Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

The mainstream media is going bananas over the court decision against Jim Fetzer. I want to repeat that I am not taking a position on Sandy Hook, and I am not accusing Leonard Pozner of any wrongdoing, nor am I saying that his son Noah didn't die at Sandy Hook. But, I do want to look at  a widely circulated claim concerning it: that an image of Noah Pozner appeared among the victims from the Peshawar, Pakistan school shooting in which 132 students were killed.   

The attack was attributed to a militant Pakistani group called 

 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, 


But, it has no association with Afghan Taliban which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, who denounced the attack. And obviously, it must be realized that they didn't do it and had no connection to those that did because otherwise, why would Trump be paying the Afghan Taliban to negotiate, aiming to put them back in power in Afghanistan to some extent? 

So, here is the image, which is universally admitted to be Noah Pozner, which appeared in the photo taken on the day that the Peshawar massacre happened. 

So what is the explanation for this admittedly odd circumstance? I am not offering one, but I am reporting one by David Mikkelson, the founder of snopes.com. 

David Mikkelson

David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO). In his ever-dwindling moments of free time away from snopes.com, David can be spotted at board gaming events and conventions.

So, here is his explanation:



"A number of explanations might apply to this puzzling photograph. The first is that an image of Pozner was mistakenly included in the vigil by someone who turned up his picture while performing an online search using a term such as “December school massacre” to find photos of those killed in Peshawar and and did not recognize his face (because he had dark hair and facial features not unlike those of many of the victims in Peshawar). Another is that his image was deliberately included by mourners as an homage in order to publicly link multiple incidents of young, innocent victims’ losing their lives in senseless school shootings.
In fact, the second explanation offered above appears to be what happened: On the day of the Peshawar incident a Pakistani woman created a collage of photographs of young people killed in school shootings and posted it to Facebook with the caption “They Went to School and Never Came Back.” Because the Peshawar shooting occurred very close to the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, she included a picture of a child from the latter event, namely Noah Pozner, along with pictures of Peshawar victims."

RC: Oh, OK. So, even though 132 children were killed that day at Peshawar, it occurred to some Pakistani woman to make a collage that included an American child who was killed  at a school here for the sake of global solidarity, and it's a small world after all. She had that thought on the very day of the Peshawar shooting. Wow. That is amazing because I would think that her mind would be totally on the children who had just been killed. But, I guess the mind can do whatever it wants.