"YO HARVEY" SAID:
Thomas Purvis aka Brokedad is now copying and pasting comments from
this NG onto the Simkin Forum in a thread he created about DVP. Now,
here's the cool part. Even though the Simkin Forum is totally dedicated
to conspiracy, his thread has not provoked even one comment from other
posters on the UN-Educated Forum.
Apparently the CT's there have as little respect for Purvis's "keen
insights" as we do here.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
You're exactly right, YoHarvey.
And that's (mainly) because Purvis believes Oswald acted alone. Nobody
in the Simkin warehouse of kooks believes anything CLOSE to that
scenario. So it doesn't surprise me that nobody there jumps in to aid
Purvis. They simply don't care. They apparently don't even care enough
to toss in the occasional throwaway "Get lost, Purvis!" type of post.
Purvis has done this before, btw (i.e., he's copied posts from here
and stuck them on the Edu. Forum boards). This happened the last time
he got energetic, which was regarding the "Mannlicher-Carcano" topic,
with Purvis claiming that he's absolutely positive (beyond all doubt)
that there could be "up to 50" different MC rifles floating around
with the exact same serial number as Oswald's rifle ("C2766").
Of course, we've never, ever seen EVEN ONE such additional C2766
weapon come into the light of day...but Purvis KNOWS there are dozens
of them out there--somewhere--in some city--in some country.
YO HARVEY SAID:
Purvis's theory of JFK being hit twice in the head, despite NO evidence once
again shows us that after 45 years, it's the same old BS from the CT's.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
If Purvis believed (as Cyril Wecht does) that JFK was hit in the head
by two bullets--one from the rear and one from the FRONT (and a good-
sized number of CTers do believe this)--then Purvis wouldn't be
alienating so many of his fellow kooks.
But Purvis, instead, believes in something that absolutely NOBODY who
has studied the assassination evidence believes -- he thinks that
Kennedy was hit in the head by TWO REAR HEAD SHOTS, both from Oswald's
rifle.
That is, indeed, a new one on me.
BTW, Purvis doesn't seem to care that there's an additional "timing"
type of problem with his crazy "2 Rear Head Shots" theory.....and
that's because he's got the first rear head shot coming from Oswald's
Carcano at Z313, with the second head shot from that same rifle
occurring at approx. Z353. That's a mere 40 frames apart, or 2.185
seconds.
Now, I don't deny that such a scenario is physically possible (given
the revised data brought forth by the HSCA in the '70s, which
indicates that LHO's rifle could be fired faster than the 2.3 seconds
between shots determined by the WC, with the HSCA saying that if the
iron sights were used, instead of the 4x scope, the time between shots
could be reduced to 1.66 seconds).
But you've got to wonder about the likelihood of Oswald being able to
get off two PERFECT head shots within 2.185 seconds of each other.
Plus, given the fact that Oswald effectively killed the President with
a bullet to his head at Z313....why would he even WANT to fire that
last shot (per Purvis' unique theory) at Z353 at all?
Couldn't Oswald tell that he'd hit JFK in the head 2.2 seconds earlier?
Why not use those precious seconds to start his escape from the
Floor Of Death....instead of trying to kill the President a SECOND time?
Of course, Purvis will disagree about all these points (naturally),
because he's got a unique theory to peddle. And NOTHING will stop him
from peddling it to as many people who will listen.
Not even the real evidence and real common sense will sway him. It's
always this way with kooks who put in a lot of time crafting a unique
theory all their own. Take the Internet kook named Walt Cakebread for
another prime example on these boards. Walt's put too many keystrokes
into his "JFK WAS HIT FROM THE FRONT AND THE CROFT PHOTO PROVES IT"
theory and his "BRENNAN DESCRIBED THE WEST-END WINDOW, NOT
THE EAST-END WINDOW" theory to stop peddling them now.
Nothing will ever make him believe the truth regarding Howard Brennan's
Warren Commission testimony, with that truth being, of course: Brennan
was only talking about the east-end window of the TSBD during his entire
WC session.
As YoHarvey is about to say (quoted below) -- "They never learn."
YO HARVEY SAID:
They never learn. Of course, that's what make them so entertaining.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Absolutely correct.
A day without kooks is...well...a day when Hell must have frozen over.
David Von Pein
December 31, 2008
