The Conspiracy Theories surrounding Stephen Paddock’s
connection to the Mandalay Bay/La Vegas massacre are legion. One Conspiracy
Theory about being an arms dealer had been relegated to the realm of bizarre.
BUT, some released FBI data has refueled the arms dealer theory.
From the moment that the
news broke on that fateful October night, the Las Vegas shooting incident has
been spawning a never-ending nest of new questions.
According to police, shooter
Stephen Paddock was a retired, multimillionaire real estate investor and avid
gambler. His high roller status had Paddock on a first name basis in many
of Sin City’s more luxurious locales, including the Mandalay Bay, where the
soon-to-be murderer was set up in a lavish 32nd floor suite overlooking the Las
Vegas Strip and a country music festival taking place across the street.
Then, again according to the
partial narrative released by authorities, Paddock turned this glamorous hotel
room into an elaborate sniper’s nest from which he would unleash countless
rounds into the country music fans below. When it was all said and done,
58 concert goers had lost their lives, Paddock was dead, and police were
stumped. Paddock left behind no note, no manifesto, and no clue as to
what his motivation in the killing may have been.
The investigation that
followed was largely off the radar, as police and federal agents shielded their
work from the public eye.
Given the enormous brutality
of the attack itself, and the silent treatment that the police were giving the
media, the internet soon got to work constructing a number of bizarre
conspiracy theories around the incident. The most prevalent of these
theories revolved around Paddock being an illegal arms dealer who was summoned
to the luxury suite to await a high level deal for the cache of weapons he had
with him. In this story, we are led to believe that the “buyers” Paddock
was dealing with were actually terrorists of some fashion, who then killed
Paddock, unleashed Hell on Las Vegas, and magically escaped.
While this far fetched
nonsense has laid dormant in the darker corner of the internet for weeks, a
strange revelation in a newly released FBI document seems to indicated that
Paddock may in fact have beenan illegal arms dealer.
“One
affidavit includes email exchanges between centralpark1@live.com, a Microsoft
account that FBI authorities believe belonged to Paddock, and
centralpark4804@gmail.com. (It is unclear if the FBI knows who is responsible
for the latter account.) The messages were sent on July 6, 2017.
“The
affidavit reads:
“‘…[centralpark1@live.com]
sent an email to centralpark4804@gmail.com which read, “try an ar before u buy.
we have huge selection. located in the las vegas area,” Later the day, an email
was received back from centralpark4804@gmail.com to [centralpark1@live.com]
that read, “we have a wide variety of optics and ammunition to try.” And
lastly, [centralpark1@live.com sent an email to centralpark4804@gmail.com that
read, “for a thrill try out bumpfire ar’s with a 100 round magazine.”
Investigators believe these communications may have been related to the
eventual attack that occurred at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.’
“The
exchanges took place nearly three months before the onslaught. And CNN reports
that ‘investigators at the time of the filing had been unable to determine if
Paddock was sending emails between two accounts both belonging to himself, or
was communicating with someone else.'”
The odd email addresses with
“centralpark” included could be a clever ruse that Paddock was employing, or
underground codes of the illegal arms trade.
The remaining bits of the
story concocted by internet sleuths has yet to be corroborated in the
slightest, leading many to believe that their guess regarding Paddock’s
arms-dealing side job was just a lucky stab out of thin air. Until we
hear the final word from the FBI, however, few will be satisfied with the
answers provided.
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Pertaining to the JFK assignation: due to decades of giving the
murder investigation a classified status, Conspiracy Theories abounded from the
nutty to the plausible as to who pulled the strings in the successful plot.
Many, myself included, question that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone let alone a
singular gun shooter.
Could the same air of secrecy be covering the Vegas Massacre
from the Mandalay Bay Hotel?
Again, the lack of information about the Vegas Massacre has
spawned a slew of Conspiracy Theories from the downright idiotic-ridiculous to
the plausible. One of the most idiotic was the shooting was a false flag hoax
and nobody died. HELLO! Public records disprove anything even close to a hoax.
