by Antiliar » Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:31 pm
Okay, I'll respond a little bit.
- Yes, he does block people, but that's his right. Maybe he feels he's too old for the crap people sometimes throw at him. I like to debate, but when people troll it's often just a waste of time. I'm sure he gets lots of trolls.
- There isn't enough information to debate his service in Vietnam. He didn't write about it in his book. He only wrote when he enlisted and was discharged, and he provided a photo in his book. So neither one of us knows what he did during the period of his enlistment. A lot of combat veterans don't like to discuss their experiences until they feel ready to do so on their terms.
- As for him being gay, that sounds like guilt by association. He's denied that in the past and I think he's said that he's got a wife and kids, so I have no reason to believe it. Yes, some married men are secretly gay, but I would need some solid evidence before I'm convinced.
- Regarding Red telling Spilotro that he was snitching, that's his story. It does sound far-fetched, but I can't make a knee-jerk assumption that it's false without evidence. I'm agnostic on it. I neither believe nor do I automatically disbelieve it. It goes in the category of "Red claims he told Spilotro he was a snitch and Spilotro didn't care because it wasn't about him." Maybe since Red was targeting Frank Schweihs and Spilotro feared Schweihs he was glad to hear that Red is getting him off the street. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out as a possible explanation. Over the years I've heard far-fetched claims being disproven, but I've heard others that were confirmed to be true. Frank Calabrese Jr says his father told him that Accardo pulled the trigger on Giancana. Far-fetched? Yes. Impossible? No. Could it have happened? Yes. Did it happen? Don't know, can't verify. Some may think that the entire leadership of the Outfit killing the Spilotros is also far-fetched. Do we know that it happened? No. Nick Calabrese testified to it, so most of us believe him, but it's *possible* that he lied on the stand. Again, we weren't there, so we will never know for certain one or the other. This is my reasoning, but we're free to disagree.
Okay, I'll respond a little bit.
- Yes, he does block people, but that's his right. Maybe he feels he's too old for the crap people sometimes throw at him. I like to debate, but when people troll it's often just a waste of time. I'm sure he gets lots of trolls.
- There isn't enough information to debate his service in Vietnam. He didn't write about it in his book. He only wrote when he enlisted and was discharged, and he provided a photo in his book. So neither one of us knows what he did during the period of his enlistment. A lot of combat veterans don't like to discuss their experiences until they feel ready to do so on their terms.
- As for him being gay, that sounds like guilt by association. He's denied that in the past and I think he's said that he's got a wife and kids, so I have no reason to believe it. Yes, some married men are secretly gay, but I would need some solid evidence before I'm convinced.
- Regarding Red telling Spilotro that he was snitching, that's his story. It does sound far-fetched, but I can't make a knee-jerk assumption that it's false without evidence. I'm agnostic on it. I neither believe nor do I automatically disbelieve it. It goes in the category of "Red claims he told Spilotro he was a snitch and Spilotro didn't care because it wasn't about him." Maybe since Red was targeting Frank Schweihs and Spilotro feared Schweihs he was glad to hear that Red is getting him off the street. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out as a possible explanation. Over the years I've heard far-fetched claims being disproven, but I've heard others that were confirmed to be true. Frank Calabrese Jr says his father told him that Accardo pulled the trigger on Giancana. Far-fetched? Yes. Impossible? No. Could it have happened? Yes. Did it happen? Don't know, can't verify. Some may think that the entire leadership of the Outfit killing the Spilotros is also far-fetched. Do we know that it happened? No. Nick Calabrese testified to it, so most of us believe him, but it's *possible* that he lied on the stand. Again, we weren't there, so we will never know for certain one or the other. This is my reasoning, but we're free to disagree.