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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
School Shooting Expert Threatened Over Sandy Hook Investigation
Was told if he didn’t comply “bad things are going to happen”
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
February 18, 2014
The Sandy Hook school shooting was a giant, elaborate hoax and no one really died; that’s the conclusion Wolgang Halbig, a former educator, US Customs agent and Florida state trooper, has reached after ten months of investigation and multiple disputes with federal, state and school authorities.
Halbig is convinced a deluge of discrepancies prove that the whole scenario was a scripted event.
“..I suspect, in my professional opinion as a consultant and doing this a long, long time, I think it’s a scripted event that took place. I think it was in planning for maybe two, two and a half years,” Halbig said recently in an explosive interview with American Free Press.
Halbig is not your average conspiracy theorist. In fact he’s not one at all.
He’s a former educator and law enforcement officer who now contracts out as a national school safety consultant.
His job is to help schools prevent incidents like the one that unfolded in Newtown. In order to do that, he needs to know exactly what happened at Sandy Hook.
“How do I tell people how to make their school safer when we don’t even have the truth about Sandy Hook?” asked a frustrated Halbig. “See, there is a nexus, I do this for a living.”
But school, state and federal officials aren’t making his job easy, and the state’s even threatened him for meddling in their affairs.
“They were in plain clothes,” Halbig recalled, describing a visit from Lake County homicide investigators. “They introduced themselves, they showed me their identification, their badges, and they basically said, ‘We need to have a conversation,’ and I said, ‘Well come on in, sit down, make yourselves comfortable,’ and then they read off my resumé. I mean, somehow, they did a lot of homework.. Basically the next thing they said was if I don’t stop, the Connecticut state police were gonna file charges and they recommended that I hire an attorney.”
The retired school principal, however, affirmed he’s in the right. “I said there is no way in the world that I’m gonna hire an attorney, because I’m following the procedures of the Connecticut state Freedom of Information Act. I mean, if anybody ought to be arrested, I said you tell those guys they ought to be arrested for failing to comply by the law of Connecticut.”
He says they also treated him in a threatening manner, stating “if I don’t comply that bad things are going to happen to me.”
Nevertheless, Halbig says, like any homicide investigation, Sandy Hook is a giant puzzle, but one which the public hasn’t been provided all the pieces to solve.
“..[T]his crime that was committed is a puzzle and no one can show me the pieces to put together to finish this puzzle. They don’t fit no matter how hard you try.. you and your listeners will not be able to put this puzzle together,” Halbig attested to host Dave Gahary.
Unanswered Questions
National school safety consultant Wolgang Halbig.
For Halbig, there are unanswered questions, lots of them.
For instance, why in the immediate aftermath of the shooting were no medical helicopters summoned?
“Think about it: you have 20 children, 6 staff members who were supposed to have been shot. They’re seriously injured. Where’s the trauma helicopters? Those are the quickest and the best medical services that any child or any school staff member can receive, and no trauma helicopters were ever requested?”
Halbig also called Life Star emergency services, who confirmed they were never summoned that morning. “[T]hey said, ‘Mr. Halbig we were never requested on that morning. We were shocked and surprised, we were ready, we thought we were going to go to Sandy Hook.’ They had helicopters ready to go, but they were never asked.. Here’s my premise.. there wasn’t anybody there to be treated.”
Halbig also questions why EMT and firefighters, who were mere minutes away from the scene, were prevented from entering the school and possibly saving lives, and additionally, he wants to know how, within the first 11 minutes, America was already presented with a death toll.
“Who declared all those 26 people dead within the first 11 minutes? Connecticut law states that only a doctor can declare them dead, legally dead.”
Moreover, Halbig says the FBI’s classification of the school shooting report is something he’s never witnessed in his entire career. “I can tell you [out of] all the shootings, never has an FBI agency ever classified an investigative report on a school shooting.”
More Unanswered Questions
There are also a whole host of peculiarities Halbig is still baffled by.
For example, why was Sandy Hook elementary torn down? Even in the Columbine tragedy, whose crime scene Halbig assisted with and in which he testified as a key witness, the school was cleaned up, but was never torn down.
According to Halbig, no one could tell him which environmental company cleaned up the bloody mess, or who installed the school’s security system, all things his job would require him to know.
He has other pressing questions, such as: Why was there a registered nurse found in the building four hours after the shooting? Why was there a sign flashing “Everyone must sign in?” Why were there port-a-potties on site within three hours? Why were children turned around by officers and sent back into rooms supposedly littered with dead bodies? How did someone with Asperger’s have the physical coordination to carry the large amount of munitions Adam Lanza supposedly carried? Why did no parents file a lawsuit against the school, when in every other school shooting suits have been filed? And ultimately, why would the state threaten Halbig?
“The things [we"re] talking about.. they should never offend any parent…These are simple questions that we as homicide investigators, we need to know and we should know.”
Sandy Hook elementary / Image: Wikimedia Commons
Truth Seeking Won’t Stop
Altogether, from the puzzle pieces he’s collected and analyzed, Halbig concludes there is a massive cover up.
