I just came across some articles from the magazine The Week that I put in a book and forgot they were there. Maybe I should have left them there. The first, from 2/1/13 from Slate.com reports on a You Tube video stating that the Sandy Hook elementary school killings in Connecticut never really happened. Instead the video says that a "elaborate conspiracy staged by the government" faked the event-having actors playing the parts of the parents and children, and with the children still alive-to set the stage for a plan to take all guns away from Americans. This is called "gun massacre trutherism" and it also happened after the Aurora and Virginia Tech killings. This group is supported by the NRA who are telling people that there is a "massive Obama conspiracy" to take guns away. (Its been a year now, I'll have to google this to see what is being said.
Second, is the news from the same edition about Sec't of State Chuck Hagel-a decorated and wounded Vietnam War vet-who had always believed the war was just but had "gone wrong". In 1997 the government release tapes from LBJ in 1964 "confessing that the US couldn't win in Vietnam" but LBJ decided "his legacy" demanded that he keep us in the war. Hagel is today deeply set against war and the possible loss of more American lives. He became more anti-war when letters from his father-who served in the Pacific during WWII-stated that "if I thought I would ever have a son who would have to go through this, I would never get married". This is personal in a way because when I was drafted in 1967 my father said nothing to me about what might lay ahead; and he had a government deferment during WWII.
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