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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 07:47 PM Jan 2020

After years of pushing Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, Florida man who worked with Alex Jones is arr

Source: Hartford Courant

A Florida man who is the ringleader of a group that has hounded the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting was arrested early Monday morning by sheriffs and charged with unlawful possession of personal identification of another person.

Wolfgang Halbig has spent years trying to show the shooting was a hoax and that the 20 children who died were actually actors -- as recently as the last few weeks he posted photos of children that he claimed were actually current photos of the victims. Halbig was arrested at 1:39 a.m. at his Sorrento, Florida home, according to the police report.

Halbig is accused of publishing and circulating Pozner’s personal information including his social security number and home address. Pozner has moved several times since leaving Connecticut after the shooting.

Halbig is also a defendant in the civil lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook victims families against Alex Jones, the host of the Infowars internet radio program. The families are suing Jones for claiming the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax, and argue that he profited by spreading the hoax claim.


Read more: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-sandy-hook-truther-arrest-20200127-pvgfk2dgwzebzc63pp73nqitli-story.html



I hope he gets taken to the cleaners and has to spend a long time in jail.
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After years of pushing Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, Florida man who worked with Alex Jones is arr (Original Post) 47of74 Jan 2020 OP
I hope he gets smeared with jelly and eaten by fire ants FiveGoodMen Jan 2020 #1
That's good but FYI TexasProgresive Jan 2020 #10
PETA wouldn't like that whistler162 Jan 2020 #12
Anyway, anyhow. warmfeet Jan 2020 #15
Carpet tacks and Alcohol ZERTErYNOthe Jan 2020 #20
Is it just me, or do the number of grifters increase the further right you go... Thomas Hurt Jan 2020 #2
There does seem to be a correlation...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #19
Grift in the DNA Mopar151 Jan 2020 #23
A lifetime of being taught to swallow bullshit and think it's chocolate...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #24
You are on to something. The creation of the internet has magnified human behaviour - OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #29
Oh happy day! I think the Pozners have moved at least 7 times because of his efforts catrose Jan 2020 #3
Typical magat. paleotn Jan 2020 #4
It's about time. Nitram Jan 2020 #5
They're is no bottom on the Right. They just keep going lower. dem4decades Jan 2020 #6
Why don't we ever hear about yuiyoshida Jan 2020 #7
Posting someone's SSN? Grokenstein Jan 2020 #8
The guy is scum. JDC Jan 2020 #9
Special place in hell. And yeah, why is Alex Jones still walking around? Un-incarcerated, that is. Evolve Dammit Jan 2020 #11
Here's his mug shot ... marble falls Jan 2020 #13
Rotten motherfucker Ahpook Jan 2020 #14
He seems nice . . . hatrack Jan 2020 #16
Nice and what? marble falls Jan 2020 #18
Looks about as sound of body Grokenstein Jan 2020 #21
He looks like jones' brother. 🤮 catbyte Jan 2020 #25
They're both mouth breathers. When I moved to Austin in 2000, I saw him on the cable access ... marble falls Jan 2020 #26
I've added the missing paragraph that explains who Pozner is. gristy Jan 2020 #17
A good start plenty more need rounded up Dukkha Jan 2020 #22
These people are deranged. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jan 2020 #31
K&R! n/t PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #27
Lock him up! Devil Child Jan 2020 #30

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
10. That's good but FYI
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 08:35 PM
Jan 2020

Fire ants aren't sugar fiends. Smear him with fresh vegetable oil. They don't like rancid.

Mopar151

(9,980 posts)
23. Grift in the DNA
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 10:49 PM
Jan 2020

Crossbreed crooked preachers, slumlords, bent bankers, and a closet full of perverts - what could go wrong????

OAITW r.2.0

(24,455 posts)
29. You are on to something. The creation of the internet has magnified human behaviour -
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 11:33 AM
Jan 2020

for the better, but also for the worst.

It's scumbags like this person who are most certainly in Trump's close orbit. They are cowardly anti-socialist/anti-democratic forces that influence and warp half of our voting population.

Talk about a deadly virus....

catrose

(5,065 posts)
3. Oh happy day! I think the Pozners have moved at least 7 times because of his efforts
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 07:52 PM
Jan 2020

The Pozner family is the only Jewish family of the Sandy Hook families, which seems appropriate to point out on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I've always thought their faith had something to do with their persecution.

paleotn

(17,911 posts)
4. Typical magat.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 07:55 PM
Jan 2020

When I think magats can't possibly get anymore depraved, they drop the bar even further. I have no idea how these people live with themselves. No idea.

Ahpook

(2,749 posts)
14. Rotten motherfucker
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 09:43 PM
Jan 2020

I can already hear him from that expression alone. Something to the tune of "Why is this happening to meeee" or very similar.

White trash hick!

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
26. They're both mouth breathers. When I moved to Austin in 2000, I saw him on the cable access ...
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 10:54 PM
Jan 2020

and thought he was a brilliant comedian. Two weeks later I knew he was looney toons.

gristy

(10,667 posts)
17. I've added the missing paragraph that explains who Pozner is.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 09:50 PM
Jan 2020

A Florida man who is the ringleader of a group that has hounded the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting was arrested early Monday morning by sheriffs and charged with unlawful possession of personal identification of another person.

Wolfgang Halbig has spent years trying to show the shooting was a hoax and that the 20 children who died were actually actors — as recently as the last few weeks he posted photos of children that he claimed were actually current photos of the victims. Halbig was arrested at 1:39 a.m. at his Sorrento, Florida, home, according to the police report.

The 73-year-old posted a $5,000 cash bond and is due back in court on Feb. 24. A complaint against Halbig was filed by Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was among the children killed at Sandy Hook.

Halbig is accused of publishing and circulating Pozner’s personal information, including his social security number and home address. Pozner has moved several times since leaving Connecticut after the shooting.

Dukkha

(7,341 posts)
22. A good start plenty more need rounded up
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 10:29 PM
Jan 2020

The amount of damage done by InfoWars, 4-Chan and the YouTube Facebook conspiracy groups is incalculable and irreversible.
Watch the Vice video The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement, if you can, which includes that sub human troll Halbig. It'll invoke so much rage against these assholes you'll actually lose weight watching it. I'm amazed how calm that pastor is who gets confronted by them.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
28. These people are deranged.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:48 PM
Jan 2020

What continues to shock me is how cock-sure they are of their view point. That they continue to harass and bully the survivors and families of the dead is just sick. The lunatic that calls himself "side thorn" is nothing but a bully with a foul mouth. That seems to be one of the requirements for these people. Their outrage at being called out for their harassment and denial of the facts in these events just reinforces their inability to feel anything but hate, cloaked in belligerence and vulgarity.

My niece is a survivor of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Highschool Massacre. She was in the classroom next door to the room where many students died. She knew every one of the dead students. They were her friends, peers and classmates. I've written about this on DU many times. We are coming up on the two year anniversary of the shooting. We are all holding our collective breath as we brace for another onslaught by the media to "see how the community has held up." It would be better if they left Parkland alone. All their reporting does is rip open the wounds that remain still open and bring out the nutbags like those in this video.

My niece continues to recover, but it will be a life-long struggle. She will never be the same bubbly, carefree ray of sunshine that she once was. She still has nightmares. She still has flashbacks. She still can't handle loud, sudden, sharp noises. She is still in therapy.

Alex Jones and all of his carbon copycat peers will burn in Hell for what he and they have done to the people whose lives have been irrevocably altered by mass gun violence. I live with that justice.

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