“Absolutely… It is.. when you refuse to respond to simple requests, something is not right.”
The next step legally, Halbig says, would be to hire attorneys and depose the key players of the investigation, because, “The only way you’re ever gonna get the truth is by getting them to raise their right hands..” “..[I]f you lie in a deposition and if you’re caught in that lie, there’s a lot of things that you can lose, you can go to jail and you can lose your retirement..” warns the safety consultant.
When asked if he feels his life could be in danger if the cover-up goes all the way up to the White House, Halbig answered he is not fearful because he’s led a rich life, but that for him, people showing up and knocking on his door was the final straw.
“Here’s the problem and this is what got me fired up even more, is when they start bringing people to my house.”
Halbig says next he’s traveling to Newtown, Conn. and scoping out the crime scene, and that he’s possibly planning a Sandy Hook event in Orlando, Florida sometime in the near future.
He says he won’t stop until he gets some answers.
Below, check out Infowars’ report on why so many people think the Sandy Hook school shooting was a staged event.
This article was posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 1:32 pm
School Shooting Expert Threatened Over Sandy Hook Investigation
Friday, January 24, 2014
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Mayor: Christie aides tied Sandy funds to project
FILE – In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photograph, Hoboken Mayor, Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media as she stands near the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. Zimmer, mayor of a New Jersey city that sustained severe flooding from Hurricane Sandy claims the Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development. MSNBC first reported her comments Saturday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
FILE – In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photograph, Hoboken Mayor, Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media as she stands near the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. Zimmer, mayor of a New Jersey city that sustained severe flooding from Hurricane Sandy claims the Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development. MSNBC first reported her comments Saturday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of a New Jersey city that sustained severe flooding from Hurricane Sandy claims the Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development.
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer tells The Associated Press that Gov. Chris Christie’s lieutenant governor and a top community development official said recovery funds would flow to her city if the commercial development went forward. MSNBC first reported her comments Saturday.
Zimmer says Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (gwah-DON-yo) pulled her aside at a May event and told her unless the project is approved “we are not going to be able to help you.”
Christie is embroiled in another scandal involving traffic jams apparently manufactured to settle a political score.
Christie’s office did not return messages from the AP. Spokesman Michael Drewniak called Zimmer’s claims “outlandishly false” in a statement to MSNBC.
Mayor: Christie aides tied Sandy funds to project
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Alexander Higgins to be in BBC Sandy Documentary
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
Eleven Days Before Xmas Sandy Hook Hoax
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Sandy Hook Shooting Investigation Report: Grim Details, No Motive
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Sandy Hook Police Ordered to Stand Down?
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
VIDEO: Sandra Bullock Meets Sidney Poitier — And Goes Bonkers!!!
It’s one thing to see regular fans go bananas over seeing their favorite stars, but how about when the celebs do it?! Sandra Bullock made everybody love her even more when she fangirled over meeting Sidney Poitier outside of Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood. First, Sandy waited for Sidney to finish up his conversation then swooped in and said: “Mr. Poitier, my name is Sandra Bullock. I think you are the most extraordinary human being.” And do you know what Mr. Poitier said?! “Are you an actress?” Sandy laughed it off saying she sidelines as an actress, and then Sid remembered EXACTLY who Miss Congeniality is and said: “You are! You are a great actress!”
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Sandy Hook School To Be Demolished To Hide Lack of Evidence
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Sandy Hook School To Be Demolished To Hide Lack of Evidence
Sunday, November 3, 2013
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Demolition Begins
Source: UPI
The demolition of Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School has quietly begun, Newtown’s highest elected official said 10 months after the mass murder.
“Small scale demo activity has begun and will accelerate over the next days,” First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra told television station WVIT, West Hartford, Conn.
“The process of demolition is incremental, staged precisely and executed carefully,” she said. “There is no wrecking-ball action. It is rather a piece-by-piece, section-by-section removal.”
The work site is shielded from public view to prevent anyone from taking photos or videos. Contractors taking down the school where 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members were killed Dec. 14 have signed confidentiality agreements, WVIT said.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Demolition Begins
A year after Superstorm Sandy, federal aid trickles in
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1 of 11. Christine Cina poses for a portrait in what is left of her house after Superstorm Sandy in the Staten Island borough of New York, September 20, 2013.
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(Reuters) – A year after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc across the eastern United States, only a fraction of the aid money earmarked for recovery has been used, in what some claim is a painfully slow and opaque process.
Only $ 5.2 billion of the pledged $ 47.9 billion had been tapped by cities and states by the end of August, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And tracking those funds has been complicated, lawmakers said.
“Transparency is woefully lacking. We don’t know where the money is. We know people have been approved for grants, but the money has not been distributed,” said New Jersey Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer, chair of the environment committee.
The historic storm killed at least 159 people and damaged more than 650,000 homes when it made landfall on October 29, 2012, devastating parts of New York, New Jersey and other states.
Three months after Sandy, Congress approved a $ 50 billion relief bill, which automatic federal spending cuts later reduced by 5 percent. It also authorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to borrow $ 9.7 billion to pay for Sandy claims.
