Thanks google for helping the conspiracy nuts....

[HEMI6point1]

A glitch in google's page cache shows the United Way offering condolences to the Sandy Hook victims....

Three days before the shooting actually took place.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/unite...hooting_012013

The conspiracy nuts are out there rumbling that the whole think was faked to spark a gun control debate. This google screw up doesn't help things.

I know it was a glitch, but it was a pretty bad one.

[Greenday]

People sure do love their crazy conspiracy theories.

[TheHuckster]

Wait, they are saying it was faked? As in, it didn't happen at all?

This one is amazingly ridiculous. Even if there were some vast conspiracy that Hollywood is involved in, why on earth would they randomly insert references to planned events in the movies?

[Greenday]

Wait, they are saying it was faked? As in, it didn't happen at all?

This one is amazingly ridiculous. Even if there were some vast conspiracy that Hollywood is involved in, why on earth would they randomly insert references to planned events in the movies?

Because there's only ONE Sandy Hook.

http://www.sandy-hook.com/

Crap, there goes that wild conspiracy theory.

[TheHuckster]

Because there's only ONE Sandy Hook.

http://www.sandy-hook.com/

Crap, there goes that wild conspiracy theory.

There are also plenty of Auroras.

The big problem with any conspiracy theory that works this way is there are so many possible ways one can "tie" something to another and call it a noteworthy link. I'm sure there was a movie that came out between 2006 and 2007 that had some innocuous and superfluous mention of Virginia Tech. Or some TV show or movie in 1998 or 1999 that had something that spelled out DKEH and claim that stood for Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. When you broaden your scope and nitpick every single frame in any TV show or movie, you're bound to find some coincidence that an overly-paranoid theorist is going to consider a significant "link".

And by "mentioning" these things, I'm talking about something like in that aforementioned video, where you point at a fuzzy blurry word and say it reads those connecting words.

[KabeRinnaul]

Wait, they are saying it was faked? As in, it didn't happen at all?

This one is amazingly ridiculous. Even if there were some vast conspiracy that Hollywood is involved in, why on earth would they randomly insert references to planned events in the movies?

I can do you one better. This guy eventually, via Batman movies and obscure references, connects Sandy Hook to the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981, all apparently coordinated by Skull & Bones.

It's like he's playing "Six Degrees of Paranoia".

[TheHuckster]

I can do you one better. This guy eventually, via Batman movies and obscure references, connects Sandy Hook to the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981, all apparently coordinated by Skull & Bones.

It's like he's playing "Six Degrees of Paranoia".

Here's one even better... in a comment to your article, there's someone who is trying to tie the Sandy Hook shooting to 9/11 by doing math on the teachers' ages:

Also, if you check into the ages of the adults who were killed they all add up to 9 or 11s. For example, the ages of the teachers were 27 & 29 (2+7=9, 2+9=11).

[Rageaholic]

Conspiracy theories: They make for great fiction, but are unlikely in the real world.

[HYHYBT]

I know logic has nothing to do with the conspiracy thought process, but attempting it anyway: suppose there *had* been, posted publicly online, a message of sympathy and support over a school shooting that hadn't happened yet. Wouldn't that draw attention to itself, possibly before the supposedly planned incident ever took place? Any group otherwise careful enough to orchestrate all this would also be smart enough to cancel the whole thing if something like that got out too soon, so that either the message wouldn't be noticed or it could somehow be explained away.

[KabeRinnaul]

I've seen the occasional lunacy that occurs when religious nutjobs get involved with conspiracy theories on this level. They're even more bizarre, but at least make an effort to explain why these "warning" messages would appear publicly before an event. They claim that demons (because the devil is, of course, behind it all) need humanity to accept their plans to be able to enact them, so they give us enough hints to slip by, without letting us in on the real plan.

Which I think really just supports Rageaholic's point that these things make for great fiction, but don't perform quite so well as explanations for actual events.

As I recall, the same source explained that alien abductions were actually demonic possessions. It was an interesting read.

[BrenDAnn]

Yeah, sure, it was all a conspiracy. That's why they're trying to figure out whether to demolish the school or just remodel it and take down the parts where the shooting happened right now. Freakin' nutjob conspiracy theorists...

[TheHuckster]

Yeah, sure, it was all a conspiracy. That's why they're trying to figure out whether to demolish the school or just remodel it and take down the parts where the shooting happened right now. Freakin' nutjob conspiracy theorists...

Pfft, well, of course... the contractors who benefit from tearing it down and building it anew or renovating it are behind it.

That's a common theme among conspiracy theorists: just because some group indirectly benefits from whatever fallout from the disaster, that's sufficient evidence that they were behind it.

[HYHYBT]

I am glad this school system happened to have a spare building they could move to, rather than having to send them back to that one to finish out the year.