“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Appendix C
By: James Tracy

At 108 poorly written pages—nearly a quarter of this trainwreck—disgraced former college professor James Tracy’s second contribution to this book manages to stand out as the laziest entry in a collection already notorious for recycling old blog posts verbatim. That’s genuinely impressive!

The chapter is a disjointed compilation of out-of-context snippets from mainstream news articles, presented in something resembling chronological order. There’s little editorializing, leaving me to wonder what exactly crybaby James Tracy believes actually happened at Sandy Hook.

Based on the mishmash of material included here, he seems to endorse a multiple-shooter theory… while simultaneously leaning into the “FEMA drill” narrative. Conveniently for Tracy, this ambiguity helps his claims remain flexible—because when your book’s title (yes, the whole title) is “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook: It Was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control,” there’s not much room for competing hypotheses, is there?

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As we’ve seen a number of times already, deniers gave gotten a lot of mileage out of not understanding how the Internet works. The net result of this ignorance is usually a claim that a website memorializing one (if not all) of the Sandy Hook victims appeared either before or too soon after December 14th, 2012. An ugly variation of this claim incorrectly states that The Avielle Richman Foundation – named for one of the child victims and established by her parents – was founded on the day of the shooting. It makes an appearance in “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, courtesy of the very anti-Semitic Nick Kollerstrom in Appendix B:

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Appendix B
By: Nick Kollerstrom

I’m not sure why these six pages are included as a second appendix rather than as another chapter, but bizarre choices like this are the least of this book’s problems.

Kollerstrom didn’t exactly cover himself in glory in his previous outing, managing to strike out on just about every goofy claim that dripped from his fingertips. Let’s see if he fares any better here. Granted, the bar couldn’t be much lower, so at least he has that going for him.

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Afterword
By: Nick Kollerstrom

“No-one has been able to get into the Sandy Hook elementary school to verify if there are any bullet-marks, bloodstains etc” pg. 209

No one! Well, except for the police, EMS personnel, and the parents of the victims. Surely Nick Kollerstrom isn’t seriously surprised that an elementary school where twenty-six people—including twenty children aged five and six—were brutally murdered wasn’t open for public tours… right?

That said, if he’s so eager to see bullet marks and bloodstains (and let’s be honest, he’s not, or he would have looked), he can flip through Detective Arthur Walkley’s crime scene photos. They’re all conveniently detailed in the report:

  • Bullet marks/damage: Pages 54-61, 404-431, 448-454, 513, 622-624, 626-630
  • Blood evidence: Pages 71, 73, 365, 386, 392, 393, 428, 457, 473, 475, 495, 622-624, 626, 627, 636, 643, 663, 665

Happy reading, Nick.

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Epilogue
By: Dennis Cimino

This chapter’s author, Dennis Cimino, manages to out himself as an Obama “birther” by the second paragraph—because of course he does. Not just any birther, though—a particularly gullible one. The claim that President Obama attended school as “Barry Soetoro”? Yeah, that originated as an April Fool’s joke… back in 2009. So buckle in, folks, because it’s going to be a wild ride!

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Twelve
By: Sterling Harwood

“Carver said one can control the situation better by using instead photographs of the dead to identify the victims, depending on the photographer. Snopes.com said that what Carver meant was that one can use a photograph of the face to identify the victim without showing wounds to the body of a child. This, however, hardly depends on the photographer; this depends instead on the shooter and where he shot the child. If the shooter shot the child in the face or even shot the identifying features of the child’s face off, then the photographer wouldn’t matter one little bit.” pg. 188

Much of this is totally irrelevant, as there’s no indication that Adam Lanza shot anyone’s “identifying features” off. Not that it would matter much anyway, as there are, of course, other ways to identify a body. As explained in CFS 1200704597, 00118939.pdf:

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Professional crank James Fetzer and his band of loopy dipshits put an inordinate amount of stock in Twitter posts, citing them multiple times throughout the despicable “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.” In Chapter Five, “Vivian Lee” uses a handful of confusingly time-stamped tweets—produced by a well-known Twitter bug, which I’ve discussed at length earlier—as one of the “top ten reasons Sandy Hook was an elaborate hoax.” On page 67, under “4. There was foreknowledge of the event,” she writes:

In addition, tweets about the shooting began before it occurred, a tribute was apparently uploaded one month before the event, and web pages honoring the victims, including a Facebook page R.I.P. Victoria Soto, were established before they had “officially” died.

A lot has also been made of a single, seemingly innocuous tweet from Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Hochsprung’s Twitter account, posted on October 17, 2012, showing the school’s students participating in their annual evacuation drill. Despite looking nothing like the chaos that unfolded less than two months later (which should be an enormous shock to no one, ever), this is somehow supposed to be “proof” that what occurred on December 14, 2012, was actually just a drill:

https://twitter.com/DHochsprung/status/258564799577870336

Of course, this would not be at all noteworthy if the authors had any doubts about the legitimacy of the account, just as tweets from the morning of the 14th could not possibly be considered one of the “top ten reasons Sandy Hook was an elaborate hoax” unless they also had total faith in Twitter’s ability to accurately time-stamp user-generated content. With that in mind, Fetzer and his “expert researchers” logically have no choice but to accept the fact that all of the photographs shared by Dawn Hochsprung on Twitter between September and December of 2012 must also be genuine. These photos depict a busy, bustling elementary school, which obviously deals a devastating blow to Fetzer’s absurd claim that Sandy Hook had been closed and unoccupied since 2008—a claim that acts as the foundation for his entire theory (and, by extension, this book).

It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with how these hucksters operate that the book makes no mention of Dawn’s Twitter timeline beyond the evacuation photo. In their attempt to obscure it from their readers, they even cite their own blog entries about the evacuation photo in the footnotes, instead of linking directly to the actual source. For example, from page 96:

Why wouldn’t they provide the URL to the post on Dawn’s timeline as their source? What is it they don’t want their readers to see?

On October 9th, 2012, Dawn Hochsprung tweeted a photo from a “Pathways to Common Core” conference. While this particular image doesn’t give us a look inside Sandy Hook Elementary, the event is corroborated by the November 2012 edition of Newtown Public Schools’ Superintendent’s Newsletter. The newsletter includes the following quote by survivor Natalie Hammond:

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