From: Jasper
Date: Sunday, July 22, 2007
Time: 10:13:15 AM -0400
…It’s time to look again at Cassandra, the Trojan priestess of Greek mythology whose predictions ALWAYS came true yet no one ever believed them. ………. This story sounds as absurd on the surface as the story of Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle the day he was born and hiding them as a prank, but it isn’t. It describes something that happened on this site soon after I put up Iago in Brentwood and the first book of The Smoking Gun series. That was in November, 1998. It has happened here routinely ever since. ………The nature of the phenomenon means that few people will read this sentence because most people won’t get far enough in this post to see it. That means they won’t see what’s coming next even though it’s in plain view. ………That’s a demonstrable fact. All you have to do is look at what the Iago hypothesis, conceived before the book was written, says about Mark Fuhrman, Brad Roberts, Faye Resnick, Denise Brown and Ron Shipp. It says NOTHING about them. It says only that if the killer wasn’t O.J. Simpson he had to have an unlikely set of unique characteristics and helpers who also had an unlikely set of unique characteristics. The first hurtle in determining whether or not this idea was as silly as it seemed was to learn whether the people who fit those characteristic existed. They did. Their names were; Mark Fuhrman, Brad Roberts, Faye Resnick, Denise Brown and Ron Shipp. In other words, the names came from theoretical characteristics of theoretical people, not the other way around. ………People have visited this site for years with no idea of what the Iago hypothesis is or how it evolved into a theory with corollaries that could be tested and are tested frequently. That doesn’t mean they have no idea of what to think of it. They have very strong ideas. They think it’s ridiculous and they have a long list of what they believe are logical reasons for taking that position. That’s why no one ever believed Cassandra. They rejected what they thought about her, not what she said. They didn’t know what she said. They only thought they did. Their reasoning flowed from their thoughts, not her words. …………That’s what I get EVERY TIME someone e-mails me to tell me why they think I’m wrong about Fuhrman. It usually goes something like this: Just because Fuhrman used the n-word, doesn’t mean he’s a killer. That’s irrational. And besides, he couldn’t have known this; he couldn’t have done that, etc. ..……….None of that has a thing to do with Iago, an educated guess at what the undiscovered facts might be to prove OR disprove a theory. The e-mail exchanges in Iago in Brentwood show what everyone involved knew or thought we knew on the dates indicated. The things we didn’t know, including the things we got wrong, were the things that the Iago hypothesis predicted would turn up to implicate the people who fit the characteristics the conspirators had to have if they existed. They did exist. So did ALL of those unique characteristics they had to have if Iago was correct. It is. –Jasper