It’s all hogwash. The
“official” narrative of how things went down in the Las Vegas massacre is so
full of holes that it begs the question of just how deep the truth about this
attack really goes.
What we know for sure is
that, yes, 59 people were killed (so far) and hundreds were wounded. This
wasn’t a “hoax” shooting — people actually were shot, wounded and killed (and
our prayers go out to all their families for this horrific tragedy).
Yet the official narrative
that claims Stephen Paddock — a retired, 64-year-old accountant with absolutely
no firearms training, no gun experience and no physical stamina — was somehow
able to expertly wield a highly complex (and physically demanding) weapon
system for 10 sustained minutes is total nonsense.
Clarification added
10/4/2017: My contention in this story is that Stephen Paddock couldn’t have
pulled this off all by himself. That does not mean he wasn’t involved in the
shooting. He could have fired weapons himself, alongside others who were also
firing weapons from either his hotel room or from different locations.
This story does not
exclude his involvement in the shooting. Some people are misinterpreting this
story as claiming that Paddock never fired a shot. That isn’t at all what this
story states.
Even highly trained Navy
Seals would have a difficult time running a full auto weapon for 10 minutes
straight. Such weapon systems are
brutal on the operator. They require tremendous strength, stamina and expert
troubleshooting to keep running. Full-auto weapons overheat and jam.
They demand incredible
strength to keep aimed on target. They require expert reloading and weapons
clearing in the case of jams, and the hotel room would have been so full of
smoke and powder residue that it would be almost impossible to keep breathing
from that enclosed space.
Far from what the
firearms-illiterate media claims, these are not systems that any Joe off the
street can just pick up and use to effortlessly mow down 500 people. Running
these systems requires extensive training, experience and stamina. It is
physically impossible for a guy like Stephen Paddock to operate such a system
in the sustained, effective manner that we witnessed, especially when shooting
from an elevated position which throws off all the ranging of the weapon
system.
Far from being a Navy Seal,
Stephen Paddock is a retired accountant senior citizen with a gambling problem
and a flabby physique.
The only way he could have
carried out this shooting is if he were transformed into a human superweapon
through a magic wand. I’m calling this “Mission IMPOSSIBLE” because of the
physical impossibility of a retired, untrained senior citizen pulling this off.
Here are 11 reasons why the
official narrative is complete B.S.
#1: As many as 10 rifles
were found in his hotel room… but only one shooter?
The NY Daily News is now
reporting that Stephen Paddock “brought at least 10 weapons into a Las Vegas
hotel room.”
Why would a single shooter
need 10 rifles? Managing just one full auto weapon system is so difficult that
it’s probably beyond the physical capabilities of a 64-year-old retired
accountant, which is what Paddock was.
The fact that 10 rifles were
found in his hotel room says three very important things:
1)The rifles were staged
for more than one shooter.
2)The operation was extremely
well funded.
3)The attack took a
tremendous amount of time to set up, because you don’t just walk 10 rifles up
to your hotel room in a single trip.
#2: As with many orchestrated shootings, the scapegoat
was murdered before he could talk
According to numerous media reports, Paddock was found dead
in his hotel room, shot to death. The official narrative claims that he shot
himself before the police breached the room, but that is an assumption,
not an established fact. There is no evidence whatsoever that Paddock shot
himself. It is simply assumed that he did so. I would ask to see the ballistics
evidence of the shot that killed him.
Isn’t it all convenient? There’s no one left to question,
and they don’t even have to drug the guy into oblivion like they did the Aurora, Colorado shooter named James Holmes.
Eliminating the scapegoat is the oldest trick in the book, as we were all
reminded with the shooting of JFK.
#3: Why are there no muzzle flashes visible from the
32nd-floor Mandalay Bay windows in any of the videos that captured the
shooting?
