http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/5/25/11653/2924Tucson Massacre Victims Stalked
by Steven D
Wed May 25th, 2011 at 01:36:32 PM EST
Just when you think they can't go any lower ...
It may be hard to believe but
some far right conspiracy theorists are alleging that the Tucson Massacre where Gabrielle Giffords was shot at point blank range and almost assassinated was a hoax. Some of them have even taken the outrageous step of stalking wounded victims of the massacre and accusing them of lying about what they consider a massive "red flag" operation by Homeland Security to take away their guns.
I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. Read about it here in the NY Times:
Some conspiracy Web sites are claiming that the shootings that nearly killed Representative Gabrielle Giffords and did end the lives of a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl and four others never actually took place. One particularly bizarre site, run by a Texas man, says it was all a government hoax that used actors.
Such obviously fantastic claims would usually not merit the attention of law enforcement, but they have in this instance because some believers have been confronting, and alarming, some of the people associated with the case in recent weeks. <...>
...One shooting victim said he notified the F.B.I. recently after two men showed up at his Tucson home claiming to be investigators and saying they were trying to determine whether the shooting was a hoax.
“They tried to get into my home,” said the victim, who asked that he not be identified because it might attract more such visitors. “They wanted to know if I had any pictures. They said they didn’t believe the event took place.”
The victim said that when he pressed the visitors for identification, one of them presented a business card that listed the Texas conspiracy site, which describes the shooting as an exercise conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. Other people connected to the case, including hospital personnel, victims’ relatives and possible trial witnesses, have received similar visits or seen their images on the Web site, officials said.
Just disgusting.
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And all you right wing gun nuts here's my message to you:
stop with the false allegations and outright lies that Obama is secretly planning to confiscate your guns. You have nothing, no evidence, to back up that ridiculous claim. Yet some of your loonier brethren (and most of you who push this claim are looney enough as it is) took you seriously enough to concoct this fantasy that Homeland Security perpetrated a hoax on the American people merely to justify the seizure of your precious guns. Well it ain't true and you have no evidence to prove it, even fake evidence.
Meanwhile the victims and emergency responders of the Tucson Massacre continue to be tormented by the trauma of what they witnessed. That there fellow Americans, out of hate for our President or fear whipped up by Fox News and idiots like the man promoting this "it was all actors" conspiracy are only adding to their suffering.
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