Sandy Hook Elementary Was Open, Part Seven: Children’s Authors Visit Sandy Hook

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As I continue to sort through nearly one hundred and twenty additional photographs taken in and around Sandy Hook Elementary during the four years that conspiracy theorists falsely claim the school was closed, I noticed a handful of well-known and accomplished children’s authors who generously took time to meet with the students. Since the dates of these visits can be corroborated, one has to wonder whether conspiracy theorists believe these authors A) are complicit in the “hoax,” B) were somehow lured into a convincingly staged school full of children (which was supposedly being used as “storage,” according to the wild claims of some), or C) will just be dismissed as “fakes” like everything else they can’t twist to fit their narrative.

Let’s take a quick look at some of the guests who passed through the school between 2010 and 2012:

Jacqueline Davies
Author of “The Lemonade War”
October 28th, 2010

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Dust Your Checkbook Off, Wolfgang

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Internet panhandler Wolfgang Halbig must have collected more money from his frequent donation drives than he knows what to do with because he’s practically begging people like me (as well as CW Wade of Sandy Hook Facts) to take it from him, one grand at a time. There’s simply no other way to explain his repeated offers to hand out $1,000 to anyone who can produce photographs from the 2012 Veteran’s Day Breakfast, an annual tradition at Sandy Hook School.

Here’s just one example of Halbig’s proposal, taken from his official Facebook page (which is an borderline unreadable mess, for the record):

And here’s the full text. I’ve left all spelling and grammatical errors intact because this is the guy that has positioned himself as the lead “investigator” for Sandy Hook “truth”:

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The Ten Biggest Lies In “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”

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#10 – “There Was An Emergency Preparedness Drill/Exercise Nearby”

Mentioned no fewer than three times in Nobody Died At Sandy Hook, FEMA’s “Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters” is repeatedly mischaracterized as either a “drill” or an “exercise.” In reality, it’s a six-hour independent study course based on materials from this Save the Children document. While FEMA offers the course online, some state organizations occasionally teach it in a classroom environment—which, for the record, looks a lot more like this:

…than this:

If you have even a passing familiarity with reality, you may notice a couple of differences!

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Sandy Hook Elementary Was Open, Part Six: The 2011-2012 Scrapbook

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The claim that Sandy Hook Elementary School ceased all “Internet activity” between 2008 and 2012, part of a larger theory that the school permanently closed its doors in 2008, is pure fiction, the result of remarkably sloppy research. In addition to the technical explanation debunking this myth, there is also clear evidence of activity on the school’s website during that supposed gap. One notable example is Sandy Hook’s 2011-2012 “scrapbook,” a series of sixteen online photo albums containing over 200 images of students, faculty, and guests participating in various school events. These photos are just another piece of indisputable evidence proving the school was open and functioning during that time.

If you’re interested in viewing the albums for yourself—and I highly recommend it, especially if you’ve ever entertained any denier nonsense—you can access them here, courtesy of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I’ll be highlighting just a handful of these photos, focusing on the ones that I believe are the most significant in corroborating the “official” (i.e. correct) account.

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Why “The Most Compelling Evidence” In “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook” Is A Total Bust, Part Two

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In my previous entry, I was able to objectively demonstrate not only that the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (“The Wayback Machine”) is a thoroughly worthless tool for measuring a public school’s “Internet activity” (let alone its actual operation), but that in using outdated information as part of their “research”, the ghouls responsible for “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook” have shown themselves to be totally inept, if not intentionally deceitful. But there’s still a bit of life left in this horse (and I’m not talking about James Fetzer).

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Why “The Most Compelling Evidence” In “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook” Is A Total Bust

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One of the more persistent zombie myths peddled by the Sandy Hook denialist cult is the absurd claim that Sandy Hook Elementary School quietly closed in 2008, leaving it conveniently empty when Adam Lanza (who, depending on which conspiracy enthusiast you ask, may not have even existed) carried out his attack on December 14, 2012. This supposed closure was so stealthy that not a single local media outlet bothered to report it. Impressive, right?

