Two Oswalds in the Texas Theater

[Jeremy Bojczuk]

There's something else, something less light-hearted, that I should have included in my last-but-one reply to Jim.

It is truly disgraceful for Jim to make use of the late Sylvia Meagher to lend his nonsense the credibility it lacks. She would never have endorsed the ridiculous notion that any of the incidents she mentioned were the result of a long-term, top-secret, multi-Oswald, multi-Marguerite doppelganger plot involving Russian-speaking Hungarian refugees and world war two orphans who had undergone operations in hospitals that hadn't been built yet, and all the other crazy stuff the 'Harvey and Lee' theory proposes. Meagher was one of the most rational early critics of the Warren Commission. She wouldn't have had anything to do with a steaming pile of self-contradictory idiocy that was partly invented by a guy who thought the moon landings were faked.

Jim isn't alone, unfortunately, in shamefully co-opting deceased, can't-answer-back researchers to provide support for far-fetched paranoid nonsense. There's a crazy guy out there who thinks that the Altgens 6 photograph is full of pasted-in people; Jim may have heard of him. He co-opted the late Mark Lane, not to mention Gerald McKnight and David Wrone, to support his brand of brain-dead drivel.

If widely respected researchers such as Meagher, Lane, McKnight and Wrone can get tarred with the tin-foil-hat brush, every rational critic of the Warren Commission is in danger of getting tarred with the tin-foil-hat brush. Not only is this the sort of thing that gives the JFK assassination a bad name with the general public, but it means that the topic gets to attract more and more lunatics while repulsing those who have better things to do than swim against an increasingly unpleasant tide of paranoid sewage. I don't suppose either Jim or the crazy Altgens 6 guy care too much about any of that, though.

In the general scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all if a handful of gullible people still think that the 'Harvey and Lee' theory has any merit and that a bus-load of fake Oswalds really was running around inside the Texas Theater and blurting out "I'm Oswald, officer!", "I'm Oswald too, officer!", "And me, officer, I'm Oswald!". But it does matter if a large part of the general public can be persuaded that it's only paranoid crazies who question the official line on the JFK assassination. That's the real danger of stuff like the 'Harvey and Lee' and 'Altgens 6 photo was faked' conspiracy theories.

[Guest Rich Pope]

I've personally not known of the CIA to recruit or develop "kids" as assets.  In Russia, however they do take very young people (sometimes kids) and train them for future intelligence purposes.  There is a famous picture with Reagan shaking hands with a boy  in Russia.  Next to the boy, is a young man with a camera who by all accounts is Vladimir Putin.  I'm unable to post the picture but here's the link.  https://timeline.com/reagan-putin-tourist-meeting-souza-photo-6be236997c65

Edited September 13, 2019 by Rich Pope

[Jim Hargrove]

Mr. B’s “Come to Jesus” Moment:  

“Classic Oswald® and The Decoy”

On 9/9/2019 at 4:35 AM, Jeremy Bojczuk said:

I personally wouldn't rule out the possibility that a decoy, who needn't have been the spitting image of the real-life Oswald, did indeed lead the police to the Texas Theater,

Perhaps if we referred to the two Oswalds as “Classic Oswald® and The Decoy” it would help lower Mr. B’s blood pressure.  He surely knows there is a trainload of credible evidence for a “Classic Oswald and The Decoy,” not only at the Texas Theater that afternoon, but throughout the day of November 22, 1963, over much of the six weeks prior to the assassination (as analyzed by Sylvia Meagher below), and long before that.

So, what evidence of the fellow we’ll temporarily call “The Decoy” is there on November 22, 1963?

Credible, multiple witness accounts put “The Decoy” at both the Top 10 Record Store buying a ticket and at Fred Moore’s Jiffy store buying two beers (and showing a Texas driver’s license for identification) in the morning of November 22 while Classic Oswald was already at the TSBD.

The Decoy was seen immediately after the hit inside the TSBD by Mrs. Reid wearing a white t-shirt, not a brown/red shirt, despite all the efforts by the WC to get him into a brown shirt.

The Decoy may even have been photographed on the sixth floor of the TSBD.  What’s sometimes hard to grasp about this case is that the The Decoy was probably Robert Oswald’s actual brother.  Classic Oswald was not.  Compare the hairline of the t-shirted American-born LEE Oswald, oops, I mean The Decoy, shown in this detail from the Dillard film with the so-called hunter photo taken and published by Robert Oswald in his book.

