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To: mlo
I always hear that eyewitnesses aren't reliable, but yet out society and legal system uses eyewitnesses everyday to jail and excecute people.

In other words, eyewitnesses are more reliable than anything else... like profilers, psychologists and psychics!

18 posted on 10/25/2002 11:15:47 PM PDT by spycatcher
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To: spycatcher
I always hear that eyewitnesses aren't reliable, but yet out society and legal system uses eyewitnesses everyday to jail and excecute people.

In other words, eyewitnesses are more reliable than anything else... like profilers, psychologists and psychics!

No, you've taken the wrong conclusion. Even if you are right about the legal system that can't make eyewitnesses more reliable than anything else when they aren't. And it is a fact that they aren't. All it means is that juries have to make a decision based on the information available to them, and that is often eyewitness testimony. This is not the question.

The question is, if you have some physical evidence that says one thing, and an eyewitness that says something else, what do you go with? The obvious answer *should* be, the physical evidence. The conspiracist often says the eyewitness and insists the phyical evidence must be faked.

19 posted on 10/25/2002 11:38:56 PM PDT by mlo
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To: spycatcher
...like profilers, psychologists and psychics!

I learned some serious lessons from viewing this sniper escapade. My faith in Fox News decreased about 33%. I've come to the conclusion that they are quite stupid and inexperienced. They failed to get any small arms weapons experts of note. I was gnashing my teeth because I would have appeared as an Albert Einstein of small arms knowledge compared to what they were talking about. Then I equate my knowledge of small arms to some of the Freeper small arms experts, and I am just like a little mouse! But the one that blew my mind is when the CNN reporter asked the Montgomery, AL police chief, "Did Malvo rob the liquor store with the .223?" These reporters are stupid beyond belief!

And my faith in law enforcement decreased 33%. The newsclip that got me there is when the BATF were trying to back the trailer with the Caprice in it into the BATF lab---there were 10-15 guys standing around there and they couldn't even figure out how back the effin' trailer into the garage! That's what they showed in most of that trailer footage after each shooting---dozens of cops standin' around like it was some effin cocktail party---GET YOUR BUTTS OUT ON PATROL!

Finally, on Tuesday, I started listening to Michael Savage. I've felt better since because he's in a rage like me---I like what Savage said---"profilers, schmofilers!"

24 posted on 10/26/2002 12:40:11 AM PDT by Born on the Storm King
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