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

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

James Fetzer, stretching the limits of hyperbole as only he can, once referred to his twisted take on Shannon Hicks’s now-iconic evacuation photos as his “smoking gun.” Apparently, he’s still clinging to that notion, as he took his previous blog post on the subject, sprinkled in some appropriated images, and somehow stretched it thin enough to fill an entire chapter of his book. So, what exactly makes this photograph so “damning” in Fetzer’s mind?

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

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Two
By “Dr. Eowyn” aka Maria Hsia Chang

“Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said (5:45 mark), “The school’s been closed down for God knows how long. [Neighbors] can’t understand why there were kids in that building because it was condemned.” pg. 30

Dan Bidondi, a never-was professional wrestler turned “reporter” for Alex Jones, doesn’t bother naming a single one of these supposed “neighbors.” The reality? Interviews with local residents are widely available, and they consistently show zero confusion about the school being open and filled with kids. If the school had truly been closed, as Fetzer claims, wouldn’t at least one person have wondered why children were there?

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

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Disgraced former professor James Tracy, fired from Florida Atlantic University for using university resources to spread disinformation and subsequently lying about it, spends much of this chapter fixated on the typical errors and inconsistencies that surface in breaking news reports—an age-old issue only magnified by the 24-hour news cycle. Such reporting slip-ups are so common that entire books have been written on the subject, including Howard Rosenberg’s No Time to Think and Craig Silverman’s Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech. If these surprises still shock Tracy, he’s in the clear minority.

Rather than waste time on the glaringly obvious—that misinformation thrives in chaotic early reporting—I’ll focus my fact-checking on claims that aren’t solely rooted in those early, flawed reports. I’ll make exceptions when necessary or when the claims are particularly egregious.

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Welcome, Fellow Shills.

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There’s a surprisingly popular flavor of conspiracy theory, seemingly born and bred on the Internet, that I find simultaneously abhorrent as well as totally fascinating in a way, so it ends up being difficult for me to just ignore it. It’s the idea that mass violence in America – especially in the form of shootings – is non-existent, and that all instances of such are elaborate ruses – “false flags” – played out by “crisis actors” in an attempt to disarm the well-behaved and law abiding public. The Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that took place on December 14th, 2012, in Newtown, CT, is a powerful magnet for these goofball theories, and it was ultimately my most powerful motivation for this site.

While reading a Reddit AMA with James Fetzer, the schizophrenic meatball and lifelong crank responsible for penning the atrocious “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, I realized that it was getting more and more difficult to sift through the unbelievable amount of shit and nonsense (in the form of conspiracy theorist websites). Fantastic sites like MetaBunk and Sandy Hook Facts/Sandy Hook Analysis were out there, but they were being buried by AdWords-rich tripe like… IlluminatiSheeple… UnleashingTheDisinfo… I don’t know; there are just so many of them. And I know one more site isn’t going to bring the appropriate amount of balance, but I can certainly try my best to make sure that my voice is heard by people who may be on the fence about this stuff. People like James Fetzer are a lost cause and I’m not trying to convert them; I’m just trying to make sure everyone else knows these types are completely full of shit and that just because they position themselves as anti-mainstream, they’re no different from every other scam artist trying to make a quick buck off of you.

I won’t limit myself to James Fetzer or even Sandy Hook, but my first order of business will be a thorough, chapter-by-chapter debunk of the awful “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”. It may take a little while, which is why I’ll be doing it chapter-by-chapter (hey, I have other shit to do too), but I may break it up with discussion and debunks of other prominent “false flag” conspiracy theories, especially if a new one arises. And these days, that’s a very real possibility.

Thanks in advance for reading. Please feel free to drop me a line personally if you have any questions or comments or insults, which I’m sure some of you will have plenty of. The comments section will remain open on all posts unless it becomes a total shitshow. Or maybe I should say until it becomes a shitdown, which is an inevitability given the subject matter.