is the responsibility of the media to fully investigate all aspects of the story and not just sensationalize the tragedy.
Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Say What???
January 9th, 2013
6:03 pm
@ DJ Sniper… Um… President Obama put Vice President Biden in charge of coming up with new GUN CONTROL laws… So I am confused… Are you saying that President Obama said this but he really didn’t mean it, or that Vice President Biden is such a gun-lover that when he presents is his ideas, none of them will actually say anything about removing the ability to buy any gun, ammo, or magazine that is currently legal to buy and own?
Just so you don’t think that I am just one of those “Rightwing Nuts”, I believe the in second ammendment, but for the life of me I can’t understand why someone (other than an active member of the military) needs a semi-automatic rifle with a 15+ round magazine. I just find it… ah… “inconsistant” that you state the President does not want gun control yet he has held multiple pressers expressing that exact position.
florida guy
January 9th, 2013
6:04 pm
WOW. Even more incredible, this guy is actually being paid by the state-(well, on second thought, that’s really not all that surprising). Obviously an FSU graduate.
Kris
January 9th, 2013
6:11 pm
One would be amazed at the goof balls that teach in higher education, sex offenders, a little junior college up north had a child molester (with PHD) and now this idiot. Run mental as well as background checks on college personnel..
God bless the parents and children in Newton…Give them a break
Sam the Sham
January 9th, 2013
6:34 pm
Curiously, there have been 11 mass shootings since the 2009 inauguration, including one involving a sitting United States Congresswoman, and this administration has taken NO ACTION WHATSOEVER. Only after an election to a second term is this deemed a crisis. There was no government conspiracy involved in the Sandy Hook shooting, but what is happening since is certainly suspect.
Buckhead Boy
January 9th, 2013
6:39 pm
This is the same man who last year suggested that our government has been covertly allied with al-Qaeda, supporting it militarily and financially. After the killing of bin Laden, he explained that away as being necessary so that al-Qaeda could be propagandized by the government as “good”, after having been as “evil” for so long. I suppose that wasn’t sufficiently outrageous in these times to get him the attention he craves. He’s no danger to anyone but fools — so long as keeps just talking.
fletch
January 9th, 2013
6:48 pm
Yes, the poor sheep in this discussion…lashing out over Left vs. Right, Democrat Vs. GOP…just like .gov wants. They are all the same people!! Wake up!! Divide and conquer….so sad.
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
7:03 pm
@ Fletch – exactly. @ Peter Phillips – right! What little I did listen to the news that day, the story was never consistent. Why is that? Were these news outlets so desperate to get the “exclusive” that they didn’t bother fact checking? “The gunman’s mother taught at the school, wait no she didn’t. The gunman’s brother is believed to be the second shooter. Wait – no he’s not involved at all. The larger gun was left in the trunk of the car – wait – no it wasn’t it was the weapon used. It all stinks! I’m not denying this event happened, but there’s more to meet the eye here.
FAU parent
January 9th, 2013
7:04 pm
Oh great, so this is what I’m paying for. My son is a student at FAU and hopefully he has not had the
“Nutty Professor” as one of his instructors
wakeup
January 9th, 2013
7:06 pm
By the way – the Bin Laden thing stinks too. How mysterious, and odd that his body “was disposed of according to religious tradition”. Really? How funny that Obama’s ratings were waaayy down and then – woops there it is! Agenda, agenda, agenda. Sheep, sheep, sheep. If CNN is selling, the sheep are buying.
Carl
January 9th, 2013
7:12 pm
This nut job has to be a Democrat.
Old timer
January 9th, 2013
7:28 pm
Ellen…collegemprofessormand republican are not usually synonymous ….I know many college teachers and most very very liberal….
Old timer
January 9th, 2013
7:29 pm
College professors and
older1
January 9th, 2013
7:32 pm
Can you say TENURED, so he’s not as dumb as he speaks, can’t fire him for being the way he is. SAD.
Big Hat
January 9th, 2013
7:40 pm
When we all have guns, we won’t need cops; think of the cost savings!
Riddle Me This
January 9th, 2013
7:45 pm
So Jim, the great journalist you are, how many shooters were at the scene? Which shooters had the weapon purportedly used to target and kill 28 people in approximately 3 minutes as they ran for their lives? What about the guy in the woods? Do your research on the topic before writing a stupid article like this. The facts are there were three shooters involved on the scene and the weapon proclaimed to do the damage was locked up in Adam Larza’s trunk which of course he took there after he shot and killed himself inside the school.
Pragmatic1One
January 9th, 2013
7:57 pm
Ironically, my wife pointed out a number of inconsistencies in the reporting of the events in Newtown. Never be so naive that you trust your government and believe they truly have your best interest at heart. Research Operation Northwood and see the eagerness of your government to create a crisis, with American citizens as casualties, for the expansion of special interest agendas. People, whether government officials, police officers, judges, etc., are fallible and will serve their own best interests.
