Thursday, November 12, 2015
Debunking the Sandy Hook Debunkers: #1 Was this an operational school?
by Jim Fetzer
Enough objections have been raised that it appears to be timely to respond to some of the attempts to undermine our research. Our book, NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK (2015), provides 425 pages of photos, documents and other records that substantiate that this was not a child massacre but a two-day FEMA drill to promote gun control. No one who reads the book has any doubt about it, where we have a large number of 5-STAR reviews from those who have read the book, offset by a lesser number of 1-STAR reviews by critics who have not. This suggests a certain desperation to suppress interest in what we have discovered by the perps themselves.
One of the web site attacking us (without merit, as I shall show) goes by the name, SANDY HOOK COVENANT, has challenged our conclusion that Sandy Hook Elementary School had been closed by 2008 and was then refurbished to be used as a stage in 2012. This brief video makes it case by flashing a few documents, which others have done in greater quantity. But documents are easy to fake--and would have been a high priority in planning this event. More interesting is the photograph of patents dropping off a child at the school. Here is the school in operational condition and completely different than it was at the time of the alleged shooting. Check it out:
Reader “Christopher Marlowe” wrote this comment on March 7, 2014, on a blog that posted Jungle Surfer’s video on the Wayback Machine:
Here
is a photograph of the school taken on the day of the shooting. Notice
that the handicapped parking areas are not properly demarcated with
white paint and blue markings. There are no “above grade signs with
white lettering against a blue background” that bear the words,
“handicapped parking permit required” and “violators will be fined”,
which means that Sandy Hook Elementary School was non-ADA compliant. That day, CNN was mixing images from other schools with those from Sandy Hook:
Enough objections have been raised that it appears to be timely to respond to some of the attempts to undermine our research. Our book, NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK (2015), provides 425 pages of photos, documents and other records that substantiate that this was not a child massacre but a two-day FEMA drill to promote gun control. No one who reads the book has any doubt about it, where we have a large number of 5-STAR reviews from those who have read the book, offset by a lesser number of 1-STAR reviews by critics who have not. This suggests a certain desperation to suppress interest in what we have discovered by the perps themselves.
One of the web site attacking us (without merit, as I shall show) goes by the name, SANDY HOOK COVENANT, has challenged our conclusion that Sandy Hook Elementary School had been closed by 2008 and was then refurbished to be used as a stage in 2012. This brief video makes it case by flashing a few documents, which others have done in greater quantity. But documents are easy to fake--and would have been a high priority in planning this event. More interesting is the photograph of patents dropping off a child at the school. Here is the school in operational condition and completely different than it was at the time of the alleged shooting. Check it out:
What may be most revealing is a photo of the school when it was in
operational condition and had an appearance completely different than it
had at the time of the alleged shooting in December of 2012. The
inclusion of this photo was clearly intentional but without any
appreciation for its role in comparing the appearance of the school
after it had been abandoned in 2008 on multiple grounds, including that
it was loaded with asbestos and other bio-hazards.
SANDY HOOK COVENANT cites an earlier article of mine, "Sandy Hook Elementary School: Closed in 2008, a stage in 2012" veterans today.com
(15 April 2014), which I co-authored with Amanda. But while he cites
the article, he simply ignores the evidence it provides that establishes
beyond a reasonable doubt that Sandy Hook Elementary School WAS close
by 2008, where we know that it was used as a stage in 2012. The four
lines of proof presented here, by the way, were included in that
article, which he doesn't acknowledge because they show his position is
absurd.
The condition of the school--inside and out--demonstrates that it was in
deplorable condition, far from what would be expected of a fashionable
and wealthy community such as Sandy Hook. I was there with Wolfgang
Halbig, when we visited the Newtown School Board, and I was very
favorably impressed by the condition of a soccer field we visited, where
the field was beautifully manicured with every blade of grass was trim.
