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‘Gov’t-Sponsored Hoax’: Conspiracy Theorists Harass Man Who Helped Sandy Hook Child Victims

Jan. 16, 2013 8:52am Billy Hallowell

Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theorists Harass Gene Rosen, Man Who Helped Child Victims

Gene Rosen becomes emotional as he speaks in an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Photo Credit: AP

With tragedy often times comes conspiracy. There are, of course, the 9/11 Truthers and now, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a growing subset of individuals are claiming that the entire tragedy was government manufactured — or that it never happened at all. While reports surrounding these notions have recently surfaced, they appear to be gaining steam.

Gene Rosen, a neighbor who lives nearby the school (TheBlaze reported about his involvement in helping some of the victims after the shooting unfolded) has confirmed that the bizarre conspiracy theories are raging, telling Salon.com that he has fallen victim to critics’ attacks. Rosen, 69, who discovered and then helped six children sitting in his driveway who had fled the school on the day of the shooting, is reportedly being harassed by individuals who dismiss Sandy Hook as a government-spawned cabal.

In an interview with Salon, the retired psychologist described the difficult scenario and the ongoing e-mails and phone calls he is receiving in the wake of the horrific rampage.

“I don’t know what to do. I’m getting hang-up calls, I’m getting some calls, I’m getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that I’m lying, that I’m a crisis actor, ‘how much am I being paid?,’” he told the outlet.

There’s so much information floating around about him that he has a friend who sweeps the web every day so that he doesn’t have to. Rosen has logged each phone call and e-mail exchange, too, and he has consulted with a retired state police officer who told him that nothing can be done at the moment. Still, he’s keeping records for his own safety, as the situation doesn’t seem to be simmering.

Social media accounts have been falsely started in his name, critics have dismissed him as a fraud and, as a result of all of the chaos, his wife fears for the couple’s safety.

CNN has more about this issue of harassment:

“How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the ‘shooting,’” one e-mail read. “What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov’t sponsored hoax anyway?”

While Rosen was initially hesitant to talk to media about the harassment, as he did not want to enrage or embolden those who are already hammering him on a regular basis. However, after considering the importance of free speech and realizing that he was passionate about speaking out, he reached out to Salon and told his story.

Gene Rosen looks out a window in his home that one of the children was looking out of during an interview with the Associated Press, Monday,Dec. 17, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. On the day of the shooting, Rosen took in four girls and two boys that were sitting at the end of his driveway; they had just run from the school, among the first to escape Friday s deadly shooting. He ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals he kept there. Photo Credit: AP

“There must be some way to morally shame these people, because there were 20 dead children lying an eighth of a mile from my window all night long,” he told the outlet, while allegedly holding back tears. “And I sat there with my wife, because they couldn’t take the bodies out that night so the medical examiner could come. And I thought of an expression, that this ‘adds insult to injury,’ but that’s a stupid expression, because this is not an injury, this is an abomination.”

Conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting are nothing new. Since the event unfolded last month, select critics have come up with bizarre notions about what unfolded. Some professors even jumped in to posit their odd theories, with one claiming that Israeli security forces were responsible for the attack.

You can read Rosen’s entire interview at Salon.com.

(H/T: Yahoo! — The Lookout)

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librarylisa
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:24pm
The end of Anderson Cooper’s video above says it all. We, the masses are easily duped but surely a tenured professor at a public college should tow the party’s line and “know better”. The public does not TRUST the media anymore to not edit someone’s comments so this is why he declined.
Why is the common denominator between The CO “Batman” killer and the Sandy Hook killer is that both were mentally troubled young men BOTH whose fathers were to testify about the LIBOR scandal – again something the media fails to cover.

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daniel3839
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:18pm
Has anyone seen any dead bodies? Any blood? Any bloody bodies? The room the shooting took place in? the bullet holes?

Go on youtube and watch the fabricated stories. SOMETHING STINKS! FEMA even had a drill named “Helping children in a tragedy training drill” scheduled for that morning DOWN THE ROAD from the school. Its all on the youtube video with going on 9 million views.

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alinskythis
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:03pm
Everyone is beginning to see what I’ve been seeing at every level of society – and not being able to believe my eyes – for more than 12 years now.

