Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

OK, now we are getting down to the center of the cauldron. This is where the meat comes off the bone. 

bpete: "Those are not three different men. Those are three pictures of the same man, taken on the same day. And here is a fourth picture of the same man taken on the same day."

"Let that ricochet around the inside of your cranium for a bit."

What is ricocheting around the inside of my cranium is an awareness of bpete's total delirium. This isn't a religion. It doesn't come down to anyone's decrees. You can make declarative statements, but only after you have assembled the evidence and made the arguments, the concrete arguments, that are persuasive to the rational mind. 

Then, and only then, are you entitled to make declarative statements. 

In this case, there are concrete arguments involving physical characteristics that scream they are different men.  For example:

  

When bpete merely makes declarative statements without responding to the concrete issues raised, it amounts to capitulation. It amounts to barrenness of mind and a tacit admission of a complete inability to marshal a rational, persuasive argument.  

It's easy and it costs nothing to make a declarative statement. Like this one:

"These are not three different men. These are three pictures of the same man, taken on the same day. And here is a fourth picture of the same man taken on the same day. Let that ricochet around the inside your cranium for a bit." 

You see how easy it is to make a declarative statement? Anyone can do it.  And that is all bpete is doing. It's pure bravado. It's all bluster. It is complete capitulation. 

bpete is blocking knee thrusts with his face. And he's not looking too good.