Orson Well’s “War of The Worlds”, as told in the “50 True Tales of Horror”, had listeners in hysteria, believing the Earth was being invaded by aliens. The power of communications media demonstrated the ability to convince people an event was happening even when it was not. Add to it visuals and imagery, coupled with to auditory stimulation, then you have a powerful means of persuasion.
The zombie apocalypse isn’t about the deceased coming back to devour the living, it’s about the brain dead living feasting on irrelevant visuals filled with hours upon hours of Dancing with the Stars, Lohan, Hilton, Starbucks, American Idol, Xbox, etc. and other medians of non-sense.
crankee-yankee
January 9th, 2013
8:06 pm
This nutjob is entitled to your opinion but my opinion is that he should resign his position as any competent researcher would have gotten actual, feet on the ground, facts to support a claim such as this. I see none of that on his website. His “research” does not live up to the standards exhibited by middle school students who do all their “research” on the web under the assumption the WEB is infallible. We all laugh at the commercial where the airhead blond shows off her “French model date” she met on the internet, there is a reason we all laugh at that.
Walter Little
January 9th, 2013
8:19 pm
That old boy isn’t playing with a full deck.
Action
January 9th, 2013
8:22 pm
This whole article and all the comments could just be more of the same conspiracy.
Mike Franklin
January 9th, 2013
8:28 pm
I really wanted to laugh this one off but after today’s news that Obama may try to skip congress and the US Constitution by outlawing guns via executive order… I dunno.
Kind of sad that we can’t trust our government anymore to begin with.
Gullahgirl
January 9th, 2013
8:57 pm
It is such a shame that the Republicans hate America so much. Is it because the president is not white? Is it because you hate everyone including yourself? As a veteran of the military, I find what the Republicans do to the American people is heartless. What kind of christian take food and medicine away from the poor? My conspiracy , I think they don’t want abortions because they plan to rape young woman to make babies to enlarge the white race. They are a treasonous bunch of slow thinkers and are a blight on the American people and our American way of life.
sandy5874
January 9th, 2013
9:14 pm
before I saw the paycheck four $5552, I did not believe that…my… brother could really bringing in money parttime on their laptop.. there great aunt had bean doing this less than twenty two months and as of now took care of the dept on their condo and bourt Lotus Elan. this is where I went, http://cnn.com.qr.net/j4JS
jvillebil
January 9th, 2013
9:15 pm
@Gullahgirl = You’re an idiot, enough said.
Speaking of the professor. My dad was a WWII vet, if that had of been one of his grandchildren that was killed & he read what Professor Tracey wrote, he would have drove to his house, shot him in the knee cap with a 38 revolver, looked at him while he was screaming in pain and calmly stated,’ Sorry Professor, that didn’t happen you’re just imagining this is happening.” Then hit him with a right cross that knocked him out and left.
joe taxpayer
January 9th, 2013
9:36 pm
Bush flooded New Orleans and blew up the World Trade Towers too. Just ask any Democrat.
Reg
January 9th, 2013
9:38 pm
If anyone believes your government won’t kill anyone, including innocent children, then you’re not living in reality. They will do what it takes to get what they want done. What better way to gain support for gun control than to kill a group of children, our most prized possessions. Their deaths impacted people much more than a group of college students as in the Va Tech case did. BTW, what happened to the man they found in the wooded area behind the school, who was reported to be dressed in camouflage and who was taken into custody for questioning? Why haven’t we heard about his story? Could he have been the one to make sure Lanza was killed and made to look like a suicide? The Govt and CIA don’t like live witnesses. Another odd occurrence in the CT shooting was the fact Lanza had destroyed his hard drive? Why/ If he had planned on killing the kids and them himself, why would he care about what was on his hard drive?Never say never when the government is involved.
Hmmm
January 9th, 2013
9:42 pm
More interesting.. .why was the manager of FPC Russia (a top ten You Tube channel and the guy who was in the Black Ops 2 commercial for PS3 …. tied up and murdered!? Was it the Russian mob, thugs from Atlanta? Mexican Mafia? or some anti-gun nut hyped up over Sandy Hook.
ahsoisee
January 9th, 2013
9:50 pm
I agree. The perpetrator could easily have been hypnotized to do the deed. Most all of these acts are part of a planned ploy to take away guns from the common citizens. It is a proven fact that it is impossible to take away guns from criminals, terrorists, or anyone intending to do such a deed. There will never be in the past or future of the world where guns will be banned from the black market. Anyone with the right price will always be able to get any kind of gun and ammo they want.
ahsoisee
January 9th, 2013
9:50 pm
I agree. The perpetrator could easily have been hypnotized to do the deed. Most all of these acts are part of a planned ploy to take away guns from the common citizens. It is a proven fact that it is impossible to take away guns from criminals, terrorists, or anyone intending to do such a deed. There will never be in the past or future of the world where guns will be banned from the black market. Anyone with the right price will always be able to get any kind of gun and ammo they want.
