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Sandy Hook to Trump: 'Help us stop conspiracy theorists'
It was one of the worst school shootings in American history, but some people insist that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. They post YouTube videos and spread rumours online, and their false theories have been repeated by a media mogul conspiracy theorist who has been linked to Donald Trump. Now, after years of harassment, the families of the victims are fighting back online.
Lenny Pozner clicks on a YouTube video showing his street and the outside of his home. The camera zooms in on his balcony, and his address and a route to his door flash up on the screen.
There's no narration on the video - but there doesn't need to be. The message is clear: "We know where you live."
Because of videos like this one - there are dozens on YouTube, and more appear ever day - Pozner doesn't want to disclose the city where he now lives. He's had death threats and has moved several times in recent years.
Some of the conspiracy theorists are regular visitors to this small hamlet in suburban Connecticut. In addition to the death threats and harassment directed at Lenny, Hannah and others, they've made videos of the school and local area and ask questions of locals and family members, and have posted the footage on YouTube.
"I think 14 Dec 2012 is an event that was in planning for a long, long time," he tells me. "I think it probably took them two, two-and-a-half years to write the scripts for all the participants that were invited to participate in that exercise - or drill as I will call it."
"I'll be honest with you," he says, "if I'm wrong, I need to be institutionalised."
"It's kind of remarkable, but believing that Sandy Hook was a hoax is actually fairly small ball for an Alex Jones conspiracy," Gertz says. "He thinks that a set of global elites are planning to murder 80% of the world populace and enslave the rest of them. He has claimed that the federal government has a weather machine that they use to target tornado strikes on unfriendly populaces..."
I haven't paid much attention to most of the conspiracies or the damage that froot loop Alex Jones does. I've laughed at the idiocy of chemtrails, Jade Helm, lies about Obama but I just don't understand the cruelty of harassing people whose children were slaughtered at Sandy Hook. Why would they choose these people to threaten and attack?
Apparently, trump is a big Jones fan, which tells just how incredibly stupid he is. It also indicates that its very unlikely trump would do anything to stop these lies.
How many of the conspiracy nutters here believe in this? Seems like I've seen Dale Smith MindWars CrusaderFrank jump on every conspiracy wagon that comes along.
Anyone want to comment?
Will trump actually DO anything to help this sad situation?
It was one of the worst school shootings in American history, but some people insist that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. They post YouTube videos and spread rumours online, and their false theories have been repeated by a media mogul conspiracy theorist who has been linked to Donald Trump. Now, after years of harassment, the families of the victims are fighting back online.
Lenny Pozner clicks on a YouTube video showing his street and the outside of his home. The camera zooms in on his balcony, and his address and a route to his door flash up on the screen.
There's no narration on the video - but there doesn't need to be. The message is clear: "We know where you live."
Because of videos like this one - there are dozens on YouTube, and more appear ever day - Pozner doesn't want to disclose the city where he now lives. He's had death threats and has moved several times in recent years.
Some of the conspiracy theorists are regular visitors to this small hamlet in suburban Connecticut. In addition to the death threats and harassment directed at Lenny, Hannah and others, they've made videos of the school and local area and ask questions of locals and family members, and have posted the footage on YouTube.
"I think 14 Dec 2012 is an event that was in planning for a long, long time," he tells me. "I think it probably took them two, two-and-a-half years to write the scripts for all the participants that were invited to participate in that exercise - or drill as I will call it."
"I'll be honest with you," he says, "if I'm wrong, I need to be institutionalised."
"It's kind of remarkable, but believing that Sandy Hook was a hoax is actually fairly small ball for an Alex Jones conspiracy," Gertz says. "He thinks that a set of global elites are planning to murder 80% of the world populace and enslave the rest of them. He has claimed that the federal government has a weather machine that they use to target tornado strikes on unfriendly populaces..."
I haven't paid much attention to most of the conspiracies or the damage that froot loop Alex Jones does. I've laughed at the idiocy of chemtrails, Jade Helm, lies about Obama but I just don't understand the cruelty of harassing people whose children were slaughtered at Sandy Hook. Why would they choose these people to threaten and attack?
Apparently, trump is a big Jones fan, which tells just how incredibly stupid he is. It also indicates that its very unlikely trump would do anything to stop these lies.
How many of the conspiracy nutters here believe in this? Seems like I've seen Dale Smith MindWars CrusaderFrank jump on every conspiracy wagon that comes along.
Anyone want to comment?
Will trump actually DO anything to help this sad situation?