The fake crying, producing not a single tear, crocodile or not. The REALLY bad acting. The wildly shifting “facts” and “details.”

These “people,” with all their supposed “organization” and technology, simply are not smart enough to pull off convincingly their own theater, and now EVERYBODY sees it.

Cast back and do a little research on the incredible similarities in details, methods and especially repeating PATTERNS in ANY of these debacles, and start putting those pieces together.

Especially the very convenient part where the shooter “offs himself.” You can start with 9/11, but I know for a fact it goes way back.

ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU SEE, EVERYTHING THAT OCCURS, IS ARTIFICIALLY CREATED AS THEATER TO MANIPULATE THE POPULACE.

In politics nothing happens ‘by chance.’ If something happens, then you can bet that it was planned that way.”

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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- alinskythis
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Many weather experts said Hurricane Sandy (two Sandys in one season….”they” just love the engineered “coincidences” – makes ‘em feel powerful in their bee-sized little brains) defied the laws of physics and made an impossible sharp turn toward Tampa, at exactly the moment benefiting The Nazi Party the most.
  
  Gabrielle Giffords was a total set-up. Her husband was part of it.
  
  After she was shot, he took the liberty of speaking for her copiously in the press, and never showed a single emotion except smiles and positivity.
  
  Then, they whored Gabby out in Congress by having Debbie Wasserperson Schultz cry the phony, crocodile tears while they “honor” her.
  
  Next thing you know, they are whoring her out for this gun grab, and the poor woman can barely put two words together at this point. She can no longer SPEAK!!!
  
  SHE’s DONE for life, but they are still consuming her crippled body for their own evil plans.
  
  She was the sacrifice, probably because she wasn’t a big enough POS vampire. “They” HATE nice people.
  
  If my loved one had been shot in the head, possibly ending life as it was with him or her forever, I would be a whole lot more distraught than that. I felt inexplicable resentment upon seeing Gabrielle Gifford’s husband on TV, and I didn’t know why yet, but I’ve learned YOU SHOULD FOLLOW THOSE GUT EMOTIONS, EVEN IF YOUR BRAIN HASN’T CAUGHT UP YET.
  
  Your subconscious is trying to tell you something very, very important
  
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- alinskythis
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:46pm
  And you should expand your belief system to encompass the fact that no hoax is too big, too expensive, too elaborate or too outlandish for them. Dead serious about this one.
  
  The more taxpayer money they can spend, and the more of their cronies they involve and compensate – and “have a ball*” doing it – the happier they are. They are truly vampires, sucking the blood out of this country.
  
  This has fully distilled down to a battle between The Moral, and The Amoral.
  
  Like someone here said earlier, “There is no grey.”
  
  Those in the grey area right now probably know they will have to choose a side very soon.
  
  Trauma is the number one tool used to gain control of the human mind. We are being hammered with traumatic events to numb us, so that we are more malleable.
  
  We have GOT to keep our heads NO MATTER WHAT, and simply CANNOT give up on standing up for good and defending morality.
  
  It might be a one-way trip, but why else would we all just happen to be here, at this time in history, in this country?
  
  It’s our JOB, and we have to give it 110% percent as long as we are able.
  
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- WEBWITHDEB
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:04pm
  The federal judge shot dead in Tuscon was the “real” target as far as my mind goes . . .
  
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lerose55
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:00pm
Not sure why Mr. Gene Rosen is getting threatening phone calls. Can someone fill me in?

What Gov’t conspiracy is going on?

I though it was a 24 year old kid with some mental problems that went to the school an started shooting teachers & children. What am I missing?

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Teaparty_Grammy
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:44pm
My position on this whole thing is that Sandy Hook DID happen, and our POS POTUS lost NO time climbing up on the bodies of those dead children to push what he wants to do anyhow, which is to disarm everybody. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, remember?

But I STILL say that on the day his gun-grabbing agenda is passed–whether by the gutless Congress, or by Constitution-negating executive order, that is the day Obama’s Secret Service protection should END. After all, if the REST of us are so safe without guns, why do we need to pay to protect HIS a$#$ with armed guards? Is that not the absolute EPITOME of hypocrisy on his part?