This fantasy appears to have originated with professional conspiracy theorist James Fetzer—a bloated carny who pads his retirement by cranking out increasingly unhinged (and laughably lazy) books like Nobody Died at Sandy Hook. Nearly every word in that masterpiece, by the way, is lifted straight from pre-existing blog entries. Fetzer’s modus operandi? Declare everything—moon landings, the Boston Marathon bombing, you name it—a grand hoax.

Despite an Everest-sized pile of evidence proving the school was open (think: countless photographs of a bustling campus, years of PTA meeting minutes, facilities surveys, news articles, job listings, etc.), Fetzer has staked his ludicrous claim on a shaky foundation of outdated information and a total—and likely willful, though that might be giving him too much credit—misunderstanding of how the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine works. That’s his entire case.

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Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”

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Part I: “Early Indications Something Was Wrong”

Chapter One: “Medical Examiner: More Questions Than Answers” by James Tracy

Chapter Two: “Six Signs Sandy Hook Elementary School Was Closed” by “Dr. Eowyn”

Chapter Three: “Wolfgang Halbig Goes For The Jugular In His FOIA Hearing” by James Fetzer

Chapter Four: “Shannon Hicks Denies Staging Her ‘Iconic’ Photograph”

Part II: “How We Know Sandy Hook Was An Illusion”

Chapter Five: “Top Ten Reasons: Sandy Hook Was An Elaborate Hoax” by Vivian Lee

Chapter Six: “Even Obama Officials Confirmed That It Was A Drill” by James Fetzer

Chapter Seven: “Fixing A Prop: Furnishing The Lanza Home” by Allan William Powell (with Kelley Watt)

Chapter Eight: “Setting The Stage: Refurbishing The School” by Allan William Powell

Part III: “Futher Proof Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”

Chapter Nine: “No One Died At Sandy Hook: The Social Security Death Index” by “Dr. Eowyn”

Chapter Ten: “Sandy Hook: CT Crime Data Confirms FBI Report” by James Fetzer and “Dr. Eowyn”

Chapter Eleven: “Are Sandy Hook Skeptics Delusional With ‘Twisted Minds’?” by James Fetzer and Kelley Watt

Chapter Twelve: “Every Grain Of Sandy Hook: Snopes.com & Plausible Deniability” by Sterling Harwood

Epilogue

Epilogue: “The Nexus Of Tyranny: Tuscon, Aurora And Sandy Hook” by Dennis Cimino

Afterword

Afterword: “Sandy Hook: Analogies With The 7/7 London Bombings” by Nick Kollerstrom

Appendices

Appendix A: “The FEMA Manual For The Sandy Hook Drill”

Appendix B: “The 20 Children And Their Homes” by Nick Kollerstrom

Appendix C: “Sandy Hook School Massacre Timeline” by James Tracy

Appendix D: “Comparing Murder And Homicide Rates Before And After Gun Bans”

Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter Three

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Three
By: James Fetzer

This chapter revisits Wolfgang Halbig’s cringe-worthy presentation to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Committee at his first FOIA hearing. CW Wade of Sandy Hook Facts summed the whole fiasco up thusly:

Wolfgang Halbig’s spent about $20,000 raised through his charity, Sandy Hook Justice, for two days worth of hearings. He was awarded no documents and the majority of his complaints where dismissed in their entirety.  It should also be noted that the documents Halbig obtained at a cost of  about $20,000, Sandy Hook Facts obtained for under $100.

Ouch!

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How To Fake A “FEMA Manual” In Five Easy Steps

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Let’s say – and this strictly hypothetical here, so please don’t get offended – that you’re a Sandy Hook denier, also known as a Sandy Hook hoaxer. Maybe you’re a lifelong conspiracy crank looking for your next hustle, or maybe you just don’t want to believe what took place that day actually happened (which is, in a way, perfectly understandable), but you’re having a very difficult time coming up for an alternate explanation for something so many people experienced firsthand and so many more saw play out in the media. And while it barely makes any sense whatsoever, the story you ultimately bet the farm on involves Mossad death squads a FEMA “Active Shooter” drill taking place at an abandoned school. But there’s a problem: there isn’t really any evidence that supports your claim. Not only does FEMA not host “Active Shooter” drills (let alone at abandoned schools), but this imaginary drill does not appear anywhere on their calendar. So what do you do? You fake it. It’s so easy, a Florida scumbag could do it!

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