On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:45:13 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Strimbu
> <
christoph...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > And a final note for Holmes: if you can answer these questions, I
> > will quit calling you troll and call you by your actual name, like you
> > want me to do.
> This would be simply normal courtesy. Why would I have to bribe you
> to show ordinary courtesy?
> > If not, I will refer to you however I please, and will refuse to
> > engage in any discussion with you.
> So you're offering to be Steven.
No, he’s offering to be Ben Holmes. You don’t engage in a discussion, you engage in a diatribe, and you refer to others however you please.
>
> Problem is, you can't convince anyone this way.
Yet that is exactly how you deal with people’s points, and you seem damn proud of it. You delete them and then try to redirect the discussion to something else.
We saw you do literally *thousands* of times over the years, the most recent being right here.
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/lBxWczM8KhQ/m/XntIuwL5AQAJ
People can read. They can see Christopher made a simple request, and you responded with a falsehood about me. I called you on it, and established you started calling me Huckster for no reason at all.
Since then, you’ve been deleting my points in that thread and trying desperately to change the subject.
>
> People will wonder why you can't refute what I point out.
People are wondering that about you. Go ahead, start here:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/lBxWczM8KhQ/m/XntIuwL5AQAJ
Or run as you have been doing.
> >So answer these questions (no snipping or dodging this time):
> I will do so just in order to prove you a liar. I quite expect,
> before the year is out, that you'll prove that you lied in this post.
> > 1. What time do you think JFK's body arrived at Bethesda? Be sure to
> > back your claims with citations and evidence.
> The EARLIEST and DOCUMENTED evidence is for 1835. You're already
> aware of it. And it's already been cited. Here it is again:
>
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md236/html/md236_0005a.htm
It says “approximately”, and it was written four days later, from memory.
So 18:35 is one time.
So which is correct, and why?
18:45 and 18:35 are two times.
That makes three different times - 18:30, 18:35, and 18:45.
>
> As I've stated, there were THREE documented entry times of JFK's body,
> 1835, 1917, 1935 (in two separate caskets.)
So now we’re up to five times - 18:30, 18:35, 18:45, 19:17, and 19:35.
Yep. People are human, and make mistakes. You need to learn to deal with the fact that not every mistake is evidence of the conspiracy you believe in.
>
> Now, why do I settle on the earliest? Because it easily explains the
> later "entries," but it doesn't work the other way around.
Sure it does. One is correct. It doesn’t have to be the earliest. None can be correct. It could be 19:18, for example, because a watch was slow by a minute.
> If you
> truly believe that the casket didn't arrive until shortly before 8,
> then you got a lot of 'splainin to do.
>
> (But you won't.)
If you truly believe the casket arrived at 6:35, you have to explain the other four. And no fair calling everyone else a liar, that’s not an explanation, that’s an excuse for eliminating the times you do not favor.
>
> And since the plane landed at 1800, 1835 works far better than an hour
> and a half *later*.
>
> David Powers claimed:"The trip [from Andrews AFB to Bethesda Naval
> Hospital] took about 15 minutes; I remember going very quickly and
> with an escort" (THE DAY JFK DIED, p. 34).
>
> From Andrews to Bethesda is just 20 miles.
So they drove 20 miles in fifteen minutes. That’s 80 mph *on average*. What was the hurry? Kennedy was still dead either way.
It’s an estimate from a recollection - that’s established by the “about”. Time appears to go faster or slower depending on perception. I was surprised to find it was nearly 3pm today because I was engrossed in something important to me. I can understand Powers being deep in thought, and believing only about 15 minutes elapsed when it actually longer.
>
> You got some 'splainin to do.
>
> (But you won't.)
>
> Douglas Horne has documented *SEPARATE* casket teams who brought the
> casket in... as well as having demonstrated that there was *NO-ONE*
> who was with the body at all times. See his five volume set of books.
No, I don’t put money into the pockets of conspiracy authors who would like nothing more than to separate a fool from his money, as the saying goes. I have over 500 books on the assassination, 95% of them conspiracy oriented. If you don’t care to quote this so-called proof of multiple casket teams, I don’t see any need to rebut it.
Your assertion, your burden of proof, as that saying goes.
Would you accept “The Warren Commission dealt with the assassination in exhaustive detail, and published their conclusions and 26 volumes of supporting testimony and evidence, and found no evidence of conspiracy”?
If not, why would you expect anyone here to be convinced by your assertion that the proof is elsewhere, especially since you seldom cite for your claims in any case?
>
> You won't refute *ANY* of this... nor, I predict, will you even try.
What’s to refute? You yourself admit to five different times estimates, and allege two different caskets.
Even if the two-casket theory is correct, you still have five different times for two entries.
>
> And you *CLEARLY* lied by omission - no-one would know OTHER THAN BY
> READING -MY- posts, that there was any evidence other than the Humes
> testimony.
You didn’t ask for all the times. You asked for THE time. And then responded with FIVE times. How unintentionally funny is that?
>
> So you're a proven liar.
You throw that word around a lot. You don’t appear to know what it means.
> >2. Why did you call me and Von Pein liars when we specifically quoted the testimony of the autopsy doctors?
>
https://psychopathsinlife.com/omission-lying/
So what do you call it when you delete all my points and ignore them? Is that lying by omission, and if it is, why would you be immune from this charge?
Isn’t this a prime example of the kettle calling the pot black?
>
> How many times has Mark Lane been accused of lying by omission?
Hundreds, if not thousands. I’ve documented numerous occasions (dozens!) where Lane left out important information relevant to the claims he was making, thanks to your series. Every time I did that, you tried to insist that I was limited to the information Lane mentioned, which was and remains a ludicrous assertion.
> Why
> do you think **YOU** are safe from the same charge, when it's so
> easily proven?
Was it proven?
>
> Do you think that only *critics* can be charged with lying by
> omission?
Do you think that if you ask for THE time, and one is provided, that is insufficient?
You yourself can’t answer the question as asked. You provided multiple (5!) times,
> >3. Why do you think this question is the least bit important?
> Because, YEARS ago, when I first started asking it, Chuckles was
> complaining that there couldn't have been a pre-autopsy autopsy.
Not an answer. It appears the correct answer is “Because I need to leave sufficient time for a pre-autopsy alteration of wounds that would fool a first-year med student, let alone three experienced pathologists”. Don’t try to blame your beliefs on somebody else. Support your beliefs. You NEED an earlier time of arrival to allow more time fo4 the unproven
>
> He never did answer... and hasn't posted for some time now...
>
> It *IS* amusing that believers always whine about the importance of
> evidence that clearly *IS* important.
>
> **YOU** need to explain nearly an hour and a half of just sitting
> around doing nothing.
>
> I don't.
>
> (You won't, however...)
> >If you cannot answer these questions, this will be the last you will hear from me.
> I've answered fully, completely, and very credibly. You, on the other
> hand, are desperately seeking a reason to run away and stop
> responding.
>
> You don't *need* a reason, just do it! Cowardice doesn't need a
> reason. If you want to run away, you'd simply be joining a lonnnnng
> list of other believers, such as Tony Marsh, Johnny McAss, and Davy
> Von Peiny ... to name just a few.
>
> >Ta ta.