That's very convenient. So you have as testiimony a suppressed news conference that only you remember and a secret recording that only you have heard.
Since Bigfoot are everywhere, and seem not to be fazed by most physical barriers, why must one be camping in a tent? For example, I live well out in the country, and in fact not so far from Whitehall, NY, where some persons allege Bigfoot has touched down. Would the experiment work if I simply uttered out loud, perhaps from my back porch, insensitive and scoffing remarks about the existence and character of bigfoot(s)? If not, why not?
I am serious here. I will happily go out and utter, loudly or softly, insensitive statements impugning the character, existence, and any other aspects of the squatch and his kin that you think might be particularly offensive to one that is listening. I will even be willing to breach rule 8 in the privacy of my woodsy domain. Please let me know what, if any, specific things I should say. I am willing to risk this for the sake of science, but I need your help to do it right.
Oh, an afterthought: since many if not most people think that sasquatches are nonexistent, and I venture to guess that most would consider the observation that they are paranormal the utterances of a crackpot, and since Jimmy Carter was already taking a lot of heat for various things he had uttered, what reasonable motive would there be for the vast and troublesome operation of deleting his statement from the archives, considering the great possibility that someone unknown, somewhere, might have it on video tape? I realize that economy and efficiency are anathema to conspiracy theorists, but I still have to ask, why bother?
Bruto, You must be new to this thread, and thus have gone into attack mode, right out of the gate.
Why don't you ask Jimmy Carter as to exactly what he recalls. You seem to be excluding him from your little insinuation that I am a liar. Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen Hawking, Dan Rather and Paul Harvey, have all stated that Bigfoot are real, in public or on the national news media. Why focus on Jimmy Carter?
The experiment won't work if you simply stepped onto your back porch. Because you will not hear the Bigfoot when they come by about 3am since you retired inside. They may choose to rip the forest apart in order to make a point that they are more powerful than you are, so you should show a little more respect.
The NSA for starters, has a lot of people with time on their hands. They keep things like Bigfoot panics from occurring during the reign of their boss. That's so that they can say, "it didn't happen on our watch". By deleting that segment, they save Jimmy Carter from future embarrassing moments, they contribute to the deletion of bigfoot's existence from history, and they screw with your mind. By destroying evidence of an event that the public can use to defend themselves against a frivolous lawsuit brought on by the government, the government increases the chance of winning. Except Mr. Jimmy Carter will be subpoenaed to testify, since we all know this particular historical fact.
Bigfoot isn't a belief. Bigfoot is a fact, because I have heard plenty of Bigfoot. And I can hear them every weekend if I so chose. The believers are the ones that believe that Bigfoot does not exist, since they have no corroborating evidence. The fact that they are interdimensional, does not mean that they do not exist. They just rarely exist in the same dimension that man occupies. Because man has guns and is not reluctant to use them, especially when he gets scared and is about to wet his pants.
Virtually every farmer in the midwest, has a bigfoot living within only a few yards of his home. I have heard that those farmers do not speak ill of the bigfoot, because the bigfoot allows them to live and farm there. Those who choose to disrespect the bigfoot, have been met with a sudden and unexplicable loss of livestock. So what sacrafices are you willing to make, for science? Your dog? Your poultry? Your barn? Perhaps even yourself?
Bigfoot are benvolent, as long as you respect them. All bets are off, if you choose to disrespect them.