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18th June 2018, 10:30 PM | #601 |
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I belong to no "church." How desperate of you.
Since you clearly have time to comment on subjects we all agree are marginally relevant at best, I'm declaring that you have time to address the on-topic subjects I've challenged you on, that you've said you'd get to when time permits. Time permits. Put up or shut up. |
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No it isn't irrelevant at all. You are trying to present your case, and you are presenting these witnesses who you claim back your case. That make us akin to a jury. We find your witnesses either unreliable, not credible or not saying what you claim they are saying.
1. No-one has been able to establish that Hoffman was even present at Dealey Plaza on 11/22. He was never interviewed by any LEO's and didn't come forward until over a decade later....... Witness not present! 2. Bowers was there, and may be a credible witness, but he never said anything to anyone at any time about seeing a shooter or shooters on or near the knoll.......Witness gives non-relevant testimony! 3. Jean Hill is totally unreliable. She changed her story every time she told it, embellishing it with new "facts" each time. That is the very definition of an unreliable witness....... Witness not credible! |
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Again, my claim was and is that they were reported witnesses reporting observing suspect shooters and suspect weapons behind the fence on the knoll.
Your opinion of said witnesses and their reported observations is of no relevance to my claim. You know this, JayUtah, but you keep acting as if you didn’t. That makes you a, what, JayUtah? |
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First off I read and comprehend very well, I am NOT claiming that you indicate this is proof. However I requested a citation, and you have posted none
If I have time I will search for one of your rant/rail posts you will no doubt indicate I am misrepresenting you, but that is cool the rest of us see what you did(as you will remember). |
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Wow, I didn't need much time to find your most recent rant/rail post
Remember this one? concerns the autopsy, where you are ranting on what occurred during the autopsy and railing against the doctors performing said autopsy. http://www.internationalskeptics.com...6#post12320646 |
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Well, that probably leaves you off the hook. You're not very knowledgeable about what actually transpired. No one ever accused a CT of being knowledgeable about the evidence, after all.
False dilemma. The appropriate dilemma is pirate a book vs pay for a book. Or coup d'etat vs. lone nut. When do you intend to actually talk about the assassination again? And provide some citations to witnesses who verifiably saw multiple shooters with multiple weapons, per your original claim? Not a real comparison again. Another false dilemma. Steal a book vs. buy a book. I'm not even sure what would compare to the claim of stealing the wealth of continents and the lives of millions of humans? Perhaps we could discuss the role of Stalin in the Soviet Union in the famine and how everything is owned by the state vs capitalism, where people own their own production? But that's not relevant to the topic here whatsoever. Yeah, that happens whenever there's a conspiracy theorist around. Because they have to invert reality to make an argument for anything that supports their cause. "Black is white, up is down" is your mantra. Because if up is up, and white is white, the crime's solution is easily solvable. All the evidence points to Oswald, after all. So, ergo, Oswald did it. You just want to believe it all points to Oswald because it's all planted or forged or swapped. Believe it all you want. You still haven't been able to prove anything along those lines in your entire posting history here. There's a reason you fail. Fervent wishes don't translate well to reality. Hank |
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I have never ”refused” to provide evidence. I provide evidence if requested to do so in a specific and relevant manner. Hanks ”method” [of requesting evidence] is not going to [get me to] provide any evidence since it has a completely different purpose. To create the the illusion of me not providing evidence when requested to do so. - Manifesto |
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Well, you're contradicting your claim from this post where you wrote it was necessary to:
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We see this as well in your claims about the supposed gunsmoke. You claimed witnesses saw or smelled gunsmoke on the knoll, and as support, you cited a list by a CT named Ed LeDoux which listed numerous witnesses who saw smoke near the TSBD. Your claim: "Multiple witnesses saw and smelled gunsmoke on and down Hill from the knoll." http://www.internationalskeptics.com...&postcount=460 For instance, Earle Brown, the first witness on your list, says nothing about seeing smoke on the cited page, but names the Depository as the source of the gunpowder he smelled. Here's your link: https://historymatters.com/archive/j...Vol6_0122a.htm Brown also says he heard three shots. Did you bother to read it? You're citing this list by LeDoux as evidence of your claim that there was smoke on (and a shot or shots from) the knoll. On the next page in his testimony, Brown also names the TSBD as the source of the shots: https://historymatters.com/archive/j...Vol6_0122b.htm So we've got a witness who heard three shots, thought the shots came from the Depository, smelled gunpowder that he thought came from the Depository, and he's on your list as supporting shots from the knoll? He's also got Nolan Potter on the list, and Potter likewise put the source of the smoke as the TSBD. You even admitted in the past Potter was not a knoll witness. But you cite both Earle Brown and Nolan Potter in trying to defend your claim about gunsmoke on the knoll. That's dishonest. Were you expecting nobody to check your cites? Hank |
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The credibility of the witnesses you invoke to support your claim is of critical importance, whether you like it or not. That's how eyewitness testimony works in the real world.
