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[Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 11:45 AM, B wrote:
> Now it's only the paranoid fringe who remember and are concerned with 
> this gathering of power, and they are dismissed easily (as Jim has 
> illustrated).

Hm, I guess I should have put this in all caps:
"NOT THAT THE ENTIRE TOPIC SHOULD BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND."

I'm simply saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary 
evidence. And no, I haven't taken the time to go down the rabbit hole 
and read 1000 web pages of this stuff. It'll sit in the back of my mind 
along with a lot of other interesting/implausible propositions, and 
I'll watch for patterns.


> "The press" is not a Magical Priesthood of Knowing Everything

I don't expect journalists to be any more long-sighted or principled 
that the rest of us. And I agree with you that the best way to hide a 
secret is to make it a mind-crushing bore to unravel. But I also 
believe that ego at least will drive reporters to chase and uncover the 
grand conspiracy theories, if they stand up to scrutiny.


In this case, don't you have to believe that the legal profession 
(another bunch of hyper-disciplined foot soldiers;-) have all agreed to 
never mention the ongoing state of emergency, even when it would give 
them an edge in court? On this and other topics, I'm quite prepared to 
be both wrong and astonished. In the meantime, I'll keep paying may 
taxes with funny money and drinking the flouridated water.

But hey, I believe that acupuncture works. And I know what happened to 
the streetcars. And I am certainly concerned about concentration of 
power in the executive branch.

  =jimA=

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