re: #110 Charles

I don’t think a whole lot of Geller, but I don’t think Spencer would fabricate a letter. Not to say that I think Geller might.

And I have no doubt that Spencer would do anything to promote his bigoted causes. He may not have fabricated this letter, but he does not deserve the trust you apparently have in him, and anything he writes should be considered suspect.

I didn’t say I trusted Spencer unreservedly, just that I don’t think he’d have fabricated a letter. Unless we have some reason to think that the letter is fabricated, I’m inclined to take it to at least some extent as face value, and wonder whether the news account might have exaggerated the severity of the incident. I’m just trying to be fair - tempers sometimes get hot at demonstrations, so there may have been some shouting, but that doesn’t mean that all those protesting the mosque were necessarily bigots, just as I don’t think that everyone who thinks that immigration laws ought to be enforced is ipso facto racist.