Others may have been as puzzled as I that The Duluth News-Tribune (4 January 2013) published, “Retired UMD professor raises eyebrows with school shooting theory” by Jana Hollingsworth as an above-the-fold, front-page story.

Their title itself has the quality of a tabloid smear, since it appears to be directed at my reputation, and barely touches on the content of the article I published.   I am being attacked for using a title I earned.

The bottom line was that I had published about the Sandy Hook incident and used my signature, which includes that I am McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, which I am.

Since that has been true since my retirement in 2006, what’s the deal? The reporter cites one Donna Halper of Leslie University who thought this was a problem.  Leslie University is in Massachusetts. The News Tribune had to go to  Massachusetts? No one objected from anywhere closer? No one objected from UMD?

There is nothing extraordinary about a retired faculty member signing with his title, which is completely authentic and common practice. So what was the reason for this extraordinary article?

Indeed, as I explained to Hollingsworth emphatically several times, faculty never speak for the institution.  That is the function of administrators, not faculty. How a competent reporter could leave that out is beyond me.

It is not a stretch to infer that it is because I am addressing a theory about Sandy Hook that makes people uncomfortable.  But, as in the case of JFK and 9/11, there should be more concern about truth of the matter.

The article, “Did Mossad death squads slaughter American children at Sandy Hook?” (Veterans Today, 23 December 2012), has a controversial title, which I did not pick. But I was discussing real issues, not phony ones about my signature, which makes this story a smear.

Dispute the “official account” and you can anticipate being classified as “a kooky conspiracy theorist” or as someone who is abusing his title.

What we have been told
Those who are not following Sandy Hook have no alternative but to accept the “official account”. The Wisconsin State Journal (Sunday, December 23, 2012), published the bare bones of what the public is supposed to believe:
Early last Friday, authorities say, Adam Lanza shot his mother repeatedly in the head with her .22 caliber rifle as she lay in bed. He then drove to the elementary school, shot his way in and fired dozens of rounds into two first-grade classes using her Bushmaster assault-type rifle.  Some of the children were shot 11 times. He then shot and killed himself with one of her pistols.
The story doesn’t bother to report that Adam was not known to have had any training in the use of handguns, much less assault rifles or that his body was found with two handguns—some reports said four--lying beside him, while the Bushmaster was still in the trunk.
NBC News, for example, reported that four handguns had been found with the body and that the AR-15 had been left in the car. Its report is on-line at YouTube under, “Sandy Hook shooting – AR-15 rifle was left in the car!”
The ratio of kills to targets, by the way, is simply staggering.  The story doesn’t report that this kind of accuracy typifies military experts.  There is no evidence that Adam Lanza had the marksmanship skills required.  This aspect of the story has gone unexplored.
As a former Marine Corps officer, I qualified with a .45 four years in a row and supervised recruit training at Edson Range, Camp Pendleton. There is no way that an untrained  Lanza could have put from 3 to 11 rounds in these targets and killed virtually everyone he shot.
The story also leaves out police radio in real-time reporting that two other suspects headed toward the officer who was calling in, one of whom was apprehended on the spot, while police helicopter footage shows a second being tracked into the words, where he fled.  (A link may be found below.)
It doesn’t mention that we have been given no further data about these suspects having been booked, their identities or what could explain their presence. But none of this has drawn the interest of The Duluth News-Tribune.

Nothing is said
about the content

Not a word is said about the actual content of my article, which outlines the most probable account of what happened and the reasons why an attack of this kind could have been politically motivated:

* The most likely scenario, given what we know now, is that Adam Lanza and his mother were killed the day before. Adam Lanza ’s body picked up by police. He was attired in a SWAT outfit, including body armor, and stored in the school.
* A three-man team entered the school, one was arrested in the school–cuffed and put on the lawn–two went out the back door, one was arrested, the third appears to have escaped. You can find this on helicopter videos.
* Those arrested are currently not in police custody; their names were never released. That is a telling sign that we are being sold a story that is based on fiction, not on fact. What else are the local police concealing?

