Jones Beene wrote:
Stan Meyer was not murdered,
most likely. Nor was Gene
Mallove.
As noted this meant Gene was not murdered by an establishment
conspirator, but rather by an ordinary crazed drug addict.
The larger problem with all of
this talk is that it probably does the whole field of alternative-energy
a huge *disservice* to suggest things like this on little or no
evidence.
I agree. Even if it is true, it does not do us any good talking about it
without evidence.
It reinforces the notion among
the majority of open-minded readers of these posts - or of LENR-CANR and
so forth - that the only people who could possibly believe that low level
nut-cases like Meyer would attract the attention of the putative
PetroMafia are those who will "believe in anything" especially
of a "high level conspiracy" nature.
True again. BUT, however, the PetroMafia is real and they have suppressed
technology. The upcoming movie discussed here, "Who Killed the
Electric Car?" is a good example. So was the destruction of the
public transportation system in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and the
bankruptcy of the LUZ Corp. solar thermal generating systems. I would not
call these actions "conspiracies" because the corporations that
suppressed this technology acted shamelessly and overtly. You might as
well say the tobacco companies have been conducting a
"conspiracy" to spread cancer, or coal-fired plants conspire to
secretly kill 20,000 people per year. It is no conspiracy when you boldly
commit crimes in public.
Along the same lines, I do not think Park and Zimmerman are
"conspiring" to suppress cold fusion and fire anyone in the
federal government who supports cold fusion. How can you call the
conspiracy when they announced their plans in front of a crowd of a
thousand cheering supporters at the APS?!? You might call it a witch
hunt, or an academic pogrom. The DoE's de facto policy of attacking cold
fusion is also overt. They make no bones about it, and although they do
sometimes lie to the public -- claiming they may fund experiments -- it
is a gratuitous lie. It is a mere formality. They do not expect anyone to
believe it. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LENRCANRthedoelies.pdf
Even if one accepts that
there are rogue elements in government (there are), and in a handful of
corporations, such as Halliburton - that is far from the pervasive kind
of evil it would take to murder someone whose greatest value, under any
circumstances, might be as "martyr value" or as
"mobilization value".
More to the point, Meyer was suppressing himself more effectively than
any conspirators could have hoped to accomplish. Meyer was, as I often
say, his own worst enemy. This is true of many cold fusion researchers as
well. Why molest an enemy who is as assiduously destroying
himself?
The suggestion of a conspiracy
to murder Meyer is ludicrous IMHO. Now if someone took out a real genius
of the level of Puthoff, R. Mills, George Miley,
Bockris, Mizuno etc - then yes - that would be a huge
concern.
If these people ever begin to make serious technical progress, and the
oil companies become aware of their activity, then I think they may soon
be in grave danger. I doubt they will be murdered, but I expect they will
be fired on trumped up charges, and their funding cut off. They will be
given the kind of treatment being meted out to Taleyarkhan by
Nature and the rest of the physics establishment.
As things now stand the oil companies are not the least bit concerned
about CF as far as I know. As Beene indicated, they are busy fighting
global warming researchers, and spreading false rumors about wind energy,
such as the notion that it kills significant numbers of birds.
Now that we have said all these rotten things about Meyer, I think we
should recall that he did impress some smart people, such as Adm.
Griffin. I am haunted by the possibility that he may have actually been
on to something real.
- Jed