The "just make stuff up" Natural News immediately pounced on the latest tradgedy, grasping at any straw of suspicion. Here's what they came up with so far, and I'm sure there's more to come:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036707_Sikh_temple_shooting_witnesses.html
But the very idea that there were four shooters, and the plan was to pretend there was only one, should be something that needs no debunking. Consider there was around fifty eyewitnesses, it's entirely ridiculous to suggest that nobody would notice there were four shooters.
And then Natural News goes on to cast suspicions on their witnesses:
It's sad that these things now immediately result in conspiracy theories. But perhaps it's an inevitable result of the coagulation of the conspiracy culture on the internet. Debunkers need to be quick to address any errors immediately - even preemptively - to avoid this needless and hurtful speculation.
http://www.naturalnews.com/036707_Sikh_temple_shooting_witnesses.html
Neither of the witnesses were inside the temple. The first young man had things told to him by a priest who called using his father's phone (his father was killed). The second says "from what I've been told ..." when describing what happened, and gives the time as a very vague sometime "between ten and ten thirty".
The official and repeating scenario ("we believe there was only one shooter") has already been contradicted.
Two witnesses (one who was apparently inside the temple and one outside who obtained information from his father) state there were multiple shooters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zYCurbSAsd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9ecdSKi9_fs
The second witness says four white males unleashed a coordinated attack inside the temple. The first witness says gas was released.
But the very idea that there were four shooters, and the plan was to pretend there was only one, should be something that needs no debunking. Consider there was around fifty eyewitnesses, it's entirely ridiculous to suggest that nobody would notice there were four shooters.
And then Natural News goes on to cast suspicions on their witnesses:
Again it's ludicrous speculation. These were men who were also NOT AT TEMPLE. So it seems reasonable that they would not be the most religiously observant members of the community. Here they are casting aspersions on a young man whose father was killed.As with the two witnesses in Aurora who contradicted the official scenario, these two in Wisconsin are remarkably calm.
Neither Wisconsin man is wearing the ubiquitous Sikh turban. One man has a beard (traditional for Sikhs). The other man is clean shaven. Unusual. They both cut their hair---not traditional for Sikhs. I'm bringing this up because sometimes witnesses are planted, for various reasons, to offer misleading accounts.
It's sad that these things now immediately result in conspiracy theories. But perhaps it's an inevitable result of the coagulation of the conspiracy culture on the internet. Debunkers need to be quick to address any errors immediately - even preemptively - to avoid this needless and hurtful speculation.
