From the Department of I Can’t Even, comes the story of how a few of the grieving parents of the children slain in the Sandy Hook shooting are trying to fight back against the cruel, revolting trolling of the “Hoaxers.”

Hoaxers want this little boy’s body exhumed so they can poke at it.

Yes, to the Birthers and Truthers, we can now add the deranged group of “Hoaxers.” I know they’ve been reported on before, but this story bears reading, if for no other reason than to show that there are pockets of resistance to this noxious, vile subsect of 2nd Amendment extremist ratbags.

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A sampling:

When Pozner did not receive a reply from Halbig, he contacted Kelley Watt, one of the more aggressive hoaxers who showed up on his Google Plus page. Watt wrote back on Halbig’s behalf. “Wolfgang does not wish to speak with you,” her note said, “unless you exhume Noah’s body and prove to the world you lost your son.”

Giving up on a meeting with Halbig, Pozner looked to engage in some sort of dialogue with the people who, around this time, made him their chief target. (One video montage that started making the rounds showed images of Noah set to a soundtrack of pornographic sounds.) In June 2014, Pozner accepted an invitation to join a private Facebook group called Sandy Hook Hoax. He told its members that he was willing to answer their questions. “I think I lasted all of eight minutes,” he recalls. One participant said, “Man, I’m gonna have to coach you up if you wanna go on TV and make money Lenny.” Another typical attacker proclaimed, “Fuck your fake family, you piece of shit.”

Pozner eventually realized that, for Halbig and his brethren, this was a game without end. His efforts to combat them became a mission. “I’m going to have to protect Noah’s honor for the rest of my life,” he says.

I do not support doxxing or harassment. I do not think that people should be terrorized by an internet lynch mob for voicing opinions. But I do think that people who exercise their 1st Amendment rights, also have the right to bear the consequences of using those rights to harass, intimidate, torment and harm others.

Wolfgang Halbig, the so-called “security expert” who takes great delight in pouring salt into the wounds of the Sandy Hook families, should be exposed for what he is. The way to fight lies, as we see here on LGF, is with the truth.