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Opposition to HB-5733, entitled:
AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO DEATH CERTIFICATES
by Colleen M. Murphy and Mary Schwind
(Executive/Managing Directors of and General Counsels for the Freedom of Information Commission)
The FOIC is sympathetic to the desire to protect families of deceased minors. However, the Commission notes that the most sensitive information surrounding a minor's death, or any death, is already exempt from mandatory disclosure. For example, the most explicit and/or graphic medical information surrounding a death is located not in death certificates, but in autopsy reports. Autopsy reports are by and large unavailable to the general public. The legislature has already provided that information on death certificates not be available to the general public, pursuant to CGS Sec. 7-51a(c) for all deaths occurring after July 1, 1997.
Beyond these general comments, the FOIC is concerned about the subject nature of the proposed statutory language. It would undoubtedly lead to differing results depending on which public official is charged with making the determination. The discretionary aspect of the proposed bill could lead to abuse of that discretion in the future.
The FOIC notes that even in situations where the death of a child occurs while the victim is in state custody and under the protective mantle of the state – a governmental failure of the most fundamental kind –there would be no access to the basic information described above for all time under the proposed language. The minimal information currently available on death certificates should remain open to the public.
by Claude Albert
(Legislative Chair of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information)
While we certainly sympathize with the sentiment expressed in this proposal, we would urge the legislature to be reluctant to seal death certificates. These most fundamental of official records have always been available to the public. Death certificates specify the time, place and cause of death. They do not, however, include detailed or graphic medical information. We believe the limited information now available on death certificates should remain public.
The bill creates a vague standard for when a death certificate may be withheld, and makes a myriad of public officials responsible for individually determining when that standard has been met. It gives no time frame for expiration of the restriction on access, and it makes no provision for the cases of children who die in state custody, which must be subject to close public scrutiny. The proposal fails to consider whether different family members might have different privacy interest in some cases.
therealguyfawkes
Also don't forget:
One of the "parents" at Sandy Hoax also happens to be the exact same woman that's supposed to be James Holmes' "lawyer."
See the truth for yourself
3mperorConstantinE
reply to post by vkey08
The modus operandi behind the conveniently available Picassa photo album of the "Sexton/Greenberg" clan is a transparently textbookesque example of disinformation.
It apparently works.
What is more interesting to me is the progenitor of the USIA style misinformation.
Sources of disinformation are typically commerce or government.
Since no commercial interests can be deduced, then that leaves us with … ‘government’ (intelligence agencies, law enforcement, military, or State Department).
But in such an ‘open an shut case’ such as what occurred at the alleged massacre at Sandy Hook's alleged elementary school, what need is there for DISINFORMATION? …
Study the album and the circumstances of its discovery, if you have any "experience" with such matters, it's an unmistakably textbook usage of signal-to-noise ratio-reduction tactics.
vkey08
therealguyfawkes
Also don't forget:
One of the "parents" at Sandy Hoax also happens to be the exact same woman that's supposed to be James Holmes' "lawyer."
See the truth for yourself
OOO OOO the Jennifer Sexton BS that keeps popping up as Made popular by one Wellaware1 who is a total moronic nutcase himself....(yes i know the page in question also says it, but it's hard to say he wasn't involved in all this)
lambros56
Just imagine....say like Robbie Parker had been standing there, in front of the press and lets say his wife had been the victim of a murder and he done a repeat performance of what we all saw that night.
I think most of us would be thinking " he did it ".
Something`s not right about the way he prepped himself up to look heartbroken.
lambros56
Just imagine....say like Robbie Parker had been standing there, in front of the press and lets say his wife had been the victim of a murder and he done a repeat performance of what we all saw that night.
I think most of us would be thinking " he did it ".
Something`s not right about the way he prepped himself up to look heartbroken.
ExNihiloRed
reply to post by vkey08
I agree. But why the breathing exercise to make himself look sad? I don't care about the laughing, I care about the preparing to look sad.
vkey08
ExNihiloRed
reply to post by vkey08
I agree. But why the breathing exercise to make himself look sad? I don't care about the laughing, I care about the preparing to look sad.
That's typical news media prep, they most likely told him to do that because laughing wouldn't be appropriate.. Considering some of the morons from Fox61 were there doing the setup, that would not surprise me..
ExNihiloRed
reply to post by vkey08
I don't disagree that there are explanations that don't equal hoax, but you have to admit, as a logical corollary, it could also be evidence of a hoax, as it is out of the ordinary? Viewing it in the context of the other oddities and out of the ordinary occurrences increases the probability of hoax as a statistical matter, wouldn't you say? It just seems amiss that so much doesn't add up or make sense for one event, one that occurs frequently (school shootings), and no other time has it been so unclear and the truth so protected.
vkey08
ExNihiloRed
reply to post by vkey08
I don't disagree that there are explanations that don't equal hoax, but you have to admit, as a logical corollary, it could also be evidence of a hoax, as it is out of the ordinary? Viewing it in the context of the other oddities and out of the ordinary occurrences increases the probability of hoax as a statistical matter, wouldn't you say? It just seems amiss that so much doesn't add up or make sense for one event, one that occurs frequently (school shootings), and no other time has it been so unclear and the truth so protected.
