If… A very small word isn’t it? But to the parents and siblings and family and friends of someone who has died, the word If becomes a huge word with so many connotations.
‘If only I hadn’t…If I didn’t…If it wasn’t…If she…If he……’ We can all play the ‘If’ game and we can apply it to so many bereavements and sad events in our lives, but no matter how many ifs or buts we find, it seldom has a positive outcome When the bereavement we suffer occurs due to a violent or catastrophic event, the ifs become even more poignant. For the parents of the children callously killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the ‘If’ game is particularly cruel and unforgiving. They say that there are Five Stages of Grief. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally, acceptance. Having lost a brother in violent circumstances some thirty-five years ago, I can agree that in my case, these stages do roughly equate to my own, personal experience of the grief process. But nobody ever tells you how long these stages are supposed to be. And there’s a very good reason for that… No One Knows! Grief is a very personal experience. And No One has the right to tell you how to grieve or that you have grieved for too long. For good or for ill there are people out there who make the whole process all the more difficult. Denial as a grief stage is the tiny window of time when your brain is telling you that this can’t be happening. When we wake in the morning, there is often that short burst of mere seconds when our brains tell us it was all a bad dream. But there is a growing group of people who call themselves ‘Truthers’ who like to deny that tragedies like Sandy Hook, the Paris Attacks of 2015 and the more recent Terrorist events in London and Manchester ever happened. These unpleasant individuals usually pin the motivation of these so called ‘Staged Events’ onto political maneuvers. Most popularly, the Second Amendment Right to bear arms. All of the above are major incidents with an immense amount of proof that they did indeed occur; all of it out in the WWW for the whole world to see. However, I have to beg the question WHY? Why on earth would these people think of linking the deaths of Beautiful news anchor Alison Parker and her colleague Adam Ward to the preservation of the second amendment? Simply because the lunatic that killed them, while all the time filming it on his GoPro, used a gun! Unless it can also be linked to some sort of right of citizens to use camera equipment while they perpetrate these acts? It’s insane! And whilst we’re at it, how awful must it be to turn on your computer and find images and video clips of your own child’s death? Add to that the images and video clips of people making disparaging remarks and accusations; picking on any slight difference or camera angle in an attempt to disprove and disparage the authenticity of the first. Terrible! I’d like to know who dragged up these children that they grow into such despicable human beings. The net effect on the families of the victims who know their loved one has died tragically is that their grief process is interrupted. Prolonged, and in some cases put on hold completely whilst their families fight to prove their loss. In some cases, the fight to prove their loved ones even existed in the first place. Unthinkable. I can understand the anger of these loved ones. Another part of the grieving process that is amplified and prolonged. To bargain with God, ‘Please, take me instead!’ If only I could take my loved one’s place. A sadly futile phase, yet apparently crucial to the process as a whole. Depression; a state which is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. The ‘Deep, dark hole’ we find ourselves teetering on the brink of. The pit of despair we find ourselves staring into, especially when we lose someone we love. Many of us have battled with it. And it is something that should never be tackled alone. If you are reading this and you feel you might need help then please talk to someone. It doesn’t have to be a medical professional. Please, don’t suffer in silence. Yes, eventually acceptance comes around. I lost my brother when I was young but because I was told to be brave for my parents, I was found to be suffering from ‘Delayed Grief’ in my mid-twenties. I couldn’t leave the house on or around the anniversary, I even lost a job for refusing to work it. I was in my early thirties by the time I reached acceptance. On the anniversary now, I raise a solitary toast to my brother and tell him all about the life I am leading for the two of us. Acceptance can mean different things to different people and have some sort of ritual to remember your loved one can be very helpful indeed. Because we will never forget… And passing on our memories and photographs to family members of future generations means that they will never forget either. That’s immortality right there. We’ll Never Forget You xx
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There seems to be an expanding ethos emerging in our digital community who, for a variety of reasons simply cannot and will not believe the multimedia reporting of many of the tragic acts and mass murders being committed all over the world. It wouldn’t be so bad if this strange new society stuck to simply voicing their opinions in a rational and peaceable manner. But sadly, this is not the case. In fact, whenever an act of violence attracts the attention of these self-styled Truthers they will latch onto such events, pick out any slight inconsistencies, and in effect, re-write their version of what happened. But what makes this community so disturbing; is they will latch onto the survivors, their families and just about anyone they can find who has a connection to the incident… And they will badger, harass and in extreme cases, track down those involved in order to cause them harm. The Truther Movement became more widely known in the wake of 9-11. But they have been associated with acts of violence including the Sandy Hook School shooting. Where they have committed criminal acts in their pursuit of protecting their Second Amendment rights to bear arms.
