The FEMA Manual, Really?
In an article, dated October 8, 2014, on his personal blog, Dr. James Tracy claims that a “newly discovered Federal Emergency Management-Department of Homeland Security document designated ‘For Official Use Only’ reveals plans for a ‘Site Activation Call-down Drill Exercise Plan,’ otherwise known as a ‘Mass Casualty Drill.’” According to Tracy, this document “explicitly references a scenario where the ‘Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms’” is followed by a “Suicide or Apprehension of (an) Unknown Shooter.” So FEMA, collaborating with the DHS, created a twenty-page plan on October 8, 2012, with an exercise date of December 14, 2012.
And where did Dr. Tracy locate “the newly discovered” document? Apparently from a YouTube video, the essence of speculative Internet research where anyone may produce opinions about anything, deceptive or truthful for a variety of reasons. Tracy’s “Drill Exercise Plan” is actually an MS document acquired from the Massachusetts Health and Human Services. Massachusetts HHS developed the template so that school districts or others in their state could plan their own drills. See that template here. When you visit the site, select Exercise Plan (ExPlan).
Tony Mead purportedly easily edited the template to convey the idea that FEMA and DHS planned a special federal operation at an unnamed location. Mead or whoever fabricated this deceptive document featured it in the YouTube video (for those who prefer video instead of actual research in primary documents) on October 7, 2014, the day before Tracy hyped it on his blog. The individual, Mead or whoever, using the dates above, included inaccurate information which deceived some people into thinking that FEMA announced an exercise plan. Conveniently, that video is no longer available. Coincidentally, as mentioned, that was the day before Tracy’s article. If not from YouTube, where did Tracy get his purported FEMA manual?
Tracy used to have a link purportedly showing this FEMA-generated plan, which, to be legitimate, should be on the FEMA web site, and not on his personal blog. Tracy deserves an “F” for his pathetic research standards. Was he exploiting his career credibility as a professor in an attempt to mislead people with this flagrant blatantly fraudulent document? Why would Tracy knowingly or in utter ignorance present it as a legitimate FEMA document? While FEMA and the DHS provide guidance on carrying out a drill, only local entities actually create and execute their own drill as indicated in the Target Capabilities List, A Companion to the National Preparedness Guidelines (September 2007).
Tracy wrote, “The document’s directs parties to direct queries to FEMA’s ‘Point of Contact’ person, Executive Director Tom Romano.” [1] That is the only name mentioned in the document, along with an incorrect (ignorance or deception) email address: Tom Romano, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 860-256-0844 (office) thomas.romano@ct.gove (should be Thomas.romano.ct.gov). A little research would reveal that Romano is the Regional Trainer for Region 5 for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. With only one name in the fabricated document, it lacks the definitive details such as the names of the participants that other drills and exercises have included:
http://files.meetup.com/1503563/ExPlan_03222011[1].pdf
http://info.publicintelligence.net/183-handout-EXPLAN.pdf
The document does state on page 15, “All communications (written, radio, telephone, etc.) made during the exercise will begin and end with the phrase, “This is a drill.” NONE of the communications among the first responders on 12/14/2012 included that statement.
After a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) has been declared, the senior paramedic at the scene establishes an Incident Command System (ICS) in order to direct every aspect of the incident. One critical component to the success of an ICS is strategically placing resources where they need to be. Incoming units approaching a scene without guidance cause chaos and confusion. The most efficient method is to initially place resources and incoming apparatus in a staging area away from the scene from which they can respond as necessary. This grouping of resources can then be assigned to fill needs in an orderly fashion. Even before 9/11, staging, such as at Columbine was positioned adjacent and not at the MCI or crime scene.
In 2003, FEMA established ICS as the national model for all MCSs. Wolfgang Halbig, with his online certificate, claims to teach the ICS system and also implies (manages to avoid lying) that the Justice Department and the Department of Education asked him to assist at Columbine the day after that event. If he really knows the particulars of the ICS system, that he claims to teach, then he would know that officials always establish a staging area away from the incident to avoid additional chaos and excessive vehicles, except as needed. He would know that officials would find it necessary to establish a check-in method of keeping track of anyone entering the crime scene.
Yes, that check-in method is the one that Tracy refers to as evidence that it was a drill, which has been thoroughly refuted by researchers, by the aerial shots and by numerous images such as the CBS News Special Report. The Connecticut Department of FEMA placed the sign at the firehouse, the staging area for the MCI, by the afternoon of December 15, 2012, the day after the shooting. This and every other claim made in Fetzer’s book has been thoroughly refuted. Fetzer’s cut-and-paste book is really a reiteration and a formalization of the speculative claims made within just six weeks of the event. Just in case someone missed seeing one of those early articles, he/she may now purchase or otherwise acquire the book.
It is unfortunate but true that immediately after a crisis, people want quick answers and tend to accept the first information that people generate. The days following a crisis are the most opportune time to saturate the population with disinformation. People certainly have a right to ask questions and display skepticism. However, responsible people should not make allegations or knowingly create deceptive “evidence” to deliberately lead people astray. There were some people who did that, whether intentionally or inadvertently, by fabricating and disseminating looped videos, claims that the school was closed, ridiculous theories about Christmas trees, applying inapplicable legislation about blood cleanup, questioning the way in which the authorities conducted the MCI based on unnamed sources, YouTube videos and web sites. One of the most outrageous claims is that Adam Lanza did not exist even though his photo is on page 70 in Fetzer’s book. He did exist and had the capacity to do what he did. His GPS shows trips to the Danbury AMC movie theater’s arcade. [2] One should also read the 61-page report that supports the five video tapes that officials made during their initial taping of the school. That report is #00118939 in the CFS 1200704597, SHES video Footage. It is available here.
