Sandy Hook Truthers Hijack Book Reviews of Victim's Mom
(Newser) – The mother of one of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary has written a book about healing and recovery. Problem? A group known as the Sandy Hook truthers are using the Amazon reviews to trash author Scarlett Lewis—and to push their belief that the shooting was a hoax orchestrated by the government to get tougher gun laws, reports the Seattle Times. It's nasty stuff: “Scarlett Lewis is a fraud and a sellout to all of humanity,” writes one. “‘Scarlett’ should be put in jail! Zero Stars!! This book should be labled ((FICTION)) The Sandy Hook Event is PROVEN to have been a ‘drill,'" writes another. They're giving Lewis' Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey of Hope and Forgiveness one-star ratings in an attempt to discredit it, which the newspaper says is an increasingly common tactic made possible by Amazon's policy of allowing reviews of products by people who haven't actually made a purchase.
9/11 Truthers are a relatively nutty bunch but I can far more easily "see where they are coming from" given my distrust of the Bush Administration, etc.. Some stuff is intriguing, much of it really nutty. I do not recall them being particulary vile or offensive. Maybe some of them were, I do not recall it leaping at at me.
This isn't about them, though; this is just putting things into context and perspective.
This is about Sandy Hook Truthers, a particularly vile, ugly group of severely delusional people who's delusions are based a lot on what I will call gun culture paranoia: there's a lot wrapped in it, really, but this is merely an 'article' about SHT (Sandy Hook Truthers), not a doctoral dissertation into the processes and dynamics that will merely be touched upon. More about that later.
These people haven't really been on my radar, so to speak: they burst onto it from time to time, such as when that one nutbag stole a memorial sign from a play ground
After stealing the 50-pound sign from the Grace McDonnell playground, the man called McDonnell’s mother saying he did it because he believes the shooting at the school was a hoax, according to CBS2.
According to the mother, Lynn McDonnell, the man told her that her daughter “never existed.”
These are many of the elements of the SHT delusion.
More over the Fleur-du-kos
1: The shooting never really happened. It was a drill.
2: Actors were extensively used to fabricate the events which they say were made for TV. (Expression of the wingnuts' mistrust of "mainstream media"?)
3: Telling people their children didn't exist.
4: Obama is mixed up in it, of course. He's a busy tyrant.
So these vile delusional nutjobs decided to roll out en masse (since they can do it from their mom's basements) to attack this mom who suffered an unbelievably painful loss.
The book is on Amazon and is titled: Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother's Journey of Hope and Forgiveness. Link provided partly as a normal bit of posting excerpts, but, in this case to encourage and enable people to easily go uprate comments or buy her book.
As of this writing, the SHT are getting their butts handed to them with 5 star ratings at 77% and the SHT 1 star ratings at 18%.
The SHTers are evil, ugly, mean-spirited, fucking insane people. And I think they are ALL deep into gun culture.
Let's see some of their work: of course this is cherry picked - many of the SHT comments are 1 stars with barely a sentence bemoaning the event as 'fiction' so I have chosen meatier and uglier comments. Just sayin'
61 of 385 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
When the governor said that he was warned that something like this may happen in his state at a nationally ...
By Arthur Wilmeth on October 16, 2015
Format: Hardcover
I find this story very hard to believe when there was no real investigation into what happened on 12/14/2012. So many questions have gone unanswered and brushed by the wayside. When the governor said that he was warned that something like this may happen in his state at a nationally televised news conference. When questioned by a nationally recognized school safety expert as to who told him that something like this tragedy could happen the governor flat out lied and said he never said any such thing. Watch this very informative video on Sandy Hook called " We Need To Talk About Sandy Hook."
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59 of 388 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 starsDon't get ripped off !!
By Operation Truth on October 16, 2015
Format: Paperback
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK !! This book is based on pure lies. The Sandy Hook Elementary did not have a school shooting, this was a Hoax that was used to create laws under false pretense !! Instead of buying this book, research the video called "We need to talk about Sandy Hook" And here's the best part... It's FREE to watch the video. These people are profiting off of LIES, and they are erasing truth from history. This is Fraud, Treason, And Tyranny.
41 of 291 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Positively Revolting
By CS Ripley on September 19, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
Positively revolting. Unless you believe in magic, this syrupy account is not to be believed. It appears to be a story, cooked up by an opportunistic writer of fiction (Rose's Foal,) who asks the reader to believe that her first grade son would leave posthumous guidance in the form of a chalkboard message" Nurturing, Healing and Love." The cover of the book is merely a representation of the original note - yet created to look as though written by a child. Ms. Lewis has turned her son's murder into a vocation, and is currently on tour with her latest brainstorm, where she charges $20 bucks a head to preach about compassionate schools. (Even if his teachers or his classmates had murdered him, the national initiative she is selling makes little or no sense, except as quasi entertainment.) According to Ms. Lewis, the day her son was murdered was the “world’s greatest day of compassion.” (Diabetics need to have insulin close at hand before reading.)
52 of 357 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars The good news is nobody died.
By Amazon Customer on October 16, 2015
Format: Paperback
"Scarlett" should be put in jail! Zero Stars!! This book should be labled ((FICTION)) The Sandy Hook Event is PROVEN to have been a "drill". If you are reading this and didn't know that this event was a staged psycological operation... you should do some research. ;) ...The good news is nobody died.
So you should get the picture: it's all one big farce, it never happened, nobody actually got killed.
Raw Story
“Scarlett Lewis, YOU ARE A LYING B*TCH!” Joe Jones posted to the YouTube video of Lewis talking to a TEDx audience about her book and slain child. Searching Lewis’ name on YouTube turns up videos made by people intent on besmirching her as a scam artist.