Terrifyingly, these Hoaxers are currently latching on to the wave of terrorist activity occurring worldwide. Their usual diatribe centering on the Government ‘Staging’ these events to direct attention away from political and legal tactics which will somehow detrimental to our Civil Rights. However, it’s the Terrorists themselves who are committing crimes in order to coerce in furtherance of political or social objectIves using criminal acts and violence. Acts of terrorism are far from new, yet the reporting of such acts has entered a new phase; Instantaneous digital upload via Social Media. The world wide webwww. enables us to connect and share many aspects of our lives with people all over the world! It has revolutionized the way we keep in contact with friends and loved ones. We find ourselves connecting to people all over the Globe! Learning about places we cannot visit, cultures and customs of civilizations which were previously only accessible through books and encyclopedias. Business and trade revolutionized by the completion of transactions at the mere push of a button! But it has a dark side… The eye opener for me was when my twelve-year-old daughter came to me concerned because a video had popped up on her YouTube feed claiming to contain the beheading of a person. I immediately took the tablet from her and quickly ascertained that reporter James Foley had indeed lost his life in such a barbaric manner. I was stunned. But almost immediately, another file popped up dissecting this video and claiming to prove it was faked! Since then this incident has been pulled to pieces by people claiming its falsehood, for instance, this article a common thread being: The creation of terrorist groups by governments hell-bent on control. Yet The Foley family? They’re not able to exist in a comfortable bubble believing their son will be returned to them uninjured someday. But not only has the link to the original video clip been shared and therefore cloned many hundreds of thousands of times, so have the clips made by Hoaxers intent on dissecting every second of footage attempting to prove its fakery. I’m not sure what would be worse for me; knowing that my son’s final moments are online for not only the world, but also for me to see, or that one second of false hope germinating in my broken heart that maybe, just maybe those Hoaxers are right. The Paris attacks of November 2015? several co-ordinated attacks which lead rise to False Flag event, allegations and social media flooded with so many images it’s impossible to tell which are faked and which are real. Yet the parents of one young woman, whose last moments were filmed from a nearby window as she texted ‘ I love you. I’m sorry.’ know full well just how real those attacks were. And in Nice at Bastille Celebrations, a van is driven at full speed into revelers killing 84 people. YouTube is floodedwith clips of the van attacking from several different angles making it all too real. Yet chillingly, instead of helping, a bystander takes their phone, films people in the road dying and uploads the footage. And still, others take that footage and claim it too is faked!, Graphically describing the dead and injured as shop dummies and farm animals! The Boston Bombing, Brussels terror attacks, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando Florida, Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, the London Knife/car attack {including French school children} and the latest London Attack involving a hire van and three knife-wielding attackers; All of these events have been recorded and the Proof uploaded to the internet, yet they are being denounced as Fake! False Flag Events! HOAX Operations! Completely contrived events designed to take away our Civil Rights, all staged to further political agenda and divert our attention from the real issues! Gun Control seems to be a common thread in the US, while Theresa May’s plans to put a cap on Social Carefunding seems to be the presumptive cause of the latest attacks in the UK! In all honesty, I cannot personally see how anybody can think that way! What part of the brain, which Chemical or hormone, who in their right mind can possibly believe these things are all faked. The only reason I can think of why such a body of people believing in such crazy fallacy is that they simply cannot stand to live in a World where such atrocities can happen. This would be the kind way of rationalizing such hysteria. Imagining the Truthers as a passive group of individuals whose minds cannot conceive of violence. Of intimidation. Or hate. But a quick trip into any truther forum will prove that these individuals are very capable of all three. And as a result, the victims of these crimes are dehumanized. Literally written out of existence by the ones who shout the loudest. And the families of the victims are disallowed their right to grieve for the lost, the right to honor their loved one’s memories and at worst case, are told to their faces that their loved one never existed at all. And the Terrorists are left to plan and execute their next atrocity while attention is diverted from the horror and pain they created in the last. It’s literally the simplest form of counter-terrorism! Deny it ever happened, therefore it does not exist! Terrorism is real! False Flag Propaganda is not! If you come across these clips on YouTube, Vimeo or any of the other video sharing sites, please, Block and Report the user immediately. Doing nothing is easy. We have to stop the spread of this propaganda. Only then will the victims and the victims’ families be allowed to grieve in peace. In the aftermath of horrific tragedies such as the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Orlando Pulse nightclub, Santa Barbara, the Aurora Theater, and even the Boston Marathon bombing, an offensive element of society, known as ‘truthers’ have seized the opportunity to advance their conspiracy theorist mindset upon the masses, by posting a litany of various forms of speculation and disinformation on YouTube and social media sites.
