Re: InfoWars' Alex Jones says he had a "form of psychosis" when spreading Sandy Hook conspiracies
I can just barely manage to hold back tears when I respond to this topic - okay, I can't. I had just been released from the hospital on October 12th 2012, just two days prior to this massacre. I had a total knee replacement and the home physical therapist was at my bedside beginning my long journey of rehab when the television in my room flashed a bulletin across the screen. I was frozen with fear for a split second, they were talking something about kids in the same school my nephew and two of my nieces had attended, Sandy Hook Elementary. Then I got hold of my senses and realized they had already graduated and moved on to high school.
I thought that was one of the most horrific, most tragic days I've ever lived. It superseded my shock of the tragedy of Sept. 2001. I live in close proximity to NY, it also felt very personal. Things changed that day, but nothing like Sandy Hook. But holy ****, it got even much worse than anyone could imagine when the disgusting things that Alex Jones was spreading on Infowars started coming out. I thought to myself, 'that's disgusting and unacceptable, who the hell would believe that?' I thought someone, somewhere would put an end to his ugly conspiracy theories. I was so wrong, nobody did and worse than that, people actually believed him.
Even more shock came when I heard that the parents of those children have been harassed and blamed for perpetrating a hoax on the American public. Many of them have sold their homes and moved out of the town and some moved completely out Connecticut just to trying to go anonymous and escape the threatening phone calls and harassing mail. Imagine having to flee your job, home and town because your child was massacred in cold blood? The parents of Noah Pozner have been forced to move
seven times because of repeated death threats. Their son Noah was the youngest of the children murdered that day. His father kissed him goodbye that morning as he dropped him off at school wearing his favorite Batman tshirt and Spiderman sneakers. Thirty minutes later, Noah was dead. He was a sweet-faced, big-eyed, brown-haired boy, his tiny body took multiple bullets. His jaw was blown off, as was his left hand, and his beloved Batman shirt was soaked with blood. For his funeral, his mother, Veronique, insisted he have an open casket. “I want the world to see what they did to my baby.”
Men like Alex Jones should never be allowed a platform to spew their hateful conspiracy theories, obviously they are potentially dangerous to human lives. A woman in Florida was charged with making death threats to the father of a boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre - threats she made because she believed the attack was staged. She left a message on his answering machine;
“You’re gonna die you [expletives and slurs deleted],”. “… And what are you going to do about it?
“You can do absolutely nothing. … this is coming to you real soon [expletive deleted]. You going to die,” and “You [expletive deleted] look behind you, justice is coming to you real soon.” Lucy Richards, 57, of Tampa, was arrested Monday after a grand jury indictment on four felony counts of transmitting threats.
How much of this are we supposed to endure? How many other Alex Jones' are out there with a microphone or a platform given to them on social media? These people aren't normal and I wish more people would find their real voice, and speak up against such hate-mongers that reach the minds of twisted, demented people out there that go out and do harm to innocent people. When people accept this and become immune to it, that's when the soul of this country dies.
Leonard Pozner and son Noah at age 2
