[ExI] Top ten dumbest remarks

John K Clark jonkc at att.net
Sun Oct 7 15:59:07 UTC 2007


"Samantha Atkins" <sjatkins at mac.com>

> one of the most difficult to accept
> conclusions I have ever come to.

I disagree, the UFO and ESP people have conclusions too and they are
about equally difficult to accept because they are as STUPID as your idea.
However your conclusion has an additional dimension besides idiocy,
your crap is vicious.

Samantha you have every right to be angry about the war in Iraq, I'm angry
too, but you shouldn't let your anger rise to a point where it overwhelms
your rationality. If the silly ideas you were pedaling were to become widely
believed, (and we both know history is full of silly ideas that were widely
believed) then there will be a demand for revenge against the American
"traitors" involved in this evil 911 "plot". And that could lead to far
worse things than the war in Iraq.

You worry about civil rights and I do too, but now you would have
American citizens rounded up and put in camps for being involved
in an evil 911 conspiracy that in fact never existed. If I don't like your
politics I'll put you in the camp too; true I can't prove you had anything
to do with the plot, but that is a small point because I can't prove that
anybody in the camp had anything to do with it either because there
was no plot to be involved in.

It turned out that the rational for the war was built on a house of cards,
but if you have your way the violent backlash would have an equally shaky
foundation. You are doing EXACTLY what George Bush did 5 years ago,
letting your emotions run away with you.  Saddam Hussein had weapons
of mass destruction or he did not, there was an evil American plot to crash
airliners into buildings or there was not. Science will not be fooled and
that is why policies built on a bullshit premise will lead to disaster.

 John K Clark






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