It has become apparent that mass public shootings are becoming more and more common in American society. We can no longer go about our daily lives with the belief that we are safe while out in public. Those innocent victims in the Omaha shooting entered that mall with no concerns for their safety because malls are supposed to be safe. In American society we have always had the understanding that public places are rarely the scene of violent crimes. A criminal would much rather find a potential victim who is not in a crowded public place because the odds of getting caught are high much higher. The problem is that with these mass public shootings we are not dealing with a typical criminal who wants to commit his/her crime and then get away. The person planning the mass public shooting has no intentions of getting away because he/she fully intends to commit suicide or be killed by the Police. The mass shooter chooses a public place because it is full of innocent and usually unarmed civilians who are easy victims. The mass shooter wants to kill as many people as quickly as he can which is why the crowded public places are chosen. It does us no good to try and understand why these people decide to murder innocent people before killing themselves or being killed by the Police. The human mind is complex and not fully understood and we may never know what triggers a person to commit mass murder. The important thing is for civilians to understand that the mass public shooting rampage is a real threat and steps need to be taken to protect themselves and their loved ones. Here are ideas by Lenny Pozner (who lost his little son Noah Pozner at the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School) on keeping yourself safer while in public places: 1. Obtain a concealed firearms permit Seriously look into obtaining a concealed firearms permit if your state allows it. More and more criminals are carrying concealed firearms so it only makes sense for you to carry one. Having a concealed firearm permit is a huge responsibility and it is not meant for everyone. Each state has their own rules for who can apply for a concealed firearms permit and the rules are meant to weed out those individuals who have no business carrying concealed firearms. You know yourself better than anyone and if you don't think you are responsible enough to carry a concealed firearm, then don't. 2. Purchase a firearm that is right for you Find a local shooting range or shooting club and talk with someone who is an expert in the field of firearms. Tell this person that you are interested in obtaining information on handgun models for concealed carrying. This is an important step because if you intend on carrying a gun concealed in your waist band you don't want to buy a big bulky gun. Women have it made because they have a lot of options on what type of gun to buy because they can carry the gun in their purse. Men have to conceal a handgun in their waist band, pants pocket, ankle holster, or carry a fanny pack. 3. Become proficient with your firearm Don't even consider being a candidate for a concealed firearms permit if you don't have the time or desire to go to the shooting range. If you can't hit the targets at the shooting range, how can you engage an armed homicidal subject in a crowded public place. When it comes to becoming proficient with a handgun you have to practice, practice, practice, and then practice some more. You don't have to become an expert marksman but you need to be proficient with your handgun. Think of your handgun as a tool that you have to aide you in staying safe and you need to know how to operate your tool 4. Think like an off-duty cop while in public places Constantly scan your surroundings for signs of danger or suspicious activity. This comes naturally for Police Officers because our job is all about watching and observing people and our surroundings. Look for a person or persons who are acting out of the norm for a law-abiding civilian who is in a public place. A person wearing heavy clothing during warm months or someone looking around frantically can be suspicious. When you start watching people in public you will see that 99.9% of the people go about their business in the same fashion. Scan the area the furthest away from you for signs of distress or danger such as people running, yelling, or a crowd gathering. Think of yourself as a walking human surveillance camera. You are walking around the public place and the whole time you are scanning and analyzing the people around you. Do it long enough and it will become 2nd nature as it is with Police Officers. 5. Know the layout of the public place that you are visiting If you know the layout of the public place that you are visiting you will be better prepared to escape in the event of a life-threatening situation. Know the exit/entrance ways so you won’t have to think about an escape route during a dangerous situation. During a life-threatening situation in a public place, avoid using the main exits because those areas could very well be a trap. Someone intent on murder would choose the most crowded areas of a public place which are typically the main entrance points. 6. Have a plan in case you find yourself in the middle of a public shooting Spending time on a tactical team taught me the importance of having a plan. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Have a general plan in your head that you will implement if you find yourself in one of these dangerous situations. A plan could be something like this. 1. Find cover and concealment 2. Call 911 if possible 3. Retreat from source of danger when safe (don't run blindly) 4. Have handgun ready (if you have a concealed firearms permit) and be prepared to act! Our society is seeing more and more of these mass public shootings and there is no reason to believe that we have seen the last shooting rampage. The least you can do to increase your odds of staying safe is to be cognizant and aware that one of these mass public shootings can happen in any of the public places you frequent. If you choose to explore the possibility of obtaining a concealed firearms permit, contact your local law enforcement headquarters for more information. Also read: Newtown Shooting Must Be Catalyst for Change On the morning of December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza , 20, enters the elementary school in Sandy Hook, in Newtown in Connecticut and, before committing suicide, kills 27 people: 20 are children between 6 and 7 years. The smallest is called Noah Pozner, his two sisters studying in a classroom next door and saved. Noah dies soon.
