3.Six Signs Sandy Hook Ele- mentary School was Closed by Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D.from Nobody Died at Sandy Hook
Six Signs Sandy Hook Ele-
mentary School was Closed
by Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D.
The alternative media have blogged and made countless YouTube videos
on what Wolfgang Halbig calls “things that don’t make sense” about the Sandy
Hook Elementary School (SHES) shooting massacre of 20 first-graders and
6 adults on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.
Some of those “things that don’t make sense” are emergency medical
helicopters not being called to the scene, parents showing no grief, donation
websites with creation dates that preceded the massacre, government’s
continuing refusal to release the death certificates and burial sites of the
alleged victims, and homes with a sale transaction date of 12/25/2009 and
a $0 sale price.
Recently, 1 undertook a review of the “things that don’t makes sense,”
which led me to conclude that the crux — the decisive and most important
issue — of whether the massacre actually happened is this:
Was Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) operational on
December 14, 2012, or had it long been abandoned?
If the school already was closed, no children or teachers would be there
on December 14 to be gunned down by Adam Lanza.
Here’s the evidence supporting the contention that SHES had long been
abandoned:
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1. What school’s neighbors said
In an interview with Halbig on Truth Radio Show on March 21, 2014,
Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said (5:45 mark), “The school’s been closed
down for God knows how long. [Neighbors] can’t understand why there were
kids in that building because it was condemned.”
2. Reports of shes being contaminated with asbestos, requiring
expensive repairs
SHES was built in 1956. Several reports in local newspaper The Newtown
Bee indicate that years before the massacre, SHES was in a state of disrepair
and contaminated with environmental toxins.
As examples, in 2002, Consulting Engineering Services recommended
to the school district that SHES be “worked on in 2010 over a nine-month
period” to upgrade and renovate its heating and ventilation system at a cost of
$4.5 million.Two years later, in 2004, the Newtown Board of Education was
told “there were serious problems with the Sandy Hook elementary school
roof.” Four years later, in 2008, there was yet more bad news: SHES was
contaminated with asbestos. (Remember that 2008 date.)
On October 5, 2013, nearly 10 months after the massacre, a city
referendum passed by over 90% in support of the demolition and rebuilding
of SHES with a generous $49.25 million grant from the State of Connecticut.
The reason given for the demolition was “asbestos abatement”. On Dec 2,
2013, Newtown’s Public Building and Site Commission Chairman Robert
Mitchell issued a report to justify the already-approved demolition.
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He said that “had the town decided to reoccupy the school on Dickinson
Drive, it would have faced a daunting and possibly insurmountable
challenge regarding the presence of hazardous materials” because the school
was contaminated by not just asbestos, but also PCBs under the flooring and
in the foundations and footings.
Just think: If the city already knew in 2008 that the school was
contaminated with asbestos and, in 2013, used the contamination to justify
tearing it down, why would the same asbestos-contaminated school be safe
for children and teachers to inhabit from 2008 through 2012? IfSHES had
remained open, wouldn ’t the school district be sued for endangering public
health?
It makes more sense that the school was shut down in 2008 and remained
closed, until the massacre provided Newtown with the financial means — a
windfall of $50 million from the state — to tear down the school and build
a swanky, state-of-the-art replacement.
3. Photographic evidence of an abandoned school
Crime scene photos of the exterior and interior of SHES — from the
website of the State of Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services
and Public Protection, and from a batch of photos that Halbig obtained via
Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), some of which are posted
on Jim Fetzer’s blog — are consistent with the appearance of an abandoned
school.
Farr - Scene Pholos #34
1) Boarded up wall (old wood)
2) Unprotected metal pole
could be dangerous to children
3) Missing rail
GunMtui- interior photo* *38
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Moss and grime covered the
school building; repairs were left
undone.
Especially noteworthy, as
pointed out by Jim Fetzer, is a
dangerous, exposed metal rod on an
exterior staircase (see #3 in photo
below):
Classrooms and hallways were
used for storage, jammed with
furniture and office supplies. If
those rooms and hallways were
actually in an operational school,
then SHES was in clear violation
of the fire safety code.
