XPost: alt.talk.royalty, alt.gossip.royalty   
   From: bpears@freenet.co.uk   
      
   Jimserac@gmail.com wrote:   
   >At times you must be prepared to cast aside the boundaries of logic   
   >whoose precepts are so nicely provided by the media and "official"   
   >statements and consider "alternative" causes - causes based on greed,   
   >the desire for money and power, the desire to control the masses and   
   >exploit them in a new technological age whoose ingenious devices can be   
   >used either to control the masses or liberate them.   
      
   Present **evidence** and I will seriously consider virtually any   
   scenario - weave weird and wonderful fantasies based on nothing   
   but you own prejudices and I'll not waste a second on them. "Could   
   have" is not evidence. "Might have" is not evidence. Coincidence   
   of time or place is not evidence. Unanswered questions are not   
   evidence. And when it comes down to it, these are all that conspiracy   
   advocates ever present.   
      
   For example - senior MI6 men in Paris on the night of the crash!   
   I haven't seen proof they were there - but even if they were, so   
   what? Was it unusual for them to be in Paris? We don't know. Were   
   they there on a job unrelated to Princess Di? Almost certainly,   
   but, of course, we don't know. In fact, we don't know anything about   
   their reasons for being there - but CTers treat it as proof absolute   
   of MI6 involvement in Di's death. It ain't.   
      
   It's the same with virtually every plank of every conspiracy theory   
   ever constructed - strip away anything not backed by evidence and   
   there's nothing left but the twinkle of fairy dust.   
      
   --   
   Brian Pears   
   Gateshead, UK   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)