SANDY HOOK: OCKHAM'S RAZOR, A TWO-WAY STREET

A friend wrote on my wall: "I like a good conspiracy as much as anyone, but Ockham's Razor is my guiding principle in these matters"—or words to that effect. Now, Ockham's Razor posits that the simplest explanation is likely the correct explanation. Fair enough.

   

What the skeptic fails to consider is that Ockham's Razor cuts both ways if it is to be useful in gauging the validity of assumptions. I will therefore fling the same gauntlet back at the skeptic's feet.

   

In order to believe that Sandy Hook is not a grand conspiracy, skeptics must assume a complex set of circumstances in which:

   

• Grieving parents of murdered children are amenable to appearances on national television immediately following the deaths of their children. The skeptics ask us to believe that this behavior is perfectly normal;

    

• Two sets of grieving parents and a father who appeared on national television within 24-hours of the murders were able to laugh and joke before the cameras prior to giving their statements (Robbie Parker) or were able to smile placidly while reminiscing over their childrens' lives and discussing their tragic deaths. The skeptics ask us to believe that this behavior is perfectly normal;

    

• Other grieving parents who granted interviews gave the appearance of grief (trembling voices, sniffles, dabbing at eyes), but not one actually shed a tear. Not one. No eyes were wet, brimming with tears, or even slighty reddened. The skeptics ask us to believe that this behavior and these effects are perfectly normal;

     

• Parents who did not lose a child in the massacre allowed some of their children to be interviewed on national television immediately on exiting the building following this mass trauma. The skeptics ask us to believe that this behavior is perfectly normal;

    

• Nancy, Peter, and Ryan Lanza are all listed as "relatives" of each other in various skip-trace databases, but no databases list "Adam Lanza" as a relative of any of them. The skeptics ask us to believe that a second son named "Adam," who has no paper trail, committed these murders but was omitted as a son in his own mother's obituary;

    

• The Social Security Number for "Adam Lanza" is not "Adam's," but belongs to Ryan Lanza. There is no Social Security Number for "Adam Lanza," as far as can be determined. The skeptics ask us to believe that a young man 20 years of age has no Social Security Number of his own, but uses his brother's SSN;

    

• The very existence of "Adam Lanza" is highly questionable, at best. As with Osama bin Laden, his body just disappeared. We have seen no corpse, draped or otherwise, lying prone on the ground in the place where he fell. The skeptics ask us to believe the account of LE and MSM without question, in the absence of any visual evidence;

    

• There are no photographs or footage of any evidence within the school itself. We have seen no shattered glass, no photos of the crime scene, no spent cartridges, no blood trails, no evidence markers, no views of the interior of the school or classrooms whatever. The skeptics ask us to believe the account of LE and MSM without question, in the absence of any crime scene evidence;

   

• No aerial footage of Sandy Hook Elementary depicts any children, parents, or bystanders anywhere near the school; there is no video surveillance camera tape of the actual shooting. The aerial footage we have seen is of the firestation down the lane where we have seen a crowd of people circulating en masse around and around and around the firestation, exiting the open garage doors, weaving to the left and around to the back of the building where they disappear and then re-emerge out through the garage doors to give the appearance of large numbers of people gathered there. The skeptics ask us to believe these individuals circulating repetitively around and through the firestation are citizens of Sandy Hook;

    

• EMT vehicles seen in aerial footage are parked at the firestation and blocked from forward or backward movement by several other vehicles. No EMT vehicles are seen in aerial footage at the school. No bodies are seen transported on gurneys or draped on the ground at the firestation. There is no visible EMT response to the tragedy because the EMT vehicles are blocked at the firestation and cannot move. The skeptics ask us to believe that these practices are common to first responders;

    

• The Coroner's office declined to allow the parents to view the bodies of their dead children because it was simply too grisly. None of the children were shot in the face, according to Dr. Wayne Carver. Instead, the Coroner had the parents identify their children by photograph, yet later released the bodies of the children, we are told, for their funerals. The skeptics would have us believe that this is perfectly appropriate behavior to have parents identify their dead children by photograph when none of the children were shot in the face and when their bullet-ridden bodies could have been draped with a sheet. The skeptics would further have us believe that this arrangement was perfectly acceptable to the parents, that this is normal behavior for parents to acquiesce in the State's denial of their right to be in the presence of their own dead when asked to make a positive identification; 

    

• "Adam Lanza" purportedly shot his mother while she slept in her bed in the home he shared with her, suited up in dark, military style clothing, donned a bullet-proof vest, grabbed a mask, made sure he had in his possession the ID of his brother Ryan, whom he had not seen in two years, jumped into a vehicle belonging to his mother or to Christopher Rhodia, a known drug dealer in the area—it is still unclear which. The skeptics ask us to believe that he drove to Sandy Hook Elementary, somehow breached the security of the locked school at 9:30 a.m., shot and killed the principal, Dawn Hochsprung, shot and killed several other teachers and staff, and gunned down 20 children, all within 3 minutes before killing himself;

      

