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Right Wing Mounts Unprecedented Smear Campaign Against Freed POW

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Blind Frog Belly White6/03/2014 3:18:52 pm PDT

re: #534 klys

I have a very distinct memory from about 3-4 years old of having observed a cloud-to-ground lightning strike at a range where escaping physical harm would be incredibly unlikely, and some of the physical phenomena that would accompany it being completely missing. Pretty clearly not a real memory.

Once I realized that, I became much more skeptical of eyewitness accounts.

Are you old enough to remember the McMartin Preschool debacle? Children testified to having all sorts of things done to them, Satanic rituals, etc. One thing that they probably DIDN’T bring up at the trial was the children claiming they’d witnessed the ritual slaughter of zoo animals.

Turns out you can easily convince people, especially children who want to please an adult, that they witnessed things that didn’t happen.