From: Jasper
Date: Thursday, April 05, 2007
Time: 03:45:03 AM
Jean, …Deathbed confessions only carry weight when the dying person has a religious conviction that he is about to meet his maker in an after life. I don’t see that with Hunt. I see a guy trying to mold an important image of himself for history. ………..No one can accuse me of being a fan of Mark Fuhrman. He is a murderer who will bend the truth whenever it suits his goals. That doesn’t mean everything he says is a lie. He is HIGHLY intelligent and ambitions. When it suits his goals he tells the truth. He told the truth in Murder in Brentwood about his Rockingham meeting with Maria Clark and his confrontations with Margaret York. He told the truth in Murder in Spokane about the mistakes the authorities made that allowed the Spokane serial killer to keep on killing long after he should have been arrested and the lies they told to cover their mistakes. He got it right about Macy and Gilchrest in Death and Justice. ………….If you follow him closely in how he arrived at the right conclusions you can see the same brilliant mind at work that arrived at the wrong conclusions. It’s a matter of logical structure in complex cases that most people simply do not understand – and WILL NOT take the time and effort to understand. It’s the same structure with detours where he knows he can fake it with a decisive percentage of the population and get away with it. ……….I studied Fuhrman’s A Simple Act of Murder expecting him to come up with dramatic new evidence and “plausible” interpretations of evidence that supported a scenario for the JFK assassination all his own. That’s not what he did. For the most part (he cheated with Oswald as the only possible suspect), he played it straight. He demonstrated that he truly IS a great detective. And that was his goal. ……… His drawings were accurate and his technical explanations (the mathematics of time, space, mass, velocity, trajectory and motion) were correct. He did not cheat the data to fit a conclusion. He did as he said a good detective should do: He took the evidence as it was and followed it wherever it led. He did not support the Warren Commission report. He blasted it. He did not side with Republicans or Democrats. He did not further anyone’s political agenda. He did not re-write history to his own specifications – Oliver Stone did. ………..It is a bit of a sore point with me to see Fuhrman dismissed as something less than he is in terms of his actual abilities. These are the abilities required of the man who masterminded the Bundy murders and the framing of O.J. Simpson. If you study what he did closely in analyzing both cases and what the Bundy killer did to lay the groundwork for Fuhrman’s introduction to the case, you will see the same mind at work. –Jasper