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Chan Lowe: FAU prof's Sandy Hook conspiracy theory

By Chan Lowe

2:30 PM EST, January 11, 2013


I can’t pretend to know what Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy is thinking when he promotes his idea that there’s a conspiracy afoot to hide the truth about what really happened at Sandy Hook. There’s an odor of disingenuousness about his claim that he’s simply trying to “get students to look at events in a more critical way.”


This is all speculation, but my guess is that he’s trying to claim his fifteen minutes of fame and wangle an interview on Piers Morgan. Maybe there’s a book to flog. Whenever you see anybody on a TV show for any reason, you eventually find out they’re flogging a book.


If he truly believes what he says, then he has a right to believe it. He even has a right to blog and talk about his beliefs, and to teach them if he wants to. As for the first two, that’s why we have a First Amendment, and it’s when people peddle off-the-wall stuff like this that we need it the most. As for the third, he’s tenured.


A tenured professor has to spout a lot of craziness before you can oust one. Meanwhile, his students are old enough and mature enough, one would hope, to know when they’re being fed a crock.




Personally, I feel sorry for people who spend their lives always looking over their shoulders. How can they ever experience happiness? Maybe their day of vindication finally comes when the black helicopters swoop down and jackbooted thugs pluck them from their homes. As they disappear into the skies, headed for one of those shadowy government reeducation camps, they can look down on the rest of us with a knowing sneer and scream, “See? I told you so!”