Dear Mr. Seaman, Thank you for your post. Stan Clark was also in Florida. For chi square I would only trust early reports. If, in early reports, those who swear they did not see a video are seen to be in different cable areas of those who swear they watched all during that period, we have something significant. However, even at this juncture, we have, in my mind, enough. As we were discussing the 'billboard' steganography, I would here go backwards and start with the press reaction to Admiral Michael Boorda's planned speech at Buzzard's Bay. The Dow Jones owned (through Ottawa News) Cape Cod Times headlined that it was "Highly Inappropriate For High Ranking Naval Officer To Ever Speak At Merchant Academy". It did not, as it always does not, bother the Cape public that the headline is completely nonsense to the readers. Just as 'spiral expansion' would have bothered nobody unless I pointed it out. The learned Mr. Barr pointed to my passion in these matters. I certainly expressed passion at that message, but reversed the implication. I simply did not understand. Jean remembers me stating, "Why didn't they gut shoot the bastard and make him crawl around a bit." The legal corporation that takes care of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is called Pass & Stow. Pass & Stow is the cornerstone of our Bill of Rights. Early in the building of this nation seamen were from all over the world and signed on ships of many flags. They saw that it was in their interests to share critical information, as they saw that the various sovereigns they worked for had some nefarious agendas. 'Pass' share the information, and 'Stow' remember it, is the cornerstone of freedom of speech. The media's angry billboard was that this sort of information should always be kept in the merchant, not military class. It was on that point that I wrongly agreed. I wrongly felt that Admiral Boorda's planned speech was treasonous in tone. Again, it did not matter what he would have said (a bullet was placed in his heart a few days before) just that he would speak at all at a merchant academy would have been message enough. The military brass was angry at the 'media/merchant' handling of the affairs that led to the unfortunate message of a 'flight to France'. (France was the distal party in 54, and a military or naval target would have been inappropriate.) Later I saw the wisdom of expanding this sort of critical information to the military. There is no doubt in my mind that Admiral Harold Gehman took murdered Admiral Boorda's cause. And won. This was seen clearly in the Nato handling of Kosovo. When the large Russian clm with some armor (60 veh) arrived at the Kosovo airport it was a surprise to the international media. They had trouble hiding their anger. It was a surprise to Washington as well. It was also a surprise to Yeltsin. He admitted that he was completely in the dark, and wisely promoted the commander forthwith. Now we have a case of the international militaries working together to avoid a war. I now see the wisdom. John H. Seaman wrote: > In a message dated 11/13/99 9:42:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << If anyone knows the name of anybody other than Stan Clark who claims to > have seen the alleged CNN video, please provide the readers with a > reference source URL. >> > > I no longer can put my hands on it, but according to my notes, Newsweek ran > an article on May 26 1997. Excerpts follow... > > "On the night that Flight 800 was shot down," BRO1BROWN added, "the local > Tampa TV channel that I was watching was interrupted by a news bulletin and a > hand-held video film was shown; it reportedly was the property of an Air > Force Reserve unit that was conducting Flare missions in the area of Long > Island, N.Y. This film clip I saw clearly showed a missile trail headed > straight up, then there was an explosion, then a larger explosion. > Apparently this film clip has disappeared. I am a retired U.S. Army Special > Forces Command Sergeant Major, and have seen too many missile trails to doubt > the cause of the red trail leading to the first explosion. I didn't think it > was important until the news media started ignoring the video -then I became > suspicious of a cover up of some sort. > ...end excerpt > > Regards > Jack
