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Review of "Case Closed" on Amazon

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:09 am    Post subject: Review of "Case Closed" on Amazon Reply with quote

Mind closed is the more appropriate title , July 9, 2006



This book is not only tendentious garbage--it is dangerous as well. All of Posner's deceptive shaping of the evidence depends entirely on the reader not knowing a damn thing about the case.

He is a good writer--a genius worthy of Sammy Glick and Joseph Goebbels. Read carefully, Posner's sources are revealed to be official ones--current or former members of governments, police forces, courts.

And all sources that he attacks are citizens--and there are thousands of non-governmental sources in this case who provide a mountain of evidence for conspiracy. Posner trashes every one he can get his tricky hands on. So pro-conspiracy witnesses are not just mistaken, they are insane, drunkards, abusers, liars, publicity hounds ( unlike himself , of course) . grudge holders, folks with hidden agendas ( again, unlike all those intelligence agents he believes in so devoutly).

Let the reader beware: This is State Propaganda at its most clever and diabolical, and the purpose of the book is to convince the reader that only losers believe in conspiracies, those who have not succeeded in this greatest of all possible societies. Sour Grapes , in other words.



Check this out!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/1400034620/sr=1-1/qid=1184786164/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all/104-9041582-4424755?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184786164&sr=1-1#gallery
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is that the guy who was on the Colbert Report? It looked like a damn big book. What did you think of it ? I havn't read it and probably won't unless I hear some stellar reviews.
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