Backatcha Bandit said:
Justin - You're good at books... go on, give it a go. See if you can work out how many people in black combat gear were in the area when his body was discovered.
Sorry, is this a gag? How many of these people
were in the area? Don't forget to supply a source please.
Backatcha Bandit said:
And on the subject of books, does anyone remember the subject of the book that Kelly was negotiating a publishing deal for when he died?
To quote the commissioning editor: "a title which addresses the relationship between government, policy and war". I'm left wondering exactly which chapters would NOT have posed a direct threat - maybe 'Ethics of biological warfare'? 'The role of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in biowarfare'?
I'm at a loss to see the relevance of this point. In what way would publishing a book exposing the government's case - something many people have done - have posed a threat to said government? How come John Pilger's still breathing?
Backatcha Bandit said:
Absence of evidence does not constitue evidence of absence
No it doesn't
and nobody has claimed that it does. However, absence is still absence until shown otherwise. A hypothesis is not a theory until there is postive evidence to support it.
Backatcha Bandit said:
If the presented version of events is shown to be untrue, the onus to present an alternative or 'true' version does NOT fall on those who are merely pointing it out
No it does not. However, people
are presenting an alternative version - a murder - and therefore the onus
does fall on them to try and back it up in some way. Which they have not.
Backatcha Bandit said:
Your inability to inform yourself from sources other than what you're spoonfed by the mainstream media does not make those that can and do 'conspiracy theorists'.
I do find this "spoonfed" term terribly arrogant as well as stupid. The
Lancet, for instance - is that some sort of "spoonfeeding" wqhen it attacks the government and questions its account? The "spoonfeeding" nonsense is jsut another cover, I'm afraid, for having no evidence to back up one's case, and it also has the same persistent dishonesty that has run right through this thread, that people who find the murder hypothesis lacking in evidence are somehow just blindly believing what they are told by the Conspiracy. No, these people are often quite critical of what they're told by the government and media. They are critcial because they often find the evidence unconvincing. Unfortunately they have to apply the same principles to the conspiracy rubbish.
Backatcha Bandit said:
To suggest that there was 'no motive' to bump him off is to reveal the sort of naive, myopic worldview that lets the bastards get away with it. And keep getting away with it.
Once again this completely ignores the arguments that have several times been put against it. There was a motive to find what Dr Kelly said uncomfortable. Unfortunately, that doesn't constitute a motive to kill him. You can't bridge the gap with adjectives like "naive" and "myopic", I'm afraid. All you do - in fact, all your entire posting does - is to shout about how other people are sheep and you - wonderful you - can see the Truth,
but you don't actually do any more than say it. What are we suppose to do, believe you because we think you're great?
Demonstrate your case with facts or shut the fuck up. And in the meantime I think I'll start a website claiming that Dr kelly faked his own death. I bet DrJ will go for it.