Old Timer
January 9th, 2013
11:24 pm
And FAU keeps this P-O-S on staff because??? This not only speaks volumes about the SO CALLED prof – which now everyone has doubts about wanting their children exposed to – and – the school FAU. Freedom of speach my a$$. There is a line moraly responsible people do not cross – no matter what the issue and it has been crossed. There is no race issue here – this is purely and simply a stupidity issue and one that screams LOOK AT ME!!! There is as much a mental problem with this guy and the attitude of the school that allows such crap as the one that existed that sad day in Sandy Hook Elementary. There is a sickness that cloaks this world that can not be fixed by the rest of us folks who wonder from where the next dagger of hatred and terror will come. Our innocence is gone forever – our trust in the person unknown next to us shaken. Our fear and sadness is real and made fresh again by sick professors who are at liberty to speak freely at an institute that supports the belief that no matter the vileness and utter shocking putred vomit of meaningless words that taken together are not intended for belief but for shock value – it’s alright.
This person and this institution should be held accountable to the positions of responsibility they hold and command. They are supposedly stewards of those positions by the trust and authority placed on them through the public – not as a right of their own. They are as much accountable as are those who pulled the trigger in any of the mass slayings. The only difference is they pulled the trigger on their mouths and attitudes to inflict emotional wounds on the general populace to make the physical violence fresh again. Rise up and let them know they were wrong!
Voter
January 9th, 2013
11:36 pm
Why is anybody giving FAU any place in the news? The man is obviously insane, stop spreading it.
Mama Says
January 10th, 2013
12:32 am
Just so ya ll know Elvis is alive !
John
January 10th, 2013
12:45 am
I bet he’s being paid on a government grant to study conspiracy.
Dan Plesse
January 10th, 2013
1:55 am
Sandy Hook Elementary shooting Drill Active Shooter Drill Updates was like the 9/11 Anthrax Hoax 1/05/13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wRTm2DIhho
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 10th, 2013
7:26 am
Aurora, the Sikh Temple, and Newtown are transparently obvious staged predicates for disarming the People by the same satanic Vatican banker Rothschild/Rockefeller-Bush “Big Oil” faction known to have assassinated President Kennedy (’Hunt v. Marchetti’; Col. Hunt’s legally probative deathbed confession), and committed 9/11 in order to restore and protect their debt bondage fiat money system known cryptically as the “Federal Reserve Bank” WHICH EXPIRES THIS YEAR after a hundred years of contrived enslavement of the New Secular Order’s breakaway from the Old Sectarian Order the Talmuds and papists now running Washington have served for thousands of years under caesars and popes.
Wake up Black and White Americans, known as “goyim,” “a mindless herd of cattle” to be lied to and enslaved or killed according to “their” “owner’s manual,” the Talmud.
“They” know what “they” are doing. Brother Barack is just their very attractive “hired help.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wZPS7AdgNgE
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 10th, 2013
8:40 am
Guns & Butter Radio Show on KPFA Pacifica with Host Bonnie Faulkner –
“Sandy Hook: Unanswered Questions” with Professor James F. Tracy. Discrepancies in media coverage; coroner’s press conference; political fallout. http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/87874
Guns and Butter – January 9, 2013 at 1:00pm | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech.
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/87874
Andy in AL
January 10th, 2013
11:02 am
Until there is a thread of evidence, the prof is a nut and I’ve been a repub my entire adult life! Secondly Obama himself fueled the birther debate as he refused and spent mucho money to keep his certificate hidden for years! And the fact he applied for college federal aid as a foreign student doesn’t help any. Still not convinced he’s not a US citizen but that’s not the issue. You must be a “natural-born citizen”!
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
January 10th, 2013
12:03 pm
Andy, Obama’s birth certificate and SSN are proven fakes…he’s attractive “hired help” by the Roman Anti-Christ’s Fed Scam Rothschild/Rockefeller-Bush “Big Oil” Fifth Column which owns Washington and both parties.
…and there’s plenty of evidence these shootings are staged. Did you bother looking at the links?
The Fed’s debt bondage scam that was cheated through Congress in the Middle of the Night in 1913 is expiring, so they have to divert or enslave us to keep it going. We know they did 9/11 and killed JFK.
Get off your mental “duff” and wake up. America needs your full attention and prayers.
Silent Jay
January 10th, 2013
1:51 pm
Yeah, but what about Big Foot?