The school should have looked like it does in this photograph:
Four lines of argument are presented, (1) that there was an absence of
computer activity at the school between 2008 and 2012; (2) that the
school was not in compliance with state and federal laws implementing
the Americans with Disabilities Act; (3) that the school was in
violation of fire codes; and (4) that it was an environmental disaster.
Among these four, the first seems to have drawn the strongest
objections; but it could be dispensed with and the conclusion--that
Sandy Hook Elementary School had been abandoned by 2008--would remain
copiously documented.
What may be most revealing is a photo of the school when it was in operational condition and had an appearance completely different than it had at the time of the alleged shooting in December of 2012. The inclusion of this photo was clearly intentional but without any appreciation for its role in comparing the appearance of the school after it had been abandoned in 2008 on multiple grounds, including that it was loaded with asbestos and other bio-hazards.
SANDY HOOK COVENANT cites an earlier article of mine, "Sandy Hook Elementary School: Closed in 2008, a stage in 2012" veterans today.com (15 April 2014), which I co-authored with Amanda. But while he cites the article, he simply ignores the evidence it provides that establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Sandy Hook Elementary School WAS close by 2008, where we know that it was used as a stage in 2012. The four lines of proof presented here, by the way, were included in that article, which he doesn't acknowledge because they show his position is absurd.
The condition of the school--inside and out--demonstrates that it was in deplorable condition, far from what would be expected of a fashionable and wealthy community such as Sandy Hook. I was there with Wolfgang Halbig, when we visited the Newtown School Board, and I was very favorably impressed by the condition of a soccer field we visited, where the field was beautifully manicured with every blade of grass was trim. The school should have looked like it does in this photograph:
Four lines of argument are presented, (1) that there was an absence of computer activity at the school between 2008 and 2012; (2) that the school was not in compliance with state and federal laws implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act; (3) that the school was in violation of fire codes; and (4) that it was an environmental disaster. Among these four, the first seems to have drawn the strongest objections; but it could be dispensed with and the conclusion--that Sandy Hook Elementary School had been abandoned by 2008--would remain copiously documented.
(1) Sandy Hook had no computer activity
Interestingly, there was a recorded
absence of computer activity at the school from 2008-12, which would be
inconceivable unless it had been abandoned and was not actually
functioning as an operating school. The limited activity in early 2008
combined with reemergence of activity in 2013 seems to have been
resulted from reactivating the building for its use as a prop in
late-2012.
Several web sites, including The Last Great Stand and Fellowship of the Minds,
have reported that, by using the Wayback machine (which enables earlier
versions of web sites to be accessed, even though they are not
current), it is possible to demonstrate that Sandy Hook Elementary
School had no internet activity from 2008 until late 2012 in striking
contrast to other elementary schools:
In a video that
you can watch on YouTube, a man who calls himself “Jungle Surfer”
claims to have found “proof” that Sandy Hook Elementary School was
closed 5 years before the alleged massacre. Using the Internet Archive’s
Wayback Machine, Jungle Surfer says he found no Internet activity from the location of SHES at 12 Dickenson Dr, Sandy Hook, CT 06482.
Below is a screenshot I took of the Wayback Machine showing the school’s lack of Internet activity since the beginning of the year 2008 through 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. You can also see it for yourself by going here.
In a video that
you can watch on YouTube, a man who calls himself “Jungle Surfer”
claims to have found “proof” that Sandy Hook Elementary School was
closed 5 years before the alleged massacre. Using the Internet Archive’s
Wayback Machine, Jungle Surfer says he found no Internet activity from the location of SHES at 12 Dickenson Dr, Sandy Hook, CT 06482.
Below is a screenshot I took of the Wayback Machine showing the school’s lack of Internet activity since the beginning of the year 2008 through 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. You can also see it for yourself by going here.
