On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 6:36:05 AM UTC-5, Gil Jesus wrote:
> LURKERS:
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> The LN Trolls in this newsgroup post no evidence.
Never?
> No citations
> No documents
> No testimony
> No exhibits
> No witness videos
You're delusional. LNs post--and have posted--tons of citations, documents, testimony, exhibits, video links, etc.
> They do no research of their own, preferring to take the lazy way out and fall back on the conclusions of the Warren Commission Report.
> You can gain NO KNOWLEDGE from their posts.
Wow. Jean Davison doesn't count? McAdams? DVP? In the earlier days of this newsgroup (and/or at alt.assassination.jfk), there was sometimes even participation from people directly involved in the events that day or the events surrounding it. People like Hugh Aynesworth, also an author of an assassination-related book, JFK: Breaking the News. Of course, Hank, Bud Big Dog, and many others have posted pieces of testimony, links to exhibits, etc. as well, so you're just wrong in your assertion that no one posts evidence. It's just "evidence" that doesn't sway you, but you never assert what evidence would sway you.
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> What they DO post are comments, speculation, opinion and ( when that doesn't work ) insults.
Isn't that what this discussion board is? In addition to posts portions of testimony, etc. are we not allowed to comment, speculate, offer opinion, and yes, insult? As Ben says, this is the "uncensored" board. Don't you insult people? Does ANYONE throw out more insults than Ben?
Stop acting like this place is where a scholarly pursuit for truth takes place. Some truth is offered, but if you're covering your ears, closing your eyes and saying, "lalalalalala" to drown out what your critics are trying to help you understand, that "truth" isn't going to penetrate. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
>They see themselves as guardians of the truth against those crazy "conspiracy theorists".
Nah. It's a fun place to blow off steam and laugh at the collective inabilities of CTs to understand simple concepts like the burden of proof, the idea that this is an historical event and not a criminal trial requiring reasonable doubt in front of a jury, and so on. Team Oswald is a circus clown car of contradictions, with different theories of what happened and no tests to back up the different theories proposed. The choice isn't Oswald alone or conspiracy; it's Oswald alone or a SPECIFIC conspiracy. When will you be detailing your SPECIFIC JFK assassination theory? We're waiting to hear it.
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> They argue that because a conspiracy can't be proven, then none existed.
Wrong. The argument centers around the idea I touched on that the burden of proof for a conspiracy falls upon you to make a positive case for what you allege, and not to treat this as if you're Johnny Cochrane, boldly pronouncing that if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. One side has a fully formed case, backed with ballistic tests, interviews, film analysis, testimony, an autopsy report, and on and on, and a POSITIVE case that Oswald killed JFK, wounded JBC and killed JDT was made. Team Oswald? Nothing. Something else happened, somehow. You can't even present a BASIC case and provide BASIC research to support, for example, Ben's assertion that up to eight shots were fired in the plaza from at least three different directions. Why did most earwitnesses only report three shots? Silencers? Has Team Oswald tested the viability of this out? Does Team Oswald have no interest in performing any tests? Oliver Stone spent $20M on his movie. He could've diverted $50K-$100K and ran all of the scientific tests required to back the many claims Team Oswald was making in the early 90s. Nothing. He offered the JFK "research community" nothing, although his movie was instrumental in getting the ARRB up and going, so there's that.
Did the WCR even say definitively that there was no conspiracy? Didn't they conclude that based on their investigation no evidence of a conspiracy could be found? Doesn't the autopsy report summary say JFK was shot and killed by a person or PERSONS unknown?
> Does that mean that if a murder is unsolved, the victim was never murdered ? You'll have to ask them, that's their thought process.
More poor thinking from Gil. Silly.
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> They have little or no knowledge of police procedures, like the proper way to conduct a lineup, the proper way to handle evidence, the proper way to interrogate a prisoner and the proper way to protect a prosecution case by protecting a suspect's Constitutional rights.
> And yet they'll argue and insult someone knowledgeable of such things.
