If you insist on having it your way you do realize you render Dr. Matthews totally useless as a witness don't you? Dr. Matthews cannot give testimony that would survive a "hearsay" objection if he postulates his claim as "we saw." By doing that he seeks to speak for other people and that he may not do as a witness.
The reason for that is quite obvious and quite legitimate.
Firstly, if Dr. Matthews was so busy looking around to make sure he knew what other people saw, then his attention was split and quite possibly diverted thus making his own capacity to observe somewhat questionable. Ask Fess, he'll tell you that that is true.
Secondly, if he is basing his claim on what he assumes other people saw then he is committing a major error of logic and of judgment...
Do posters now grasp the weakness of the "we saw" declaration, yet?
Not exactly. What I mean is that for certain, any witness who says "we saw the plane" in a court or other official witness arena will not be paid attention to at all. Instead, their statement will be tossed out, set aside, ignored and stricken from the record.
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You are needlessly expending energy on a hopeless cause. By the way, Dr. Matthews was successfully converted to a NO PLANE witness as to the North Tower, first explosion.
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Small wonder, perhaps, that posters here are trying for all they're worth to hold onto him as a witness for the South Tower. Unfortunately, he's useless there, I'm afraid.
So, into the NO PLANE column Dr. Matthews has been brought and there he shall remain.![]()
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This is not abstract or obscure, posters and lurkers. Please let go of the tendency towards rationalization.
You folks know most of this, right?
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Let's all seek to do better, OK?
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Lurkers:
31 pages and jammonius has not backed up one single assertion.
Will this be the page?
Evidence, please? Please include:What was seen on teevee likely involved military high tech weaponry of deception. Literally, the ability to override normal teevee signals with signals that were inserted in furtherance of the exercises.
and...
We have a 767 missing
We have every single person on that plane missing since that day
anybody else?
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Lurkers:
31 pages and jammonius has not backed up one single assertion.
Will this be the page?
Fine, based on that statement, EVERY SINGLE EYEWITNESS statement is thrown out. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Including the one's that you like to twist to mean that they didn't see a plane.
Now, that leaves physical evidence.
We have video of the plane crashing.
We have hundreds of parts from Boeing 767's in and around the WTC site.
We have jet a large fireball directly after a 767 hits the building.
We have video of the plane crashing.
We have hundreds of parts from Boeing 767's in and around the WTC site.
We have jet a large fireball directly after a 767 hits the building.
Now, using that alone, what else could it have been?
List any assumptions and conclusions.
Hmmmm.... Nope. Sorry. "we" still includes him. Therefore "we saw the plane" means he saw the plane. You'll have to revise your theory I'm afraid.
Haleh Nazeri
"Then all of a sudden I saw another plane, it was so loud and so low and so wrong. I knew before it even hit in the fraction of a second that something was terribly wrong and that my world would never be the same."
From 'The Iranian: Eyewitness, Attack On New York', 21st September 2001.
http://www.iranian.com/Features/2001/September/911
Do posters agree that Iranian newspapers are no more and no less reliable than are any other newspapers?![]()
Video segment # 31 begins at about the 7:21 mark. The main contradiction it contains is that of speed. This one is too slow in comparison with some others.
Respectfully, I disagree. I will illustrate this disagreement by also incorporating elements of Gorgonian's post.
Gorgonian stated:
There is a very large and very important distinction in the statement "We went to the store" relied on by Gorgonian and the statement "We saw a jetliner hit the South Tower"
Going to the store is an action, verifiable objectively; what an individual sees is subjective and has to be vetted by a process. This is what I meant when I said that Dr. Matthews would have to undergo a "gotcha" process before we could accredit his statement "We saw"; and, as you well know Oystein, the "gotcha" process does not end until a contradiction is found, created, implied or otherwise asserted. You are a "gotcha" poster so I know I am not telling you anything you do not already know.
I will hold open the possibility that you need me to illustrate how "gotcha" would work on Dr. Matthews by inviting you to put yourself into Dr. Matthews shoes and then, let me put myself into yours and play "gotcha". Let me know if you need me to do that to demonstrate to our lurkers how 'gotcha' would work on Dr. Matthews' "we saw" ditty.
Here's a tip for you Oystein: Without question, there is no way in Hades that Dr. Matthews could survive a "gotcha" challenge; you know that and I know that. And, as subjective impression IS inherently QUESTIONABLE (meaning, can be questioned), it follows that a statement "...we saw..." is ambiguous.
Once again, it is alright with me, Oystein, if you disagree. You may do so for as long as you can.
Witnesses saw the plane, video captured the plane, physical evidence of the plane and passengers were found. Tell me (briefly), if a murder was committed, and the police had eyewitnesses, video, and DNA that confirmed the identity of the murderer, would this be enough evidence to convict said murderer?
UNFREAKIN BELIEVABLE!!!!!! I STAND IN AWE.![]()
If you insist on having it your way you do realize you render Dr. Matthews totally useless as a witness don't you? Dr. Matthews cannot give testimony that would survive a "hearsay" objection if he postulates his claim as "we saw." By doing that he seeks to speak for other people and that he may not do as a witness.
