That's right; it smacks of fakery. When you know the man keeps his
cigarettes in his shirt-pocket and that the box contains 25 cigarettes,
then there was a 96% chance that he was not down to his last cigarette.
Therefore, the likelihood was that there was at least one more cigarette
left in that box to give him reason to retain the box.
But, if we grant your 4% mathematical chance of it being his last
cigarette, you say he threw the empty pack away? But where? There was no
trash can. Would he just drop it on the sidewalk amidst all those people
for someone to trip over? I know that poeple litter, but they don't tend
to litter in a crowded circumstance like that.
Or, you say he bummed a cigarette from someone else? But, we see no one
else in the movie who is smoking, and there is no one else with cigarettes
in view. So, why go there? Why don't you say a little birdie dropped a
cigarette in his hand?
And you are denying that there is a pocket flap? I'll point it out for you:
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/1941/9c1s.jpg
This was a man's flannel shirt, which typically comes with pocket flaps.
Look:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0PDoVxKod5RmRoA.e2JzbkF?ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-508&p=men%27s+flannel+shirts&fr2=sp-qrw-corr-top&norw=1
Then you say he had a soft pack in November and a hard pack in February, I
think? No, I know. I've got eyes, and I use them.
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3576/uyry.jpg
Then you play the convenience card. You argue from convenience, helping
yourself to what-ifs with complete abandon. You suggest that Lovelady
switched brands between November and February. But, why wouldn't he buy
the new brand in a box? His reason to prefer a box (to prevent the
cigarettes from getting crushed as he worked) would still have been
operative.
And, it is well known that cigarette brands enjoy the highest brand
loyalty of any consumer product, with annual brand changing in the single
digits. I am seeing that figure of LESS THAN 10% SWITCHING reported all
over the internet, such as here:
http://www.designboom.com/history/cigarettes.html
And you're right about one thing, bpete: I will concede nothing; I will
never give an inch. But, you're wrong about the image you posted. It is
not an image of someone holding their arm across their torso for no
reason.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2373/vmjb.jpg
That person is doing something with that fabric, whatever it is, and that
disqualifies the image. You need to find another one. Is that a problem?
From the whole history of photography, starting in 1820 until the present,
can't you come up with an image of someone holding a single arm across
their torso for no reason. I say again: FOR NO REASON! They can't be
fiddling with any fabric. They can't be doing anything with it. If they're
doing something at all, it doesn't count.
Now, if you're going to tell me that your entire case hinges on that one
particular photograph, that there is no other, then that's your pathetic
problem.
I provided you with links to hundreds- make that thousands- of images of
people crossing their torsos with TWO arms. And you know very well that
there is NO LIMIT to how many such pictures lI could provide. It is an
extremely common practice for people to cross BOTH arms across their
chest. But, no one is going to hold just ONE ARM there- unless they are
doing something with it, as in the picture you provided.
And you know something else? Even if you did come up with one such
picture, it would mean very little. It wouldn't change the overwhelming
preponderance of people doing it with two arms, not one. And, we know the
reason for it, which is that with two arms, it's relaxing, where each arm
suspends the other, like two kids on a see-saw. Balance and suspension-
that's what it's all about. But, with one arm, it's just plain work:
useless, senseless, pointless work. You are arguing the ridiculous.
Yes, it has gotten pathetic, bpete- but on your side. After making the
colossal mistake of photographing Lovelady in the actual clothes he wore
on 11/22 and reporting it as such in writing, the FBI had to concoct phony
movies of him wearing a plaid shirt in order to undo the damage they did.
But, the ruse failed. And yes, it is very much a part of the official
story. Those phony images from phony movies of Lovelady have everthing to
do with the official story of the assassination. Their whole case hinges
on it, and that's a disaster- for them, and for you. You'll have to find a
new occupation, other than grovelling state worshiper. You like being a
pawn of the fascist state, don't you? It suits you well.