I have little or no knowledge of how an airliner is supposed to be maintained and piloted, but I trust that it is mechanically up-to-date, fueled, and has a pilot and crew who know how to do these things when I board one. It would be proper to examine the airliner, the airline, the maintenance records, the pilot's decisions, etc. if the plane crashed, but in the JFK case, you have even never stated exactly what you think occurred or what the "crash" is. You shoot your spitballs at all of the things that you claim weren't done to YOUR standards but, but you can't show the JFK case "crash," so to speak, by making a positive case for something else.
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> They have little or no knowledge of the 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits that they so religiously support. Most of them haven't even read them.
Many people on both sides of the debate have read the WCR and/or many or most of the supporting documents, etc. It's online, Gil. I think most of us here have read big chunks of the WCR, etc.
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> They have little or no knowledge of how "southern justice" worked in the 1960s. How innocent black men never made it to trial and how all-white grand juries refused to indict guilty white men ( like Medgar Evers' murderer Byron DeLa Beckwith ).
Apples and oranges. Strawman.
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> They have little or no knowledge of the history of the Kennedy Administration, the powerful enemies he made with his personal behavior and his political policies.
You're like the nerd who writes a book called, "How to pick up Hot Chicks" who's never been laid. Take all of this so-called knowledge you've acquired and put it to work detailing a case we can examine. Based on your superior knowledge of the even, WHAT HAPPENED? We're waiting to hear what you have. The floor is yours. SPEAK UP.
Nearly everyone participating in this forum for any length of time knows 99.99% more than the average American about history in the 60s, including a great deal about JFK's administration and the events surrounding the assassination. It's WHY people participate here.
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> They have little or no knowledge of the atmosphere in the city of Dallas at the time of the assassination. That the President was warned not to go to Dallas or "they" would kill him there begs the question, "how did all of these people know Lee Harvey Oswald was going to kill the President" ?
They didn't know a wife-beating, loser Commie wannabe was going to kill JFK. That's one of the reasons the assassination was so shocking, and why so many people couldn't wrap their minds around the idea that a "lone nut" with a cheap rifle could damage the country so severely. In the minds of the general public, there HAD to be others involved. Ditto 9/11. How could 19 Muslims with box cutters cause so much damage that resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths on 9/11 and countless billions of dollars in damage, a recession, legislation like the Patriot Act, two wars that killed an additional 6,000 US troops and wounded maybe 40K-50K more, and trillions of dollars in money spent? There HAD to be more than 19 Muslims and some box cutters, thus the 9/11 Truther movement was born. a close cousin to the JFK conspiracy buff's hobby.
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> But not having knowledge is not enough. Even when shown evidence indicating that Oswald was innocent, they ignore it.
You are on the far fringes of the JFK conspiracy debate if you are asserting Oswald was innocent. Make a positive case for what you allege happened and invite criticism of your case.
Misconduct IN YOUR OPINION. Make a positive case for what occurred and STOP SHOOTING SPITBALLS at the case.
It's not about you, Gil.
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> But this is not what happens in a proper and professional police investigation. This is what happens when you are collecting evidence against one suspect and one suspect only.
How would you have conducted the case? Be specific.
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> In short, this is how you frame an innocent person.
You don't even think he killed Tippit? C'mon, Gil!!!!!!!
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> In short, the Lone Nut trolls in this newsgroup are not here to debate evidence because they don't know the evidence. They're not here to learn the truth because they've been systematicly brainwashed by a government with a history of lying to its people.
We're at a JFK assassination discussion board to see if you can detail a case that is better than the historical one against Oswald. When will you be supplying something specific for us to examine?
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> And speaking of things they don't know about, they don't even know they've been brainwashed. They come in here time and time again and their lack of knowledge of the evidence only leads them to embarrass themselves.
Says the guy who can't cobble together a basic theory for what happened and detail any tests for his claims. That's funny.
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> You'll gain no knowledge from their posts.
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> Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech. ( Proverbs 14:7 )
Back at 'ya.