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    This Is an Announcement to the World... Or, more accurately stated, this is an announcement to that .000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the world that reads my Blog Postings.

    In the past, I have published at least 2 Blog Postings about the silliness of the Eye Witness Testimony of Eye Witnesses. The point was made that Eye Witness Testimony is many times unreliable. That point is absolutely true but now I find out that the World is taking what I say seriously and, as the World is prone to do on occasion, it is overreacting.

    I just read where one of our major universities has a group of their smart people who call themselves, "Wrongful Convictions Proponents". They are against eyewitnesses and I pray that my past blog postings were not a basis for their wrongheaded (whatever that means) convictions.

    Here is a quote from one of their spokesmen... "Eyewitness testimony is horribly inaccurate - even under the best of circumstances. We should never depend on eyewitness testimony in death penalty cases."

    Ah, come on! I was only writing a blog. It's about foolishness. Sometimes what I write is about Absolute Foolishness and sometimes what I write is Serious Foolishness. Often times I can't tell which it is. The World should not get so uptight about the "...Or Is It?" part!

    The above spokesman said above, "Horribly Inaccurate" and "Never Depend On" those are pretty strong positions to take...

      • What if a bad guy walks into a well-lit liquor store?

      • What if the bad guy has a big gun in his hand when he walks in?

      • What if the bad guy announces to the about to be dead cashier, "I am going to kill you deader than a doornail" and then proceeds to make the about to be dead cashier dead.

      • What if the bad guy says and does this in the presence of five wide-eyed eyewitnesses.

      • What if the bad guy still has his name badge on from the Piggly Wiggly which plainly reads, "Hi there! My name is Peter Fernerk. How can I help you today?"

    If all of the above happens, is the judge going to throw this case out of his court because there were too many eyewitnesses who saw too much?

    What's next? Are we going to throw the eyewitnesses in jail because they are known to be horribly inaccurate and can never be depended upon?

    This is terrible! I am truly sorry! I never thought anyone was going to pay this much attention to me!

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella
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( October 17th, 2016 @ 6:10 pm )
 
Dear Mrs Ink Penn,
That's as it should be.
I was just joshing in this blog about not paying attention to what I have to say.
FellaO
( October 17th, 2016 @ 5:27 pm )
 
Alex, you know we all take everything you write as gospel!



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