{"id":95298,"date":"2018-02-24T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T01:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95298"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T01:20:52","slug":"florida-high-school-demands-a-serious-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95298","title":{"rendered":"Florida Mass Shooting Demands A Serious Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Tracy: Parkland Shooting: Top 10 Reasons For Deeper Interrogation<\/h2>\n

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By\u00a0James F. Tracy<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Over the past several years certain certain US mass shootings receive round-the-clock coverage yet often possess curious features which are ignored and merely accepted \u201cas reported\u201d by less-than-trustworthy corporate media. Bizarre circumstance and the sometimes inexplicable actions of officials, victims, eyewitnesses and would-be\u00a0\"\"<\/a>culprits give rise to concern that government agencies and news media act in certain ways to embellish some incidents while short-circuiting the dissemination of vital information.<\/div>\n
In the flood of information following such heavily-covered tragedies there are sometimes enough anomalies in routine reporting to develop serious cause for concern and\u00a0 intensified scrutiny. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting is one such event. Below is a list and brief discussion of what this author believes to be the most glaring inconsistencies and overall problems evident in information and coverage of the Parkland incident that necessitate further consideration of the overall event.<\/div>\n
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1. Missing Surveillance Video<\/b>. Ensconced in a locale boasting a $600,000 media property value. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is among the most modern and well-funded in Florida. Like\u00a0other schools<\/a>\u00a0throughout the state, the campus was equipped with a comprehensive video monitoring system of buildings\u2019 interior passages and exterior walkways. The Broward County School District is withholding video taken during the February 14 ,2018 mass shooting at the school that could reveal exactly how the event transpired. It appears that some video may have been obtained by the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/i>, which posted it with the headline, \u201cVideo Shows Blood-Smeared Floor, Body Inside Douglas Classroom.\u201d The article has since been\u00a0removed<\/a>\u00a0from the newspaper\u2019s website.<\/div>\n
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2. Scripted Lines?<\/b>\u00a0A Stoneman Douglas high school junior and ROTC member, Colton Haab, who sought to participate in a CNN TownHall broadcast on February 21, claimed the cable network provided him with a list of \u201cscripted questions.\u201d \u201cI expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinions on my questions,\u201d Haab explained to local ABC affiliate, WPLG-TV. \u201cCNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions, and it ended up being all scripted.\u201d Haab said he was asked to prepare a speech and to ask about school safety and the prospect of veterans being employed as armed security guards in schools. The high schooler\u2019s ideas and queries were prohibited by CNN. After being told he had to ask a scripted question, Haab decided not to attend the event. \u201cI don\u2019t think that it\u2019s going get anything accomplished. It\u2019s not gonna ask the true questions that all the parents and teachers and students have,\u201d Haab said.<\/div>\n
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Shortly thereafter Haab\u00a0stated on FoxNews<\/a>\u00a0that based on his experience he believed all of the questions asked by Stoneman Douglas students and community members at the CNN TownHall were scripted.<\/div>\n
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3. Manufactured Dissent?<\/b>\u00a0Stoneman Douglas High students impacted by the event were rapidly mobilized by Democratic political leaders to advocate for the Party\u2019s foremost rallying cries\u2013strengthened gun control laws. News media including CNN and state and federal Democratic Party operatives, including Florida Representative and former Democratic Party National Committee Chair\u00a0Debbie Wasserman Schultz,<\/a>\u00a0advised key Stoneman students in organizing the #NeverAgain movement and arranging protests, including a lobbying trip to Tallahassee to meet with Florida legislators. Parkland, however, is represented by Democratic Representative\u00a0Ted Deutch<\/a>, another staunch gun control advocate.<\/div>\n

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According to the\u00a0New Yorker<\/i><\/a>, Wasserman Schultz and her aides touched base with Stoneman junior and NeverAgain leader-in-training Jaclyn Corin on February 15\u2013one day after the shooting. \u201cConversations with state representatives followed, and preliminary arrangements were made to bus a hundred Douglas students and fifteen chaperones to Tallahassee to address the state legislature. Yesterday, I asked Corin if she had been politically active before the shooting. \u2018Not even a little bit,\u2019 she said.\u201d<\/div>\n