If you look at the shooting videos that have been posted
online, none of them show any muzzle flashes from the room on the 32nd floor
that we’ve been told is the source of the shooting. How can that be? The
following video captures the sound of the automatic weapons fire — and even
appears to capture at least TWO weapons firing simultaneously — yet shows no
muzzle flashes from the 32nd floor windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
In fact, the video below shows what might be muzzle flashes
from a completely different location closer to the 5th floor. This same video
also appears to show someone resembling Stephen Paddock attending an anti-Trump
rally, wearing a so-called “pu##y hat” that was very popular among
anti-Trumpsters. One working theory is that Paddock is an anti-Trump Leftist
who specifically chose a Country Western event in order to murder as many
conservatives as possible.
#4 Why does the gunfire in multiple online videos clearly
sound like automatic weapons fire from MULTIPLE weapons?
I challenge anyone to listen to the gunfire in these online
videos and conclude it’s only from a single weapon. The very idea is totally
absurd. You can clearly hear at least two automatic weapons systems firing over
each other.
Listen to the automatic weapons fire at about the 2:00 mark
in the video below. It’s clearly coming from multiple weapons:
Islamic State has claimed
responsibility for a shooting that killed at least 50 people and wounded over
400 in Las Vegas early on Monday, and said the attacker had converted to Islam
a few months ago.
ISIS has a long track record of only claiming responsibility
for events they inspired or planned. It would not be in the interests of ISIS
to falsely claim credit for an attack they did not help carry out, as that
would discredit their own supporters and funding sources.
#6: Stephen Paddock had no familiarity with automatic
weapons and no military training; was not a “gun guy”
Eric said his brother was
typically no fan of such weaponry. “Not an avid gun guy at all,” Eric Paddock
told CBS News outside his home in Waterford Lakes, Fla.
#7: How does a 64-year-old accountant with no military
training possess the strength and stamina to fire a fully automatic weapon for
nearly 10 minutes?
People who aren’t familiar with firearms have no idea how
difficult it is to conduct sustained fire with an automatic weapon. It requires
tremendous strength, endurance and training — something that Stephen Paddock
had none of. Military special forces operatives train for years to be able to
manage such weapons and handle all the problems they pose (barrel overheating,
ammo jams, double feeds, recoil management, etc.). The idea that some senior
citizen accountant can just pick up a machine gun and lay down thousands of
rounds of effective fire in a sustained, 10-minute assault even though he had
no experience with such weapons is completely ludicrous.
It actually looks like someone else staged all the guns in
the room, perhaps with Paddock’s willingness, then shot and killed Paddock to
make him the scapegoat.
Numerous media reports confirm that Paddock had no
familiarity with guns and certainly didn’t have any experience with automatic
weapons. Via the UK Daily Mail:
Despite being found amid an
arsenal of weapons, Eric said that his brother had never been ‘an avid gun guy
at all’, adding that he was at a loss as to where Stephen got his arsenal of
automatic weapons from.
#8: Stephen Paddock was gambling away huge amounts of
cash… where did
he get all that money?
According to NBC News, Paddock was engaged
in high-stakes gambling to the tune of as much as $30,000 per day:
On several occasions, Stephen
Paddock gambled more than $10,000 per day — and in some cases more than than
$20,000 and $30,000 a day — at Las Vegas casinos, according to an NBC News
source who read the suspect’s Multiple Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) and a
casino gaming executive.
Was he paid to be part of an operation that would then be blamed
on him by making him the scapegoat? Some media reports state that Paddock was a
wealthy real estate investor. If that’s true, why would he blow all that wealth
on gambling?
#9: Stephen Paddock has no criminal history, no record
and no apparent beef with anybody
Further supporting the notion that Stephen Paddock was a
scapegoat for all this,
…Paddock
had no federal, state or local history with law enforcement before his Sunday
night rampage that left
58 dead and more than 500 injured. “We had no knowledge of this individual,” said Clark
County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. “We checked all the databases…”
From the UK Daily Mail, we learn that
Paddock had no affiliation with any particular activist group, political group
or religious group as far as anyone knows:
“…He added that his brother had ‘no political affiliation,
no religious affiliation, as far as we know.”
