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by Monica Davis
Are all of the insanely violent public shootins, assassinations and targeted thugery in the US connected? Thousands of Americans believe that there is a lot more than meets the eye with the latest mass shootings.
And, many media outlets are bound and determined to paint those folk as wild eyed loonies.
Like many traumatic national events, the Newtown shooting has already spawned its share of wild conspiracy theories that draw in everything from British finance to the Hunger Games.
A false rumor spreading rapidly on fringe sites like Infowars and assorted Ron Paul messageboards ties the school murders to an existing hoax surrounding the Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting. After that attack, conspiracy theorists fixated on the accused shooter’s father, Robert Holmes, pointing to media reports that he worked as an anti-fraud scientist for credit scoring company FICO. READMOREHERE
With todays media technology, rumors, assumptions and pronouncements hit the public faster than victims’ families can be notified of a loved one’s death. The media addicted public knows about “persons of interest” before the relatives of dead or the alleged perpetrators do.
In the case of the
Conspiracy concerns stem from earlier, eyewitness news reports of a second gunman and belief that a man had been arrested and taken in for questioning. On Dec. 16, 2012, Natural News addressed concerns with some readers suggesting the identified suspect, Adam Lanza, may have been used by MK-Ultra and succumbed to mind control before executing the bloody massacre. Those who hold to the conspiracy theory liken the horrific Connecticut shootingto that of the Colorado “Dark Knight Rises” rampage where James Holmes opened fire on innocent people preparing to watch the film. Natural News points out early reports of a second gunman in the Colorado shootings and suggests the acts in Colorado and Connecticut were staged. As news media continues to promulgate false information in the case, conspiracy theorists have viewed the misinformation as a cover-up. But is it really? readmorehere
Hoaxes are multiplying like GMO rabbits on steroids. Even before the last victim’s body is buried, speculators, tabloidists and other professional rumormongers jump on the bandwagon and drill out another hundred speculations for the addicted. One more insane mass killing down the drain. How many more will occur before the madness stops?