I find it very STRANGE that doomers didn't respond to this Y2K experts comments on those docs:
The Y2K Pentagon Papers - A Clarification
August 20, 1999
by Peter de Jager
year2000.com
SNIP:
>>There is more to the story. When I received the document for the first time. Three scenarios immediately went through my mind.
1.The document was real and freely available.
2.The document was real and top secret.
3.The document was a hoax.
As we've seen. It turns out #1 was the truth.
Scenario #2 was never a possibility, because there is no evidence to support the stated conclusions.
Scenario #3 posed the bigger concern. It would take nothing more than about an hour of effort to create a disaster 'document' and then promote it on the Internet as a 'leaked top secret file,' etc., linked to a conspiracy, etc., and a new world order, etc., and plans for martial law, etc. (You get the general idea.) And since there is no way for myself or anyone else to prove that the document does not exist in any government file, the conspiracy theorists would have a field day.
It's not my intent to provide any malicious fool with ideas, but it's something we all have to take into account when encountering information from any source. How can you check the validity of the data? If anyone has an answer to that question, don't keep the answer to yourself.
My personal strategy is to be skeptical of everything I hear. My response these days to any claim is simply 'prove it,' or if that is not always possible, then provide me the argument and reasoning you used to come to your conclusions. That's not fool proof, but it's better than taking whatever you hear at face value. Imagine what you would be doing today if you took 'The Pentagon Papers' and the manner in which it is presented, at face value? <<
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