The thing I can't get my head round with this theory is that none of these 'other shooters' hit anyone, or anything. In my book, if you're running an op of this magnitude -- a high-profile political assassination -- there is no room for error, no margin for failure. So what do you do? You bring in elite snipers, your very best men, and yet not one of them landed a single hit we can account for.Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
The other shot was silenced and subsonic and came a few video frames earlier, nearly missing one team of SS Snipers on a roof, then going along the back row, causing all the flinches and reactions.
With the exception of the roof-shooter that is; his bullets we can account for, on mic, even on camera, and the victims in the bleachers who were hit.
I'm not saying there wasn't a second shooter, or even third shooter, but to be convinced I first need a solid lead on who they were (alphabet people?), who they were shooting at (Trump? - if so, they're terrible shots), the position(s) they were bedded in at (where they were shooting from) and evidence of the shots they fired (recovered bullets, brass on the ground). For me, faint audio signatures isn't compelling enough to convince me these shooters exist. It needs to be backed up by tangible evidence.
I'm also finding it tough to reconcile how, when all was said and done, they expected to escape unseen. 'Disappearing' from a stand of trees in rural Pennsylvania is a bloody far cry from Dallas, with its maze of streets crammed with thousands of hysterical people. For the life of me I cannot imagine what their exfil strategy was. How did they expect to avoid all those cellphones?
[[Unless you want to go crazy-town and say they were wearing CHAMELEO cloaking devices straight out of Area 51. That's not being facetious, it has occurred to me -- if I put my mind to it, I can out-conspiracy the best of them!]]
In all seriousness, I see too many variables in play here, none of which they have sufficient control over. Given the gargantuan stakes, I say multiple shooters wouldn't only be risky, but reckless.
Perhaps you're right, I won't argue with that, I simply believe we need more data. A lot more data, before we even begin to construct a meaningful theory.Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
Disagreeing on his first of many points, and then dismissing him entirely as talking out his arse, before even considering the bulk of the evidence he presented for that first point, apparently (from how it looked to me) because his hypothesis (a silent shot along the back row of that bleacher) violated the narrative you've already accepted, ... that's perhaps less helpful.
I had in fact typed up a new theory in response to SilentFeathers, but when I read it back it even I was sceptical. Ultimately, I had too many questions I couldn't answer.
A healthy dose of scepticism is no bad thing though, so I'm definitely not criticising you for that. But I do believe we must caution against rampant scepticism. Meaning, automatic distrust of 'official statements', like the identity of Crooks, the guy on the roof. Yes, take it all with a grain of salt, but don't rush straight to 'everything is a plot, a ploy, an intrigue, a lie'. Some things really are what they are at face value. Not always, but sometimes. It's important I think we leave room for that possibility, lest we overlook an important clue.
All in all I'm actually having fun here. I do so love picking apart a mystery. And I'm loving, right now, watching those 'in power' scramble to cover their asses. Whatever else can be said about what happened that day, someone, somewhere, ballsed up BIG-TIME. Whichever side of the aisle you're on with who did what, and why: 'the dirty bastards behind the scenes' are exposing themselves for the fools and liars they are, day after day after day. And you have to agree, that's a beautiful thing to watch!