An Open Letter to FAU Faculty, Staff and Administration about Sandy Hook
All,
Because James Tracy and I have been
attacked as faculty members–I am now retired, while he is not–for
speaking out about Sandy Hook, I would observe that this is a very
messy case and that serious questions are being raised about it from a
wide range of perspectives. It is clearly complex and controversial
but also falls squarely within Dr. Tracy’s areas of professional
competence, which include conspiracy theories and culture, malfeasance
by the media and related issues. Tenure was created to protect faculty
from the political consequences that might otherwise attend addressing
complex and controversial matters of this very kind.
Not only that, but I have always assumed that public institutions such as FAU stand for truth, knowledge and justice as this nation’s highest values. If that is not the case, then I would suggest that that really ought to be made known to prospective students and their parents. Dr. Tracy is simply attempting to sort out the true from the false about an event that has now become of immense national interest, especially when a major movement is afoot to confiscate semi-automatic weapons from the general population, which is a stunning development contrary to our nation’s history.
Of course, it is difficult to assess a situation when you know very little about it. There are lots of rumor and speculation, which has even affected the main-stream media. I was astonished at the intensity with which Anderson Cooper of CNN, in particular, took after Dr. Tracy without knowing the circumstances of the case (apart from the “official account”) or why Dr. Tracy has the right kind of background and expertise to be addressing these issues in a public forum. When I was attacked in The Duluth News-Tribune a few weeks ago, the paper offered me the chance to respond in its Sunday edition (13 January 2013):
Local view: Why the Sandy Hook shootings matterI recommended that the paper include a list of recommended reading, which it chose not to do. Here was the list I had proposed:
By: Jim Fetzer, Duluth News Tribune
When asked whether he believed in conspiracy theories, filmmaker Michael Moore replied, “Only those that are true.” The problem is telling the difference.
Having spent much of the past 20 years in collaborative research on dark events (the JFK assassination, 9/11, Sen. Paul Wellstone’s death), Sandy Hook looks to me like part of an escalating series of covert operations designed to promote public hysteria to incite gun control and subvert the 2nd amendment. Here are some reasons why.
A theory is simply an interpretation of facts in a given case. When the police investigate a crime, they form a theory of the case. In courts of law, prosecutors and defense attorneys usually offer alternative interpretations. With Sandy Hook, figuring out what happened poses special challenges.
The facts are not obvious. There were inconsistencies from scratch. The suspect, Adam Lanza, was a student there; then he was not. His mother was a teacher there; then she was not. The principal called the local paper to report the shooting; then she was among the first to die.
The coroner reported all the dead were shot with a Bushmaster; then NBC News reported that four handguns had been found with the body and that the AR-15 had been left in the car. (Check out YouTube, “Sandy Hook shooting — AR-15 rifle was left in the car!”)
Even if Lanza, 20, had done some shooting, the ratio of kills to targets was remarkable. As a Marine Corps officer, I qualified with a .45 four years in a row and also supervised recruits of his age in their marksmanship training. I don’t see how he could have done it.
Police radio in real-time reported two suspects headed toward the officer calling in, one of whom was apprehended. The other was tracked into the woods, as police helicopter footage shows. We have no idea what became of these suspects. So what happened?
Most likely, Adam Lanza and his mother were killed the day before with Adam Lanza’s body picked up by police. He was attired in a SWAT outfit, including body armor, and stored in the school.
I argue a three-man team entered the school. One was arrested in the school, cuffed and put on the lawn. Two went out a back door; one of them was arrested and the other apparently escaped.
Those arrested currently are not in police custody; their names were never released. That is a telling sign that we are being sold a story based on fiction rather than on fact.
Does anything else matter? Most Americans are unaware the Department of Homeland Security has acquired 1.5 billion rounds of .40 caliber, hollow-point ammunition, which is not even permissible during combat under the Geneva Conventions.
A subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security has issued a study of 680 reports from “fusion centers” that integrate federal, state and local anti-terrorism efforts. It found no evidence of any domestic terrorist activity.
The absence of any terrorist threat and the existence of more than 300 FEMA camps and special boxcars to carry dissidents to them have been deliberately withheld from the public.
Since Homeland Security has no foreign commitments, those camps and ammunition have to be for domestic consumption. Homeland Security appears to be gearing up to conduct a civil war with the American people — but 80 million armed families stand in its way.
What better excuse could there be for banning assault weapons than the slaughter of 20 innocent children? Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., has a gun control proposal that would lead to the confiscation of virtually every semi-automatic weapon in the nation.
That’s my interpretation of Sandy Hook.
Jim Fetzer reports for Veterans Today and is a McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
“From America to Amerika: The End Game” by Jim Fetzer with Dennis Cimino
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/11/from-america-to-amerika-the-end-game/
“Fusion and Fear in America: The non-existent ‘terrorist threat’” by John W. Whitehead
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/04/fusion-and-fear-in-america-the-non-existent-terrorist-threat/
“Homeland Security: Preparing for Massive Civil War” by Paul Joseph Watson and Alexander Higgins
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/06/homeland-security-preparing-for-massive-civil-war/
On Sandy Hook specifically:
“The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information” by James Tracy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-sandy-hook-school-massacre-unanswered-questions-and-missing-information/5316776
“Sandy Hook: Huge Hoax and Anti-Gun ‘Psy Op’” by Jim Fetzer
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/27/sandy-hook-huge-hoax-and-anti-gun-psy-op/
“Sandy Hook: Analogies with the London 7/7 bombings” by Nicholas Kollerstrom
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/06/sandy-hook-analogies-with-the-london-77-bombings/
Without studying the case, after all, how could anyone at FAU possibly know whether or not Dr. Tracy is acting responsibly? After even more research I have conducted with Dennis Cimino, moreover, the situation is actually even worse–as a far more obvious hoax and fraud–than even I had previously surmised. If you are going to read only one article about it, this is the one to read:
“The Nexus of Tyranny: The Strategy behind Tucon, Aurora, and Sandy Hook” by Dennis Cimino with Jim Fetzer
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/30/the-nexus-of-tyranny-the-strategy-behind-tucson-aurora-and-sandy-hook/
According to the Social Security Death Index, for example, Adam Lanza actually died the day before the shooting; according to ABC/NBC/CBS, only hand guns were found with his body; and my co-author, who is an expert in electronics, has discovered the CT Statewide Emergency Radio Network was manipulated before the event! That Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York encouraged the passage of draconian gun laws by the legislature over-night–admitting the public would not have stood for it–reflects how serious this has become.
As it happens, I have also done extensive research and publication on complex and controversial issues of comparable interest, including both the assassination of JFK and the atrocities of 9/11. In those cases, as with Sandy Hook, what we have been told does not hold up to critical scrutiny. How can academicians contribute to solving problems that the nation confronts if they are being intimidated and cowed by administrators who do not understand the role that the academy should fulfill within the broader context of scholars’ obligations and social responsibility? Dr. Tracy deserves your support and admiration, not your condemnation.
With appreciation,
Jim
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
McKnight Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota Duluth
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/
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