What it does get right is my opinion that this appears to be “part of an escalating series of covert operations intended to create hysteria in the American people in order to support gun control legislation that completely subverts the Second Amendment.” But you have to know the context.

There is no “domestic
terrorist threat”

The public is unaware that the Department of Homeland Security has acquired 1.5 billion rounds of .40 caliber, hollow-point ammunition, which is not even permissible in warfare under the Geneva Conventions.
The public is unaware that a Senate Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security has issued a report (3 October 2012) based upon its review of 680 “fusion center” reports (from 2009-2001).
The sub-committee found not a single indication of any domestic terrorist threat--not one!
This information–as well as the existence of  more than 300 FEMA camps and special boxcars to carry dissidents to them–has been deliberately withheld from the American people (“From America to Amerika: The End Game”, Veterans Today, 11 December 2011).
Homeland Security has no foreign commitments.  If the public were aware of the facts, it would become obvious that those camps and ammunition are meant to be used against us.  For whom else could it be intended?
Homeland Security is gearing up to conduct a massive civil war against the American people but 80,000,000 armed American families stand in its way.
What better excuse could there be for banning assault weapons than the massacre of 20 innocent children at Sandy Hook? Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA),  has introduced a bill that would lead to the confiscation of virtually every semi-automatic weapon in the nation.

Seeing through the
“smoke and mirrors”

Earlier events have presaged Sandy Hook. In Aurora, CO, there appear to have been multiple participants, but the police concealed information about them. The DC Sniper, John Allen Muhammad, was even an active member of Delta Force, but the public was not informed.
His assistant in their killing spree, Lee Boyd Malvo, had been detained in Seattle, WA, but was released, even though he was an illegal alien, where INS has refused to explain how that could have happened. Did “higher authority” intervene?
Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army Major who killed 13 and wounded 29 during a rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, even sat next to the Director of Homeland Security during an event at George Washington University. Can that have been coincidental?
When the “lone gunman” cover story falls apart, then the national press, which William Colby, former CIA Director,  told us was infiltrated by agents of the CIA–“The agency owns everyone of significance in the major media”–resorts to stories of Mind Control and use of drugs.
We have to see through the smoke and mirrors. Attacks like these typically involve three-man shooting teams, where, once the story is tainted with bogus  conspiracy disinformation, crucial data, like the assault rifle in Sandy Hook having been left in his car, swiftly disappears.

Conspiracies are as
American as apple pie

Wars have been launched on the basis of fabricated claims.  “Remember the Maine!” launched the Spanish-American war, but there was no proof that Cubans or Spaniards were responsible.
The RMS Lusitania was sunk by German U-boats, but the public was not told that it was carrying weapons of war in its hold, which made it a legitimate target.
The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin North Vietnamese attacks on US ships were a fantasy which led to increased US involvment in Vietnam.
The USS Liberty, an American spy ship, was nearly sunk by Israeli fighters in a contrived attempt to place blame on Egypt and draw the US into “The Six Day’s War” in 1967.
 Phony allegations of WMDs were used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
We have been told endless stories about the nuclear threat from Iran, even though our own intelligence agencies agreed in 2007 that there was no threat, an opinion that they reaffirmed in 2011.
There is a nuclear threat in the Middle East, but it does not come from Iran, which has not attacked any other country for more than 300 years.  It comes from Israel, but the government doesn’t tell us that, either.
Even the Catholic Church for 400 years conspired to keep the public ignorant of scientific evidence that the Earth revolves around the Sun and is not the center of the universe.  Deceiving the public for political purposes is hardly new.
The government lies to us all the time.  As Bill Casey, former CIA Director, observed, “Our disinformation program will be complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Sandy Hook is the latest example.
For more, “Sandy Hook massacre: Official story spins out of control” by Niall Bradley (Veterans Today, 20 December 2012) and “The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information” by Professor James Tracy (Global Research, 25 December 2012).

The police call and helicopter video can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_fI0hm1dqY

HYPERLINK “http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/11/from-america-to-amerika-the-end-game/”

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at UMD as well as a journalist and an editor for Veterans Today.  He can be reached at jfetzer@d.umn.edu.