• The "long gun" (shotgun) found in the trunk of the suspect's vehicle was identified by Coroner Dr. Wayne Carver as the murder weapon; however, this weapon was not retrieved from the locked trunk until after dark on the day of the shootings. Only handguns were found within the school building. The skeptics ask us to believe that this shotgun magically exited the trunk of the suspect's vehicle of its own volition, shot the children and teachers, and returned to the suspect's vehicle all under its own power;

    

• As the world watched, we all both saw and heard actual aerial footage and police scanner audio unfolding in real time of police chasing two suspects through the woods behind Sandy Hook Elementary. According to LE, they had the suspects "proned out" on the ground. Eyewitness reports then confirmed that suspects in handcuffs had been seen at Sandy Hook school in the aftermath. The skeptics ask us to believe that the "lone nut" gunman presented to the public by MSM should not be questioned, that "Adam Lanza" acted alone, and that he was simply a crazed individual who snapped;

    

• Teachers reported that the gunman shot out the bulletproof glass at the front entry to the school where one of them says "Adam Lanza" was confronted in the foyer. Yet, LE says the active shooter team shot out the glass. The skeptics ask us to believe that this inconsistency is irrelevant;

    

• LE reports that the shooting was over within 3 minutes when "Adam Lanza" purportedly killed himself wearing a mask, bulletproof vest, and carrying his brother's ID. Yet, witnesses report the shooting continued long after that. The skeptics ask us to believe that this inconsistency is irrelevant;

    

• Each of the children interviewed described audible sounds of gunfire heard in the school differently: one described it as the sound of someone kicking a door; another described it as the clatter of pots and pans; another described it as chairs falling. The skeptics would have us believe that this great disparity in the quality of the sound is unimportant;

    

• According to witnesses, the police cordoned off the home of Nancy Lanza at 8:30 a.m., one hour before the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary even occurred. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace; (Note: a similar phenomenon occurred with 9/11 in which the BBC's New York correspondent reported the collapse of WTC Building 7, while standing on a balcony with the Manhattan skyline and Bldg 7 clearly visible in the background—20 minutes before the building actually collapsed) 

    

• According to a witness, an announcement of the Sandy Hook murders was made at 8:30 a.m. in the news report immediately prior to the beginning of a radio program that she listens to daily, one hour before the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary even occurred. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace;

    

• According to a CNBC correspondent, she Tweeted her departure for the Sandy Hook murders coverage at 8:30 a.m. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace;

    

• In 8-10 known instances, various websites captured in timestamped database indexes, such as Google, were created to memorialize or fundraise for the victims of Sandy Hook days, weeks, and even a month in advance of the massacre. Screenshots of these webpages have been captured and stored as evidence. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace;

    

• Slain Principal, Dawn Hochsprung, gave an interview to the Newtown Bee on the day following the murders. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace;

    

• Social Security Administration originally listed the date of death for Adam Lanza as 12/13/12, a day before the Sandy Hook Massacre. The skeptics ask us to believe that time warps of this nature are commonplace; (Note: a correction was made only after netizens discovered and widely reported the discrepancy)

    

• DHS (HSEEP) was conducting an identical drill at the same time and at a location only minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary. The skeptics ask us to believe that the high incidence of actual tragic events occuring at the same time and in the same area as a planned drill to practice for such an event is mere coincidence; (Note: 9/11; the London bombing; and the Madrid bombing, for example, all involved this identical coincidence)

    

• To conduct these HSEEP drills, DHS hires actors to play the roles of victims and townspeople. Crisis Actors is but one organization that provides actors to the government for these drills. Several of the Sandy Hook "players" have been positively identified as crisis actors or have played other roles in television series such as "X-Files." The skeptics would have us believe these facts are unimportant;

    

• Few of the individuals seen on television in this Sandy Hook saga are who they are purported to be: Dr. Wayne Carver is not licensed in the State of Connecticut. He also played a role as a "fireman" in the Sandy Hook Saga; school nurse, Sandra Cox, is not licensed in the State of Connecticut; Nancy Lanza was not a schoolteacher, was never a schoolteacher, and had no connection to Sandy Hook Elementary; "Adam Lanza's" barber is not licensed in the State of Connecticut; Gene Rosen is not a retired psychologist but runs a pet sitter front operation as a cover for his other activities that include employment with FEMA and crisis actor; Robbie Parker's background does not pass the smell test. The skeptics ask us to believe the reports and statements of these individuals as being whom they purport to be;

    

• Robbie Parker enrolled in Pacific University for a 27-month (12-months classroom instruction + 15-months clinical work) Physician's Assistant program in September 2010. The earliest he could have graduated from this program is December 2012. The skeptics ask us to believe that Robbie Parker completed his course of instruction, worked as a PA in New Mexico and then as a PA at Danbury, CT hospital, and somehow acquired his licensure in both states before  completing his education two short months ago.

    

Any number of other discrepancies, anomalies, and outright impossibilities factor into this Sandy Hook Saga. I have touched on those that strike me as the strongest evidence against the "official story." It is now the responsibility of the skeptics to explain how Ockham's Razor justifies their own magical thinking.