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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
I notice a connection between belief in ghosts and other conspiracies. Ho ho hum so typical.
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Not sure if that is true at least not in my case. I do like to keep an open mind about things but studying philosophy makes you quite logical and skeptical in outlook whereas my law degree emphasized the "what's in it for me" attitude that was extremely prevalent among the law students and law professors at least at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1986 through 1991 or so. Very few law students look for conspiracies unless the Mafia, the Catholic Church, the CIA, a huge corporation or some other very powerful entity is involved. You need to stick to the adage of Keep It Simple Stupid for the jury but really strut your knowledge of legalize for judges and especially appellate level judges. I do remember one defense from my Antitrust class which was the "Who Me" one. Where a huge company would target a much smaller one, snatch it up and then have their officers basically deny any knowledge of the acquisition or hostile takeover or whatever. They could bury the paperwork in their mountains of paper generated.
I will bet many wrong doers just deny things they have done by implying that the victim was too unimportant a target for them to bother with violating their rights.
There is a very telling story about abuse of power and people getting away with it from the news last night on ABC on October 30 with George Stephanopoulos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephanopoulos Check out the story about black lung disease among miners and the doctor who looks like he was paid to basically just do the coal company's bidding.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/invest...ry?id=20721430 There certainly is a conspiracy involved in this matter if you look at the facts presented.
Back to ghosts, I do hope that this doctor is haunted by some from the patients with black lung disease who subsequently died probably so that he could cash in a huge pay check by ignoring their conditions. How does he get away with this? Because he has an inordinately more amount of influence, money and power that than of his victims.