{"id":130497,"date":"2016-04-26T23:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/on-the-profound-cruelty-of-conspiracy-addicts.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:10:07","slug":"on-the-profound-cruelty-of-conspiracy-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/on-the-profound-cruelty-of-conspiracy-addicts.html","title":{"rendered":"On the profound cruelty of conspiracy addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sincerely trying to understand how some people could be so cruel, so incomprehending, so blindly devoted to a cause that they would ignore the potential of what pain they are causing if they are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, is this gunnuttery? Is it anti-government whack-a-doodltry? Is it just sheer psychopathic insanity? What would lead people to not only question the Sandy Hook school massacre, but actively harass and threaten the parents of the children who were killed there?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2232-my-son-died-at-sandy-hook-conspiracy-nuts-think-im-lying.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/z9E5siM9rq_Mh0gByo7wCT1gYPMG26wLEBlpCEw8M06MTsRMmfQT75DUuA2EDcGhtQYVHCAUhWJ5-yJ_EQfp6ifG-Qd-WDeULVMtomctxxPbn5Ft0bVY_w=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2232-my-son-died-at-sandy-hook-conspiracy-nuts-think-im-lying.html'>6 Horrifying Realities Of Dealing With Sandy Hook &#8216;Truthers&#8217;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHow long do you think it takes conspiracy theorists to turn nasty after a national tragedy? A year? A month? Nope: Immediately.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EKBaos47Ury'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sincerely trying to understand how some people could be so cruel, so incomprehending, so blindly devoted to a cause that they would ignore the potential of what pain they are causing if they are wrong. I mean, is this gunnuttery? Is it anti-government whack-a-doodltry? Is it just sheer psychopathic insanity? What would lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/on-the-profound-cruelty-of-conspiracy-addicts.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the profound cruelty of conspiracy addicts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,381,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/the-obama-muslim-conspiracy-is-really-a-jewish-conspiracy.html","url_meta":{"origin":130497,"position":0},"title":"The Obama Muslim Conspiracy Is Really a Jewish Conspiracy?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Mar-16 4:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Silly White Supremacists. 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