Sandy Hook is one of the school shootings with multiple victims in American history. Yet there are thousands of people who believe that the massacre never happened, that Noah Pozner never existed, that his parents, like those of other children, are actors paid by the US government and the CIA to push for legislation to regulate the 'use of weapons. Simply a Google search to see the slaughter of Newtown has over the years become one of the favorite targets of the conspiracy. "It was an extreme story, unaccountable, therefore lends itself to manipulation," says the BBC Lenny Pozner, the father of Noah, with the lucidity of a scholar. Before losing twice his son - the first, at the school in Sandy Hook, the second in the memory of those who believe that it has ever experienced - was of the conspiracy theories fan: "I watched the videos on YouTube with the same spirit in which people read the Da Vinci Code, using the imagination. I understand the attraction of wanting to be a citizen detective, but everything was still in my head, confined to the imagination. Never could I attack others. "That's what happened to him and his (ex) wife Veronique, who just a few weeks after the death of Noah began to receive threats from truther - this is the technical term for those who think they know the truth of the tragic events of History- who accuse them of being "traitors, people disgusting, sold" (a term that Lenny hates, prefers hoaxer : buffalo creators). There are many, often unexpected. A professor at Florida Atlantic University, James Tracy, was disbarred after asking Lenny Pozner proof that his son really had. Last week a woman of 57 years Florida has been sentenced for having written four messages, all with the same content: "You will die. Death will come to you, this time really." Accusations and threats are everyday life for man, a former computer programmer originally from Brooklyn, he had chosen to offer its Newtown school children and quality of life best: "I get at least two a day on my Google page," he says. He often moved house in the last four years, leaving the mailbox in a safe place. In 2014 he founded a group, "Conspiracy Theorists Anonymous," to remove the buffaloes on the web, writing and speaking in public to Sandy Hook. A year later, he joined the counter-attack: "The wall is too high. Those people live in a bubble; they want to believe in their truth. This forces us to one action: fight back. It's the Wild West. "Pozner writes, responds, complaint. Sometimes using shame as a weapon, "I republish their content, with name and surname. Someone gets angry a lot, others become victims. A few are reported. But the shame is the last option; our main focus is to reduce the content of false information on the internet." Read the full article here: http://www.corriere.it/cronache/16_dicembre_16/padre-lotta-contro-negazionisti-alla-sandy-hook-morto-mio-noah-9b965e44-c32a-11e6-a6a9-813fa40c3688.shtml On December 14, 2012, Lenny Pozner dropped off his three children, Sophia, Arielle, and Noah, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Noah had recently turned 6, and on the drive over they listened to his favorite song, “Gangnam Style,” for what turned out to be the last time. Half an hour later, while Sophia and Arielle hid nearby, Adam Lanza walked into Noah’s first-grade class with an AR-15 rifle.