Click image to enlarge
Reader “Christopher Marlowe” wrote this comment on March 7, 2014, on a blog that posted Jungle Surfer’s video on the Wayback Machine:
The
proof is sublime. The wayback machine isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t
lie. The site was accessed each year, from 2000 to 2008, and then
NOTHING until 2013.
The wayback machine uses the googlebot crawls to preserve pictures of the site on a given day. (Brief
research reveals that the bots record a snapshot when the site is
updated, but my own testing shows that there is a heavy tie-in to the
amount of web traffic….)
Other dead sites show a drop-off similar to what we see in the sandy hoax school:
Or let’s compare apples to apples, shall we?
(2) Sandy Hook was non-ADA compliant
Another telling indication that Sandy Hook Elementary was not an
operating school is the absence of designated parking for handicapped
Americans, which is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA), which was passed by Congress in 1990. It has been implemented by
specific requirements for ramps and special parking designated for the
disabled, none of which appears to be present at Sandy Hook Elementary
more than two decades later. Here are Connecticut’s general statutory requirements:
Here
is a photograph of the school taken on the day of the shooting. Notice
that the handicapped parking areas are not properly demarcated with
white paint and blue markings. There are no “above grade signs with
white lettering against a blue background” that bear the words,
“handicapped parking permit required” and “violators will be fined”,
which means that Sandy Hook Elementary School was non-ADA compliant. That day, CNN was mixing images from other schools with those from Sandy Hook:
Confirmation from memoryholeblog.com
Among the most active web sites discussing Sandy Hook has been memoryholeblog.com maintained by James Tracy, who was among the first to notice anomalies in the press conference held by Connecticut State Medical Examiner Wayne Carver.
Patrick says: February 22, 2014 at 7:07 amI still remain stuck on the parking lot, lophatt. Bureaucrats are very reliable. They go by the book with the most annoying fastidiousness, and the book at issue here is the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, which mandated that handicapped parking spots in public parking lots be painted blue.It is inconceivable that a public grammar school would ignore that requirement for more than two decades. I am not the one around here who first noticed the anomalous parking lot, but ever since this was pointed out it has struck me as definitive evidence that the building, if it was used for anything, had not been used as a school since the 1980s at the latest. I’d call it proof.
John Luv says: February 23, 2014 at 3:29 pmMusings, I have helped out my handicapped uncle for the greater part of 25 years. All handicapped spots in malls, walmart, doctor’s offices, public buildings, private buildings, apt. buildings, schools, universities etc. have lines that are painted white, and a different color from the surrounding yellow lines. The lines are not blue, but white. The picture of the wheelchair which is painted in the spot is white/blue or blue/white. The sign placards have a blue background with a white caricature of a wheelchair and sometimes vise versa. That doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they are NOT painted yellow, are separate from the yellow lines, and closest to the entrances.The SHES parking lot was clearly in violation of not only the color scheme, but it was in deplorable condition and probably not resurfaced in over three decades or more. It did have evidence of patching and crack sealing, but nothing else. I guess they didn’t want any of the actors who parked there during the drill to get tire damage from the numerous potholes that were covered over, lol!
Here is a Google map image showing the improperly marked handicapped parking areas
(3) Sandy Hook was in violation of fire codes
Comments from public school teachers on YouTube videos have observed
that Sandy Hook was “obviously” a decommissioned school and that there
was no way it would have been allowed to operate, given all of the fire
code violations present (boxes and furniture stacked up in front of
windows, near doors and exits) in photographs taken inside the school. Here are some illustrations:
Consider what those who are familiar with elementary schools have to say
about the condition of Sandy Hook, including from a professional
plumber, Terry Cronin, who remarked:
Great video Sherrie. I have noticed something from one of the videos inside the school. Video #4 (http://cspsandyhookreport.ct.gov/ scroll down to “Indoor Scene Processing Video” section, click on “WDMCS School Interior 4 of 5”) at 14:10 and then again at 18:28 shows what appear to be remodeled handicapped (ADA compliant) in the children’s bathrooms.I am a plumber, and it is apparent that all they did to make an ADA compliant stall was remove one of the toilets and an intervening partition, but they left the dirty cast iron toilet flange in place on the floor! This would never pass any kind of code where I am from, much less be left that way in a school. You can also see the capped off pipe sticking out of the wall where the flush valve would have been.