Then there is this
photo of a pile of dust
underneath an alleged
bullet hole in a wall
outside Room 1C, which
looks suspiciously like
the debris from someone
drilling a pretend
“bullet” hole into the
ceramic wall-tile.
I’ve painted red
circles around the
“bullet” hole and the
little pile of drilled dust
underneath.
4. Absence of handicapped parking spaces and signage
But we don’t need crime scene photos for visual indicators of a long
abandoned school. The many aerial photographic and video images of Sandy
Hook Elementary School’s parking lot taken by news media on the day of the
massacre would suffice, such as the one from a CNN news video.
Although the CNN image on the next page shows a wheelchair symbol
painted on a parking space closest to the school’s front door, it is not painted
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in the now-familiar blue and white colors that have become ubiquitous
certainly by 2012.
As an example, an August 22, 2011 article by Debbie Moore for My
Parking Sign stated:
Americans with Disabilities Act signed in 1990 ... details guidelines for
every public area that needs to provide with ample accessibility’ options
for the disabled....
ADA states the following rules that need to be followed while posting
accessibility signs in designated areas -
The international symbol of accessibility should be posted on all
accessible parking spaces marking the reserved spot. The accessibility
symbol is the well-known picture of a person using a wheelchair on top
of a blue background.
Van-accessible parking spaces to have additional ‘text’ or ‘sign ’below
the accessibility symbol to mark the van-accessible area specifically.
Signs should be placed at such a height (at least 60 inches above surface)
that they do not get obscured by any parked vehicles or other obstructions.
ADA handicap parking signs (commonly known as Access Signs) posted
must be viewable from the drivers’ seat of the vehicle and located right
in view of parking spaces. ”
But aerial images of SHES’s parking lot, including the CNN image, show
no blue-and-white signage for designated handicap parking spaces, which
would make the school in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act
of 1990 and the subsequent AD A Amendments Act of 2008 that broadened
the meaning of disabilities.
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Indeed, Connecticut
General Statutes, Sec.
14-253a(h), clearly states
that “Parking spaces
designated for persons
who are blind and persons
with disabilities on or
after October 1, 1979,
and prior to October 1,
2004, shall be as near
as possible to a building
entrance or walkway and shall be fifteen feet wide including three feet of
cross hatch, or parallel to a sidewalk on a public highway.”
Referring to that Connecticut state law, a 2009 ordinance of the town of
Monroe, CT, about 9 miles from Newtown, specified that “Exterior accessible
parking spaces [for the handicapped] shall be located on the shortest route
. . . and identified by both a standing sign and painted on the pavement.”
But aerial views of SHES’s parking lot show no handicap standing signs
or the distinctive blue-and-white handicap sign colors.
5. Absence of internet activity 2008-2012
Arguably, the most compelling evidence that SHES had long been
abandoned before the 2012 massacre is the testimony from the Internet
Archive’s Wayback Machine of the school’s lack of of Internet activity from
the beginning of 2008 through all of 2012.
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the Internet which uses a
special software to crawl and download all publicly accessible World Wide
Web pages. It was Jungle Server_who first discovered that the Wayback
Machine shows an absence of Internet activity from SHES since 2008 — the
same year when the school was found to be contaminated with asbestos.
To verify Jungle Surfer’s claim, I searched for SHES’s website. /? ftp://
newtownjd 2xt its/~sh , on the Wayback Machine, the result of which is below,
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showing the school’s lack of Internet activity from the beginning of 2008 to
mid-2013. By mid-2013, we are told SHES temporarily had relocated to the
nearby town of Monroe, about 9 miles from Newtown.
