Well, well, well...
Here's a question, and this is for the forum members as well. If I am posting in the wrong place, then someone please direct me to the proper place on the board for this topic.
Perry said:
I will not ask you for patience, since that seems to anger many on this board, a reaction I am unable to understand. That you expect me to come onto this board and simply divulge everything is not realistic, and that you refuse to understand my own concerns incomprehensible. There are things I was told I could reveal, and I will reveal them once I determine the cause of the discrepancies that I have noted between my knowledge of this period and the actual events I have witnessed since September of 2004, when I first arrived. I am not certain whether they can be attributable to the problems that always accompany the passing on of history, or if I have discovered something far more troubling. Hence my concern with the Coyote.
Now my question is... Why do we assume that a TT would come onto this board and jump through all our hoops in order to prove that they are who they say they are? I am not taking the other person's side in this matter, I am just curious about that assumption. We have a board here that is set up to hopefully draw a TT out to talk with us about who they are and about the future, but if you were to stand in their shoes for just a moment you would propbably react in a similar fashion. Immediately people will ask, some will badger, you for proof of your claim. Let's say you do have a machine and a manual and you post photos and photocopies of what you can allow to be put on the internet. It will probably be a little of what the forum members want, but not as much as they will demand later. You, on the other hand, know that if you give away too much information, you are putting yourself at an extreme risk. And then, let's say you do post something, later you find that people are trying to pick it all apart and prove that the diagrams and photos are really faked. It seems like a lose/lose sort of situation to me. I can kind of understand the hesitancy to provide proof.
Now, having said that, I can appreciate the concerns of those on our forum who want said proof. How are we to overcome this particular sticky wicket in the process of discerning who is real and who is a hoaxter? Will the TT claimant ever be able to satisfy everyone's sense of curiousity/standard of proof? And, if not, how will we ever be able to establish within a reasonable doubt the real TT from the hoax? Is there a litmus test for such a person's claims? Can we standardize it? And, even if we do, what if that TT claimant really is a TT and decides not to provide the photographic evidence for reasons of their own? Does that mean we discount anything the person has to say? What if we do and end up finding out too late that we ignored the person's claims out of our own rigidity?
Oh, and for those who questioned the comment about the elections in 2006, the TT claimant is correct. In 2006 there are the senatorial, congressional and gubenatorial elections. 2008 will be the next presidential run. So, his comment is not off. As to the rhetoric between the two sides of American debate, you have to have your head in the sand to not be able to hear it. I am not saying this is going to lead to a Civil War but the rhetoric is still very strong - even if some of it has gone underground for a while since November 2nd. I hear it and find it pretty disturbing.