There isn’t a lot of room for doubt that this was not a functioning
school, but was being used for the purpose of storage for other schools.
Consider these observations:
Perhaps the best of all comes from Stephanie Sliwinski,
who makes it unmistakably clear that “it is a common practice for
public school districts to use a decommissioned school as a storage yard
for old furniture”, which was the function of Sandy Hook. While her
comment originated with the first of these videos, her observations are
further substantiated by the second:
Stephanie Sliwinski — Ask ANY teacher, janitor, school administrator, etc it is common practice for public school districts to use a decommissioned school as a storage yard for old furniture and items the district has little use for. This exactly what this is. The Fire Marshall inspects each and every classroom each year (especially THAT close to a fire station where they were driving past it daily) and there is no way in Hell he would approve of all that large and bulky, old furniture boarded up against the windows. What if a fire broke out in the hallway and fire blocked the door? How would small kids escape? The windows at ground level of course. This story stank from the first five minutes. As a former public school teacher for ten years I have never ever seen a working school look like that. Especially not an elementary in an affluent area. Fake fake fake as the day is long.
(4) Sandy Hook was an environmental disaster
The Last Great Stand and Fellowship of the Minds,
have also reported that the Newtown School Board was aware of extensive
environmental problems with Sandy Hook Elementary School, which was so
loaded with bio-hazards that it would have been quite difficult and
extremely expensive to have brought the building into compliance with
code:
In his recent interview with Wolfgang Halbig, the school safety consultant and former state trooper who calls the Dec. 14, 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting “a contrived scripted event” in the planning for 2-2½ years, Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said something very intriguing (beginning at the 50:45 mark in the video below):
Bidondi said: “Was this whole thing [Sandy Hook shooting] even staged? Was it real? You have neighbors reporting the school’s been closed down for God knows how long…. They can’t understand why there were kids in that building because it was condemned.”Indeed, according to local paper The Newtown Bee, nearly 10 months after the shooting on October 5, 2013, a city referendum passed by over 90% authorizing Newtown to move forward with the demolition and rebuilding of Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) with a $49.25 million grant from the State of Connecticut. The Bee says: “Anticipating the referendum would pass, town officials already filed environmental paperwork with the state to move forward with asbestos abatement at the former school, which will dovetail with demolition crews who could be on site by the last week in October.”What this means is that even without the alleged massacre, the school would have been demolished because of asbestos contamination.
In fact, a search of Newtown Bee‘s archives shows that the town had known about the school’s environmental problems for many years:
- On October 2, 2002, The Bee reports that “The Newtown School District could be looking at a $29.5 million price tag to upgrade its mechanical systems and bring them to code at the four elementary schools and middle school over the next five to six years. Consulting Engineering Services (CES) was hired by the district to study the mechanical systems at Hawley School, Head O’ Meadow School, Middle Gate School, Newtown Middle School, and Sandy Hook School to evaluate the heating and ventilating infrastructure, temperature control, and to see what renovations would need to be performed to upgrade ventilation systems to meet indoor air quality codes. Sandy Hook School … is being recommended by CES to be worked on in 2010 over a nine-month period. It is estimated to cost $4.5 million for heating and ventilation and $400,000 for air conditioning.” That comes to about $5 million, which is puny compared to the $49.25 million state grant Newtown received after the alleged shooting massacre for the demolition and rebuilding of the school.