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http://www.internationalskeptics.com...7#post12317577
Manifesto said: I’m really doing my very best keeping up with your requests. Nice and easy. 'Nice and easy' seems to means, 'not in THIS decade' http://www.internationalskeptics.com...postcount=4860 Manifesto is now up to hundreds of claims with no evidence provided. We can now add to that another howler
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Great, now manifesto will rant for 10 pages about how we can't prove an elephant wasn't in the autopsy room. Perfect for avoiding answering questions asked of him.
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Conflicting witnesses! He will use either/both of you as his need requires.
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I realize that it pales in light of the many other logical fallacies employed by the CTs here, but calling the JFK autopsy the "autopsy of the century" is notably stupid. If there were an "autopsy of the century," it would probably be an autopsy for someone whose cause of death was unknown. A guy getting shot live on film and in front of hundreds of witnesses and then dying as a result hardly qualifies as the "autopsy of the century."
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You see this argument often with CTists who seem shocked that the best pathologists, detectives, crime-scene technicians, and other "experts" aren't automatically assigned "the big crime" cases. I can't comment on how the rest of the world does things, but in the US crime is handled locally at first. This means that the people working the crime are whomever is available at the time. That's not always a good thing. We get the cops, and pathologists we can afford. The FBI works from regional offices, so the men working Dallas were the ones that happened to be assigned to the Dallas office. The Bureau is not centrally controlled, Hoover not withstanding, it was designed so that the regional offices generated their own local cases instead of waiting for D.C. to assign work. Yes, sometimes D.C. assigns cases, and usually they'll send reinforcements to the local office to assist. The advantage of this system is that the agents at the local office know the local law enforcement, and the local players on both sides of the law.
In the case of JFK, the fact is that Parkland, and Dallas County would probably done a better job with the autopsy than the team at Bethesda. No branch of the US military has a crack-team of pathologists, or any other medical specialists on call for high-profile cases. For those unfamiliar with basic life in the US, the average doctor can make far more money in the civilian word than he or she would in the military. Most military hospitals - even today - are well behind their civilian counterparts in technology, and committed professionals at every level of healthcare simply because the pay sucks. So in a military hospital it comes down to the luck of the draw. In the JFK's case the team was competent, and there were three of them instead of one or two. The fact that the Navy did the autopsy paid benefits, Humes had the foresight to have a photographer brought in to document the affair because he knew his time was limited with the body, and the stress of that situation would effect his memory later while he was writing up the autopsy for the record. Parkland would not have taken pictures. While the public does not have access to the photos at the moment that will eventually change in a few decades, and those pictures will be there waiting for future historians. Technical Note: JFK's body was taken out of Parkland at the insistence of Jackie Kennedy, and it was also Jackie who chose Bethesda for the autopsy based on the fact that JFK had served in the Navy. Nobody was going to tell Jackie "no". |
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Witnesses could not pick the elephant out of a line-up!
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I'm preprotesting the censorship on all the elephant related posts to AAH. Mods are in on the obvious coverup.
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I'm wondering how many people smelled peanuts after the shooting.
Also, the HSCA determined that the big difference between elephants and grapes is that grapes are purple, and that means the people who couldn't pick the elephant out in the line-up were color blind. Seriously, if your conspiracy theory merges seamlessly with elephant jokes you might have a flaw in your logic. |
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I guess it's because there's such a wide spectrum of shenanigans that may or may not have happened at the autopsy. Now I'm not much in the O'Connor/Jenkins/David/Custer department, but you can entertain an idea without accepting it. For example, O'Connor's story about seeing General Curtis Lemay smoking a cigar in the autopsy audience.
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OMG! A 4-Star General was smoking a cigar in 1963, and didn't put it out when asked to...because he was a 4-Star on a military base.
Obvious proof he was somehow in on it, whatever it was. Or maybe he was using the cigar smoke to hide the scent of peanut-breath on the elephant in the room. |
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