On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 4:58:29 PM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2021 10:17:22 -0700 (PDT), Bud <
sirs...@fast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 11:40:12 AM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
> >> On Wed, 5 May 2021 07:40:47 -0700 (PDT), Bud <
sirs...@fast.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 10:18:35 AM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
> >>>> Quoting from Mark Lane:
> >>>>
> >>>> "To conclude that 'no credible evidence suggests' that shots came from
> >>>> any place other than the Book Depository is to ignore the evidence of
> >>>> Miss Mercer, Bowers, Price, Holland, Deputy Constable Weitzman and the
> >>>> railroad yardman who spoke with him.
> >>>
> >>> Lane is simply lying here. "credibility" is subjective. You don`t
> >>> need to ignore the information, only look at it differently.
> >>
> >> You cannot show that these witnesses were not credible.
> >
> > As predicted Ben didn`t speak to the points made.
> As predicted, dumbass couldn't support his empty claim.
"Lane is simply lying here. "credibility" is subjective. You don`t need to ignore the information, only look at it differently.
Watch as Ben talks over or around the point I made, never touching it."
> > He couldn`t contest that Lane lied.
> You couldn't prove that Mark Lane lied.
I showed it. You couldn`t contest it. Still haven`t.
> >>> Watch as Ben talks over or around the point I made, never touching it.
> >>
> >> I answered it directly.
> >
> > You are simply lying. You did exactly what I said you would do.
> You are simply lying. I did precisely what I said I did.
Here it is again...
"Lane is simply lying here. "credibility" is subjective. You don`t need to ignore the information, only look at it differently.
Watch as Ben talks over or around the point I made, never touching it."
Show that you addressed the point I made.
You never did, you did exactly what I knew you would do.
> >> You keep making empty claims.
> >
> > Which was the empty claim, that credibility is subjective or that
> > the WC may have viewed the information differently than Lane?
> You can't cite the evidence used by the WC to discredit the many GK
> shooter witnesses.
"discredit" is merely a strawman argument.
> Nor do you even try.
Why would I play your crooked games.
> Speculation isn't an argument. Particularly UNSUPPORTED speculation.
I`m examining Lane`s ideas. If you are afraid to have them examined, don`t produce them.
> > You just can`t argue ideas.
> And yet, I'm doing perfectly fine.
As long as you avoid the points I make you will continue to be fine.
> >>>>Yet the statements of these six
> >>>> corroborate and are consistent with one another.
> >>>
> >>> In what way?
> >>
> >> Lie, and claim that they aren't.
> >
> > Shifting the burden.
> It's your burden.
Wrong. We are examining Lane`s work here.
> It's *YOU* trying to make a claim that is silly on
> the face of it... it's your burden to support it.
I don`t need to answer to your strawmen. I pointed out that investigation is a process that involves weighing information. That necessarily means giving more weight to some information over other information.
But when you come down to it, you or Lane`s opinions about whether they did this well is not that meaningful.
Lane is like you, he says things but he doesn`t show things. He could make the case that this is strong information, stronger than the conflicting information the WC relied on, but that would be arguing on merit, something Lane isn`t going to bother with.
> > Since you can`t support Lane`s claim we can safely assume he lied.
> Since you can't support your OWN claim, we can safely assume that
> you're a liar and a dumbass.
It was Lane`s claim that these witnesses were consistent and corroborative. He *said* this, but he didn`t *show* it.
> >>>> For testimony to be
> >>>> so compatible, the common denominator - bar perjury - must be truth.
> >>>
> >>> Lane has done nothing to show that them being mistaken is not
> >>> possible, he is merely employing a false dilemma fallacy.
> >>
> >> You can run, but you can't refute what Mark Lane points out.
> >
> > Non sequitur that doesn`t speak to the point made.
> You're trying to do EXACTLY this.
You are using ad hominem to avoid the points you have no answer to.
Lane did nothing to show that there were only the two possibilities he claimed existed.
> You're trying to refute what Mark Lane stated.
I`m examining it and finding problems with it. When I mention the problems you misdirect all over but don`t address the points I`m making.
> You're failing.
Did I? Did Lane show that "perjury" and "truth" were the only two possibilities?
> > This is how Ben argues, he talks over points or around them and
> > pretends as long as a response is made this counts as addressing the
> > point made.
> Until you can show that sworn testimony is not evidence, or that these
> many corroborating eyewitnesses were all not credible, you lose.
One of your phony constructs. Investigation is a process that often requires discerning merit and assigning weight to information based on this merit. That you or Mark Lane doesn`t like how the WC went about doing that isn`t that meaningful.