#10: The attack required meticulous planning, funding and
training… it
wasn’t some lone
senior citizen who just “snapped”
What’s clear from this attack is that it was planned, funded
and coordinated. This was not some spontaneous “lone wolf” scenario; it
involved multiple weapons being fired simultaneously, long-term planning,
staging and financial logistics.
The official narrative that claims this retired accountant
just “snapped” and somehow picked up an automatic rifle and expertly laid down
highly effective fields of automatic weapons fire for 10 minutes without pause
is so insanely stupid as to be laughable.
Only a highly-trained weapons expert with tremendous
physical strength, stamina and training could have pulled this off. And that’s
clearly not Stephen Paddock.
#11: How was the FBI able to almost immediately declare
Paddock had no ties to ISIS — barely 12 hours after the shooting — when the
same agency has spent over a year investigating President Trump with zero
evidence linking him to Russia, all while refusing to declare Trump has no ties
to Russia?
Finally, don’t you find it amazing how the FBI was able to
clear any ISIS connection in less than 12 hours after the shooting? This is the
same FBI, remember, that has spent over a year desperately trying to find a
Russia conspiracy link to President Trump, yet has been unable to do with any
legitimate evidence whatsoever. Yet more than year into their investigation,
they refuse to clear President Trump of Russia collusion.
Isn’t that interesting? Somehow, the FBI is so amazingly
effective and efficient that they can conclude a massive investigation of
Stephen Paddock in a mere 12 hours, yet they never quite seem to complete their
investigation of President Trump.
Keep asking questions, everyone. And stay informed on all
this at Shootings.news.
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Noted Counterjihad activist Pamela Geller is not dismissing
the Muslim convert motive behind Stephen Paddock’s mass murder terrorism.
Geller is noted and yet also controversial. The American Left enjoys lying
about Counterjihadists by calling them racists rather than people that expose
the dark side of Islam. Geller on the other hand tips the Leftist hate scale
off the meter.
In full disclosure, I find Geller a bit brusque.
Nonetheless, she is passionate in pushing back the Leftist lies about Islamic
acceptance as well as pushing back on the Left’s labelling Geller as a racist.
The irony there is that Geller has a Jewish ancestry.
Here is Pamela Geller’s reasoning behind Paddock being an
Islamic terrorist complete with photos of other elderly converts to Islam to
prove her point to not completely dismiss the possibility.
The idea floated by “intel” agencies that Steven Paddock
didn’t fit the profile of a Muslim convert is absurd on its face, and further
proof that the keystone clowns and their “profilers” at the FBI haven’t a clue.
How can they profile what they refuse to acknowledge, learn about or recognize?
The fact is the FBI has nothing. Over a week after the
monstrous slaughter, they have nothing and yet they have dismissed ISIS claims
out of hand, despite the fact ISIS does not take credit for attacks that are
not theirs. Not only did they take credit, they did something they never did
before – they doubled and tripled down. The Islamic State (IS) featured an
infographic on the Las Vegas attack in the 100th issue of its al-Naba weekly
newspaper, and indicated that the shooter, “Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki,” had
converted to Islam six months ago.
Jihad is the only motive that makes any sense. And the fact
that the FBI has nothing else points to that. That Steven
Paddock left no digital trail might very well be deliberate – to show how
incompetent our law enforcement agencies are. ISIS took credit for the downing
of the Russian jetliner in the Sinai. Everyone in law enforcement dismissed
that too. Until ISIS provided proof a couple of weeks later, that is. I suspect
we may see the same thing happen here. The Vegas attack mirrors the
sophisticated planning and secrecy consistent with more complex ISIS plots like
Sinai explosion of Russian airliner.
We have been told that because Paddock was white and 64, it
is unlikely that he would be a convert to Islam. Why? Islam is ideological –
it’s not a race or an age. It’s a belief system. It’s also being said that if
Paddock was a convert, Homeland Security is going to have to change their whole
approach to jihad terror in the Homeland. We can only hope. Because this war
has nothing to do with age, race or gender – it’s religious. And profiling is
required. On the top of my watch list would be converts. Who would be attracted
to an ideology that is the cause of hatred, misogyny, subjugation and
slaughter?