Corin appears especially astute having absolutely no previous experience in issue-oriented politics. \u201cThe action has been so quick,\u201d the 17-year-old\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Naples Daily News<\/i>. \u201cAnd that\u2019s necessary because this is a fresh and open wound and we can\u2019t let it close up. We need to do something about it before it just disappears like it always has.\u201d<\/div>\n
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4. Experts Speak Out.<\/b>\u00a0Those with military and school administrative experience have begun to step forward and question various troubling elements of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. For example, John Bouchell, a militarily trained weapons expert, security expert and school administrator based in Florida tweeted at length about how Parkland differed greatly from his own experiences defending his school during an active shooter event.<\/div>\n

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5. Reports of Multiple Shooters.<\/b>\u00a0In numerous interviews Stoneman Douglas students\u00a0asserted<\/a>there was more than one shooter in Building 12 as the event proceeded. Parkland student Jalen Martin claims the United States Secret Service visited the high school\u2019s campus weeks before the incident, altering the active shooter response protocol. Is this why Douglas school resource officer and Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Scot Peterson remained outside the classroom building as the carnage ensued? Another student\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0she saw and spoke to alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz in Building 12 during the event. A Stoneman Douglas teacher told MSNBC faculty were informed there would be an active shooter drill sometime during the spring semester, but were left in the dark as to the actual date or time of the exercise.<\/div>\n
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6. Crime Scene Demolition.<\/b>\u00a0Less than two days after the tragic shooting Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie\u00a0proposed demolishing Building 12<\/a>\u2014the crime scene itself. The Florida State Legislature almost immediately agreed to\u00a0help fund<\/a>\u00a0the tear down. One must ask why, just hours after the brutal deaths of 17 youths, plans for evidence destruction and a new memorial are even being pondered. \u201cJust looking at that building and talking about it now, I have goosebumps out to my head [sic],\u201d Runcie\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know how teachers, students could get back in that building. I don\u2019t even know how we\u2019re going to open the whole campus, period.\u201d Stoneman Douglas will join a\u00a0long line<\/a>\u00a0of mass casualty event scenes, including Columbine, Aurora, and Sandy Hook, that have been destroyed.<\/div>\n
7. Abandoned Law Enforcement Protocols.<\/b>\u00a0On the afternoon of February 14 Stoneman Douglas school resource officer and Broward Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Scot Peterson heard gunshots in Building 12 and rushed there but waited outside for four minutes as the massacre ensued. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, who could not explain Peterson\u2019s behavior, acknowledged Peterson\u2019s inaction was captured in campus surveillance video and suspended the deputy without pay. Israel thereafter told the press, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to to disclose the video at this time and we may never disclose the video.\u201d Two additional deputies under Israel\u2019s command Edward Eason and Guntis Treijs, were placed on administrative duties pending further investigation. Both deputies participated in 23 calls for service to Cruz\u2019s home and may not have followed protocol.Two other Broward Sheriff\u2019s deputies are under review for failing to further investigate repeated complaints concerning Cruz that may have prevented the shooting, WPLG\u00a0reports<\/a>. In 2014 Peterson was selected by Parkland as school resource officer of the year. He was in another campus building when he heard the initial shots.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m completely disgusted,\u201d said Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine, a former mayor of Parkland whose daughter attends Stoneman Douglas. \u201cThere is nobody in authority talking to each other and every organization that had a chance to stop this completely failed our children from top to bottom.\u201d<\/div>\n
8. Fight to Establish Official Narrative.\u00a0<\/b>There is a very well-defined struggle to establish and defend the official government\/law enforcement narrative of the Stoneman Douglas mass shooting and prevent any questioning of this storyline. This campaign is being led in part by cable news giant and Time Warner subsidiary CNN. Alternative media have been banished from YouTube for sharing differing views and analyses of the Parkland shooting and earlier mass casualty events. A recent \u201cCommunity Guidelines\u201d policy change provides for the Google subsidiary to eliminate any videos it perceives as \u201ctargeting the victims of tragedies,\u201d thus de facto censoring many important critical analyses of such events.<\/div>\n
