X-Message-Number: 27075 From: Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:03:40 EDT Subject: Re: Under the Premise that Knowledge Is Power: Hi, David Stodolsky. As an apparent rebuttal to my post, you cite and quote from an article by David Corn. : - ) Having read some some of Corn in the past, I am reminded yet again what a tainted influence he is for discerning truth from BS. His objective, for whatever his motivation (while I have a good hunch), is to discredit Ruppert and others. His means are whatever it takes for his intended audience / victims. Slight-of-hand half truths, mischaracterizations & misrepresentations (i.e., BS) is fine with him. I'll point out a simple example of it in a minute that requires little background, but his long attempt in that piece at smearing Ruppert's super credibility with Vreeland's near total lack of credibility is humorous and ironic. Corn gives Vreeland a run for his money as a BS artists. : - ) But while I'm thinking of it, you quoted the following from Corn: "Ruppert is not a reporter. He mostly assembles facts--or purported facts--from various news sources and then makes connections." Ruppert is what he says he is. Corn's not. Interestingly, however, David Ray Griffin fits the above bill by his own admission. I would suggest you read his book too. I know you are an adherent of logic. You're good at it, I've read some of your work. He is too. You'll like Griffin: _http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529/002-1754727-7641638? v=glance_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529/002-1754727-7641638?v=glance) Corn would like to portray Ruppert as unstable. A nutcase. In this pursuit he writes the following from your cited article: "According to records posted on Ruppert's site, his commanding officer called his service "for the most part, outstanding." But the CO also said Ruppert was hampered by an "over-concern with organized crime activity and a feeling that his life was endangered by individuals connected to organized crime. This problem resulted in Officer Ruppert voluntarily committing himself to psychiatric care last year.... any attempts to rejoin the Department by Officer Ruppert should be approved only after a thorough psychiatric examination." Look, first off, I don't TomCruise psychiatry. (While a current iteration of it as a Hollywood fashion statement & status symbol may be a bit over the top.) But the fact is, psychiatrists are not always right! And some of those boys could probably benefit from a little professional help, if you ask me.: - ) After all, quite a few might considered me fair game for a Freudian couch or two, what with my professed belief in the logic behind cryonics and stuff. Be that as it may, if I'm not mistaken, *Ruppert's psychiatrist gave him a 100% clean bill of mental health* and has even gone out of his way to be publicly supportive of his cause. While again, personally, I might diagnose them both as a bit touched to have been so open about it all, at the time. It was dangerous. But things have changed. More and more -- and at an accelerated rate now -- it's all becoming common knowledge these days, and soon Corn and others will be BSing they were at the vanguard of disclosure. In the mean time Corn has been BSing by conveniently leaving out this part of the "psychiatric story." You write: "The last time I heard Ruppert speak, he claimed that Dick Cheny directed the 9/11 attacks from the basement of the Whitehouse. I'm not sure I would advise putting too many of your eggs in Mr. Cheney's basket. Back to psychiatry again, wasn't it only after his fourth near-fatal heart attack that Mr. Cheney finally managed to connect dots to his decades long multi-pack-a-day smoking habit? Maybe just a case of denial there or an unfortunate lack of self-disciple thing, but some psychiatirsits might ponder some kind of death wish. And they could be onto something, while it may not be the *suicidal* variety of it that should most concern all of us, if you catch my-- errr, catch *their* drift. Thanks for your comments, however, I reaffirm my post: Under the Premise that Knowledge Is Power: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/091505_world_stories.shtml#1 It's tough discerning truth from BS. Michael Rupert is a straight shooter. I recommend both his website and his book "Crossing the Rubicon." A thought for Cryonauts / Cryoneers: "Keep your nerve. Drive directly through the wreck unfolding before your eyes. By the time you get there, it will be elsewhere." --old NASCAR Wisdom Regards, David C. Johnson, Biologist & Commercial Real Estate Appraiser Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27075