Bloggers have been noticing since the Colorado massacre that James Eagan Holmes lacks what is called a “digital footprint”—that is, when one does a normal Google search or even an advanced Google search (using date, filetype, special keywords, etc.) of James Holmes, James Eagan Holmes, or Jimmy Holmes, you get nothing on this individual prior to the shooting.
As anyone who has Googled their own name knows, anyone that walks the face of this Earth is found all over the Internet—schools they went to, clubs, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
Prior to the shooting, there is absolutely nothing about James Holmes. I personally spent about twelve hours doing extensive searches. Well known private investigator Bill Warner searched Social Security, credit rating, etc. databases and came up with nothing. One calls these kinds of results “off the grid.” Usually these relate to some guy in the middle of the desert living off of solar power, living in a bunker waiting for the end of the world, not a neuroscience Ph.D. grad student like Holmes.
Bill Warner’s theory is that he is part of the anarchist wing of the Occupy movement, the Black Bloc group—i.e., that anarchist tend to not have a digital footprint. Alex Jones over at Infowars thinks Holmes was under U.S. government mind control, and carried out the attack to bolster the Left’s call to sign the upcoming UN small arms treaty in order to disarm Americans.
Whatever the truth is, we are living in strange times.
Alex Okrent, the Obama staffer that came to the Obama campaign headquarters fine one minute and dead the next, like James Holmes, also does not have a digital footprint—with one exception: he has a Twitter account, oddly still active. No one has bothered to take it down, to which I keep wondering whether Okrent will tweet out something from beyond the grave.
But the oddity of Okrent’s Twitter account is that he has been tweeting for three years—hundreds of tweets, and, despite the fact that the Obama campaign states that Okrent has been working for them for eight years, not one single tweet reflects this. There are a couple of tweets in support of Obama’s push for same-sex marriage. There are a couple tweets calling to donate to the Obama campaign, but in regards to being an employee of the Obama campaign, there is nothing, including his Twitter bio.
But, like James Holmes, aside from the Twitter account and one Obama for America blog post in 2008, Okrent is a ghost. After days of extensive online searches I found him on one website, although not through his name, but searching for his sister, Abby Okrent. Alex, his sister and mother, Lynn Pollack, are all on this clearinghouse website for individuals associated with anti-Israel groups.
I found his mother and sister extensively associated with socialist/anti-Israel front groups like Jewish Voice for Peace (connected to the group caught red-handed funneling millions of dollars to terrorists, Council on Islamic-American Relations, CAIR).
But we aren’t living in a total Orwellian world as yet, and hard-copy news still exists, thank God. Alex Okrent was found to have been associated with the socialist/anti-Israel front group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), or rather through their associated International Action Center through an obscure Wesleyan University school newspaper article, where Okrent is identified as part of a group that literally stood up for the Taliban less than a month after 9/11, walking out of class in protest for the U.S. bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Then per the Chicago Tribune on April 20-22, 2001, Okrent took part in a massive “anti-war” rally in Washington D.C., which was duplicated throughout the United States on a smaller scale within a several month period. These “anti-war” rallies (also organized by ANSWER) were masquerades for anti-Israel/pro-terrorist propaganda campaigns, and protesters openly held anti-Semitic signs, and the terrorist-connected CAIR, part of these “protests,” openly sought to delegitimize Israel, and, like Hitler, blame “Zionism” for the world’s problems.
Yet the point is, where are James Holmes and Alex Okrent’s digital footprints?
Is there some dark secret connecting Alex Okrent’s anti-Israel connections to Obama that put into action an army of Internet scrubbers? Was James Holmes, as Alex Jones at Infowars conjectures, under some kind of mind control, and was his online footprint also scrubbed?
Oddly in The Dark Knight Rises, the movie showing where James Holmes committed mass murder, the cat burglar character (a Cat Woman-inspired character) seeks from Batman/Bruce Wayne a device that will erase her past—her electronic past—specifically her rap sheet. To erase her digital footprint, so to speak. In the end she gets it.
Is this what happened with Okrent and Holmes? Is there some device that erases a person’s online footprint?
Perhaps.
Perhaps not.
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This does seem very odd, if one wants to think about it with an open mind! Another thing I found kind of queer is they made sure they got the comment out that said “everybody in jail wants to kill him” Kind of wonder when he will come up dead.
I would not put anything past this administration.
All you have to do is simply never use your real name on the Interwebs.
It’s probably a good idea, actually.
With Google and Facebook having enormous access to all sorts of databases, it would not be hard to delete mention of anyone from these sources of information. Obama and his communist gang are well schooled in neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotic methods. Obama uses these methods when he speaks, especially during the 2008 campaign when he spoke of his followers as having an Epiphany and the seas would rise and a light would shine and they would go to the poll and vote for Obama. However, just as some researchers found Obama Kenyan information in the British National Archives, there is still hope to find truth.
