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originally posted by: 111DPKING111
a reply to: idusmartias
There is video somewhere of Lazar being asked that question, he doesnt really have a good answer, shocking I know..
In the 1990s, Bob Lazar was asked in a rare interview to describe the craft he worked on, a craft he fittingly named ‘The Sport Model.’ He described a sleek, thin-looking object. Most notably, though, he made comparisons to Billy Meier’s imagery. Lazar even said that the crafts were “astonishingly similar.” A short clip of that interview can be seen here.
originally posted by: peaceinoutz
The problem is that just because one is debunked by facts (numerous facts debunking Lazar) and common sense doesn’t mean Lazar isn’t going to get a load of believers, just enough to get him some big bucks and satisfy his ego through 15 minutes of fame.
The world has many examples of liars, frauds, and con men who get a piece of the pie (followers and believers) even as far as becoming a president, or huge religious or cult leader.
All one needs is a small piece of the pie to get rich and famous to satiate their ego.
For an egoist, there’s no difference between getting a standing ovation in a room with a few thousand people( for a fraud like Lazar) and from a room filled with millions (through mass media) of a president.
The government is not omnipotent.
originally posted by: Dontlietome
a reply to: FingerMan
I think the government is capable of doing anything it wants . Just because you worked side by side with halfwits doesn’t mean the top of the government are morons . There are things bigger then yourself out there .
originally posted by: Dontlietome
a reply to: FingerMan
I think the government is capable of doing anything it wants . Just because you worked side by side with halfwits doesn’t mean the top of the government are morons . There are things bigger then yourself out there .
a person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
The government is not omnipotent.
originally posted by: Dontlietome
a reply to: FingerMan
I think the government is capable of doing anything it wants . Just because you worked side by side with halfwits doesn’t mean the top of the government are morons . There are things bigger then yourself out there .
They would not only have to delete Lazar's records from the schools he claimed to attend, MIT and CalTech, but they would also have to find every yearbook everywhere from those schools which had any record of Lazar. How do you suppose they would do that? Just get a list of every yearbook ever purchased during the alleged years of Lazar's attendance? Then go knock on the doors of the people who purchased the yearboks (which many wouldn't even be at the same addresses anymore, yearbooks could have been passed on from parents to children, etc) and ask them to give up their yearbooks? Using what excuse? And would people comply voluntarily? Or would they send the national guard in to confiscate the yearbooks by force? Or send an army of secret agents in to break into people's houses in the middle of the night to replace the yearbooks with doctored versions that had Lazar's references removed?
This whole scenario by itself is so implausible that it sounds practially insane to defend it and suggest the government could competently do this. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. The deeper problem is that Lazar would have to have forgotten the physics he leared because the physics he's described is not what any real physicist would say, and when he stated who his teachers were at the MIT and CalTech, instead of giving us teachers from MIT and Cal Tech, he gave us teachers from his high school, and from Pierce Junior College. So what did your omnipotent government do to make Lazar forget who his teachers were? Fry his brain using HAARP or something ridiculous?
No, the whole government conspiracy scenario of hiding Lazar's education has zero plausibility and you don't exactly improve your own credibility by trying to argue the government has superpowers to do what's for all practical purposes impossible. Lazar just lied. He wasn't attending Pierce Junior College and MIT on opposite sides of the USA at the same time as we would have to believe if his MIT claims were true. This has been thoroughly investigated and put to bed and the postion you are trying to defend is completely indefensible.
Now the government did pull off some more plausible things in the past, like keeping some pretty good secrecy of the initial atomic bomb program called the Manhattan Project from Germany and Japan, but even that was less than perfect since they didn't keep it completely secret from the Soviet Union. That also didn't involve going to thousands of people's homes and knocking on the doors and asking those people to give up their yearbooks from MIT and Cal Tech, which is what the government would have to do to make Lazar's education records completely disappear.
It's discussed in this video by a real physicist and UFO researcher, Stanton Freidman. Remember, Stanton Freidman is not some kind of debunker who didn't believe in aliens...he did, so if Lazar's story was true it would have lent more credibility to Freidman's "aliens have been here" spiel.
I didn't mean to imply I was a complete fan of Stanton Freidman.
originally posted by: idusmartias
This is where we part company for in my educated opinion Friedman was just a blowhard and I wouldn't buy a new or used car from him 'cause in order to sell a car he would, naturally, be a liar. Since 1970 when he retired as a "nuklear" physicist he became a UFOlogical liar and full-time leech.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
I didn't mean to imply I was a complete fan of Stanton Freidman.
originally posted by: idusmartias
This is where we part company for in my educated opinion Friedman was just a blowhard and I wouldn't buy a new or used car from him 'cause in order to sell a car he would, naturally, be a liar. Since 1970 when he retired as a "nuklear" physicist he became a UFOlogical liar and full-time leech.
One point in Friedman's favor that I haven't seen you dispute is that he was a real nuclear physicist (for a time at least) with a real Master's degree from a real university and it's not fictitious like Lazar's fictitious master's degrees. In addition, when Freidman talked about physics, he talked like a physicist and obviously knew a lot of physics, which was not the case with Lazar, who didn't talk like a physicist and didn't seem to know much physics and what he thought he knew was often wrong or contradicted by observation.
The fact that Freidman was a physicist and talked like one only means that I never heard him BS about physics. But you're right, he either was BSing us about some other things, or he was somewhat naive and gullible himself, if, for example, he really believed the Majestic 12 documents were genuine, I agree with you on that. But I don't want to go off on too much of a Freidman tangent since this is a Lazar thread.
originally posted by: 38181
a reply to: idusmartias
Basically, they put clowns in office that are good at lying and deceiving to distract the public from focusing on the truth. Tactics from the Art of War.
originally posted by: keenmachine
He did film something strange near area 51 and was caught doing so. I think he did a couple times before being discovered. maybe he knew someone who told him when they were testing craft. But he at least did that much. I see that hardly brought up in threads like these. Maybe that's all he did and the rest is a lie.