“Crisis Actor Conspiracy Theory”: Security Theater

James Tracy helps establish new “paranoid style,” writes cultural critic Emily Elizabeth Brown The New Inquiry What crisis actor conspiracy theorists believe to be fake implies a much more generous view of the real During the Sandy Hook shooting, a 69 year-old retired psychologist named Gene Rosen opened his home to six terrified children immediately after the massacre. A month later, Salon magazine published an article on the kind neighbor and his continued harassment by conspiracy theorists. Members of a forum hosted on David Icke’s website (the former broadcaster who birthed the iconic “reptilian conspiracy More…