- On April 7, 2003, the Bee reported that “Some studies suggest that as many as 68 percent of school district’s have ‘sick’ buildings ranging from mold to asbestos, radon, pesticides, and the use of improperly ventilated areas as classroom space. For the past five years, teachers in Connecticut have had the highest rate of occupational asthma when compared to other professions.“
- On March 26, 2004 , the Bee reported that “the Board of Education … received the bad news that there were serious problems with the Sandy Hook elementary school roof.”
- And then there’s this curious Newtown Bee article of November 7, 2008, 4 years before the alleged shooting massacre: “The asbestos levels in Newtown schools pose no threat to the health or safety of those using the schools, according to Superintendent John Reed. The areas in the schools where there is evidence of asbestos … are also considered acceptable and safe.”
- On October 12, 2012, two months before the alleged school shooting, there’s this curious letter from reader Charles Hepp to The Newtown Beeabout a plan to close an elementary school due to declining enrollment. Hepp wrote, “Six months ago, in April 2012, our Board of Ed voted unanimously to accept a study which laid out a plan for closing an elementary school … the study found that, should our elementary school population fall below 1,500, the BOE should look towards closing an elementary school. We are currently at approximately 1,650 elementary school students.”
- But then a year after the alleged massacre and after the school had been completely torn down with the demolition workers sworn to confidentiality, The Bee reported on Dec. 2, 2013 that Public Building & Site Commission Chairman Robert Mitchell issued a report that directly contradicts the earlier 2008 assessment that asbestos levels in Newtown’s schools posed no threat to health. Mitchell’s report said “had the town decided to reoccupy the [Sandy Hook Elementary] school on Dickinson Drive, it would have faced a daunting and possibly insurmountable challenge regarding the presence of hazardous materials” because “PCBs were not only discovered in concrete block, but under terrazzo flooring and in sulfur block used in the foundations and footings. In addition, vinyl asbestos tile was discovered under carpeted areas, along with asbestos in the mastic holding insulation to the subfloor tunnel ductwork.”
Sandy Hook had been abandoned by 2008
What we have found–building upon and reporting the previous work of reasonvoice, Dr. Eowyn, Jungle Surfer and others–we have now established the following:
(a) that there was no computer activity at Sandy Hook Elementary School from 2008-2012;(b) that Sandy Hook Elementary School was non-compliant with Connecticut’s ADA requirements;(c) that Sandy Hook Elementary School was in violation of Connecticut’s own fire codes;(d) that Sandy Hook Elementary School was in deplorable condition as a bio-hazard.
These circumstances could be explained with high probability if Sandy
Hook Elementary School had been abandoned in 2008 and was being used by
the school district as a storage facility, but they are inexplicable if
Sandy Hook Elementary School had been operating during that interval of
time. It appears to have been the ideal location to use as stage setting
for a shooting drill that would be presented to the world as a
children’s massacre, where the American people have been played for saps
by (what appears to have been) a cleverly constructed hoax intended to
promote gun control and the subversion of the 2nd Amendment and thereby
advance the political agenda of the Obama administration.
We would encourage all of our readers to view the photographic and the
video evidence for themselves and to share them with others, especially
those working at public schools, who should immediately be able to spot
the problems with Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since we have only
scratched the surface–and no doubt many more anomalies remain to be
exposed–here is a link to the Connecticut State Police Sandy Hook Shooting Report.
We suggest that readers view the indoor and outdoor scene processing
videos and download the 22 photographic evidence files, review them for
anomalies, report back here and share their observations in the comments
section below.
In many ways, proof that Sandy Hook Elementary School had been abandoned
by 2008 may be the most telling of the vast number of arguments we have
presented in articles and in the book, NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK
(2015). After all, it explains why we had no bodies on the triage
tarps, why there was no surge of EMTs into the building, why no Med-Evac
chopper was called, and why there was no evacuation of the 469 other
students. None of that happened because the school was closed by 2008: there were no students there for Adam Lanza to shoot, no children to rush to hospitals and none in need of evacuation. It proves by itself that this was an elaborate hoax and therefore may be the most encompassing proof of them all.
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