Kay Wilson, Wolfgang Halbig’s current attorney, was a guest on James Fetzer’s Real Deal (Episode 67) to talk about her beliefs about Sandy Hook. Wilson said, “I no longer believe in the official narrative,” while stating that those who believed in the official Sandy Hook narrative were “drinking the Kool-Aid.” During that radio show, Fetzer and Wilson talked about the crime scene photos and both maintained the myth that SHES did not have Christmas decorations. Wilson also claimed that there was no writing on any of the “blackboards, green boards, or white boards, nothing.” She further claimed there was no children’s “pictures and drawings posted on the walls.” [3] So as you view these images, don’t believe your lying eyes; believe Fetzer and Wilson. Earlier, in her video, Sofia Smallstorm made the same claim about the lack of Christmas decorations.
The interesting thing is the denier’s repetitive refusal to even consider the answers they receive to the questions they have asked. If one is really looking for a civil and academic exchange of ideas and has been given evidence that should satisfy the questions; why do the deniers keep asking the same questions? Can’t they look into the official records for the answers? That is where they will find the answers to the questions that they ask. “They” are asking the same officials who created the official report so wouldn’t reading the report be appropriate? Shouldn’t they be interested in the information now available with the release of the final report?
On March 4, 2014, Halbig let the proverbial cat out of the bag. In my interview of him, at 14:05, I asked if he believed that no children were killed at Sandy Hook, he said, “I am not going to make that statement. As I talked with Dave Garity (Gahary), if they can answer those sixteen questions, if they’ll answer it, then children died; if they cannot answer those sixteen simple questions, I do not believe that any children or school staff member died on December 14, 2012.” Thereafter, on his web site, he stated, “Please all focus on those sixteen questions then we will move to the next set of questions.” Perhaps, for the lead deniers, it isn’t about acquiring new information, having their questions answered, accepting documented evidence, having a reasonable dialogue or acknowledging that individuals have refuted all of their initial claims. THEY DO NOT WANT ANSWERS but seem to be pushing an agenda and introducing skepticism and disseminating doubt. Who benefits?
Tracy, responsible for at least 140 pages or about a third (FEMA manual, timeline and one chapter) of Fetzer’s 377-page book, suggests that this event or what he classifies as a drill might have something to do with the eleven-thousand-page “script” (excess – NOT even in Hollywood) that Wolfgang Halbig, a dubious yet very effective provocateur for the Sandy Hook Hoaxer claims was used by the “Connecticut State Troopers.” That “script” is actually the CSP official report. Tracy wrote, “In July 2014 Wolfgang Halbig announced that Connecticut State Troopers intimated to him that the Sandy Hook event was ‘scripted,’ and that some had submitted false affidavits on what had taken place that day.” [4] Does that mean that every single person who had anything to do with the investigation over several months created and submitted falsified documents and images amounting to thousands of pages, now part of the final report?
In the genealogical world, also applicable to valid, credible research in general, there are specific standards for researchers as follows: (to protect the public)
- I will not publish or publicize as fact anything I know to be false, doubtful, or unproven; nor will I be a party, directly or indirectly, to such action by others.
- I will identify my sources for all information and cite only those I have personally used.
- I will quote sources precisely, avoiding any alterations that I do not clearly identify as editorial interpretations. [5]
Additionally, other people should be able to access and verify any and all sources that an individual uses to support their claims, either on a web site or in a book. If an individual cannot produce verifiable evidence of their claims, then those claims are nothing but hearsay or even worse, lies and/or propaganda.
[1] James Tracy, FEMA/DHS 12/14/12 Plan for “Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms,” October 8, 2014, memoryholeblog.com/2014/10/08/femadhs-12142012-plan-for-mass-death-of-children-at-a-school-by-firearms/, last viewed 3/11/2016
[2] Reed Coleman, GPS data indicates that arcade footage showed Sandy Hook shooter, 2/15/2016, https://sandyhooklighthouse.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/gps-data-indicates-that-arcade-footage-showed-sandy-hook-shooter/, viewed 3/17/2016 and here: http://www.newsweek.com/sandy-hook-lawsuit-adam-lanza-429526
[3] CW Wade, Sandy Hook Hoax Attorney L Kay Wilson Announces Wolfgang Halbig FOIA Withdrawn, 3/18/2016, http://sandyhookanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/03/sandy-hook-hoax-attorney-l-kay-wilson.html, last viewed 3/18/2016
[4] James Tracy, FEMA/DHS 12/14/12 Plan for “Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms,” October 8, 2014, memoryholeblog.com/2014/10/08/femadhs-12142012-plan-for-mass-death-of-children-at-a-school-by-firearms/, last viewed 3/11/2016
[5] Board for Certification of Genealogists’ Standards of Conduct, http://www.bcgcertification.org/aboutbcg/code.html
Note: As of 2/25/2017: James Tracy’s website is malware infected.
Sandy Hoax was just that. A HOAX where nobody died (thankfully).
There were many open casket funerals of the Sandy Hook victims that were attended by hundreds of people. For instance, please view https://screeningsandyhook.net/2017/12/16/dawn-hochsprung-heroine/
Please also view https://screeningsandyhook.net/2016/06/09/sandy-hook-was-open-and-functioning