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Activist judges denying alterrnative reality 
Full (long): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...threats-prison
Some gems:
Florida woman who believed that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school was a hoax was sentenced to five months in prison this week for threatening the father of six-year-old Noah Pozner, one of the 20 young victims who died in the shooting.
US district judge, James Cohn, called Lucy Richards’ actions towards Leonard Pozner “disturbing” and condemned those who spread false claims about the deaths of 20 children and six adults in the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, five years ago.
“This is reality and there is no fiction. There are no alternative facts,” Cohn told Richards, 57, at her sentencing.
“You have the absolute right to think and believe as you so desire,” the judge said. “You do not have the right to transmit threats to another.”
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US district judge, James Cohn, called Lucy Richards’ actions towards Leonard Pozner “disturbing” and condemned those who spread false claims about the deaths of 20 children and six adults in the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, five years ago.
“This is reality and there is no fiction. There are no alternative facts,” Cohn told Richards, 57, at her sentencing.
“You have the absolute right to think and believe as you so desire,” the judge said. “You do not have the right to transmit threats to another.”
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Full (long): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...threats-prison
Some gems:
Other family members of public shooting victims have described similar harassment. Chris Hurst, whose girlfriend, 24-year-old journalist Alison Parker, was shot to death on live television, said he has received messages accusing him of being a “crisis actor” paid by the government, and claims that Parker is still alive, got plastic surgery and now lives in Israel.
(...) Florida university professor James Tracy, another Sandy Hook denier, who was fired after the Pozners wrote an op-ed describing him as “chief among the conspiracy theorists”, a man who had “even sent us a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived”
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