6. Halbig’s FOI hearing
On April 24, 2015, more than two years after Halbig first asked questions
about Sandy Hook by phoning and writing letters to Connecticut officials
invoking the FOIA, the state finally granted him the first of two hearings
before the State of Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission. The
respondents were the Newtown Police Department, First Selectman Patricia
Llodra, the Town of Newtown, and Newtown’s Board of Education. They
were represented by attorney Monte Frank, a gun-control activist who
founded Team 26, a cycling group that lobbies for gun control.
The purpose of the hearing was to determine if Newtown improperly
withheld documents requested by Halbig. Halbig claims that he had
requested the following documents from the respondents, but was denied
— the denial being a violation of FOIA:
SHES maintenance work orders, including:
1. Copies of all maintenance work orders submitted by SHES
principal Dawn Hochsprung (one of Lanza’s alleged victims who,
strangely, was interviewed by The Bee about the massacre) or her
designee to the school district maintenance department for any
repairs, new classroom doors or painting from July 1, 2012 through
December 13, 2012.
2. Copies signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the date
of completion of the repairs together with time stamps showing
job completion.
2. Copies of all emails to and from Hochsprung and her assistant to
various school district departments, e.g., food services provider, from
May 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012.
The requested documents presumably could prove that the school was
operational on the day of the massacre.
In a post on April 25, 2015, an anonymous contributor to SandyHookFacts.
com, a blog that claims to debunk Sandy Hook “conspiracy theorists,”
triumphantly crowed that the FOI hearing was a “total failure” for Halbig
because attorney Frank said time-stamped SHES maintenance work orders
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signed by Hochsprung or her designee had been made available to Halbig
six months before the hearing.
SandyHookFacts.com is much too hasty and mistaken in its crowing, for
in a memo on June 25, 2015, titled “Transmittal of Proposed Final Decision,”
the State of Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) states
the following:
“it is found that the respondents, through counsel, informed the
complainant [Halbig] that the respondents maintained 45 records
responsive to the complainant’s request described in paragraph 2(a)(i),
above, and that they would be provided upon payment of the copying
fee. [...]
It is found that the respondents’ counsel also informed the complainant
that his request described in paragraph 2(a)(i), above, was vague, overly
broad, and that it was not a request for ‘specific documents and would
require research and analysis not required under the FOIAct. ' ”
Most importantly, the FOIC states:
“It is found that . . . the respondents, through counsel, also informed the
complainant that the town had no records responsive to the request described
in paragraph 2(a)(ii), above. ’’
Note that paragraph 2(a)(i) in the FOIC memo is 1 A in this post (see
above), i.e., copies of all maintenance work orders submitted by SHES
principal Dawn Hochsprung or her designee to the school district maintenance
department for any repairs, new classroom doors or painting from July 1,
2012 through December 13, 2012.
Note that paragraph 2(a)(ii) in the FOIC memo is IB in this post, i.e.,
copies signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the date of completion
of the repairs together with time stamps showing job completion.
By saying that “the town had no records responsive to the request
described in paragraph 2(a)(ii),” the FOIC means the town of Newtown does
not have documents signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the
date of completion of the repairs |to SHES] together with time stamps
showing job completion.
Furthermore, the FOIC memo also states:
“It is found that the respondents ’counsel also informed the complainant
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that his request described in paragraph 2(b)(i), above, was vague, overly
broad, and that it . . . ‘would require research and analysis not required
under the FOIAct. ’ ”
Note that FOIC’s paragraph 2(b)(i) is document 2 in this post, i.e.,
copies of all emails to and from Hochsprung and her assistant to various
school district departments, e.g., food services provider, from May 1, 2012
through December 13, 2012.
In other words, Newtown cannot produce evidence that in the
months preceding the massacre from May 1, 2012 through December
13, 2012, repairs were made on Sandy Hook Elementary School or that
Hochsprung had exchanged emails with school district departments.
The reason is a simple one: the school was not operational, having been
closed down for years, most probably since 2008 when it was discovered to
be contaminated with asbestos.
This chapter originally appeared as “Sandy Hook Hoax: 6 Signs that School
was Closed before Massacre” (9 September 2015 ), fellowshipoftheminds.com.
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