20-07-2009, 01:18 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:Well I for one will be VERY sorry to see Paul go. I have never detected any personal animosity in his posts and consider it unfortunate that others apparently have.
So will I. Speaking for myself, in terms of personal animus I neither detected any from nor projected any toward Paul.
Peter Presland Wrote:[Pauls posts] are uniformly knowledgeable, thoughtful and well argued.
With the exception of the Greer-did-it myth, I agree.
Peter Presland Wrote:t seems to me that Paul has been somewhat 'ganged up on'.
On this point, Peter, we must disagree. Many of us voiced our strong objections to Paul's Greer-did-it hypothesis, and in fact I'm confident that, in doing so, we demolished it. But "ganging up" implies a concerted effort to bully, and I assure you that no such action was contemplated, let alone initiated.
Peter Presland Wrote:I found all his posts on this topic useful. They have not moved me to embrace the 'Greer did it' hypothesis but as far as I am concerned it should be allowed to remain an open question that can at least be debated on a forum like this.
I agree that all of the Greer-did-it posts were useful indeed as they opened the door to revelation. And of course discussion on this topic never will be banned from the Deep Politics Forum.
However, just as the official Oswald-did-it cover story is no longer an "open question" but rather a clearly established fabrication, so too is Paul's pet theory revealed to be incorrect -- at the very least.
Peter Presland Wrote:Like Paul, I am congenitally wary of anything that smacks of easy consensus.
Agreed.
Oops.