We saw the post, therefore I didn't see it.I absolutely and completely deny you posted that.
If you insist on having it your way you do realize you render Dr. Matthews totally useless as a witness don't you? Dr. Matthews cannot give testimony that would survive a "hearsay" objection if he postulates his claim as "we saw." By doing that he seeks to speak for other people and that he may not do as a witness.
The reason for that is quite obvious and quite legitimate.
Firstly, if Dr. Matthews was so busy looking around to make sure he knew what other people saw, then his attention was split and quite possibly diverted thus making his own capacity to observe somewhat questionable. Ask Fess, he'll tell you that that is true.
Secondly, if he is basing his claim on what he assumes other people saw then he is committing a major error of logic and of judgment. This is best illustrated by the Lone Ranger and Tonto:
What do you mean "we" Kemosabe?
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Do posters now grasp the weakness of the "we saw" declaration, yet?
Not exactly. What I mean is that for certain, any witness who says "we saw the plane" in a court or other official witness arena will not be paid attention to at all. Instead, their statement will be tossed out, set aside, ignored and stricken from the record.
Is that what you want?
It's better, I think, to recognize the weakness on your own rather than get a nasty surprise when later you seek to rely on Our Dr. Matthews, or any of the others who said "we saw" as witnesses. That claim makes your witnesses FUBAR.
Think again.
You are needlessly expending energy on a hopeless cause. By the way, Dr. Matthews was successfully converted to a NO PLANE witness as to the North Tower, first explosion.
Small wonder, perhaps, that posters here are trying for all they're worth to hold onto him as a witness for the South Tower. Unfortunately, he's useless there, I'm afraid.
So, into the NO PLANE column Dr. Matthews has been brought and there he shall remain.
You protest too much. I'd be quite surprised if this is the first time you've ever encountered Tonto's famous "what you mean we, Kemosabe" declaration. Humorous though it may be, it is intended to convey the fact that a person cannot assume agreement by another in some observation, claim, idea or plan that the first person, in this instance, Dr. Matthews, claims.
This is not abstract or obscure, posters and lurkers. Please let go of the tendency towards rationalization.
You folks know most of this, right?
There you go again...
Let's all seek to do better, OK?
You are not up to speed, (pun intended). I have addressed this issue many times. I only rely on witness statements that are admissible as evidence or that come directly from posters. Mind you, the latter is my own exception. Technically, statements on a message board from anonymous posters is not admissible as evidence, but for our thread's purposes, I see no reason to doubt what posters claim. I have often said, I will take people who were direct witnesses at their word.
The other source that I rely on have in common that they are BUSINESS RECORDS. Such records are a well-recognized EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE; and, therefore, such records are ADMISSIBLE AS EVIDENCE.
I rely on the PAPD TRANSCRIPTS; because they are admissible.
I rely on the TASK FORCE WITNESS STATEMENTS; because they are admissible and are, in fact, the single best source of eyewitness evidence. Stephen Gregory, Stephen King, Chief Cassano, among about 500 others, are the best witnesses there are.
I also rely on some of the videos, including the Dick Oliver videos and the ALL43 videos because they are, potentially, admissible as evidence. Mind you, the videos are not automatically admissible, but potentially so.
I do not rely on inadmissible statements; but, if some other posts them, I will comment upon them.
Are you up to speed now, Oystein?
The above is FUBAR. You are engaging in unwarranted propaganda.
That is outright propaganda and an utter contradiction with what the actual witnesses say. We have video of an explosion, seen to occur in the wrong place, caused by a shadow thingy or a blob thingy, that, in some video versions looks like the sillouette of a jet, and in some is too blurry or too dim or too indiscreet to make a valid claim that a jetliner is seen. Further, the shadow thingy does not explode, degrade, or even slow down at the point of impact. Those factors that ARE seen on the video falsify it. Finally, in this respect, something that is ALMOST ALWAYS OVERLOOKED: The sound factor. The videos uniformly DO NOT record the sound of a jetliner accurately or believably. Some try to argue 'til they are blue in the face that a few of the videos contain sound, but their arguments are in vain and are, as well, contradicted by the direct eye and ear witnesses.
That is out and out propaganda. A repitition of a known falsehood. There are -0- aircraft parts that have been identified via serial number. There are no parts that are reliably shown to have come from any aircraft, let alone a Boeing 767, and still less the Boeing 767s (or 757s) said to have been involved in 9/11. There are no black boxes for the ones at the WTC and the ones at the other two locations are almost certainly parts, not of the aircraft, but of "the exercise." Those black boxes have been politely, but firmly, disavowed by the NTSB, who had next to nothing to do with them and do not certify them.
Once again, repitive propaganda. The explosion is in the wrong place, with the wrong characteristics.
BS rhetoric. Your post is a transparent attempt at obfuscation, to put it no more harshly than that.
Try to do better.