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Old 09-24-2014, 11:08 PM   #219
rayliotta
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Default Re: LSM's Etymological Errors - Nigel Tomes

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Originally Posted by OBW View Post
The problem with practice is that it is hard to prove. Hard to assess. The original God-Men book found out. You talk to someone who provides their experience and the group goes out and sweet-talks them into coming back and joining the fold. Suddenly your evidence vanishes.
I agree, OBW. It reminds me of the Senate Hearing scene from The Godfather II. Here's an excerpt:

"SENATOR: Mr. PENTANGELI, you are contradicting a sworn statement that you previously made to me and signed. I ask you again sir -- you are now under oath -- were you at any time a member of a crime organization -- headed by Michael Corleone?

PENTANGELI: I don't know nothin' about that. Oh -- I was in the Olive Oil business with his father but that was a long time ago, that's all.

SENATOR: We have a sworn affidavit -- we have it -- your sworn affidavit that you murdered on the orders of Michael Corleone. Do you deny that confession, and do you realize what will happen as a result of your denial?

PENTANGELI: Look the FBI guys promised me a deal. So I made up a lot of stuff about Michael Corleone 'cause that's what they wanted -- but it was all lies -- uh -- everything. And I kept saying -- 'Michael Corleone did this and Michael Corleone did that' -- uh -- so I said, yea sure, why not?"


The stuff that's the most serious, and the most cause for raising red flags to new potential recruits, is probably - mostly - the stuff we would never be able to prove.

But that doesn't mean we can't raise those warnings flags, out of a desire that other people could avoid the same pitfalls that we did not do so well in avoiding ourselves. And we do that some here on the forum. Guess I just wish we could do it a little more.
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