Re: Former CIA Director and *Strategic Investment* Editor

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 04:06 AM 5/1/96 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote:

>> known to be so!) that his neighbor would call the cops just because he, 
>> ONCE, stayed a little longer than normal?
>
>	I guess you've never had the pleasure of living in a small town.
>	If you had, you'd know just how observant people are, of others
>	habits.  

However, you haven't explained why mere "observance" would translate into a 
call to the cops (if that's what happened; according to the reports it did) 
under those circumstances.  I can observe a lot that doesn't necessarily 
induce me to drag the cops into it.

Initially, I was thinking that perhaps the neighbors might have become 
suspicious, walked over and saw a capsized canoe.  However, according to 
another item the canoe was over 400 yards from the house, which is 
sufficiently far to make it difficult to see along many shorelines.  Do you 
have an alternative explanation?

>> What's wrong with this picture?
>
>	You ability to see conspiracy where there may be non.
	
It's odd.  You're the third person to use the term "conspiracy" when I 
haven't mentioned the word.  Somehow, I think that you guys must be misusing 
the term "conspiracy" when what you really mean is something else.  Why not 
pick up an OED, an choose a better word.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com