Yeah, I'm a lawyer, I've passed the bar in two states. That is a bizarre claim. Why would a witness speaking out of court be held to evidentiary standards as though they were testifying? Especially when the meaning is clear. If I say, "We went to the park." How on Earth could that NOT mean "I went to the park."
Not to mention it's a comically trivial problem even in court. How's that going to go:
Dr. M: "We saw a plane."
Attn: "I OBJECT!!!! HE SPEAKS ON THE BEHALF OF OTHERS!!!"
Judge: "Just testify to what you saw yourself, don't speak for others."
Dr. M: "Sorry, I saw a plane..."
And problem solved.
The tone of the above expresses disagreement with what I have said about Dr. Matthews' statement, as it is quoted. The content of the quoted post, however, largely agrees with what I have said.
That is interesting.
In summary, TraneWreck agrees with me that Dr. Matthews' quoted statement is hearsay.
TraneWreck, however, puts in a couple of other claims that do not survive scrutiny:
That is a bizarre claim. Why would a witness speaking out of court be held to evidentiary standards as though they were testifying?
The issue is whether or not it has been reliably proven that jetliners hit the WTC on 9/11. We all know that the main proof, the thing that convinces people, is what they saw on teevee. Yet, there exists a significant grouping of reliable witnesses who report neither seeing nor hearing a jetliner when they were in a position to have seen and heard one.
Thus the issue is that of distinguishing the real from the unreal; or, the real from the exercise; or, the real from the deception.
Because of the level of deception and its sophistication, one way to ferret out the real is to apply evidentiary standards for assessing witness statements. I, myself, do not use hearsay statements in support of the NO PLANE claim; or, to be more accurate, I rely on statements that come within one or another recognized exception to the rule. I do that to be able to say, accurately, that the NO PLANE claim is supported by reliable and verifiable witness statements, rather than unreliable unverifiable ones.
Doing so makes the NO PLANE claim stronger.
Especially when the meaning is clear. If I say, "We went to the park." How on Earth could that NOT mean "I went to the park."
Claims that rely on untested assumptions are inherently unclear. Your attempt at analogy is too inexact to be applied to Dr. Matthews' declaration. In fact, yours is the second attempt at an inexact analogy. Why did you do that?
Your analogy is obviously inexact because an objective action is mandated by the statement "[w]e went to the park." Whether or not the people went to the park is independently verifiable based on your movements.
But, a declaration "we saw" does not involve an objective action that can be independently seen. What a person perceives via a sense apparatus -- sight, hearing -- for instance is subjective. By virtue of that subjectivity, a decaration "we saw" is not so easily curable as you have articulated.
The ambiguity inherent in the statement "we saw" will result in the serious undermining of the credibility and the reliability of the person who said it.
Do you need me to illustrate that for you?