If you see my longer post, I actually have questioned the Adam Lanza, acting alone story. I do not question the parents and the loss of children, I think they were unwitting pawns in whatever this was.
However, some of the conclusions that are being drawn all focus on what the reader, with hindsight, would do at a particular moment, having been involved in major shooting scenes, and also with both sides of the equation, there is only one portion of this whole thing that is and should rightly be questioned, and that is Adam Lanza.
vkey08There has been little to no discussion of why's, just speculation. However, when you look at the whole situation, and see the aftermath, and what a typical school is like now, gun control look less and less like the end result. Up until Sandy Hook, elementary school parents had the right, especially parents of special needs children, to go in and visit the school unannounced and see how your child was doing. It was kind of a check and balance built into the laws. Now, you have to announce yourself and pass a security check, as well as not freely walk around... if they know you are there, teachers can change how they are doing something so that you never truly have an idea. With Common Core being rammed down our throats, locking out parents that could step in, seems like a logical step to control the children.
vkey08I do not think this was a hoax, in fact I know the killing portion wasn't a hoax. I think that the CT State Police did their best with a very bad situation, and one they were not prepared to deal with. I think that Carver, for all his flaws, handled his job as well as he ever had in any other instance, he's not a camera friendly person, and normally would have sent an underling out to speak, but all of this call of Hoax Hoax noone died, forced him on camera, and it of course was not his preferred place to be, he's no Henry Lee. Lt Vance, people still don't' understand, is a spokesman, not the person giving the orders, that would be Dan Stebbins.
vkey08The fact that the State Legislature here was just as desperate for answers, just shows how unprepared we were, they couldn't get out of their own ways fast enough, and not one of them really *wanted* to enact any new legislation, the harshest of the new laws of course were the school lockdowns, not the gun laws people keep harping on, those are symbolic, the State has even said publicly they don't plan on prosecuting anyone under the new laws, unless the weapon in question is used in the commission of a crime. Doesn't sound very harsh to me...
vkey08NO the part that doesn't make sense is the military precision that this was done with, and the fact that one crazy 96 pound kid was able to pull it off alone. Not that people died, they did. Not that kids died, they certainly did. But how one little weak kid could muster all that strength to overpower the whole school and do that much damage.
vkey08
reply to post by notquitesure
Carver was only on camera because of one website that shall remain nameless calling hoax only hours after this incident. That's not in the police report, nor should it be, it was an executive decision made by the Governor's Office in order to try and calm the masses, it backfired as Carver is NOT a good public speaker, nothing more nothing less.
vkey08
And where did I say that they lied in the report, I never once used that word. I think that things that they were thinking about should have been included for sure, i think that the investigation was terminated too soon, and there was another person or persons involved, yes, does it mean lanza DID NOT pull a trigger that day? no. That part I am sure of, his dead body was at the scene and he had numerous weapons on him, however looking at his stature and his mental state (whatever that truly is, only visible state I am talking of) he could not have pulled this off without some sort of help, and they didn't investigate that angle after the body of Lanza was found.
vkey08
Questioning the official story is fine, as long as you don't start to automatically assume that because ONE thing is off, everything is off, and that is a very bad trait a lot of commentators and website patrons have. I have done it in the past as well, yes I'm guilty of letting my mind run away and think, hmmm well a led to c where's b, and then when I really start to rethink it, B was always there, but not as important as D. Same in this case, Colorado's theater shooting, etc. We WANT BADLY to think this was some set up conspiracy, we WANT to be able to say they lie they lie so as to justify the continued harassment of these families for years, but in the end, the FBI, the ATF and every federal agency were kept out of the loop after the initial rescue operation. (I can also tell you the OP's source never called Hartford Hospital, as he would have found both Lifestar Helicopters were out on runs at the time of the incident, not just sitting around waiting to be used) the closest chopper at the time would have been Westchester County Medical Center, and they were if I recall correctly also in use at the time. One lifestar was up on a run to Baystate in Springfield MA and the other headed to Yale New Haven)
vkey08
We don't have all the info from the investigation. We never will. Everyone screams that we should be allowed to see everything, but if they are secretly searching still for someone else, then they would not wish to make that public.
vkey08
A personal aside, if you were one of these families would YOU like people coming and harassing you all the time because someone keeps claiming hoax?