Boca Raton, FL – Florida University Ousts Professor Who Called U.S. Massacres Hoaxes

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    Florida Atlantic University professor James TracyBoca Raton, FL – Florida Atlantic University has dismissed a professor who said massacres at a Connecticut elementary school and a county office building in San Bernardino, California, were staged, the university said.

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    Media professor James Tracy’s last day at the university in Boca Raton will be Friday, the school said in a statement after alerting him of the decision in a letter on Tuesday.

    Tracy, 50, has worked at the university since 2002. He could not be reached on Wednesday and his attorney, Thomas Johnson, declined to comment.

    Tracy’s website, MemoryHoleBlog.com, gained notice in 2013 after he claimed the December 2012 massacre by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged by “crisis actors” hired by the Obama administration. The attack killed 26 people, including 20 children.

    Last month, the university said it would seek to fire Tracy after he sent a letter to the parents of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner demanding proof they were his parents. On his blog, Tracy called them “alleged parents” and accused Lenny and Veronique Pozner of fabricating their son’s death certificate to cash in on the tragedy.

    The Pozners accused Tracy of harassment. “He has shown no remorse and continues to conceive conspiracy theories out of each new mass shooting,” they wrote in a Dec. 10 letter in the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.

    Tracy also said the San Bernardino incident, in which a militant Muslim couple killed 14 people last month, was a hoax.

    The university gave Tracy 10 days to respond to its Dec. 16 announcement of his planned firing. He never replied, the school said.

    The official reason for Tracy’s termination was that he twice failed to submit forms explaining outside activities in order for university administrators to address potential conflicts of interest.

    “By simply submitting the completed activity form, you would have been compliant with no further discipline,” university Vice Provost Diane Alperin wrote in a letter on Tuesday.


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    Curiosity
    Curiosity
    8 years ago

    So a harmless professor gets fired for conspiracy theories against Obama, but the medical student at UCLA (that gets actual floor time at David Geffen Medical Center hospital interacting with patients) who openly calls for killing Jews gets to keep her job and gets to stay in school. What a twist.

    schmaltzy
    schmaltzy
    8 years ago

    He should have been firing for wearing such a bad rug.

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    8 years ago

    It is so easy for one to think that certain historical facts never happened there is the story of a famous englishman who looked out of his window and saw something happening in the street below .He told his companion what he saw,but his companion who also saw that happening described something else The first fellow then said,”if that’s the case than truth is relative for everyone. He then proceeded to throw out from his window all of his collection of books as they represent only what the writer wrote and not the truth.

    InsideOne
    InsideOne
    8 years ago

    This isn’t about spinning conspiracy theories, it’s about harassing the grieving parents of murdered children. Good-bye, and good riddance sicko.

    8 years ago

    Nice sheitel.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    8 years ago

    He sounds like a real sicko.