A member of the notorious “Muslim Patrol,” which
threatened to “kill the non-believers.” Renounced his previous lifestyle of
boozing and “seeing girls.” Jailed for assault and for using threatening words
and behaviour.
A middle-class white boy who became a Christian while working at a kids’ camp
in the US, Dart was converted to radical Islam by hate preacher Anjem Choudary
and later jailed for planning terrorist activities.
A troubled child who sought solace with Muslim
neighbours, Lewthwaite has a string of terrorist ex-boyfriends (some
imprisoned, some dead), including 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay – hence
her nickname, the “White Widow.” Currently on the run and a member of terrorist
group Al-Shabaab.
Cambridge director of studies who once recorded a video
describing homosexuality as a sinful and “inherent aberration,” and gays as
“ignorant people who don’t know what their bodies are for.”
Described by his family as a quiet lad, Newton started
recruiting for the Taliban from a stall in Longsight market in Manchester.
Jailed for trying to radicalise undercover police officers.
Former drum and bass MC, Millwall fan, cocaine dealer and
self-employed perfume salesman before his conversion to radical Islam.
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Someday law enforcement will reveal to the public either
their best theory behind Stephen Paddock’s mass murder in Las Vegas, NV. So far
the only fact we really know is that Paddock was involved in a well-planned
attack at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino killing 59 and wounding over 500.
America was struck speechless with horror, grief, rage and
fury, when breaking news from Las Vegas, Nevada flashed images of good and
decent young men and women being cut down in a hail of automatic weapons fire,
at the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert on October 1st, by an incredibly
well-armed, strategically positioned psychopathic assassin. A great evil had
descended upon this field of nearly twenty-two thousand joyful and excited
concert goers, striking the life from 59 and wounding 527 in a most terrible
manner, and it left memories of devastation and unimaginable horror with all,
who witnessed this heinous act of terror.
The first shots of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history
rang out at 10:05 PM, from an 1800 square feet luxury corner suite of the
Mandalay Bay Hotel, where Stephen Paddock, a 64 year old multimillionaire
gambler from Mesquite, Nevada, had stocked 23 semi-automatic weapons -- some
AR15s and AR10s -- modified with bumpstocks to simulate automatic fire, at
least one automatic weapon and thousands of rounds of ammunition, over several
days. And Paddock was running amok.
At 10:08 PM, a police transmission relayed: "We
got shots fired! It sounded like an automatic firearm."
One of the first casualties was Sonny Melton, 29, a
registered nurse from Big Sandy, TN, who was also a surgical assistant for his
wife, Heather, a surgeon. He died trying to shield her from the bullets, even
as Heather tried to save him from bleeding out. In an emotional interview,
Heather told NBC's Savannah Guthrie, "I lost half my heart."
As soon as everybody realized the rapid multiple
pop-pop-pops they were hearing weren't fireworks, chaos ensued, as many dove
for cover and many others sprang into action to help the wounded. One off duty
emergency medical technician, Travis Phippen, crawled from victim to victim,
according to the LA Times, and he plugged
their wounds with cloth and saw the woman next to him get shot in the head. He
also found his own father, John (age 56), mortally
wounded.
Mikkena Parry, a young
teenager, shed tears as she tried to speak to ABC's David Muir about the horror
she and others experience that night. A bullet went through her arm and into
her abdomen. Her boyfriend and two other teens carried her to the back of a
pickup truck and rushed her to the hospital.
And there was Jonathan Smith, a thirty year
old who reportedly saved up to 30 lives, taking a bullet to the neck.
The calls went out and off duty doctors and nurses rushed to
Las Vegas hospitals, like University Medical Center and Sunrise Hospital, where
they worked on the victims throughout hours of surgery. Dr. Jay Coates, a
trauma and critical care surgeon at UMC, said, "They were coming in
so fast ... with lung contusions, liver and spleen contusions ... It was like a
war zone."
