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To: Valpal1
This post is the closest thing to a secondary source I've seen yet. With the same problem as before, it comes from an internet chat room or forum where anyone can represent themselves to be anything and claim anything.

If this is your backhanded way of calling me a liar, it is pointless to talk to you. People here that have known me much longer than you, can vouch for the fact that one son-in-law is a police officer and the other is a Marine.

Topics related to both fields seem to come up often on FR and this is not my first discussion that references it.

I don't care what you believe, but why on earth would I make it up? I made it very clear that he didn't tell me it was a hard, cold fact; just what he had heard.

So please do not address me any further. Once you accuse me of not being truthful, you are unworthy of further conversation with me and I will no longer respond to you.

263 posted on 02/28/2002 1:02:30 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Thank you for your informative post!
264 posted on 02/28/2002 1:07:02 PM PST by Amore
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
I have been reading the reparte on this and other threads and have come to some conclusions.

I believe the "lifestyle comments", have hit a nerve with some on FR. It seems that those who attack folks with a negative feeling for the parents are also those who defend other alternative lifestyles as free speech, for the most part.

Your response to this has been lucid and clear. I appreciate your tone and your well thought out argument. As for myself, I continue to wait for LE to finish their work. I also continue to have little or no respect for the parents in this matter and will continue to make my feeling known, regardless of personal attacks.

267 posted on 02/28/2002 1:29:02 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
So please do not address me any further. Once you accuse me of not being truthful, you are unworthy of further conversation with me and I will no longer respond to you.

"Secondary source" does NOT mean "liar". It merely means "in addition to the primary (first) source".

272 posted on 02/28/2002 1:45:01 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
With the same problem as before, it comes from an internet chat room or forum where anyone can represent themselves to be anything and claim anything.

I am simply pointing out, that the internet is largely anonymous. You and I do not know each other from Adam. I am sure you are being honest about what your LE son heard. My point is, that it does not rise to the level of being verifiable, honorable reputation or no, it is still second hand hearsay from an internet forum. And in two weeks of research, your post was the closest I've seen to a secondary source.

I have faithfully read every link to an article handed me and every last one has cited RR's radio show of Fri. 2-9-02 as its source for the swing angle. There has been no other independent investigative reporting, no interviews, no other claims of "leaks" or "anonymous officials". That is a red flag.

The horse I'm riding here isn't about the VD's really. It's about Freepers not trusting to the validity of single source journalism. Rick Robert's must be ecstatic, he's gotten himself cited in every major rag nationwide, by NAME and STATION. Pretty slick, eh?

Of course, he has also handed the defense a very nice bat to pound the parents with.

284 posted on 02/28/2002 7:01:32 PM PST by Valpal1
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