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The girl's father, Steven, wrote the school district explaining why removing the chip wasn't good enough, that the daughter should be free from displaying the card altogether. "'We must obey the word of God," the father said, according to court documents. "By asking my daughter and our family to participate and fall in line like the rest of them is asking us to disobey our Lord and Savior."
"[My staff] and I hope the people of Newtown don't have it crash on their head later." - Connecticut Medical Examiner D. Wayne Carver II, MD, December 15, 2012Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public's general acceptance of the event's validity and faith in its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. The condition is reinforced through the corporate media's unwillingness to push hard questions vis-ร -vis Connecticut and federal authorities who together bottlenecked information while invoking prior restraint through threats of prosecutorial action against journalists and the broader citizenry seeking to interpret the event on social media.