tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post2808622685052529190..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: A response to the Dornstein documentaryRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-32232011031881773532015-11-10T10:06:00.107+00:002015-11-10T10:06:00.107+00:00Thank you Dr Bannon. Whilst I too sympathise, as a...Thank you Dr Bannon. Whilst I too sympathise, as all of us would, with anyone who has been bereaved, unfortunately, such loss does not bestow upon that individual an increase in their honesty and intelligence or a corresponding decrease in their ingrained prejudice. You have not, in any respect, disparaged Mr Dornstein at all. You have simply analysed dispassionately an argument which is inherently fallacious in a multitude of facets. Mr Dornstein approached this with an entirely closed mind and applied his own agenda, perhaps with the aid and abetting of others. Without going over the detail of its failings, which would require me to write even more than you have his magnum opus is a parlous and transparent flight of fancy that not even our own most imaginative Lord Advocate could think would pass muster as evidence to present before a court. As you indicate, it is based solely upon hearsay and wild assumption. The only worthwhile feature was Mr Marquise (AKA Special Agent Don Canard) performing an Oscar winning performance as he pretended not to have heard anything of Mr Dornstein's findings. I am delighted that you wrote this rather than me, since my effort would doubtless have been so replete with expletives that it would never have been posted. I mentioned honesty earlier. Mr Dornstein has much to learn in that department: his abuse of Jim Swire being a case in point. The man should hang his head in shame. When I met Mr Dornstein around three years back, he asked: 'If you were presented with incontrovertible evidence that Megrahi did it, would you change your position?' I replied: 'Yes, I'd lock him up and throw away the key.' I met him in the company of another member of the JFM committee. In the process of an afternoon and the evening, we presented him with incontrovertible evidence that Mr al-Megrahi could not possibly have done it. He had no response to this, until now. Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.com