Noah was the youngest of the 20 children and seven adults killed in one of the deadliest shootings in American history. When the medical examiner found Noah lying face up in a Batman sweatshirt, his jaw had been blown off. Lenny and his wife, Veronique, raced to the school as soon as they heard the news, but had to wait for hours alongside other parents to learn their son’s fate It didn’t take much longer for Leonard Pozner to find out that many people didn’t believe his son had died or even that he had lived at all. Days after the rampage, a man walked around Newtown filming a video in which he declared that the massacre had been staged by “some sort of New World Order global elitists” intent on taking away our guns and our liberty. A week later, James Tracy, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, wrote a blog post expressing doubts about the massacre. By January, a 30-minute YouTube video, titled “The Sandy Hook Shooting — Fully Exposed,” which asked questions like “Wouldn’t frantic kids be a difficult target to hit?,” had been viewed more than 10 million times. As the families grieved, conspiracy theorists began to press their case in ways that Newtown couldn’t avoid. State officials received anonymous phone calls at their homes, late at night, demanding answers: Why were there no trauma helicopters? What happened to the initial reports of a second shooter? A Virginia man stole playground signs memorializing two of the victims, and then called their parents to say that the burglary shouldn’t affect them, since their children had never existed. At one point, Lenny Pozner was checking into a hotel out of town when the clerk looked up from the address on his driver’s license and said, “Oh, Sandy Hook — the government did that.” Pozner had tried his best to ignore the conspiracies, but eventually they disrupted his grieving process so much that he could no longer turn a blind eye. “Conspiracy theorists erase the human aspect of history,” Pozner said this summer. “My child — who lived, who was a real person — is basically going to be erased.” The Pozners moved to Newtown in 2005, partly to send their kids to better schools, but after Noah’s death they saw no choice but to leave. “What happened just weighed on the town like a Chernobyl-like cloud,” Veronique told me from her home in a state far from Newtown that the Pozners prefer not to identify, given the threats that conspiracy theorists have leveled against some Sandy Hook families. The Pozners’ marriage had been falling apart before the shooting, and though Noah’s death briefly brought them back together, the couple eventually divorced. They still co-parent their daughters, who developed a fear of the dark after the shooting and asked Veronique to find a home in a gated community. Lenny, who has a goatee and a middle-aged paunch, lives by himself a few miles from Veronique. Since relocating, he has moved apartments four times and gets his mail delivered to a P.O. Box on the other side of the state. “It’s part of what I need to do to stay vigilant,” he said. After eight months in his newest home, the living room was sparsely furnished, save for a painting of Noah and a cluttered coffee table topped with his daughters’ Barbie dolls and a book called The Meaning of Life. “I prefer the term hoaxer to truther,” Lenny Pozner said, kicking a pair of jeans and Adidas flip-flops onto the footrest of leather Barcalounger. “There’s nothing truthful about it.” There is no universal Sandy Hook hoax narrative, but the theories generally center on the idea that a powerful force (the Obama administration, gun-control groups, the Illuminati) staged the shooting, with the assistance of paid “crisis actors,” including the Pozners, the other Sandy Hook families, and countless Newtown residents, government officials, and media outlets. The children are said to have never existed or to be living in an elaborate witness-protection program. Conspiracy theories run deep in the American consciousness — 61 percent of Americans believe Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone — but a mass shooting had never drawn the conspiratorial attention that Sandy Hook did. The modern internet is partly to blame, with hours of uploaded cable-news coverage and reams of documents to parse for circumstantial evidence. The internet also made it easier to reach victims, and the Pozners became an early target for hoaxers. Veronique, who is a nurse, joined several parents in channelling her grief into vocal gun-control advocacy. One early conspiracy theory held that she was actually a Swiss diplomat named Veronique Haller, who once attended a United Nations arms-control summit. (Veronique is Swiss, and her maiden name is Haller.) Hoaxers quickly scoured family photos on Veronique’s online accounts and began dissecting them for odd shadows or strange poses, suggesting that she had been inserted into the family via Photoshop. Lenny may have been the first Newtown parent to discover that conspiracy theorists didn’t believe his son had been killed, because he used to be a serious conspiracy theorist himself. “I probably listened to an Alex Jones podcast after I dropped the kids off at school that morning,” Lenny