Audio from the concert reveals a fire rate impossible for
even the most skilled shooters, with specialized triggers. During one 31 second
span, Paddock fired a staggering 280 rounds.
Nearly ten minutes of continuous fire had passed by the time
Jesus Campos, hotel security,
reached Paddock's door and distracted him from his murderous mission, as
Paddock shot through the door and hit him in the upper thigh. Over 200 more
rounds followed Campos's retreat down the corridor; and with police converging
on the room, Paddock took his own life. Campos's interdiction saved lives.
Police waited for reinforcements and SWAT from 10:40 to
11:20, when SWAT detonated an explosive device to breach the door. They found
Paddock dead.
At 12:31 AM Monday, authorities finally announced they
thought Paddock was the only attacker. Two hours and twenty-six minutes had
passed, and the massacre was officially over.
A note has been reported to have been found in Paddock's
room by authorities, according to numerous sources, like the Daily Wire. Perhaps once
authorities decide it doesn't compromise their investigation, they will release
its content. It may reveal a piece of the puzzle towards motive.
Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI hostage negotiator from the
bureau's behavioral science unit, stated: " On the surface,
Paddock didn't seem like a typical mass murderer. Paddock is much older than
the typical shooter and was not known to be suffering from mental
illness."
Paddock has broken the mold as a 64 year old millionaire mass murderer. This is
a different level of mass shooting and an outlier on every level.
Analyzing Paddock's computer, cellphone and other electronic
devices, investigators have found no clear connection to extremist or activist
groups or outward display of mental illness, according to the Associated Press. He was
called a loner, unfriendly, distant, surly and quick to anger by many of his
neighbors in several states where he owned homes.
And, the fact that Stephen's brother Eric says Stephen
"wasn't a gun guy" doesn't hold any weight. They weren't close, and
Stephen hadn't seen his other brother, Patrick, in 20 years.
Paddock owned over 40 guns and acquired some of them years
ago, in Utah, Texas, Nevada and California. He had an Alaskan hunting license.
He obviously learned to use them over time.
On October 4th, Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Joseph Lombardo
said: "What we know is
Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and
living a secret life much of which will never be fully understood." He
also said it was only logical to "make the assumption" that Paddock
had "some help at some point" in pulling off that Sunday's massacre.
One should investigate the possibility, that Paddock either
had knowing accomplices or simply people he used without their knowledge in
gathering items, like the ammonium nitrate, fifty pounds of tannerite explosive
and 1600 rounds of ammo found in his car. However, he could have accomplished
this on his own. He had plenty of time and millions of dollars on his side, and
it would have been easy to move the ten suitcases, noted by the FBI, filled
with guns and ammunition to his room, slowly, patiently and methodically, and
without drawing any notice to himself.
Paddock's act of terror didn't require "military
training", only a familiarization with his tools of terror. He was
shooting down from the 32nd floor into clusters of people, who were less than
400 yards away, alternating between two different weapons position. He didn't have
to be a good marksman or even really aim the rapid automatic fire, because from
his vantage point, casualties were assured. Anyone, even a twelve year old boy,
could do the same.
Where was Paddock's conscience or moral code, that should
have stopped him from carrying out his act of pure evil?
Now, numerous false stories or stories not verified,
substantiated or authenticated, like Reuters’ claim that Paddock
converted to Islam, based on only one anonymous source, harm the investigation,
tying up resources needed elsewhere. There are other claims that are more
plausible, such as Paddock was a member of Antifa;
another says he was a Trump hater, but both, to
date, cannot be confirmed. The cacophony of white noise and misinformation is
drowning out the truth.
In the midst of our raw pain and grief so fresh, America
understands that a cold-blooded, calculating and evil monster slithered forth,
on a beautiful Sunday night, intent on breaking the hearts and the human souls
of fine and loving Americans, taking one loved one after another and making a
deep cut through the heart of those, not quite saints, who live close to God.
Rather than breaking us, he strengthened our resolve to find anyone who knew of
his plans or helped him, and as our spirits surge, we work in our knowledge
there will be an accounting and America will carry on singing God Bless America.
