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Showing Original Post only (View all)This man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it [View all]
Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
I dont know what to do, sighed Gene Rosen. Im getting hang up calls, Im getting some calls, Im getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that Im lying, that Im a crisis actor, how much am I being paid? Someone posted a photo of his house online. There have been phony Google+ and YouTube accounts created in his name, messages on white supremacist message boards ridiculing the emotional Jewish guy, and dozens of blog posts and videos exposing him as a fraud. One email purporting to be a business inquiry taunted: How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the shooting. What is the going rate for getting involved in a govt sponsored hoax anyway?
The quantity of the material is overwhelming, he said. So much so that a friend shields him from most of it by doing daily sweeps of the web so Rosen doesnt have to. His wife is worried for their safety. Hes logged every email and every call, and consulted with a retired state police officer, who took the complaint seriously but said police probably cant do anything at the moment, and he plans to do the same with the FBI.
What did Rosen do to deserve this? One month ago, he found six little children and a bus driver at the end of the driveway of his home in Newtown, Connecticut. We cant go back to school, one little boy told Rosen. Our teacher is dead. He brought them inside and gave them food and juice and toys. He called their parents. He sat with them and listened to their shocked accounts of what had happened just down the street inside Sandy Hook Elementary, close enough that Rosen heard the gunshots.
In the hours and days that followed, Rosen did a lot of media interviews. I wanted to speak about the bravery of the children, and it kind of helped me work through this, he told Salon in an interview. I guess I kind of opened myself up to this.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/this_man_helped_save_six_children_is_now_getting_harassed_for_it/
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So anyone who thinks they see a conspiracy "has nothing to do with the truth"?
freedom fighter jh
Jan 2013
#18
It's a shame that those here who believed that Iraq didn't have WMDs didn't have such a forum
EOTE
Jan 2013
#21
This country has become a country of crackpots. How sad. I hope once our President
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#3
Your right but it seems to have gotten worse. I wonder if every time there is a dem president
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#37
What kills me they will go after dems for the silly stupid stuff. While Watergate and Iran Contra
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#60
One of the really bad aspects are the likes of Beck, Savage, Limbaugh, Jones and similar
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#39
That was a dream. I hope this doesn't continue every time there is a dem elected to
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#59
I think one of those laws President Obama should call for is to make this kind of
lunatica
Jan 2013
#8
If they're doing it online in blogs and through email the proof is very easy to find
lunatica
Jan 2013
#53
I think they have harrassed the mother of the Jewish boy who made sure his coffin was open.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#64