@newtboy:
A Minority View by Walter Williams:
"The Emancipation Proclamation was not a universal declaration. It detailed where slaves were freed, only in those states “in rebellion against the United States.” Slaves remained slaves in states not in rebellion — such as Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. The hypocrisy of the Emancipation Proclamation came in for heavy criticism. Lincoln’s own secretary of state, William Seward, said, “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.”"

And in Lincoln's own words:
“I view the matter (Emancipation Proclamation) as a practical war measure, to be decided upon according to the advantages or disadvantages it may offer to the suppression of the rebellion.” He also wrote: “I will also concede that emancipation would help us in Europe, and convince them that we are incited by something more than ambition.”

The idea of buying the slaves possibly did not take root because Lincoln didn't really care about freeing the slaves, he cared about preserving the union, in his own words, and buying the slaves would not stop secession at that point.

>> ^EndAll:
there's a lot more evidence for a conspiracy in witness testimony, evidence already buried, confidential files not yet released, and the like.


If you have any respect for people like James Randi, Michael Shermer, or anyone who uses scientific methods, then you already understand that witness testimony is possibly the most unreliable way of getting at any truth, and more often than not, completely opposite of the truth.

It seems that this would only demonstrate that either the photo isn't a fake, or that whoever faked it was sufficiently informed about the conditions at the time the photo of the head was taken, so as to be able to reproduce similar conditions when taking the photo of the body. Now, that wouldn't seem very far-fetched if both photos were taken with the intention of producing a composite photograph, which, if you're into conspiracies, isn't particularly far-fetched in itself. It wouldn't be all too difficult to arrange if both photos were taken with the same camera, on the same roll of film on subsequent days and then developed at the same time.

But that's irrelevant, really, and so is this whole faked photos and magic bullet bullshit. Distractions - there's a lot more evidence for a conspiracy in witness testimony, evidence already buried, confidential files not yet released, and the like.