Pozner said, referencing the fearmongering proprietor of InfoWars. Pozner had entertained everything from specific cover-ups (the moon landing was faked) to geopolitical intrigue (the “real” reasons why the price of gold sometimes shifted so dramatically) and saw value in skepticism. But for him, the appeal of conspiracy theories was the same as watching a good science-fiction movie. “I have an imaginative mind,” he said. When he first discovered the theories about Noah, Lenny, who grew up in Brooklyn, made only a half-hearted attempt to respond. “I feel that your type of show created these hateful people,” Pozner wrote in an email to Alex Jones, to which one of Jones’s employees replied that Jones would love to speak to him if “we confirm that you are the real Lenny Pozner.” Pozner declined, in part because he found himself unable to do much of anything. To read full story please visit here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html A Newtown Father’s (Lenny Pozner) Fight against Online ‘Hoaxers’ — and for Noah Pozner’s Memory10/5/2016 On December 14, 2012, six-year-old Noah Pozner was murdered along with 20 other children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
I interviewed his mother, Veronique Pozner, six days after her son’s funeral when the family had just finished sitting shiva, the traditional Jewish mourning period. Even as she was in deep grief, she told me that the incident had lit a fire within her to fight for gun control. “This topic has got wings for me,” she said at the time. “It has got to take flight.” Meanwhile, Noah’s father, Lenny Pozner, has been involved in a very different sort of fight, also one without a clear end in sight. He is battling against the horde of conspiracy theorists who have claimed that the Newtown mass shooting was fabricated and that his son didn’t die. Some claim that Noah never existed in the first place. According to a new piece in New York Magazine, the Pozners and other Sandy Hook parents have been inundated with online harassment in the 3-1/2 years since the shooting. Hoaxers claimed that Veronique Pozner wasn’t a Newtown nurse but a Swiss diplomat, and suggested she had been Photoshopped into family photos. One hoaxer wrote a letter to the Pozners demanding they prove they were actually Noah’s parents. The hoaxers also targeted state officials with anonymous telephone calls, showed up at the Newtown Board of Education meetings and filed Freedom of Information Act requests demanding evidence that the shooting actually took place. The Pozners, who have since divorced, left Connecticut after the massacre and relocated to a state that they asked the magazine not to identify “given the threats that conspiracy theorists have leveled against some Sandy Hook families.” According to the story, Lenny Pozner is especially attuned to the world of hoaxers since he used to entertain conspiracy theories himself, at one time questioning whether the moon landing was real and arguing over whether 9/11 was an “inside job.” Given his familiarity with hoaxers, he believes that ignoring them isn’t actually a productive way of fighting them. “People don’t understand what trolls are,” he told journalist Reeves Wiedeman. “If you don’t feed them, they don’t just go away.” Lenny Pozner has become the “de facto leader of the anti-hoaxer movement,” Wiedeman wrote. Lenny Pozner has attacked the trolls from various angles. He started a web site to raise awareness about the issue and call for “legal consequences” against YouTube, Twitter and Facebook for providing a platform to conspiracy theorists. He scours the web for illegal use of his family photographs, notifying web sites of copyright infringement. He also cowrote an op-ed with Veronique Pozner calling for Florida Atlantic University to fire professor James Tracy, who wrote a blog post questioning whether the massacre had taken place. Not long after, Tracy was dismissed but has since sued to get his job back. Pozner also filed suit against one of the most notorious trolls, Wolfgang Halbig, for invasion of privacy. “Suing Halbig is symbolic,” Lenny Pozner said. “If I can show that if you go after a victim, a victim is gonna sue you, that’s real.” Lenny Pozner isn’t the only one to fight back. A group of 18 Newtown men — none of them lost children in the shooting — have taken it upon themselves to “disrupt the hoaxers’ lives” by trolling the trolls. The group covered some of the hoaxers’ cars in rubber duckies, a symbol of hope for Newtown since a Kiwanis club sent a box of 500 to surviving students. Even so, it’s not at all clear that their efforts, or Lenny Pozner’s, will stop the online harassment. And Lenny Pozner believes that there are dire consequences for Noah’s memory if it doesn’t. “Conspiracy theorists erase the human aspect of history,” he told New York Magazine. “My child — who lived, who was a real person — is basically going to be erased.” For more please click here Veronique and Lenny Pozner are the parents of Noah Pozner, one of the 20 children killed in the December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook massacre. Mr. Lenny Pozner founded the HONR Network, aimed at combating conspiracy theorists on mass shootings.
