Tuesday, January 15, 2013

AMERICAN PARANOIA

This I can't blame directly on usual conservative radio gasbags but people like Alex Jones, the hosts of Coast to Coast AM and Ground Zero make good money spreading and creating political paranoia.
Man who helped Sandy Hook kids is harassed by conspiracy theorists
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 5 hrs ago
YAHOO NEWS

A man who found six children in his driveway in Newtown, Conn., after their teacher had been shot and killed in last month's school massacre has become the target of conspiracy theorists who believe the shootings were staged.

“I don’t know what to do,” Gene Rosen told Salon.com. “I’m getting hang-up calls, I’m getting some calls, I’m getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that I’m lying, that I’m a crisis actor, ‘How much am I being paid?'”

Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist who lives near Sandy Hook Elementary School where the shootings took place, says his inbox is filled with emails like this one:
How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the ‘shooting’. What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov’t sponsored hoax anyway?

3 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

I deplore the spread of this, just as I deplore a government which helps cause it by its hidden ruthless drone bombing campaign, its flooding the world with weapons while trying to confiscate them at home

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175637/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_a_second_amendment_world%2C_pentagon-style/

its destruction of an unthreatening country based on lies, willfully told...its refusal to punish those responsible for 9-11-2001 for criminal negligence, exacerbating conspiracy theories about it...its failure to punish the bankers who crashed the economy, causing the same...etc etc etc.

Steve J. said...

Ken,

I don't usually write something like this, but I'd say America is having a moral breakdown.

Steve

Ken Hoop said...

You get the government....and the paranoia....you deserve, lol.