To: scion who wrote (89797 ) 1/25/2005 4:20:02 PM From: olivier asser Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 122087 Maybe if you spent less time insinuating by generalization I'd find your posts more credible. Maybe if a large number of posters here who were previously intimate partners of AP would accept that a large number of practices that have to this day...including up to multiple criminal convictions for racketeering, securities fraud, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering and extortion...been deemed "jest bidness" here then the multiple posts I've read in sheer disbelief here would be slightly credible. Maybe if it's not clear from the indictments, convictions and public statements of a United States Attorney concerning a racketeering enterprise that went far beyond AP and an FBI agent but also involved the knowing and willing participation of a large number of prominent AP site members, then the posts would be credible. Maybe if a number of posters here had not been caught red-handed making statements that the SI record clearly disproves, then there would be credibility. Maybe if the previous attack dog record of AP and friends were not now known and exposed for what it is, and maybe if there were not many lurkers here the silent majority who have no interest in denying the facts, then credibility would be established. Maybe if there weren't multiple posts calling the government corrupt, kangaroo, and clearly asserting that federal laws pertaining to mail, wire and securities fraud and a criminal racketeering enterprise are completely beside the point, then we wouldn't be sitting here wondering how if all these posts held any water a jury could possibly have found AP and associates guilty of the serious crimes it did.