by AbramIsaac » Jan 15th, '13, 21:50
That video isn't very convincing at all.
1) Second shooter? There ARE some questions to be asked about that, because of the inconsistencies in the way the police were searching the area, and the way it was reported. Some of that can be chalked up to several different media outlets getting information from several different sources, and then reporting on it as the story developed. Some of it is a little more strange. That doesn't mean that it was staged though.
2) The AR-15 was not found in the trunk. The video shows the officers removing the SHOTGUN from the trunk. Just another piss-poor attempt to drum up some conspiracy theories. If the maker of the video wanted to argue something, it should have been that there were reports of shotgun fire, despite the fact that the shotgun supposedly never left the trunk of the car.
3) Ryan Lanza being misreported as the shooter...well, I'm not sure what the relevance is. Is it sort of strange? Yeah, it is...but not outside of the realm of reason. Ryan Lanza wasn't anywhere near the scene of the crime, and was seen at his home around the time the story broke. I'm not sure what the relevance of a mis-report is here.
4) The thing about the mom and the nurse. That's odd, I'll give them that. I'll also say that her story changes later on, when her daughter is interviewed about it, she says that her mother never saw the shooter and stayed under her desk the entire time. Perhaps she was confused?
5) Robert Parker. His daughter was "allegedly" shot. No, she was shot to death, there isn't much question about that. As far as him joking and laughing? I didn't see that, but maybe I missed it because of the giant wall of text on top of the video feed. What I did see was a man nervous as hell, with a very tense facial expression. Didn't look like happy smile to me, it looked like a man trying to hold it together.
6) Oh yes, the pictures toted as irrefutable proof by the conspiracy theorists. Right. Except that it's her sister in the picture with the president, not Emilie. Emilie is dead. They place the family picture over the new photo to show how similar they are...they fail to mention that Emilie was the same age in the family photo as her sister is now, because two years have passed. Emilie wouldn't even be able to fit into that dress anymore, and isn't it a little odd that her other sister has just disappeared? No, the two remaining girls are there in the picture with the president. The other one is dead.
7) So an attention-seeking douchebag talked out of his ass to get on TV? That's never happened! Obviously, what happened here is that the most powerful and wealthy nation on the planet couldn't hire an actor that could keep his story straight!
8) More parents, smiling in an interview! My god, these people must be either cold hearted demons, or paid actors! Oh, what were they saying? Ummm...let's just mute that, no need to hear that. You know, just in case they were describing the personalities of their children, relaying fond memories, or anything like that. Let's just assume they're talking about how awesome it was to get the call that their kids are dead.
9) The medical examiner again. Not sure what this is supposed to prove, the guy does seem to be a stuttering jackass, but they keep replaying about 8 seconds worth of footage to stretch it out as long as possible. He says Umm a lot, and laughs awkwardly. Get the social reject that made this video in front of a press corps, and see if he can take his eyes off of the semen stains on his shoes long enough to answer some questions. And again, the "long rifle" is brought up again, talking about how it was discovered in the car. No, that was the fucking shotgun.
10) No pictures of the kids! Fucking hell...you know, I would imagine during a shooting like this, they would try to secure the scene. Sorry that there isn't more gory footage, but I don't believe they were allowed that close to the action.
11) That little kid, he didn't talk about people getting fucking shot to death! Obviously a hoax...or, it's a kindergartener, not knowing how to properly articulate what happened. Someone should teach that little fucker how to talk about death a little better. Maybe he wasn't in the class where people got killed? And maybe, just maybe, the reporter had enough common decency not to drill the little bastard about the experience?
12) No ambulances! Well, I don't know when this footage was recorded, but it looks like it was pretty far along at that point. I would imagine that the injured had already been taken to the hospital, the dead pronounced dead, and hopefully most of the remaining children were allowed to go home, or were somewhere safe.
This video isn't all that convincing, unless you're already convinced that it is a hoax. It's great to reaffirm your ideas, but it does little to actually provide much in the way of solid evidence. I'm not saying something like this COULDN'T happen, but I am saying that the "evidence" that the conspiracy theorists are providing is fucking piss-poor.
"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable" — Hunter S. Thompson"Poison the well, your enemies are thirsty!" — Modest MouseJesus Christ wrote:Fuck all South Pacific island and island-continents.