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- smv803
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:45pm
  Yes mam…..I need to agree with you. I try and stay clear of fire for fear of getting burned, but sometimes, we need it to cook.
  
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1FreeVoice
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:40pm
God, please bless America

God, please bless America
we need Your touch today;
too many hearts were broken
when lives were stripped away.

Futures planned, forsaken
as dreams fell into dust-
yet even as hope crumbles,
it is in faith we trust.

Your love and Your compassion
guide help from human hands.
Souls reach out to each other
and to You in all Earth’s lands.

I wrote this after 9/11 when the words “God bless America” were repeated so often they began to sound ungrateful and demanding. ( My parents taught me to say “please”, and we were being rude.)
The words seem fitting to so many tragedies, including this one.

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Teaparty_Grammy
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:31pm
The bald-faced lies told on a regular basis by our POS POTUS and his minions and his constant assaults on our liberties by executive order and other sneaky means has created a climate of suspicion and fear towards our government. What IS clear is that our government–ESPECIALLY the POTUS and his unaccountable appointed “czars” and other left-wing hangers-on–can NOT be trusted to act within the law and the framework of our Constitution. The “lunatic fringe” are always the first to react to unusual pressures on society and the crises they produce–and that is clearly what you are seeing here. That being said, nobody but a FOOL would believe that you can accept at face value ANY information that comes out of this corrupt and dishonest administration–ESPECIALLY if it comes out of the lying mouth of our Liar-In-Chief.

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grayesun
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:18pm
of all media options to reach out to…Salon? The age old question, why Salon, just why?

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Marms
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:16pm
This guy is a member of the screen actors guild. All the children in Sotos class were allegedly killed. So many “facts” don’t add up.

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smv803
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:01pm
How absurd is the thought that someone would actually strap explosives to their abdomen and blow themselves up for a cause? How about abortion; Who in their right mind would purposely kill fetuses? When men are wicked, anything is possible….yes, even using children’s lives for a cause. In this case, Confiscation of all firearms. Don’t kid yourselves people; You don’t give enough credit to the lack of goodness in man.

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LivingInGodsGrace
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:00pm
Encinom “Beck has created a gathering place for idiots, fools and paranoid nuts to meet.” Agreed, I see you posting on almost every article, every day. :)

My question still is, Why did he NEVER call the police? And how did he know then that the “bodies” were there all night? Or about the “casualty list” that same night? Strange stuff for sure..God help us all…

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ronin_6
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:51pm
Don’t believe this guy’s story has changed? Yahoo still has the stories up. Just search his name and look at how the versions have changed.

3 questions,
Who was the bus driver that ‘dropped’ the kids off?
Why was there a bus driver present and hour after school started?
Why hasn’t this bus driver been interviewed? Like to know how he wound up shepherding 6 kids around.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:44pm
‘There must be some way to morally shame these people’…

There are plenty of people to shame, let’s start with this video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnhYMaGYuY

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environmentalandawake
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:43pm
For the Trolls; This is why some feel this tragedy is a bit too convienient. The very gun store that sold Lanza the Bushmaster just happened to have a habitual thief stealing guns over a long period of time….not to mention several other thefts at this same store, but suddenly as if out of no where this derranged idiot steals one more after the Sandy Hook situation causing a raid and susequent investigation…..Something stinks! Did anyone notice that Chrysler announced they are producing Jeeps in China, today? Couple that with the Mali situation and it makes old Mitt look fairly intuitive, does it not?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/20/apparent-atf-raid-reportedly-underway-at-gun-shop-where-ct-shooters-mother-bought-gun-used-in-massacre/

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KevinVA
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:34pm
Yeah, just pass the doubts off as conspiracy theories, just as you did the Birth Certificate, the Social Security numbers, the selective service card, etc… Just make up a new name to call them, like the Birthers. Let’s call them “Sandy Hookers.”

OR you could watch the video yourself and witness the hoax underway. At first, I didn’t even want to entertain the idea – why would you want to call the murders of children a hoax, if it actually happened? That’s sick… but what’s more sick is to actually perpetuate the idea that a mass murder occurred, when it actually didn’t – and then politicize the hell out of it.

