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To: aristeides; OKCSubmariner; thinden; Fred Mertz; rdavis84; Nita Nupress
there's no limit to what you can do, if you don't care who gets the credit for your ideas.

Very good advise.

But I also think there is more involved here. There are two distinct view points competing.

On the one side you have those who believe there were Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the OKC bombing, but the FBI and the DOJ were simply too incompetent to figure it out, even though they had all the video surveillance tapes and "missing 302's". In other words, the FBI are good guys, they are just stupid.

On the other side you have those that believe there were Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the OKC bombing and the FBI and the DOJ intentionally covered it up(i.e.government conspiracy). In other words, the FBI are bad guys, but they are very smart.(since they got away with it.)

It is great to have a difference of opinion. The problem comes in when one side becomes so aligned with their position that they will discredit the "FBI covered up the bombing" side by discrediting investigators with witnesses.

For example, "Through her attorney, Tim McCoy, former KFOR reporter Davis disavowed some of the bombing conspiracy theories that have been reported."

You have read it before on this sight. Complaints like you must be anti-government if you believe the FBI covered up the Middle Eastern connection, etc.

My response is, if you believe thereis a Middle Eastern connection to the OKC bombing and you also believe the FBI knew nothing about it, then you must be anti-common sense.

It took great courage for Pat to bring forward these two competing views and the effect of the differing view points at arriving at the truth. He knew in advance there would be claims he was being petty. But he did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.

48 posted on 06/29/2002 4:17:48 PM PDT by honway
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To: honway
On the one side you have those who believe there were Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the OKC bombing, but the FBI and the DOJ were simply too incompetent to figure it out, even though they had all the video surveillance tapes and "missing 302's". In other words, the FBI are good guys, they are just stupid.

On the other side you have those that believe there were Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the OKC bombing and the FBI and the DOJ intentionally covered it up(i.e.government conspiracy). In other words, the FBI are bad guys, but they are very smart.(since they got away with it.)

There is a third possibility. The FBI and others knew ME terrorists were involved in the OKC bombing, but covered it up because they had been persuaded that (for whatever reason) this was the right thing to do. In my opinion, the truth is probably a mixture of the second and third possibilities.

49 posted on 06/29/2002 5:05:27 PM PDT by aristeides
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