> It's as simple as that.
> >>>> The Commission's apparently arbitrary rejection
> >>>
> >>> This is how dishonest people like Lane and Ben frame their
> >>> arguments, dishonestly. "apparent" to who? Isn`t it part of any
> >>> investigative process to gather and weigh available information?
> >>> Doesn`t this process necessarily involve rejecting information if
> >>> other information seems more credible?
> >>
> >> Logical fallacy.
> >
> > You use this as a cowardly dodge, nothing more.
> Yet another proven logical fallacy.
Yet another cowardly dodge. I wrote this...
"Isn`t it part of any investigative process to gather and weigh available information? Doesn`t this necessarily involve rejecting information if other information seems more credible?"
You had an answer to this obvious truth, so you label it a fallacy and cowardly dodge it.
> >> Watch folks, as Chickenshit ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to cite any evidence
> >> that refutes the statements & testimony of so many people to a Grassy
> >> Knoll shooter.
> >
> > See how Ben tries to make it about something I need to do?
> Ah! But it IS your burden.
Wrong. I`m examining Lane`s work. I won`t bother if you are only going to run from every point I make about what Lane writes. If you are too stupid to critically examine Lane`s ideas (which you obviously are), why should I care?
> You accepted it when you first tried to
> deny what Mark Lane so clearly pointed out.
I pointed out some flaws in the things Lane said. You`ve been in a tizzy ever since, misdirecting all over to avoid the points I made.
> Logical fallacies deleted.
> >>>> of such testimony
> >>>> reflects more damagingly upon itself than upon the credibility of the
> >>>> witnesses, for, in fact, nearly 100 other persons believed that the
> >>>> shots came from the knoll."
> >>>
> >>> Lane merely declares the witnesses credible without showing that
> >>> the information they supplied was credible. Then he uses his
> >>> assumption to bolster his idea that this is detrimental to the WC`s
> >>> credibility.
> >>
> >> Not a refutation.
> >
> > But shows that Lane`s words as they stand don`t mean much.
> That's your opinion, not a refutation.
You haven`t refuted the flaws I found in Lane`s work. In fact you haven`t touched them.
> >> If you wish to claim the witnesses weren't
> >> credible, the burden is yours.
> >
> > The idea I expressed was that credibility is subjective. You haven`t touched it.
> The idea that your argument is based totally on your subjective
> opinion is quite clear.
It isn`t subjective that credibility is subjective.
> You've still not touched Mark Lane.
Just his ideas.
> >> Get busy.
> >
> > If Lane isn`t responsible for the ideas he expresses there isn`t
> > much point in reading this series.
> He is. Just as *YOU* are responsible for your unsupported claims.
The only claims I`ve made are that his ideas are flawed. I`ve shown this. There is no reason I should do more to show this when you haven`t contested the original points.
> >>>> Monkey Boy, (and indeed, all the other kooks) can't refute this
> >>>> statement by any citation to evidence or logic.
> >>>>
> >>>> Stand by for dead silence of logic or citation.
> >>>
> >>> Watch as you merely talk over the points I made, claim they are
> >>> fallacies, claim they are not refutations or simply delete them. You
> >>> argue like a dishonest child.
> >>
> >> Lie, and claim you committed no logical fallacies.
> >
> > Shifting the burden once more.
> Looks like Chickenshit is unwilling to blatantly lie. He's unwilling
> to state that he's committed no logical fallacies.
Still desperately trying to shift the burden. Perhaps some day you might be man enough to support your own ideas.
> Because, no doubt, he knows he has.
>
> (Another logical fallacy deleted)
> > I didn`t write the book and I didn`t bring it here as significant.
> > I pointed out some flaws I detected in what was presented.
> And was COMPLETELY UNABLE to cite for your opinions.
I showed them.
This is how it works. Lane expressed ideas. I point out the flaws in the ideas Lane expressed. The only thing I can possibly cite is what Lane wrote that I am showing the flaws in.
> > You offered not a single counter argument against a single idea I
> > expressed.
> You're lying again, Chickenshit.
What idea did I express that you made a counter argument against?
Did you successfully argue against the idea that investigation is a process that necessarily means giving weight to information? Did you even speak to this concept? Of course not, you can`t argue ideas to save your life. I can go back and get other ideas you didn`t touch. You blow smoke and talk over ideas because you can`t come to grips with the fact that you are too stupid to figure out for yourself that Lane`s ideas are flawed.