The funds flow from the federal government to affected states, which hire contractors or give money to local governments to spend. Recipients as well as those who try to assist them say that accessing the money is exhausting.
“Everyone is so fatigued,” said Joseph Pupello, President of Zone A New York, a non-profit organization formed after the storm. “From the people who need help to the people who are helping.”
At first glance, Nicole and Steve Chati’s one-story house in Staten Island’s New Dorp Beach looks unscathed. But a rotten foundation makes it a total loss. As the Chatis talk about their problems, a chunk of plaster falls from the ceiling.
“It’s been hell. All I have done is fill out paperwork,” Nicole Chati said. “No one comes back to you with an answer.”
They say they’re supposed to get $ 250,000 from their NFIP flood insurance policy, but were offered $ 100,000 less, not enough to raze and rebuild.
TRACKING THE MONEY
Officials and watchdogs have struggled to get both sub-contractor level data and a big-picture view of Sandy funding. Local, state and federal officials say they have gone to great lengths to get money out as fast and transparently as possible.
“Red tape is a critical reality that frustrates our impacted residents more than it should. It’s awful for those suffering most, and we are working tirelessly to deal with it,” Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, said in an email to Reuters.
Seth Diamond, who is directing storm recovery for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, said there were many conditions, such as environmental reviews, the state must meet to spend the money.
“We’re at the point now where a substantial amount of money is starting to flow and will be flowing. We intend to be very clear about where it’s going,” Diamond said.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has conducted several probes that have led to charges or settlements, many with clean-up contractors and sub-contractors who allegedly didn’t pay workers enough, or at all.
Part of the problem in tracking funds is lack of a single source of information. The federal Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the watchdog for Sandy funding through 2015, says there is no way to identify Sandy sub-recipients in the clearinghouse for data on federal contracts.
That has also made it tricky for the Board to track down cases of fraud.
“Usually it’s not the state or the big city – they don’t run off with the money,” said Nancy DiPaolo, a Board assistant director. “It’s when it starts getting broken down and down and down. The big question is, who sees that?”
So far, the Board has focused on debris removal and found that some companies hired to do the work had federal and state tax liens. Others had been suspended or debarred from government contracting. Board representatives declined to name the firms.
Addressing the need for some control, New York City Councilman Donovan Richards Jr has spearheaded legislation that would create an online public database that lists Sandy aid details such as recipients, projects and subcontractors.
“It’s going to be a long process, but I’m confident it’s going to pass,” he said.
(Editing by Dina Kyriakidou and Gunna Dickson)
A year after Superstorm Sandy, federal aid trickles in
Sandy Hook Elementary School Demolition Begins
Source: UPI
The demolition of Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School has quietly begun, Newtown’s highest elected official said 10 months after the mass murder.
“Small scale demo activity has begun and will accelerate over the next days,” First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra told television station WVIT, West Hartford, Conn.
“The process of demolition is incremental, staged precisely and executed carefully,” she said. “There is no wrecking-ball action. It is rather a piece-by-piece, section-by-section removal.”
The work site is shielded from public view to prevent anyone from taking photos or videos. Contractors taking down the school where 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members were killed Dec. 14 have signed confidentiality agreements, WVIT said.
Sandy Hook Elementary School Demolition Begins
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Votes Are In: Sandy Hook Elementary Will Be Torn Down
Voters in Newtown, Conn., approved a plan to use nearly $ 50 million in state funds to build a new school in place of Sandy Hook Elementary. Here, a photo provided by Craig Hoekenga shows his son Trey, a kindergarten student at Sandy Hook, on the school bus this year. The window has a quote from the late principal, Dawn Hochsprung, who was killed in last December’s mass shooting.
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Voters in Newtown, Conn., approved a plan to use nearly $ 50 million in state funds to build a new school in place of Sandy Hook Elementary. Here, a photo provided by Craig Hoekenga shows his son Trey, a kindergarten student at Sandy Hook, on the school bus this year. The window has a quote from the late principal, Dawn Hochsprung, who was killed in last December’s mass shooting.
Craig Hoekenga/AP
In a referendum marked by a large turnout and an emphatic result, the people of Newtown, Conn., have voted to demolish Sandy Hook Elementary and build a new school. Sandy Hook was the scene of a mass shooting last December, when 20 children and six staff members were killed.
Saturday’s vote asked citizens to decide whether to take nearly $ 50 million in state money to fund the demolition of Sandy Hook and the planning and construction of a new school on essentially the same site.
“The vote was 4,504 yes to 558 no. The registrar of voters said Saturday’s referendum had the highest voter turnout the town has seen since the 2008 presidential election,” reports the News Times.
“I thought it was going to pass by at least 80 percent, but it’s more like 90 percent. It’s time to bring our children home,” Selectman James Gaston Sr. tells the Newtown Bee.
Since the attack, former students of Sandy Hook Elementary have been attending school in nearby Monroe, Connecticut.
“This was another hurdle overcome,” Board of Education Chair Debbie Leidlein tells the Bee. “Now we’re ready. We’ve got great plans moving forward to bring our families home.”
The Votes Are In: Sandy Hook Elementary Will Be Torn Down
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