[NY Observer columnist Nicholas von Hoffman has some interesting speculations on why the US might not be inclined, as he puts it, "to drop the gun on the vic, to use the idiom of the Chicago Police Department when planting a weapon on the deceased as proof it was a legal kill." Von Hoffman says that planting evidence isn't as effective as use of the big lie, viz:]
The past grandmasters of the big lie would disagree with this approach [i.e., planting evidence]. A man like Joseph Goebbels ... knew better than to offer evidence to back up a whopper. An unsupported fib cannot be refuted, but evidence will sooner or later be impeached and discredited, even evidence certified by the war whores of American journalism. Never, never, never provide proof or proffer evidence; the unsubstantiated charge is the accusation which sticks. Nothing is more persuasive than a quiet announcement that the evidence against the accused is overwhelming, but that for reasons of national security, no one may see it. Try ’em in secret, sentence ’em in public.
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Carl
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