This is utterly contemptible and despicable.
Thief claiming Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax steals playground sign
Someone stole the "centerpiece" of the playground built in honor of a Sandy Hook victim, then called the grieving family to taunt them.
A sign at the entrance of a new playground for Sandy Hook victim Grace McDonnell was stolen in Mystic Tuesday.
After the sign was taken, police said someone called the McDonnell family and claimed to have taken the sign because the Newtown shooting was a hoax.
Newtown truthers are those idiots running around who think the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. It's been fueled by web sites like Infowars online claiming it was a conspiracy and certain idiots like Alex Jones, some professor at FSU and various politicians like Martha Dean who WAS running for governor in CT up until yesterday.
The sign was set up by an organization that builds playgrounds across the country to honor the victims of the shooting. In this case it was for Sandy Hook victim Grace McConnell and the sign was one she herself drew while she was alive. It was a peace sign. It's the second such incident and comes just days after vandals painted graffiti at a playground in Hartford dedicated to Newtown victim Anna Grace Marquez-Greene. But this one went a step or two thousand beyond indecency because the asshole who stole it called the parents and taunted them claiming that the shooting was a hoax. Seems some gun nut truther is running around defacing these memorials to the children who died in Sandy Hook. There are 26 planned around communities throughout the area in honor of the people who died and they'll all be personalized with art and things from the victims. What these nuts don't realize is that the the communities as a whole and CT in general really doesn't take this lightly. They're a very tiny minority in CT and the more they do these types of despicable acts the more vehement opposition will be to them. If you watch the clip at the link above you'll see even the news guy was put off by this incident.
I don't even have words for these people. That's how much contempt I have for them. Anyone who claims to know the 'real truth' of Sandy Hook is someone who should be ridiculed and scolded as far as I'm concerned. To do this to a beautiful memorial set up in honor of a 6 year old whose life was cut short is beyond words. This scumsucker needs to be taken down hard and used as a example to other would be truther nuts that THIS CRAP WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! There aren't many of these nuts in CT, but enough of them to make noise, stir shit and expose barely healed wounds. They need to be beaten down like whack a moles every time they pop their filthy heads up.
Some additional comments and an update on Martha Deans gubernatorial campaign below...
Thankfully this Truther and GOP candidate for governor was knocked down quickly.
Martha Dean, Republican candidate for governor and former two-time Republican nominee for Connecticut Attorney General, announced Friday in a news release that she is withdrawing from the governor’s race.
According to the release, Dean said she met with her campaign advisors following today’s Quinnipiac Poll, in which she received only 5 percent support,
5% support in CT for gun nuts and Newtown Truthers. She was the gun nuts wet dream. Someone who not only stood up for their rights but was one of them. Dean is an attorney fighting for a repeal of the new gun laws in CT. She's a gun owner who believes that children should be taught to shoot guns. She had 'questions' that needed to be asked about whether the Newtown shooting was a hoax or not (because you're not a real gun nut unless you believe that the gov't would fake the shooting of 20 innocent children just so they could grab your guns). Oh and she had a messianic complex and believed that God told her to run for governor.
Well turns out that maybe God told her to run so she could learn some humility because she only polled 5% (although I'm sure gun nuts in CT will claim Quinnipiac is in the tank with gun grabbers). This goes to show that those who think Dems fighting for tougher gun laws in CT is a loser issue are ignorant of the politics of the state.