Stopping the Continual and Intentional Torment of Victims – After suffering the agonizing emotional pain of the loss of a loved one to violence, grieving family members are forced to endure emotional stress in the form of hostile confrontation, online slander and defamation, and disparagement of the memory of their loved one, as well as the denigration of the tribulation they have experienced as a result of the death of their loved one. No one should have to endure such hateful treatment at the hands of fellow members of society, especially after suffering profound loss to an unspeakable act of violence. The HONR Network believes that decent society should not tolerate those who exploit tragedies and prey on the victims of violent crimes as in the case of Veronique and Lenny Pozner. Americans who’ve lost their loved ones should be allowed to grieve in peace without being harassed, exploited or subjected to online defamation. Unfortunately, the publicity surrounding most high-profile tragedies makes these vulnerable people ideal targets for this kind of persecution We Take Action Against the Abusers – Most members of society are allowed to grieve in peace, surrounded by an atmosphere of compassion. This has not been the case for many family members of victims who lost their lives to tragic, highly publicized mass killings. It isn’t fair or acceptable. Action must be taken to restore peace and tranquility to those personally affected by the despicable cruelty cast upon them by individuals acting under the ‘truth movement.’ As a society, the right to free speech is important to all of us, but there is a fine line between freedom of speech and freedom to abuse and defame others. The Hoaxers and Gun Truthers are regularly crossing that line, and must not be allowed to impart this sort of hatred unimpeded. Until these malicious abusers anonymous identities are revealed and they are burdened by consequences, they will not stop stalking and tormenting innocent people who are trying to go on with their lives and heal from the emotional trauma suffered as a result of their tragic loss. We’re In This Together – Most of us remember where we were, and the profound sadness we felt when we heard about each of the horrific tragedies that unfolded in recent years. Our sadness was for the victims who lost their lives, and for the families left to suffer unimaginable emotional pain for the rest of theirs. Grief is a painful process to go through, but it is a natural and necessary one in healing. Families in grief have the right to do so in peace and dignity. Regrettably, victims families are being cheated out of this basic human dignity, and being subjected to unspeakable harassment on an ongoing basis. We need to band together as a community of caring individuals, and act to stop these abusers from inflicting any further harm to people who have committed no crime, and simply want to be left alone to grieve their loved ones and live out the rest of their lives in peace. Click here to get more details about Lenny Pozner ! Tony Mead feels victimized. “I’ve been attacked online. My business has been attacked. My ex-wife has been contacted. Google my name, you’ll see blogs attacking me as a pedophile.” Poor, befuddled Tony can’t understand why he has become the object of so much vitriol. After all, the Hollywood man told me, he’s only the administrator of the Sandy Hook Hoax Facebook page, where he hosts fantastic assertions about the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre of 26 school kids and teachers, where first responders and parents of the victims are characterized as cunning and mendacious “crisis actors” in a government-orchestrated hoax. Mead seems shocked that others might stalk him with the same aggressive hostility that he and his followers employ against the grieving parents of massacred children. The rest of us, meanwhile, wonder why the hell Florida has been stuck with the likes of Tony Mead. Mead, who runs a Hollywood moving company, belongs to the Florida triumvirate who’ve become the nation’s leading promulgators of “false flag” theories about the Sandy Hook horror. Mead’s a supporter of James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who contends that the U.S. government was behind Sandy Hook, the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, the San Bernardino attack and more. Mass shootings, in Tracy’s warped universe, were theatrical events contrived to dupe American citizens into accepting gun control. Florida’s third great propagator of Sandy Hook madness is Wolfgang Halbig of Lake County. Halbig led a gaggle of Sandy Hook “truthers” and trollers to a Newtown Board of Education meeting in 2014 to demand that local officials investigate their deranged imaginings. Halbig and Mead have intimated that they won’t stop harassing the Newtown parents unless their theories are disproved by exhuming the bodies of slaughtered children. Halbig had been crowd-funding his so-called investigation until both GoFundMe and PayPal kicked him off their domains — for obvious reasons. Of course, hoaxers saw that as further evidence of a sinister conspiracy to stifle the truth. The Florida Three and their disciples have been relentlessly tormenting Sandy Hook emergency responders and parents. They stalk them on the Internet. They threaten. They picket Newtown. In November, a truther disrupted the Vicki Soto 5K Memorial Run, organized to honor the heroic Sandy Hook teacher killed while trying to shield her students. Last month, Amazon intervened after trollers en masse posted nasty reviews of a book by a Sandy Hook mother about coping with loss.
Maybe FAU can rid itself of this embarrassment. The rest of Florida, however, has no such recourse. We’ll still be tarnished by our truther triumvirate and their vile fabrications. Perhaps no one knows this better than Lenny Pozner, whose life was turned upside down when his son Noah became the youngest child slaughtered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) on December 14, 2012.
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LennyIt can take years to build respect, credibility and a good reputation, but only a few minutes for someone with ill-intent to come along on the Internet and try to impeach it with lies and defamation. Perhaps no one knows this better than Lenny Pozner, whose life was turned upside down when his son Noah became the youngest child slaughtered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) on December 14, 2012. Archives
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