[Ben Holmes]

(05-04-2017, 08:46 PM)Hollywood Wrote:  

(05-04-2017, 07:15 PM)Ben Holmes Wrote:  Anytime someone uses the phrase "common sense" when it comes to the JFK case, you can be ABSOLUTELY SURE that someone is trying to evade the actual evidence.

It's often said, for example, that it's merely "common sense" that a bullet striking JFK, and not ending up in the limo, must have struck Connally.

This is a lie, and based on a number of implied assertions that will never be spelled out.

The first assumption that will never be explained is that the bullet *TRANSITED* JFK's body.

There never has been any medical evidence for such a transit, and during the autopsy, none was found.

One cannot simply draw a line between wounds - because the first thing a believer has to do is move the wound. (as was HISTORICALLY done by the Warren Commission)

Nor will someone asserting the SBT as "common sense" ever publicly admit that this is based on speculations made after the autopsy was over.

And evidence shows that this speculation of transit wasn't made that first weekend, as is often pre-supposed... Rankin makes it clear in January that the autopsy report *HE* was reading was ascribing the throat wound to a fragment from the head shot...

This shows that there was a bit of evidence shuffling going on in the government... or that Rankin couldn't read.

So anytime the phrase "common sense" occurs in this case... start examining the underlying hidden assumptions being made.

Because someone is CERTAINLY lying...

Every forensic expert who examined the details of this case validated the official conclusion of the WC - ALL of them - independently - they obviously concluded that the bullet did indeed transit JKF's body - but Ben Homes knows better....priceless.

Of course they did, Patrick... of course they did.

Would you care to make a wager?

I'll pick the "forensic experts" - and I'll wager that they'll come to the conclusion, based on the evidence in this case, that multiple shooters fired at JFK.

Oh wait, that's already been done, it's called the HSCA...

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Interestingly, Patrick fails to address the actual topic - which is the near constant drumbeat of "common sense" when the issue isn't common sense at all ... the issue is the hidden assumptions and outright lies being told.

As in my example above - notice that Patrick is implicitly relying on "common sense" - yet still can't even explain why the prosectors were unable to find any transit through the body when the body was right in front of them.

Nor will Patrick explain why Dr. Humes used a completely non-standard method to describe where the back wound was located. There's a natural map on everyone's back - it consists of the spine. ANY point on the back can be very accurately placed by simply referring to three things:
 

1.  The vertical level ... which vertebrae.
   
2. The left side or the right side.
   
3. The distance from the midpoint of the spine.
   

Patrick can't explain why this ordinary standard wasn't used... but I don't blame him, neither could the prosectors.

"Common Sense" - as used by Warren Commission supporters, is simply code for "I'm about to lie to you..."