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I’m here because the the article was interesting because of the issue of chain of custody.

I’m not here to advance facts, I’m here to learn facts.

And while i’m here, to pontificate about the nature of conspiracies. I am a conspiracy skeptic (I’m actually skeptical about most things — if everybody here was blindly accepting whatever the news told us about the shooting, I’d probably look like a conspiracy nut).

I have long ago learned that most of us will never have personal knowledge of fact; in the past, that wasn’t surprising, but too many people think that because they have the internet, they somehow have more truth to go on. We are all secondary observers, being told some truths, and some lies. We have only logic to use to determine which is which; if we were on-site, we’d be able to ask questions, and examine evidence, but we are not.

Anyway, I’m not here to dissuade you from your conspiracies, as bizarre as they may be. The nature of a conspiracy is such that to believe one is to suspend belief.

>>Anyway, I’m not here to dissuade you from your conspiracies<<

Yes you are. The fact that you have spent so much time against me belies your claim.

The difference between me and you is I try to find the truth no matter where it leads and no matter who is President.

People like you don’t. You’re as much of a threat to this nation as Obama. And that is a fact.

"The nature of a conspiracy is such that to believe one is to suspend belief."

A conspiracy is a legal term of art. All it requires is two or more people planning/executing a crime.

Its oftentimes used as a phrase to denigrate another's simple questioning of the facts at hand and any discrepancies from the "official" version.

For instance, 9/11 was a conspiracy led by this guy named Bin Laden and his "mastermind" Kahlid Sheik M. Others have different views but this was a conspiracy.

There's also interesting political parallels in this truly horrific massacre to events like the Reichstag Fire which set Hitler up to take over Germany.

Whether an event was set up or merely taken advantage of can be hard to separate.

I reserve my conclusions on any event of import until the "facts" have been tossed around and vetted. That's why I value these FR threads. ;-)