The coordinated attack on Lewis has Amazon users giving the book a one-star rating, which the Times says is a new tactic to silence people. Before the conspiracy theorists found the Amazon page, the book was getting largely positive reviews and five stars, the highest rating.
“Increasingly… people are launching coordinated campaigns to push political and social agendas through negative reviews often only tangentially related to the product for sale,” Times reporter Jay Greene writes. “They are able to do so because Amazon welcomes reviews regardless of whether the writer has actually purchased the product.”
As you can see by the numbers on the posts, the Amazon comments came and kicked the SHT out of their ugly comments.
They are doubtlessly helping to sell the book at this point as so many people seem incensed by their conduct and ugliness:
104 of 116 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsConspiracy nuts need to unite. I have an idea.
By iGertrudeon October 31, 2015
This is an incredible story about a horrendous event that never should have happened. That this mother was able to make it past this cold dark day only to be attacked by these nut cases is a horrible reflection of our society. Free speech and all that but to attack a mother who has lost a child?
Someone must have tipped the trailer park and let all of these barely literate out.
Truthers? All of your friends are here and they are waiting for you. Conspiracy theorists UNITE: http://www.amazon.com/...
86 of 100 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Is there anyone worse than the sandy hook truthers
By Shad S. Carson on October 31, 2015
Format: Hardcover
Is there anyone worse than the sandy hook truthers? They are the most vile, sleazy, knuckle dragging mouth-breathers around. Do the world a favor and disappear.
heh.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsLove Conquers All
By Kindle Customer on November 1, 2015
Format: Hardcover
No mother should outlive their child. In December 2012, Scarlett Lewis' young son was executed in a wholly preventable crime while he attended Sandy Hook elementary. He died helping others, leading his fellow students to safety. Afterwards, his mother found the words 'nurturing, healing, love' written on the kitchen chalkboard, her son's last message. It became her motto.
Note About Ratings: Whilds these families seek peace and help others they are victimized by a group of annonymous anarchists who can not fathom reality. These bullies delude themselves and claim threy are 'truth seekers'. Their real agenda is to silence all diuscussion on gun control any way they can. This includes harrasing the victims families anonymously online and evedn demanding publishingv of autopsy and crime scene photos. Then medua are reporting that there is an organized brigade to give this book (they have not read it) low or negative ratings. They claim Ms. Lewis is an actor and that her son never existed.. seriously. They have a paranoid delusion that this book is part of a conspiracy to 'get their guns.' They forget that gun ownership is protected by the constitution but know there are many who think the Adam Lanzas of the world should not to have guns and that background checks should include mental healthg issues. Perhaps their concern is that if mental health patients can not have a gun, they may not qualify. It is possible that paranoia, inability to face reality and harrassing people whose young children were murdered might get them a ticket to a professional evaluation.
The review brigade backfired. I found this book after media coverage of the harassment. I actually bought and read the book and had seen her Tedx talk. It is obvious that Scarlett lives and has lived in love andx taught her sonbs to do so. She explains her choice (and that it was a conscious one) to love and forgive rather than live in anger and hate. Her surviving older son has also chosen to love and channels his grief into a charity for victims of genocide in Rawanda. Scarkett Lewis talks about her journey and shows by example how to forgive those (even yourself) who have caused pain. It requires a lot of strength, which Scarlett has in spades.
86 of 97 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A journey I could never make, amazing attitude after unthinkable tragedy
By JDThird TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE on October 31, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
For the "truthers" - get a life. Stop bothering normal people with your psychobabble. Put the tin foil hats on and hide in your basement.
Honestly, why do you paranoid people even have computers? I thought you believed aliens and Elvis could control you through electronics?
For Scarlett Lewis - this is a book I never could have written. I hear something like Sandy Hook, and my empathy knows no bounds. I have a son who just turned 12. And any time I hear about things like this on the news, I instantly put myself in the position of a parent that's suffering through whatever just happened, and as horrible and empty as I feel even just CONTEMPLATING it happening to me, I know that's not even a drop of water in all the oceans of the world compared to the real thing. And even that infinitesimal part of the actual emotions that I imagine is enough to make a heart break... I have no idea how anyone survives the actual ordeal. But to come out on the other side with the attitude she found? This is a journey I can honestly say I would never be able to make. If my son were murdered like that, with so many others, I honestly don't think I'm the kind of person who could come out with anything positive. It's a journey I hope I never have to trudge, but I know I'd want someone like this with me, even if I couldn't reach that point myself.
The SHT have come on to my radar and will be staying there because their delusional thinking is actually deeply tied to gun culture paranoia. They are quite deeply linked and as we all attempt to do something about gun violence in our own ways, mine is more and more a focus on attacking these ridiculous ideas people hold about guns and how they then cling on to these ideas as reality and base real-life decisions on these ultra-nutty ideas.
And it's not remotely funny: the sheer evil of their comments on this woman's book page, that nutjob stealing the memorial sign and telling the mom she never had that child - or a sheriff in Oregon buying into this stuff and he had his own school massacre to deal with
The month after the December 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, Sheriff John Hanlin of Douglas County, Oregon, posted a video called "The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed" to his personal Facebook page. The video makes a number of conspiratorial claims, including about there being more than one shooter and that the grieving parents who appeared on news reports were acting.
Probably not the man for the job, really.
When people tell me that things aren't real and go into 'people were actors' I can't help but think of people I have worked with who were suffering from psychosis and all paranoid of SHTers is directly due to bullshit they believe about guns and the federal government non-existent plot to confiscate them.
They aren't funny at all.