You are assuming we know everything about Sandy Hook, but there are many events from older times we don't know everything about. Some we find out more about as time goes on. Some fade to obscurity without full understanding.
We know enough to know that it happened and was real, that on Dec 14th 2012, Adam Lanza went to Sandy Hook Elementary High school and shot and killed 26 people, 6 adult staff and 20 children aged between six and seven. Even Jones finally acknowledged this much, under oath in court when confronted with unassailable evidence. So what's anyone else's excuse for perpetuating asinine conspiracy theories on the score?
You said he deserved what he got. Part of that was the loss of his platform. How much do you deserve when you call people names or say they are loopy? Isn't that what he was doing, saying the people involved didn't understand what really happened? Where is your decency?
Yes, he did and he only had himself to blame. He promoted unsupportable conspiracy tropes that not only compounded the unimaginable grief the parents and loved ones were enduring, they had ten years of hassle and abuse from his followers to contend with on top of that - including death threats, accusations of fraud, demands to see their dead children's birth certificates and even demands for their bodies to be exhumed. Can you imagine what that would be like for the parents? How awful it must have been?
So, Jones probably thought he'd get away with it without many repercussions except he didn't count on getting as much pushback as he did. He even taunted the jury telling them "Come on, crucify me" - which in a sense they obligingly did. He put his own platform at risk and paid the price but nobody was out to silence him.
I don't go around calling people names on this site, I never have particularly, even twenty years ago when I first joined although I was guilty on occasion and got banned for it which was fair enough. In turn I've been called a faggot, spawn of Satan and all sorts and I just laugh it off. If someone promotes crackpot conspiracies then I'm gonna call em' on it and consistently have done. So?
You ask me where my decency is. Well, for starters I wouldn't dream of concocting rubbish that would add to the grief of anyone bereaved so my sympathies lie with the victims and loved ones of Sandy Hook, not with a conniving, snake oil selling con artist who plies his trade off the misery and suffering of other people and grifts money off the gullible in doing so. So, I'll ask you the same question - where's your decency? Cos if you imply doubt that Sandy Hook was a real massacre then you're in no position to lecture about it.
You can still be "active" even when banned on TOL. But you are silenced in this venue.
Yeah, I know how it works thanks and Jones still found ways to be heard.
Positing alternate explanations is hysterical to you?
Not hysterical necessarily but they're bizarre when the truth of an issue is so transparently obvious.
None needed, it was sickening to watch.
Which is another way of silencing people, calling them tin-foil-hatters, or conspiracy theorists or that they believe rubbish. I thought you said you didn't want to silence people.
Of course it isn't else who is trying to silence you? It sure ain't me so ya really wanna drop that angle cos you're on a hiding to nowhere with it. Heck, I was never one to trouble the mods with frivolous reports, in fact I can't even remember the last time I reported someone on here so move on already.
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