I heard about Barry telling someone involved in the 2008 campaign that ‘he had a gift’ when it came to speaking…Well, I didn’t fall for it in 2004 and still haven’t been hypnotized by the Great Pretender.
The problem is, too many people are Obamazombies.
Again, Mr. Zane, Alex Okrent has an active LinkedIn profile that explicitly outlines his career history with the Obama office and campaign. You can find it right here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-okrent/2/95a/512
If you Google his name, he is all over the internet, from Wesleyan college websites to blog posts to profiles on FOUR social networking sites (hey look it’s Google+: https://plus.google.com/108948263968463653136/posts). Just like any 29 year old in 2012.
And, despite your claims, Mr. Okrent has a Facebook page that is still active. As with many privacy conscious Americans, Mr. Okrent set his Facebook account to private so that it doesn’t show up on search engines and is visible only to his friends. However, it exists and on his wall at this very moment are some touching tributes to a lost friend.
Your negligence in presenting information that has not been verified or fact-checked is bitterly humiliating to the people that knew and loved the departed. Whatever your political differences with certain Jewish activist groups (political differences I tend to agree with, by the way), you don’t have any right to commit libel against someone or charge outlandish conspiracies against them if you haven’t done your research.
This leads to my next question. Do you have editors? Did you go to school? Do you know anything about writing or journalism? Look at this statement that you wrote in the summary of one of your videos: “Okrent comes from a long-line of anti-Israel, socialist connections, his mom, Lynn Pollack and sister Abby Okrent filled to the gills with groups connected to the terrorist-linked Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR).”
Okay, so two people in one’s immediate family constitutes a “long-line” of connections? So, if my mom and my sister are nurses, then that means I come from a “long-line” of nurses? Or if two of my family members are convicted criminals that means I come from a “long-line” of convicted criminals? You’ve suggested, without any evidence or proof, something about this man’s ancestral lineage and family that you have no evidence about. Do you know anything about his grandparents or his extended family tree? No. No, you don’t. So stop pretending otherwise or at least stop resorting to ridiculous hyperbole.
If you really want to beat Barack Obama, then tackle him on substance. There are troubling job numbers out in recent months and both the labour and financial markets remain especially unstable. There’s a sincere and honest debate to be had about the president’s fiscal policies and how they are shaping America. Maybe you should grow up and participate in those discussions, like honorable and decent voting Americans across the country are doing every day, instead of senselessly attacking an undeserving dead young man. Let him rest in peace.
He is only doing what 99% of the media does. Though it is not right to do so, he is subjected to this way of journalism on a daily, if not MORE often, basis. Maybe if the MEDIA would check their facts and report HONESTLY there would be better journalists in the future.
Yeah, but don’t you think this article should be taken down as a result. Mr. Zane has been pretty disgraceful in outright stating falsehoods in this series of articles he’s written about Alex Okrent. He also doctored a screenshot from a Gay and Lesbian guide to Chicago in another post, taking pages from a section on STRAIGHT BARS to accuse Okrent of recommending gay hangouts to others. There are lines that should not be crossed, and creating fabrications and lying about an innocent person who happened to work for a political party that you don’t vote for is one of them.
Alex Okrent was a 29 year old who was politically active. That’s great. There aren’t enough young people doing that, and if right wing websites want to attack and lie about kids who care about public policy in their country, they’re going to scare off young conservatives and young liberals from wanting to participate in the process. This series of pieces is disgraceful, they are not journalistic in any way. They clearly have not been fact-checked and the extent of research that Mr. Zane had claimed is clearly a lie because a simple Google search shows that Alex Okrent has social networking accounts across the internet and has had an online presence for his whole life, one that still exists and hasn’t been scrubbed.
That he has the gall to compare the guy to James Holmes, who is a psychopath and who deserves nothing but our contempt, is even worse.
Again, there is a way to beat Barack Obama if that’s what you want to do. And it lies in having a substantive policy debate about the economy. It does not involve slandering the name of a young kid who never did anything to hurt anyone. No family deserves what Mr. Zane has done, and this website should be ashamed of itself for letting these posts stay up.
Are We Witnessing Conversational Hypnosis At Work?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/are-we-witnessing-conversational-hypnosis-at-work/
“Food For Thought”
Semper Fi!
The 2 names mentioned in this article were both disposible tools for Obama, doing his dirty work against Americans
You might find more information on James Eagan Holmes if you make a request to the Chinese government. Personally, I beleive that the Chinese monitor ALL internet traffic and that they could access information on Holmes that may have been there before it was ‘scrubbed’ if such is the case. If in ten or twenty years America were to be involved in a conflict with the Chinese and an American pilot is captured, I believe that the Chinese will have access to the pilots FaceBook account from when he was in his early teens. That kind of personal information is leverage. They could threaten to hit the pilots family if he doesn’t give up information…; they could do it in front of a laptop with live streaming video showing the pilots wife and family wheresoever they happen to be….How’s that for conspiracy theory?