Are you suggesting that Beachnut's opinions are preventing the family members of the 35 victims from demanding a new investigation? Any evidence?
Well it's pretty clear from what beachnut posted here that he's told the pilot's family that the allegations are just a pack of lies and should be ignored. That you seem hesitant to join me in asking him if the family knows about the pathologists and the Peters letter lies suggests you know I'm right in my assessment that they don't. And neither of us know if this "friend" of the pilot may have been in contact with other families. It seems likely that any good friend of the pilot, who was also in the military, would have had contact with the families of the other crew members. Wonder what he told them about the investigation and what they know?
As to the other families, how would they know about these details? They were never mentioned in any government report or letter sent to the families. In anything put out by the military. EVERYTHING they've heard from those sources would have reassured them that all facts were in line with the official story. Everything in those sources was published with the intent to convince them that any suggestion of foul play was looked at and refuted by experts. Why would you think they'd look any further than that, given that everyone knows people die in airplane crashes?
The allegations were never mentioned in any mainstream media outlet. Not ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, the NY Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times ... NONE of them. Most people get their news from those sources. If the families watched the National Geographics or Discovery Channel documentaries, they'd have no reason to doubt. If you can't believe the veracity of NG and DC, what can you believe?
Why would you think the families would even know the details unless they frequented certain small forums (like this) and specifically look for more information? Some families that visit the internet might even shy away from anything having to do with the crash. Painful memories. Who knows, perhaps a family member heard some rumor about this and did go looking ... and the first thing they encountered was beachnut or you calling it a silly CT theory? And since everyone knows JREF is a place where CT is only debunked, and you are fine upstanding members, they might just accept your or beachnut's word on the matter and leave it at that.
And even if a family member or two did manage to get past your authoritative reassurances that it was just CT, and find the statements of the pathologists, some of them might still doubt them because of the source reporting their statements. With folks like beachnut claiming the quotes are made up by CTer's who also believe in 9/11, a family member might decide to look no further. They might not do what I did which is dig until I located actual video and audio tapes of the photographer and pathologist making their charges.
And even then, if they found out everything I know and decided that yes indeed their loved one was murdered, what then? Go public? To who? To the media that's been covering this up ... that they now know has been a tool of the government? To the FBI ... that they also now know is not exactly honest in the matter? To the military ... who lied to them in the AIB report and afterwords? To anyone in the Clinton administration? Why even the Bush administration is suspect when you see the Bush's and Clintons acting so chummy, and know Bush has done nothing about this yet must know the allegations. Some of them might just decide it's hopeless and that would be the end of it.
But suppose one or two did go forward? How do you know they weren't threatened and intimidated back into silence at that point? After all, we are talking here about a possible conspiracy in which one of the highest officials in the US government was murdered. Along with over 30 innocent people. You think people like that would hesitate for one minute to end the life of anyone who actually did threaten to force an investigation and reveal the truth? You think a family member might not realize that? Boy, are you a babe in the woods.
Or perhaps at that point the bad guys would just pay the person off to keep their silence. How many more millions would it really take for some people. And not all the people who were on this plane were good guys. A lot were hard core Democrats ... part of the in-crowd in the campaign finance scandals. An investigation might open up a big bag of worms that might damage their reputations (i.e., better off dead in the minds of the family) or even put families at legal risk over what they might have known at the time (look at what happened to Brown's wife and son).
In any case, you stlll haven't got past the evidence. You are still trying to avoid dealing with what the experts in the case, where Brown's injuries are concern, concluded; namely, he should have been autopsied because the wound in his head was consistent with a bullet wound. And motive was certainly there.
If not, why do think that these families are so different than the Lockerbie families that refused for 15 years to give up on justice for their loved ones?
Well for one, the families of the Lockerbie victims weren't accusing highly placed officials in the US government and military of being involved in and covering up a mass murder. All they had to worry about was Libya. And what could Libya do? So you're making a false comparison. Desperation?
