Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00132)

Theo Paijmans wrote:
> Bart Lidofsky wrote:
>
> > Theo Paijmans wrote:
> > > Here you ask a "what if" question by inserting a hypothetical
> > > situation at the end, which only serves to cloud the issue.
> > > Elements that strongly indicate that the Florida electoral
> > > results were a scam are to be found all over the internet with a
> > > Google search, so I need not repeating these here.
> > Just because something is on the Internet doesn't make it true.
> Which is, by its very nature, a non-dictum, as we could easily turn
> it the other way around and say: "just because something is on the
> internet, doesn't make it false."
Nope. You used the presence of information on the Internet as evidence 
of its truth. I pointed out that it is NOT evidence of its truth. You 
used a logical fallacy (argumentum ad populum), and I pointed it out.

> Here was a true war for freedom for we all know that, had Lincoln not
> went along with this war, there still would be cotton pickin' fields,
> and in essence you are saying here what countless CIA men have said
> for half a century during the cold war: "fighters for freedom are
> terrorists and must be eliminated at all cost." So, was Lincoln the
> first state terrorist or a true fighter for freedom? Perhaps we find
> the answer in the fact that he too, was assassinated.
I said radical, not terrorist. Since you will not desist from putting 
words into my mouth and using straw many arguments, I will not dignify 
you with any more answers until you desist.

In other words, if you have to fabricate things that I never said in 
order to argue with them, then perhaps you have nothing to argue.

Bart Lidofsky