Turk
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 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: Here is a conspiracy theory for you |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22183052/?GT1=10645
Tennis player thinks that the mafia fixes tennis games.
Here is another conspiracy theory for you
Greenhouse gases from humans cause global warming.
Here is another one for you saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Here is another one
Iran has wmds we need to have another preemptive conflict with them.
Another one terrorists want to hurt us because of our freedom. |
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exton
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: Re: Here is a conspiracy theory for you |
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| Turk wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22183052/?GT1=10645
Tennis player thinks that the mafia fixes tennis games. |
Could be. They used to fix baseball games.
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Here is another conspiracy theory for you
Greenhouse gases from humans cause global warming.
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Is it really a conspiracy theory if it's supported by scientific evidence and does not involve a deliberate and secretive effort?
Of course not.
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Here is another one for you saddam had weapons of mass destruction. |
I guess that shows you the danger of believing conspiracy theories that have no supporting evidence, hmm?
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Another one terrorists want to hurt us because of our freedom. |
That's not a conspiracy theory, it's just propaganda. |
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Turk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Here is a conspiracy theory for you |
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| exton wrote: | | Turk wrote: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22183052/?GT1=10645
Tennis player thinks that the mafia fixes tennis games. |
Could be. They used to fix baseball games.
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Here is another conspiracy theory for you
Greenhouse gases from humans cause global warming.
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Is it really a conspiracy theory if it's supported by scientific evidence and does not involve a deliberate and secretive effort?
Of course not.
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Here is another one for you saddam had weapons of mass destruction. |
I guess that shows you the danger of believing conspiracy theories that have no supporting evidence, hmm?
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Another one terrorists want to hurt us because of our freedom. |
That's not a conspiracy theory, it's just propaganda. |
Shit you believe everything the government tells you?
Until 1963 the mafia was just another conspiracy theory. |
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Lynx
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| No it wasn't. The Mafia was widely known, especially during the period of Prohibition. |
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Lester
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| Not technically, Al Capone has never committed an act of organized crime in your view, after all, there is no evidence for it. |
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fellfire
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Lester wrote: | | Not technically, Al Capone has never committed an act of organized crime in your view, after all, there is no evidence for it. |
You're absolutely right, technically, Al Capone is a tax evader because that's all that the government could prove. But that has nothing to do with the Costa Nostra being known about. Gangs don't have rights and are not prosecuted - people do and are. You are anthropomorphizing things here. |
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Lynx
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That's not true. He was never tried for crimes related to organized crime during his lifetime. We now have plenty of evidence showing that.
But as I said, the Mafia was widely known. You don't need evidence to know about something. You need evidence to prove something in a court of law. You should know that, Lester Lawyer. |
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Turk
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Lester wrote: | | Not technically, Al Capone has never committed an act of organized crime in your view, after all, there is no evidence for it. |
The only time that the government admitted that the mafia existed was in 1963 when informant joe valachi exposed it.
That was the first time that the government acknowledged the mafia, until then it was just a conspiracy theory. |
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exton
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| Lester wrote: | | Not technically, Al Capone has never committed an act of organized crime in your view, after all, there is no evidence for it. |
Not when al capone was alive. Back then, frightening or killing witnesses was all that was necessary to get you off the hook.
These days, he wouldn't have gotten off. |
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Turk
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| exton wrote: | | Lester wrote: | | Not technically, Al Capone has never committed an act of organized crime in your view, after all, there is no evidence for it. |
Not when al capone was alive. Back then, frightening or killing witnesses was all that was necessary to get you off the hook.
These days, he wouldn't have gotten off. |
Yeah he would have look at bill clinton, clipped off all of the people that had the goods on him. |
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Lynx
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| You have 0 proof of that. Conspiracy theories abound! |
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exton
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Turk wrote: |
Yeah he would have look at bill clinton, clipped off all of the people that had the goods on him. |
What the hell are you talking about? |
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Turk
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| exton wrote: | | Turk wrote: |
Yeah he would have look at bill clinton, clipped off all of the people that had the goods on him. |
What the hell are you talking about? |
There were 122 people that fled the US to avoid testifying against bill clinton
many of those accused and offered to cut a deal with prosecutors ended up dead.
And that Mena Arkansas thing |
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Lynx
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Again, that's bullshit conspiracy stuff. If the media had no problem impaling Clinton on his affair with Lewinsky, they'd have no problem impaling him on people fleeing and being assassinated over it. |
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Lester
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Lynx wrote: | That's not true. He was never tried for crimes related to organized crime during his lifetime. We now have plenty of evidence showing that.
But as I said, the Mafia was widely known. You don't need evidence to know about something. You need evidence to prove something in a court of law. You should know that, Lester Lawyer. |
This is exactly what we are saying Lynx.
And just as they investigated Capone(only somewhat successfully), they should investigate this.
Exton- Not really relevant to the comparison, but thanks! |
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