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To: GaryL
Also, I admire your honesty and you'll willingness to accept evidence when properly presented, to reach a position based on fact, not emotion. You appear to be like those of us who seek only the truth, nothing more.
281 posted on 11/23/2003 8:32:59 PM PST by GaryL
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To: GaryL
"Also, I admire your honesty and you'll willingness to accept evidence when properly presented, to reach a position based on fact, not emotion. You appear to be like those of us who seek only the truth, nothing more"

Er...you are posting this message to yourself?
287 posted on 11/23/2003 8:45:08 PM PST by ronnieb
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To: GaryL
A serious question: why is it so critical that EVERYONE come around to the absolute conviction that there was not and could not possibly have been a conspiracy? After all, it is logically impossible to "prove" that there was not some sort of collusion, even though the evidence for it is pretty weak.

There are people I know who believe that the Gub'mint has aliens in cold storage at an Air Force base. There are folks who honestly think that they have been taken up into spaceships and had colonoscopies done by little green men from the sixth planet of Betelgeuse. There are people who believe that Uri Geller can bend spoons by mind power (what a useful talent to have, by the way. Everybody needs more bent spoons).

I think- no, I KNOW FOR CERTAIN- that these people are terribly misguided, even perhaps a little dotty. But their peculiar beliefs do not affect me, and I don't spend any time at all trying to talk them out of holding them.

I think that a mildly skeptical attitude (like mine, for example)towards the circumstances surrounding one of the great crimes in this Nation's jistory is a harmless thing, even if some of the "conspiracy theorists" cite the weakest of evidence, or none at all. Even if a bunch of con artists are making a buck off the more credulous among them.

It is just unimportant, like an Art Bell show, or a WEEKLY WORLD NEWS story about an Elvis sighting in Peoria.

288 posted on 11/23/2003 8:46:25 PM PST by RANGERAIRBORNE
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To: GaryL
You appear to be like those of us who seek only the truth, nothing more.

Gary, I assure you that those of us on the other side want only the truth as well. Speaking for myself, I promise you that.

323 posted on 11/23/2003 10:56:47 PM PST by texasbluebell
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