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On February 23\u00a0CNN directly petitioned YouTube<\/a>\u00a0to shutdown a channel run by libertarian commentator Alex Jones, claiming that its alternative reportage and commentary on the Parkland shooting runs afoul of YouTube\u2019s policies. \u201cOn Wednesday, YouTube removed a video from InfoWars\u2019 page for violating its policies on harassment and bullying,\u201d CNN argued in a piece targeting \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d \u201cThe video was titled, \u2018David Hogg Can\u2019t Remember His Lines In TV Interview.’\u201d CNN reporters then \u201cidentified three similar YouTube videos from InfoWars and asked if they also violated YouTube\u2019s policies. The YouTube spokesperson said the videos CNN sent were flagged to the policy team for review.\u201d Under YouTube\u2019s policy, if a user receives three strikes in a three month period their account is terminated. Such advocacy toward eliminating a media competitor and defending an official government narrative of such a controversial and still-unfolding event is especially concerning.<\/div>\n
In another instance Isaac Green, a thoughtful and popular commentator running the Anti-School YouTube channel who proffered an array of unconventional perspectives on Stoneman Douglas and political controversies, had all of his videos removed by YouTube. Shortly thereafter Google locked Green out of his account entirely.<\/div>\n
9. FBI Involvement.<\/b>\u00a0Ongoing internal investigations on law enforcement responses to the threats Cruz posed already reveal how the FBI alongside local law enforcement repeatedly failed to follow up on reports of the supposed assailant\u2019s unusual behavior, weapons ownership, and disturbing online media posts. The FBI\u2019s failure in this regard was condemned by Florida Governor Rick Scott and the US Justice Department. The bureau\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0an individual close to Cruz phoned the FBI\u2019s Public Access Line on January 5 to report information concerning Cruz\u2019s gun ownership, desire to kill people, unpredictable behavior and ominous social media posts. The party also stated that Cruz could likely carry out a mass shooting. The information was never forwarded to the FBI\u2019s Miami office and investigated further.<\/div>\n
Or was it? According to investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson, throughout the so-called \u201cWar on Terror\u201d the FBI has been directly involved in cultivating terrorists through its network of informants, and often encouraging their activities. \u201cOur nation\u2019s top law enforcement agency, traditionally focused on investigating crimes after they occur,\u201d\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0Aaronson, \u201cnow operates more as an intelligence organization that tries to preempt crimes\u00a0before they occur. But how many of these would-be terrorists would have acted were it not for an FBI agent provocateur helping them?\u201d Was Cruz manipulated to take up arms against his Stoneman Douglas peers? Or, was he somehow maneuvered to the scene, as\u00a0the observations<\/a>\u00a0of one eyewitness suggests, while other more capable gunmen carried out the slaughter?<\/div>\n
10. Antipsychotic Drugs.<\/b>\u00a0According to the\u00a0Florida Department of Children and Families<\/a>, Nikolas Cruz was receiving mental health services from Henderson Behavioral Health and accordingly \u201ctaking medication\u201d for alleged psychiatric ailments. In 2016 Cruz\u2019s adoptive mother Lynda Cruz stated that her son suffered from depression, ADHD, and autism, suggesting how Cruz was regularly consuming a cocktail of potent drugs that may have impacted his behavior and judgement prior to the shooting. The psychoactive drugs used to treat depression and ADHD have profoundly complex and potentially debilitating side effects when taken separately that are only compounded if administered in unison. These include agitation, hyperactivity, psychosis, and are further linked to suicidal and homicidal actions. Given the mass media\u2019s heavy dependence on drug company advertising, the role that psychiatric drugs may play in mass shootings is almost always downplayed in reportage on such events. \u201cThe drugs aren\u2019t the only causative factor,\u201d journalist and author Jon Rappoport\u00a0observes<\/a>, \u201cbut they produce what I call the Johnny Appleseed effect throughout society. Sprinkle enough of the drugs among enough people and you get otherwise unexplainable violence popping up\u2014in schools, in workplaces. The psychiatric plague eats out the country from the inside.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u00a0AN ADDENDUM:<\/div>\n
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