[Russ]

Originally Posted by idi banashapan

so essentially, you are willing to blindly accept an investigative outcome, a study finding or conclusion into any event just because an 'official', 'expert', or 'authoritative figure' tells you "this is the truth"?

If it makes sense enough to me and what I have been presented with 'feels' right then yes, I'll accept it.

Do you never question the validity of the information, its sources or its method of investigation and presentation?

As above.

you seem to have dismissed and brushed of my other points by saying


that doesn't really explain anything away. it doesn't even confront what I said. are you not willing to address the 4 points of questioning I posed regarding 'official' investigations, nor the added 2 rather simple examples of how high profile / public interested events turned out very differently from the initial 'expert' or 'officially' presented information?

do you truly believe that you know everything about what happened in the tunnel thanks to the newspapers and newsreels that were presented to you? you do not think in any way that evidence from someone who was actually there might have been removed from the public domain and hushed in case it brought to light something underhand?

I've not said I believe "everything" we've been told (just like 9/11) but I believe enough to come to the conclusion that it was what it was - a tragic car accident.

I see nothing for anyone to credibly gain from her murder, no real motive (she may well have been a pain in the arse to the Royal Family but so was Fergie and she's still with us) and as people have survived similar and worse car accidents in the past (Richard Hammond), there would be too much scope for things to go 'wrong' (ie her survival) for it to be a viable assassination.

now, to be clear, I am not saying anything was underhand in the case of Diana. But I'm also not blinkered enough to think I was ever told everything about that event. for all we know, the new evidence may go further to prove that it was simply an accident, which in all fairness, it probably was. but that does not mean to say it definitely was. there is always that chance that we, the public, do not know everything.

As I said I'm sure there are aspects of this we're not told about. But nothing that would take away the fact it was just a tragic car accident.