As Chris said, all Halbig does is “ask questions.” He doesn’t answer them. He doesn’t lay out a plausible explanation of what he thinks happened and give evidence to support his claims. He did get arrested a few years ago, however. Seems he had the Social Security Number of one of the victims’ parents in his possession. Yes, his life will never be the same, nor should it be.
It’s been 8 1/2 years since the shooting and 7 years since Chris wrote this article. Did you even read it?

Please look back through the thread for the discussion of logistics. This “theory” fails just on logistics alone.

Why? Because of the sheer number of people that would have to buy in to the plot without those soliciting them leaving a paper or digital trail. Please note that not all of these people are gun-control friendly, especially the National Sports Shooting Foundation, which is headquartered in New Town. This isn’t a closed movie set or a tiny podunk town cut off from the rest of the world. The government would have to get buy-in from thousands of people of different political, religious, and philosophical persuasions, do it in record time, and without leaving any trace of the scheme.

Walk through it: They can’t use mail or email or telephone. Would they go door-to-door? How long might that take? How would they know they wouldn’t encounter a member of the NSSF that would blow up the whole thing. I could go on, but won’t.

The comparison to Nazi Germany is inapt. The Nazis weren’t pulling a “false flag” operation. They were pushing propaganda against scapegoated groups with the promise that they would make Germany great again after its humiliating defeat in the war, and would do it by getting rid of those groups. The two situations could not be more different.

And yes, Halbig has been proven wrong. One example: He and his followers assert that if you look at images from the evacuation of the school, you’ll see the same kids in the same clothing cycled through the parking lot repeatedly. There’s a link to such a website somewhere in this thread, with pictures posted pointing out children who are said to be the same. I followed the link. One look at those images, though, and the myth is busted. The children being identified as “the same kid” aren’t the same at all. They have different hair, different clothing, different shoes.

One such mismatch are two boys in black shirts with artwork on the front. They’re the same boy! the site proclaims. The problem? In one image, the artwork is small and on one shoulder. In the other, it dominates the entire front of the t-shirt. The shirts have one thing in common–they’re both black. None of the images they offer as proof show the same child recycled through the parking lot.

Why do some people fail to notice this glaring disproof of this claim? They don’t wish to, for any number of reasons.

He doesn’t have to be “proved wrong,” you moron. If he says it’s true he needs to back it up with evidence. He doesn’t have evidence though, he just “asks questions,” most of which are really stupid and only prove that he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

Read back up the thread. The Sandy Hook conspiracy theory fails on purely logistical terms. Everyone living and working in the township (not to mention their relatives coming into town for the holidays) AND the members of the National Sports Shooting Foundation which is headquartered in Newtown would have to be in on the hoax. By what mechanism could their agreement be assured?

There were gun owners living in Newtown. Would you suggest that somehow they were bribed or threatened to go along with a hoax? It’s difficult to control information getting out of a closed environment like a movie set. Do you really think that there’s someway the government could have approached and won the approval of everyone in Newtown who might possibly be connected to the school and its families in any way that would have been 1) timely, 2) feasible, 3) logistically possible and 4) completely untraceable?

If a member of the NSSF was approached via this über secret method would they have said nothing to no one?

What you’re not taking into account—besides the logistics of the situation and human nature—are the connections between human beings in a community. They have connections at work, at church, at schools, at commercial businesses, clubs and other associations they participate in.

There are a myriad investigative reporters out there who would have raised the alarm if anything seemed amiss and they would have worried it like a bone until they got some attention. That didn’t happen.

I’m a writer. It’s my job to figure out how things like this could happen in the real world and what you’re proposing couldn’t happen without a complete suspension of reality. In a novel, no one would believe it and with good reason.