Watch the video… there are two versions: the 1.5hr version and 30min version. Watch at least one of them. Hell, you can see one set of parents (actors) in the video (who are quite content with the loss of their daughter) that were used during today’s press conference. It’s a lie… and The Blaze, just as Fox News, won’t look into it… again. Who will we have to rely on this time? More disenfranchised bloggers?

Admittedly the mention of 9/11 was offsetting in the video… but it’s such a small piece of the Sandy Hook puzzle that it doesn’t even matter. I’m not a 9/11 Truther – I don’t see a reason to be, when you have rabid Muslims knocking on our door all the time.

However, Sandy Hook is very questionable. Look into it and watch the video.

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amunderdog
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:08pm
Glenn Beck has vowed to tell the true story.
Well it is about time someone decided to try.
From the moment i urned on the news on that morning it has been nothing but confusion and lies.
How can i not question what i have been presented?
The official Investigation has offered no answers.
It is so difficult? It is to difficult?
There are no missing pieces.

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LetThereBeLight
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:01pm
Immediately when I heard of this news of the “shooting” I thought it was related to the gov somehow. I did see the video and have watched some of the other “hoax” theories. You do have to ask yourself about the facts 1. There are NO tears! No one, not even the parents! 2. You don’t see any real live footage of what happened! Only the photo of kids “supposedly” being lined up to go to the firehouse. You don’t see kids being wheeled out on stretchers. When you see the emergency vehicles, they are definitely trapped in! 3. Robbie Parkers interview was creepy! You can’t say people “grieve” in different ways!!!! Come on! His daughter was just “shot” and he was laughing until they said “you’re on”? Supposedly they had a camera inside the school as well. How come no photos of bullets are seen, anywhere? These questions, asked by sane people, not just conspiracy nuts need to be answered!

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Former11BRAVO
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:55am
Hey Glenn! Love ya, man! But, aren’t you guys being a little “mousey” lately? You’re not questioning the veracity of the government’s story regarding this tragedy – and you’re telling us to lay down and let the thugs from (insert alphabet agency here) arrest us and take our legally purchased, legally owned, constitutionally-protected firearms! What gives? Who’s threatening you, bro? What are you afraid of?

I know an all-out civil war would be devastating and is to be avoided with the utmost effort, but what is it you think we’ll be able to accomplish; imprisoned and disarmed? So, we win in court . . . you really think our guns will be returned? Ha! Sure they will!

Something’s terribly amiss here, Glenn. And you’re trying to dissuade us from protesting too. I don’t understand your thinking on this, at all. As for Christ and what he would do . . . remember, he admonished his disciples to “sell your cloak(s) and buy a sword” – for situations just like this. Advocating armed rebellion is far different from encouraging patriotic Americans to simply “not comply”. Remember, you said exactly those words not too long ago: “I will not comply.” You even asked us to, “repeat after me”, as I recall!

Or, was I only dreaming?

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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:13pm
  You don’t critical think therefore you don’t understand Glenn. You go on raw emotion absent of history and you play right into the disinformation campaign coming from the Kremlin(RT and Alex Jones). They are the ones spreading these conspiracies on Sandy Hook, 9/11 etc. What is the agenda of the people spreading these conspiracies? Revolution ala French style. < Not good and not American.
  
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- PROUD_2B_American
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Hey UBETHECHANGE
  THERE IS a lot of raw emotion.
  
  I MYSELF have been with Glenn, and on the same page for years. I TO feel a lot like FORMER11BRAVO.
  
  A little lost………
  
  If the forces that be, violate the U.S. Constitution to enforce a law. WHY would you think we’ll be allowed our day in court?
  Why would you think we’ll be allowed due process at all?
  
  This is a very dangerous topic, either way we look at it. What we DO NEED to do, is come together and formulate a plan to observe and confirm arrests and actions being taken over time. We may see a neighbor arrested. Then he’s gone.
  Are we going to just go about our lives and assume they’re alright?
  What if they aren’t?
  How will we know.?
  This is WORTH a conversation, AHEAD of time…………..
  
