We can be wrong, too. I was actually going to post on this anyway, but -- as Megan notes -- the police now say that the census worker we all thought was killed by some anti-government loon in fact killed himself.
It doesn't really change the fact that Michelle WachWoman and Glenn Bleck are dangerous loons, and I don't feel too bad about thinking that a man who intentionally tried to make it look like he was murdered was murdered. I was still wrong. Shame on me.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Being Wrong
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I have no problem admitting that I was wrong about that, for the sake of all the "why aren't the liberals issuing mea culpas?!?!" wingnuts, but really. Given what these people have been proven to be capable of in the past, it wasn't a stretch to believe that something of that nature could feasibly happen.
I admit being wrong too, but I think it's odd that the witness statements and facts don't add up.
As far as jumping to judgment--- bashing the left on everything, real, fake and imaginary, is how the right wins. If the left wants to take this as a lesson to be more measured and cautious (if that is even humanly possible), I hope they enjoy their many defeats.
I haven't paid much attention. I am just taking the police at their word because, frankly, I don't really think it's that important. I only jumped in in the first place because Megan did.
Yeah, I'm sick to death of her carefully calculated moderation and let's-be-nice-children preaching.
Ouch. I just read Megan's post NoT linked to and I'm with you, Susan. What a condescending nitwit. Our politics have become so poisonous, if only everyone was as rational as I...
Poisonous? Like the time those nutters went on a rampage against the Clinton administration, spreading lies and blaming Janet Reno for Waco instead of the child-raping, weapons-stockpiling lunatic holed up inside the compound? The guy who started it all by killing four cops who had a legitimate warrant to search the place? The lies that led Timothy McVeigh to park a truck filled with explosives outside of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people?
Is that the kind of "poison" Megs is referring to?
I kept my mouth shut all along, mostly because IRL 85% of what people have told me in the last year has been total bull.
Very near an explosion, but old enough to remember how poorly that has worked out in the past.
Once I'd read a detailed description of the crime scene it seemed possible to have been suicide, so I didn't get too carried away.
As NoT says, that involves taking the police at their word, but what can you do?
The last thing the police would want is to be the center of a national media blitz. True or not, the temptation to sweep everything under the rug would be overwhelming. Every single law official in the state would be put on media trial. And the people and entire culture of the area would be put on media trial as well.
The man just graduated, was respected, had a son, was about to finally earn a decenet living. Yet after years of going to school and being active in his community he's suddenly going to leave his son all alone? With a scuicide attempt that everyone now says didn't even look like a suicide attempt?
All kinds of people commit suicide, Sue. I don't think there really warrant to go and question the police without some direct reason for it.
Just because I are paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an international conspiracy involving FEMA, ACORN, black helicopters and Mary Kate Olsen.
I am, not I are, sigh.
If the Jews aren't involved, it's not a conspiracy worth being paranoid about :)
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