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To insinuate the thread is a prank is a pretty serious charge, however.

I was interested in what the guy had to say until he started maintaining that the government hid the deaths of illegal aliens in Andrew because the "people" would go insane. I don't believe a word of the Andrew nonsense (what politician would instigate a conspiracy with such a tiny, unclear and marginal payoff?) Conspiracies are almost always the imaginings of the intellectually lazy. It is just damn hard to cover up the fact of someone's death. Family and friends normally notice and in a hurricane, they were probably near the person when they passed.

I just now got up this morning and read this post and thought WOW how sad! I turned the TV on to get the news about this and--nothing at all about the big number of deaths. What gives?? Is this a prank post or what?

I'm sure that whoever the on-duty moderator was at the time this thread got going had to take many things into consideration. Ultimately, the credibility of FR is either enhanced or hurt. I hope it's not a situation where someone here was duped.

On the plus side - here we get to be our own news filters.