The Decoy was seen by multiple witnesses entering a Nash Rambler at just about the same time Classic Oswald got on a bus. The EVIDENCE for both the nearly simultaneous Nash Rambler and Bus and Taxi rides is simply enormous.

The second Oswald/Hidell wallet, the one that magically appeared in Capt. Westbrook’s hands at 10th and Patton, was apparently owned by the Oswald Decoy.  Two Oswald/Hidell wallets for two Oswalds.  Oops, I mean two wallets for “Classic Oswald and the Decoy.”

That same Oswald decoy apparently spent weeks setting up Classic Oswald before the assassination, including four different appearances at the Sports Drome Rifle Range, visits to Morgan’s Gun Shop, the Downtown Lincoln Mercury dealership, the Irving Furniture Mart, the Southland Hotel parking garage, and so on.  

This period of weeks setting up Classic Oswald as a potential assassin is exactly what Sylvia Meagher described in her renowned book.  Ms. Meagher obviously had the audacity to refer to “Two Oswalds” rather than “Classic Oswald and The Decoy,” which, I’m sure, Mr. B would prefer.

This is just a tiny sampling of the evidence iceberg for two Oswalds, I mean, for “Classic Oswald and The Decoy.”  To see more, please feel free to visit my website linked below.

HarveyandLee.net

Edited September 14, 2019 by Jim Hargrove

[John Butler]

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Jim,

I think your Mr. B needs a different outlet for his rhetoric.  He is clearly in violation of Forum policies on how things should be stated or in his case not stated.  Following the lead of Michael Clark, I call upon the monitors to take a look at some of the offensive things he has said:

"It is truly disgraceful for Jim to make use of the late Sylvia Meagher to lend his nonsense the credibility it lacks."

"and all the other crazy stuff the 'Harvey and Lee' theory proposes"

"There's a crazy guy out there who thinks that the Altgens 6 photograph is full of pasted-in people"

"He co-opted the late Mark Lane, not to mention Gerald McKnight and David Wrone, to support his brand of brain-dead drivel."

"If widely respected researchers such as Meagher, Lane, McKnight and Wrone can get tarred with the tin-foil-hat brush"

"but it means that the topic gets to attract more and more lunatics while repulsing those who have better things to do than swim against an increasingly unpleasant tide of paranoid sewage. I don't suppose either Jim or the crazy Altgens 6 guy care too much about any of that, though."

"In the general scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all if a handful of gullible people still think that the 'Harvey and Lee' theory has any merit and that a bus-load of fake Oswalds really was running around inside the Texas Theater and blurting out "I'm Oswald, officer!", "I'm Oswald too, officer!", "And me, officer, I'm Oswald!". But it does matter if a large part of the general public can be persuaded that it's only paranoid crazies who question the official line on the JFK assassination. "

I ask the question, "Is the Forum a place for this kind of discussion attacking the hard work, mental health, and honesty of a fellow Forum member?".  Mr. James R. Gordon has put effort into reforming the Ed. Forum and eliminating the type of discussion by members such as Jeremy Bojczuk. 

The monitors need to review his most recent post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steve Thomas]

Human language can be a beautiful thing. It can make the spirit soar and the heart sing.

Abraham Lincoln appealed to the better angels of our nature and John F. Kennedy asked us to do things, not because they were easy, but because they were hard. Martin Luther King spoke of a dream, and Robert Frost of a road less traveled.

 

In four short paragraphs, a poster in this Forum recently used the following words. Some were adjectives, some were nouns, some were verbs:

disgraceful, nonsense, ridiculous, crazy stuff, steaming pile, idiocy, faked, far-fetched, paranoid, crazy, brain-dead, drivel, tin-foil-hat, lunatics, repulsing, unpleasant, paranoid, sewage, crazy, gullible, paranoid crazies.

 

Human language can be a beautiful thing,

or not.

 

Steve Thomas

[Jim Hargrove]

John and Steve,

Your support is appreciated.  Personal insults such as those hurled continuously by Mr. B used to bother me when I first began supporting John Armstrong's work online more than two decades ago, but I've pretty much gotten used to the vitriol.  If Mr.Bojczuk  stops doing it, someone else will probably start.  As far as I'm concerned, all it does is show how close I am getting to the truth, and how much some people are afraid of it.

Thanks again.

[Karl Hilliard]

On 9/13/2019 at 8:04 AM, Jim Hargrove said:

Karl,

What interests me most about the jacket is that it was almost immediately in the possession of Capt. Westbrook  In fact, Westbrook at one point claimed he was the first to pick up the jacket.

It seems implausible that someone who would wear a jacket in order to conceal a revolver would just throw it away only to reveal it.

The actions and testimony of Westbrook is certainly very strange and suspicious. However in the testimony of the housekeeper, she seems pretty adamant that Oswald was indeed zipping up a jacket. Commission counsel Ball really drilled her on that and she stuck with her story.

[Jim Hargrove]

Interesting observation, Karl.  Mrs. Roberts, at least according to her alleged sworn testimony, was indeed insistent that Classic Oswald wore a zippered jacket when preparing to leave her rooming house.

This may be why several researchers have suggested it was not Classic Oswald at all who returned to the N. Beckley house soon after the assassination.  I think it was Classic Oswald, but I'll do some more checking.  Thanks again for reminding us about Mrs. Robert's testimony!

[Jim Hargrove]

12 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Credible, multiple witness accounts put “The Decoy” at both the Top 10 Record Store buying a ticket and at Fred Moore’s Jiffy store buying two beers (and showing a Texas driver’s license for identification) in the morning of November 22 while Classic Oswald was already at the TSBD.

I meant--but forgot--to say in my post above that the Top 10 Record Store was located at 338 W. Jefferson, across the street and a block and a half west of the Texas Theater.  Could American-born LEE Oswald, I mean "The Decoy," have been there early that morning to plant evidence for his arrival planned that afternoon?  Can anyone imagine what that planted evidence might be?

[Jeremy Bojczuk]

Jim has illustrated the 'Harvey and Lee' modus operandi:

(a) Assemble a list of every available sighting of a possible fake Oswald.
(b) Don't apply any critical thought to these sightings. However flimsy the account, if it fits it goes on the list.
(c) Use this list as proof of the most far-fetched 'Oswald double' theory you can think of, involving a long-term doppelganger project, fake mastoidectomy operations, fake Oswalds and Marguerites who vanished from the face of the earth immediately after the assassination, and multilingual Hungarian refugees with 13-inch heads.
(d) Finally, look around for a respected researcher, one who has been dead for some time so that there is absolutely no chance that she could answer back, and rope her in to give the far-fetched theory some credibility, despite all the evidence that she would never have had anything to do with something so deranged.

Is Jim aware that news stories involving a murder suspect invariably generate large numbers of false sightings of the suspect? Can Jim imagine what the proportion of false to real sightings might be in a story as big as the JFK assassination? You'd expect to find many, many more false sightings than real sightings, wouldn't you?

Could Jim provide us with a list of all the sightings of 'Oswald doubles' that his guru (blessed be his name) has declined to use? It's a very short list, isn't it?

While he's at it, perhaps Jim could also provide us with anything at all in Sylvia Meagher's writings that explicitly mentions long-term doppelganger projects, fake Marguerites, fake operations in hospitals that hadn't been built yet, or any of the other crazy things that make up the 'Harvey and Lee' theory. Certainly the two pages he reproduced show no such thing.

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Meanwhile, back in the Texas Theater, we have one arrest taking place in the balcony (according to the police reports), and one arrest taking place on the ground floor (according to Burroughs). Unfortunately, this isn't in accordance with 'Harvey and Lee' doctrine, which proclaims that only one fake Oswald was arrested.

Up to now, Jim has been understandably vague and evasive about exactly what happened in the Texas Theater. Perhaps Jim could give us his precise, step by step, version of how he thinks the arrest of just one fake Oswald happened, and how the arrest of one fake Oswald came to be reported as two arrests. Perhaps he thinks it happened like this:

1 - The police go up to the balcony, encounter someone who gives his name as Oswald, and arrest him.
2 - The police escort this fake Oswald down the stairs from the balcony but are not spotted by any of the people on the ground floor, including Butch Burroughs, despite the fact that Burroughs' concession stand is close to the stairs and that he had previously noticed a woman going up those stairs.
3 - Once they reach the ground floor, the police decide to arrest the fake Oswald again. This arrest is spotted by Burroughs, although he waits 30 years before telling anyone.
4 - The fake Oswald keeps muttering to himself, "Oh no! I told them I was Oswald! I gave the game away! Drat! Now the dastardly plot has been revealed!"
5 - While they are on the ground floor, the police find the real Oswald, and arrest him too. The police do not notice that both of the men they arrested are called Oswald.
6 - George Applin is spoken to by the police on the ground floor, and is escorted by them out of the building, but no-one inside or outside the building notices this.

Sounds plausible, doesn't it? How about this version:

1 - The police search the ground floor and arrest the real Oswald.
2 - While they are on the ground floor, they arrest someone else who gives his name as Oswald, an incident witnessed by Burroughs, who waits 30 years before telling anyone. The police don't notice that both of the men they have arrested are called Oswald.
3 - The police take the fake Oswald up the stairs to the balcony, and arrest him again.
4 - Having arrested him for the second time, they bring the fake Oswald down the stairs from the balcony but are not spotted by any of the people on the ground floor, including Burroughs.
5 - While the fake 'Oswald' is being paraded up and down the stairs without being spotted, he keeps muttering to himself, "Oh no! I told them I was Oswald! I gave the game away! Drat! Now the dastardly plot has been revealed!"
6 - George Applin is spoken to by the police on the ground floor, and is escorted by them out of the building, but no-one notices this.

Alternatively, Jim might want to put forward this version of events:

1 - The police arrest the real Oswald on the ground floor and take him out of the front entrance.
2 - George Applin speaks to the police on the ground floor. After some discussion, he agrees to go with them to give a signed and witnessed statement. The police escort him out of the rear of the building and drive him away, an event witnessed by Butch Burroughs from inside the building and Bernard Haire outside in the alley.
3 - Police officers later recall that, according to their radio alert, the suspect was supposed to have gone up to the balcony, and mistakenly write in their reports that that was where Oswald was arrested.
4 - Burroughs, 30 years after the event, misinterpreted Applin's encounter with the police as an arrest.

No extra Oswalds, no extra arrests, and one extra reason to doubt the 'Harvey and Lee' theory.

[Jeremy Bojczuk]

P.S. Sorry if Mr Butler's delicate sensibilities have been offended. Let's see whether the terms I used were reasonable:

- I used terms such as 'ridiculous', 'nonsense', 'idiocy', 'crazy stuff', etc to describe the 'Harvey and Lee' theory. Well, the theory was completely debunked, in a respectable peer-reviewed scientific journal, two decades before the Harvey and Lee book was even published. I think that justifies all of those epithets and more, don't you? There are plenty of other terms that would be just as appropriate, but I won't mention them in case Mr Butler faints and doesn't have any smelling salts to hand.

- 'Self-contradictory'. See, for example, the topic of this thread. The theory's insistence that both Burroughs and the police reports were accurate implies that one fake Oswald was arrested in the balcony and one fake Oswald was arrested on the ground floor, making two fake Oswalds. But the theory simultaneously claims that there was only one fake Oswald. If the 'Harvey and Lee' theory has recently been amended to incorporate the extra fake Oswald, and it is now the 'Harvey and Lee and Harlee' theory, I will happily take back the term 'self-contradictory' and replace it with the term 'insane'.

- I used the terms 'disgraceful' and 'shamefully' to describe Jim's desperate attempt to give this ridiculous and self-contradictory theory respectability by implying that someone as rational as Sylvia Meagher would have had anything to do with it. Since Mr Butler has not put forward any arguments against this point, I think Mr Butler must agree with me that Jim's attempt to link Meagher with this nonsense is indeed disgraceful.

- 'Paranoid'. Is that what you really object to? But the theory is undoubtedly paranoid. Its central feature is a long-term doppelganger project involving a fake Oswald and a fake Marguerite. It proposes that pretty much every incident in which the Warren Commission claimed Oswald was involved, also involved a fake Oswald. There were fake Oswalds in the Texas Theater, in the book depository, on the street shooting at Officer Tippit, and who knows where else. It's just a paranoid version of the Warren Commission's story. Almost all of the evidence the theory uses has a perfectly non-paranoid, everyday interpretation, but the theory always goes with the paranoid version. And, of course, the theory was partly dreamed up by some entirely non-paranoid genius who thought the moon landings were faked.

On the subject of paranoia, I pointed out that if the general public starts to associate criticism of the official line with stuff like the 'Harvey and Lee' theory, rational critics are liable to be viewed as paranoid. I'm sure everyone can see what effect that would have on getting the case solved.

Jim writes:

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Personal insults ... used to bother me when I first began supporting John Armstrong's work online more than two decades ago

I didn't realise Jim has been pumping this nonsense for that long. If people have been making fun of him for over 20 years, it really is time he sat down and worked out what it is that everyone is making fun of.

Don't get paranoid; it's nothing personal. I'm sure Jim is a pleasant person, and I'd be happy to have a drink with him if I ever found myself in Doppelgangersville. It's the nonsense he promotes that's the problem.

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all it does is show how close I am getting to the truth

No, it shows that for more than two decades it has been clear to many, many people that you are promoting a self-contradictory pile of nonsense that was debunked two decades before the Harvey and Lee book was even published.

Congratulations to Jim on acquiring a new convert to the cause! If he ever decides to pass the baton to a new generation of 'Harvey and Lee and Harlee' believers, the world's foremost photographic expert will be the ideal person to take over evangelical duties.

Just out of interest, which aspects of the 'Harvey and Lee and Harlee' theory does Mr Butler find the most convincing?

[John Butler]

Mr. Bojczuk,

"Just out of interest, which aspects of the 'Harvey and Lee and Harlee' theory does Mr Butler find the most convincing? "

All of it. 

I don't agree at all on your use of personal attacks is reasonable.  I didn't report your post since it was directed at another.  I just sent a warning to you which I see you have taken the advice.  Mr. James R. Gordon has put considerable effort into making the Forum a more objective place for reasonable discussion.  I applaud him for this effort.

I speculate there were more than two Oswalds, but have little evidence to support the contention.  The recent post I made on the Alek Hidell identity keeps nagging me whenever I look at the photo of the alleged Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk.  David Josephs did a great job of showing the composite nature of that photo in another post showing, IMO, there is a 3rd Oswald.  I posted Josephs work on that.  It is very convincing.

Now, that is me speculating there is a 3rd Oswald, that might be the source of the Alek Hidell identity, not the Harvey and Lee folks or David Josephs. 

Edited September 15, 2019 by John Butler

[Jim Hargrove]

4 hours ago, Jeremy Bojczuk said:

Just out of interest, which aspects of the 'Harvey and Lee and Harlee' theory does Mr Butler find the most convincing?

Allow me to provide 5 examples showing evidence for two Oswalds over an extended period of time, all prior to the time Sylvia Meagher discussed in her analysis of two Oswalds.

1.  The IMPOSSIBLE 1953 school scenario: Lee HARVEY Oswald attending Beauregard JHS in New Orleans for 89 school days during the fall 1953 semester, all the while Lee has good attendance for the very same period at PS 44 in New York City.

The New York City Board of Education record below shows that LEE Harvey Oswald attended Public School 44  starting 3/23/53 and extending through mid-January 1954.

In New Orleans, the 1953 Beauregard JHS record below shows that Lee HARVEY Oswald attended 89 days of school during the fall semester of 1953, at the same time LEE Oswald attended PS 44 in New York City.

Both the documents above were published in the Warren Volumes.

2.  The refusal of the Social Security Administration to corroborate the official story of "Oswald's" pre-1962 income, offering instead "Copies of three pages of the Warren Commission Report regarding employment of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to service in the Marine Corps."

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For all the evidence on this, click here.

3. The Marine Corps records are a gold mine: my favorite chronicles Harvey Oswald's trip to Formosa (Taiwan) while Lee was being treated for VD in Japan.

HARVEY Oswald Departed for Taiwan Aboard the USS Skagit (AKA 105) on Sept. 14, 1958. Note "AKA 105" Under "Record of Events" near top left of this document:

The Unit Diary below shows that HARVEY Oswald was in Ping Tung, Taiwan, on Oct. 6, 1958.

Here’s a 1953 image of the ship Harvey Oswald took .  Note the “K.A. 105” lettering by the bow.

 

During this very same time Harvey was aboard the USS Skagit and stationed in Taiwan, LEE  Oswald was being treated for V.D in Atsugi, Japan.  From September 14 through October 6 HARVEY Oswald was in Taiwan. At the same time, from September 16 through October 6, LEE Oswald was in Japan. Medical records for NAS Navy 3835 (Naval Hospital), located in Atsugi, Japan, show numerous medical entries for LEE Oswald recorded on Sept 16, 20, 22, 23, 29, and Oct 6.. HARVEY Oswald's assignment in Taiwan, while LEE Oswald made numerous visits to the Naval Hospital in Japan, are an obvious "smoking gun."

4.  While Harvey Oswald was in Russia, Lee Oswald was working in Florida and Louisiana with anti-Castro Cubans and their handlers.  Perfect examples are the HSCA testimony of Marita Lorenz and the infamous Bolton Ford visit.

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For much more on this, see an article I wrote on my website:

The Bolton Ford Incident

5.  The impossible answer(s) to the simple questions: Could “Lee Harvey Oswald” drive a car? Did he have a Texas drivers license?

 

OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY

STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH OF ORLEANS

S T A T E M E N T
 

DATE:               February 14, 1968
      
STATEMENT OF:       ALETHA FRAIR
      
RESIDING AT:        8001 Benson
                    New Orleans, LA
                    Phone - 242-2126

My name is ALETHA FRAIR (MRS. JOHN FRAIR). I live at:

8001 Benson
New Orleans, La.
Phone - 242-2126

I worked for the Department of Public Safety in Austin, Texas from the early part of October 1963, through the early part of December 1963. While I was employed at the Department of Public Safety I worked in the License Records Department. This Dept. Was responsible for the IBM computer records of all driver's licenses in the state of Texas.

My husband, JOHN, was working for the United Press International during November of 1963 and on November 22, 1963 he was in Uvalde, Texas, covering the birthday of ex-Vice President JOHN NANCE GARNER.

I did not go to work on the 22 of November, 1963, but the following event occured (sic) the week after the assassination of President KENNEDY.

During the week following the murder of LEE HARVEY OSWALD, on either Wednesday the 27th, or Thursday the 28th of November, 1963 the Texas driver's license issued to LEE HARVEY OSWALD came into my division.

The record (IBM card) on OSWALD was pulled from the files. Several other employees (5 or 6) of the Department saw the driver's license which was dirty and worn as though it had been carried in a billfold. The license was the talk of the office that day since everyone knew who OSWALD was, and the reason his driver's license records were being pulled from the active file was the fact that he had been killed.

In October of 1966 my husband and I moved to New Orleans and in June of 1967 my husband went to work for WWL-TV, Channel 4.

I, ALETHA FRAIR, hereby affirm that all of the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge.

Signed February 14, 1968.

(Signature of Aletha Frair)

(Signature of witness Gary Sanders)
(Signature of witness Jody Duek)

 

For much more on this, see:

The Man Who Could--and Couldn't--Drive

 

[Steve Thomas]

3 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

 

During the week following the murder of LEE HARVEY OSWALD, on either Wednesday the 27th, or Thursday the 28th of November, 1963 the Texas driver's license issued to LEE HARVEY OSWALD came into my division.

The record (IBM card) on OSWALD was pulled from the files. Several other employees (5 or 6) of the Department saw the driver's license which was dirty and worn as though it had been carried in a billfold. The license was the talk of the office that day since everyone knew who OSWALD was,

Jim,

 

What happened to the IBM card? Did it disappear too? Do you know?

 

Steve Thomas

[Robert Harper]

On 9/14/2019 at 3:34 PM, Steve Thomas said:

Human language can be a beautiful thing. It can make the spirit soar and the heart sing.

Abraham Lincoln appealed to the better angels of our nature and John F. Kennedy asked us to do things, not because they were easy, but because they were hard. Martin Luther King spoke of a dream, and Robert Frost of a road less traveled.

 

In four short paragraphs, a poster in this Forum recently used the following words. Some were adjectives, some were nouns, some were verbs:

disgraceful, nonsense, ridiculous, crazy stuff, steaming pile, idiocy, faked, far-fetched, paranoid, crazy, brain-dead, drivel, tin-foil-hat, lunatics, repulsing, unpleasant, paranoid, sewage, crazy, gullible, paranoid crazies.

 

Human language can be a beautiful thing,

or not.

Such an appropriate and elegant response to some of the toxicity that has weaved its way through some recent threads.