  HOW will we all support the people that make a peaceful stand, in the very beginning?
  What will we all agree is the correct path, if we find out they’re NOT OK?
  And not being allowed all their rights under the constitution??
  
  There are FAR TO many unanswered questions to turn on Beck supporters that are frustrated and confused. Many of us, are effected by all this, in a much greater way. SO naturally, we’ll have a different outlook and concern.
  
  We have to find a way to stick together, and come up with a valid plan
  
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motherrunner
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:40am
I agree with Charleyhorse, The whole story just doesn’t pass the smell test. Too many unanswered questions and even more questions that aren’t being asked. The whole thing has a very creepy element to it. And it is bothering me. Can’t shake it.

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PROUD_2B_American
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:38am
Personally, just think Sandy Hook was a SICK opportunity for this administration.

How about WE capitalize on the tragedy with some common sense.

If anything, this kid could have pointed those weapons at ANY of us. This proves quite clearly that there are REAL threats out there, that require us to own and bare a firearms.
After all, we have to live out here, in the real world. These nuts are everywhere, and disarming ANYONE US for any reason makes no sense at all

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SGT Rock
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:37am
I think something happened there but what is the truth? Why did the first responders practice so frequently for this specific situation and just happened to be practicing the day it happned? No such thing as coincidence. Also take a peek at this footage and others like it, whay are peeps smiling, acting strange, like actors and not victims nor professionals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPUUCpygsHU

I have never heard of a medical examiner leaving the bodies out over night, that is desicration to the bodies or abuse of a corpse. Seems fishy and all the backtracking on statements is bizaar. I’m telling you this thing stinks to high heavens. neighbors of the shooter and the mom say they don’t even know who they were or never saw them. Isn’t that wierd, I see my neighbors all the time. Just saying don’t always believe what the Government Media (propaganda channels) tell you. Why did those kids go back to school so quickly? Never heard a blurb about greif counselors that you always hear anymore when something happens at a school.

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gmname
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:32am
How about it, Blaze — you have the resources to check this out — I would certainly like to see an fair and balanced analysis of the issues raised in the video. Afraid of that the things Glenn has been predicting might be coming true? This is no time to roll your eyes back and act superior and disgusted. Show me!

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- zapparules
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:49am
  So true.
  The Blaze and Glenn has the resources at their disposal to FULLY investigate this.
  Demand this of your man Glenn and his media empire!
  
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Sumrknght
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:29am
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.” – Thomas Jefferson (quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago.)

Don’t you wish we had someone in the office of the President that had such clear logic? Where can we find such individuals to serve in Congress?

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zapparules
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:27am
Do you folks have any clue how many people would need to be involved in the type of cover-up some of you are trying to believe in?
From parents and siblings and other loved ones of those killed, to teachers and others at the school, to local and state police officers, to the numerous federal agents involved, to the entire press corps.

To have NOT ONE of them speak up…

And I guess they ALL are wanting to assist in the same agenda – that MIGHT possibly come about if such a conspiracy could ever be pulled off – and that being: Taking our guns away?

And just what might be the consequences to such an agenda if such a conspiracy were ever found out? (In other words… Is the POSSIBLE benefit worth what would be the ABSOLUTE consequences if found out?)

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- TEOTWASWKI
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:09pm
  And just what might be the consequences to such an agenda if such a conspiracy were ever found out? (In other words… Is the POSSIBLE benefit worth what would be the ABSOLUTE consequences if found out?)
  I don’t know, was it worth it for Fast and Furious? How many died because of that?
  
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:16am
Who saw bodies? How did the rifle wind up back in the car after Lanza shot himself? Who saw his body? Why did the coroner not seem to know what he was talking about? When Robbie Parker, father of Emilie appeared on TV, why was he smiling and laughing until he stepped up to the mike to look sad?
Why were messages of condolence posted on Facebook before the shootings?

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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:29am
  You = Coo coo for coco puffs.
  
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- TEOTWASWKI
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:23pm
  UB….your well thought out logical augments have changed so many minds here. I know they have mine. I now believe that liberals like you do indeed have a mental disorder.
  
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