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.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene