Re: L&I Re: Thomas was polygraph

[Jackie Fellows]

Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Oh Terry

Then, Thomas really is only a liar in your eyes, because you feel the "truth" is
on Anita's side.  Therefore, because you believe he is a liar, you feel free to
call him a perjuror, despite the fact he has not been charged with it according
to what you say.  Before you jump up and down, I felt Anita was telling the truth
and believed her, but that still does not give me or anyone the right to call him
a perjuror if he wasn't convicted of perjury in a court of law--liar, a
despicable person, yes, but not a perjuror.  When you discuss a case, despite the
verdict, an unbiased observer (as you put it) must stay objective and try to
examine why that verdict was reached.  That isn't easy, I admit, for most people
to do and it sure don't make for winning popularity contests : ).  So really in
the end, what this boils down to is that you believe he is a liar and that makes
it o.k. to state he is a perjuror.

BTW, I flunked your test.  The polygraph has less accuracy in detecting "truth"
(as you call it) with innocent people.

Cheers

jackief

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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >Hi Terry
> >
> >Just wondered where you got your information that Thomas was a
> >perjuror.  I am really curious??
> >
> >jackief
>
> Really, Jackie?  It is obvious to any unbiased observer, which I am not.  I
> have never had anything but contempt for the toady that was put in charge of
> EEO by Reagan essentially to dismantle its operation nor for the
> intellectual flyweight who was unable to express the slightest defense of
> his "natural law" philosophy.
> But that has nothing whatever to do with his guilt in the matter.
>
> When two people tell directly opposing stories, when the normal human
> frailties of forgetfulness and imagination are not a factor, one must choose
> which to believe if there is to be any judgment of truth at all.  It is
> rather easy to choose which one is most likely telling the truth when one is
> willing to take a polygraph and the other is not even independent of the
> results.
>
> But that is only a small part of the story.  Anita Hill had told her story
> to others long before she was called upon to tell her story in public.  She
> testified unwillingly.  Anita Hill had to undergo the withering attack all
> women who have suffered from the sexual libido of men who cannot control
> their urges. She was called a sexually-repressed man-hungry lesbian all at
> once by the mentally-challenged Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.
> (No, Jackie, not in those words.  There was that stuff coming in over the
> transom as the good senator from Wyoming liked to say.)  David Brock, the
> recently canonized convert from his former rightwing hatchetman status, says
> everything is still all true. That even includes the silly story of the
> pubic hair on the homework paper of a student, though the student now says
> it was a hoax.
>
> Justice Thomas let his supporters do their work and remained silent.  He
> refused to discuss anything, screaming only of another half-vast conspiracy.
> His silence speaks volumes just as it does these days in his robes on his
> throne in his kingdom.  It is an obscenity this caricature sits in the seat
> of the magnificent Thurgood Marshall.
>
> Let me give you some homework, Jackie.  You can do it silently.  The test
> has only two questions and I will bet you or anyone else can get the answers.
>
> 1.  A special prosecutor was appointed to find out which miscreants leaked
> the news of Anita Hill that led to the Thomas-Hill hearings.  Did the
> honorable Democratic senators offer to take a polygraph as proposed by the
> special prosecutor so he could complete his investigation?  Why or why not?
>
> 2.  A coal miner in Virginia (Roger Coleman, I think) was convicted of the
> rape and murder of his sister-in-law and condemned to death.  He is often
> cited as one of those most likely to be innocent.  He steadfastly refused a
> lie detector test until the eve of his execution.  What was the result of
> his polygraph?
>
> See how easy the test was.  Bet you got all the right answers.
> Best,     Terry
>
> "Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law"  - The Devil's Dictionary
>
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