Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been re-creating the events of what was, at the time, the worst mass shooting in US History at the Century 16 theaters in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012. At the same time, I have been trying to give readers a peak into the mind of a conspiracy theorist and how it is we come up with these crazy ideas, which seem completely illogical to most so called “rational” human beings. My hope is to prove through this analysis that conspiracy theorists are not always irrational nut bags but rather they simply ask different questions than most people ask and those questions are what gets us into trouble.
First and foremost you must understand that a conspiracy theorist loves a good mystery and enjoys putting together the pieces to solve the mystery. This is what compels us to really dig into the details when the details of the official story don’t add up. I would wager to say that conspiracy theorists are not that much different from police detectives. Both types of individuals analyze the observable facts of a scene, interview witnesses (or review eye witness testimony) to try and re-enact the events that transpired, and then sort through all the conflicting information they may have to formulate their best guess as to what REALLY happened at the scene of the crime.
By now you should know that multiple eye witnesses in the early hours of the event were reporting possible additional shooters with descriptions that didn’t even remotely match that of the suspect, James Holmes. You also know that James Holmes appeared to be drugged out of his mind at his first court appearance (though arguably some believe he was faking). We also know that at least one person in the holding cell with James Holmes reported that Holmes had no memory of the shooting. Had it not been for those three facts and the fact that the chief of police would very quickly dismiss any possibility of additional accomplices, I might not have gone down the crazy conspiracy theory rabbit hole, but now that we’re here, let’s go all in.
Thus far I have been presenting the re-enactment in chronological order as best I can but this doesn’t tell the whole story. I have the advantage here of knowing what’s coming ahead (i.e. what came out in the months following the shooting that you may not know yet). So, when I cover this next section of the police and fire audio it may sound as if I’m really grasping at straws here and leaping to conclusions far too quickly. I ask that you trust me a little when I say there are a LOT of problems with the official story yet to be revealed which warrants a much closer examination of what transpired during the next section of the re-enactment. If you knew what I knew at this point, you may not be AS critical of my analysis. So let me give you just a little teaser.
In the days, weeks and months following the shooting it would be clear that officials in the case were deliberately trying to hide the truth about who James Holmes was, who his father was, what he was working on at the University of Colorado, and how he was tied to Adam Lanza, the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary that would take place later that year. It became clear that officials were tampering with evidence or even potentially planting false evidence to support the lone gunman theory. Officials would be caught making misleading statements to the press or even flat out lying about key elements in the case. Important verifiable facts were being dismissed or swept under the rug. In all, it appeared as the story progressed, that there was a LOT of reasons to suspect that law enforcement didn’t want the facts of the case getting out and were ACTIVELY working to conceal those facts.
I’ll be getting to all that juicy information in the weeks and months ahead, but suffice it to say that I had a very good reason to believe there were other accomplices involved with this shooting. A careful (and critical) analysis of the police and fire dispatch channels will reveal that there was a time during the early minutes of the shooting in which security was very lax (i.e. cars and suspects were allowed to flee the scene without being stopped or questioned by police). If there were multiple accomplices it seems quite easy for them to have slipped away in the early chaos of the scene. At some point in the early minutes following the shooting, the lights go out in the theater, additional suspects are seen fleeing the parking lot, and a major change in command happens at the rear of the theater. Once these additional suspects have fled the scene it is at that time that the shooters identity will officially be revealed on air as James Holmes and the official story begins to take form. IF there were additional accomplices it is almost as if one can note the very moment in which the accomplices are free and clear of the theater and the lone gunman theory can now officially begin.
And now the paranoia sets in.
One might start to imagine why I get more than a little nervous sharing my insights on this event. While most people will dismiss me immediately and label me a nut, there is a remote possibility that I’m actually on to something here. It may not be EXACTLY as I see it but what if it’s close? What if there really IS a conspiracy here that involves some very high ranking and powerful people with money to do something about it? What if this shooting actually IS tied to a multi TRILLION dollar scandal (another little teaser for ya)? If I’m on to something that big, I might have reason to fear that I’m going to have myself a little “accident” in the future before I spill my guts to someone who’s better at putting the pieces together than me. This fear has kept me from sharing my story for nearly 10 years. Is it worth it to share my thoughts if I MIGHT actually be right? Do I really want to risk death to share my story with a handful of readers?
Apparently so….which is another proof that conspiracy theorists are crazy.