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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Professor Triggers Firestorm By Suggesting That Sandy Hook Massacre Might Not Have Occurred
Florida Atlantic University has found itself embroiled in a national outcry over the views of James Tracy, an associate professor of media history. Tracy, 47, went to his blog, Memoryholeblog and held forth on his suspicion that the massacre in Connecticut might have been a government drill or may not even have actually occurred. In a blog entitled The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information, Tracy wrote While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nations news media have described. For those mourning the loss of the 20 children and six adults, it was both an outrageous and hurtful claim leading many to call for the firing of Tracy. However, as correctly noted by the FAU administration, this was a personal blog and Tracy has every right to espouse such theories.
Tracy wrote that Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre.
Tracy appears a full-time conspiracy theorist who has questioned the official account of the Kennedy assassination, the 9/11 terror attacks and the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre.
Lisa Metcalf, FAUs director of media relations, insisted that James Tracy does not speak for the university. The website on which his post appeared is not affiliated with FAU in any way. As for any previous disciplinary actions at FAU, we do not comment on personnel matters. Of course, there are those tiny caskets and grieving families to address. Tracy acknowledged, which asked by a local reporter, that one is left with the impression that a real tragedy took place, but [w]as this to a certain degree constructed? Was this a drill?
more ... http://jonathanturley.org/2013/01/09/florida-professor-triggers-firestorm-by-suggesting-that-sandy-hook-massacre-might-not-have-occurred-or-was-a-staged-drill/
jsr
(7,712 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Seriously I think what he said was repulsive but that shouldn't result in him losing his job.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)The mind boggles.
did he get it? I would hate to have to take one of his classes. Can you imagine.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)*sighs*
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I've never been to NY, but I trust the towers aren't there anymore.
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)ecstatic
(32,748 posts)I hope not.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)And probably pathological to boot.
condoleeza
(814 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and they are like cults
very easy to get sucked in
takes a lot of willpower to get out.
btw
I see dead people myself
I see more and more people dying from guns thanks to the NRA and the nutjobs who back them and carry guns.