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Testifying in front of a grand jury is boring. Providing evidence is interesting.
by burgerbrain 16y ago
Testifying in front of a grand jury is boring. Providing evidence is interesting.
- espeed 16y agoListen to the hour-long interview where he provides details.
- btmorex 16y agoI'd rather not waste an hour of my life listening to a conspiracy theorist.
- espeed 16y agoPeople from the State Department are now conspiracy theorists?
- burgerbrain 16y agoAnyone who propagates conspiracy theories are conspiracy theorists. Who they works for is completely irrelevant.
- espeed 16y agoHow should someone from the government or Council on Foreign Relations (http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=P http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=P) speak up if something is BS? -- it's not often that they do.
- abbasmehdi 16y agoIt's not good to be dismissing unpopular ideas, a very popular idea before Iraq invasion was ....(you know the story). I'm just saying listening to both sides of the argument before conclusive making up ones mind is a good idea. I have not seen the said video and am not endorsing it, just commenting on the idea of openness, with all due respect. :-)
- hugh3 16y agoThis particular dumb theory can be easily disproved: if the US government really were involved in some dumb-ass scheme to kill Bin Laden in 2001 and then not bother to tell anyone about it for nearly ten years (even, say, circa 2004 when Mr Bush really would have liked to have that for his re-election campaign) then they'd also be supervillainish enough to kill this guy for talking about it. Sometimes it's not good to dismiss "unpopular" ideas, but it usually is a good idea to (provisionally) dismiss dumbass ideas which don't appear to make sense and for which there isn't any damn evidence.
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- abbasmehdi 16y agoThink you missed my point my man, you are talking about analyzing and then dismissing the idea (totally agree and cool), I am speaking of people who dismiss prior to analysis just because the idea is unpopular and not a part of the mainstream ideology. Hope this makes sense.
- hugh3 16y agoWell for a start it's not about "ideology". Ideology is about the way the world should be, and it's a matter on which the reasonable people of the world can and should disagree. The date of bin Laden's death (if indeed he is dead, if indeed he ever existed) is a fact-of-the-matter thing; it's either one way or it's another way, and there shouldn't be much room for reasonable people to disagree at all. Reasonable people may be uncertain on such matters, but they should all share similar degrees of uncertainty.
- burgerbrain 16y agoRule of thumb: whenever someone tells you that you should watch some random hour long video on the internet to really 'get' some dubious claim, don't. I have avoided wasting countless hours of my life like this.
- hyperbovine 16y agoYou should really make a video about that...