re that silly outdated bill was re koresh and miranda scottj magic dml georgetown edu john l scott writes the issue has never been whether tanks were used in detroit in it has been whether they fired their main guns never this is incorrect either you don t read very well or resort to falsehoods in an attempt to make a point at the risk of boring and belaboring the point my claim was the chain was regarding the tanks last used in detroit in the text follows you did not merely claim that tanks were used you claimed that they fired their main guns to suppress sniper fire and that they were quite effective at this indeed when coffman claimed they were only used as apcs i did say i had been told they did fire their main guns you continue to back away from this claim and defend something else that nobody is disputing well the poster who i responded to did dispute the use of tanks post rude of you to call gary coffman a nobody well it s not the main gun gee that s only the entire point are you now going to admit that you were wrong that was the entire point to you what exactly did i claim i ve heard eye witness descriptions of tanks using their main guns to respond to sniper fire quite effectively i wasn t wrong i ve heard those descriptions if you re paying attention i ve mentioned that i saw the tanks with my own eyes but the main gun firing was an account i heard that helps people judge whether or not to kick in the to use your words bullshit filters stating that i claimed this is a falsehood what was it i claimed as fact here s the entire post we haven t used tanks against the black ghettos since detroit correction i know they used tanks in detroit i saw em it was well covered in the news at that time gordon lightfoot mentions it in his song black day in july since you don t dispute that and claim that nobody else does that means i was right i will never read of tanks firing their main guns in detroit in the riots there is simply no way that such an event could have taken place without it being common knowledge even years later the american military firing shells from tanks in american cities on blacks would have been big news so one would suppose some folks think in happened in awesley goes on you can also read of the troops using grenade launchers to fire fragmentary grenades i doubt that as well to fire concussion grenades perhaps to fire tear gas certainly but you would be perfectly willing to let us believe they fired frags wouldn t you since it makes your other claim seem more plausible john again strawman techniques do you feel you re losing it so you have to stretch what i said and knock that down what i read said nothing about what they fired and so i put nothing in there if you need some help let me know and i l take your side of this for a while you re not scoring here you re boring here if tanks had fired their main guns in detroit people would have been screaming about it for the past two and half decades i would know about it glad to know you re such an expert nice to hear some an authority i especially appreciate your basis of knowledge if it had happened you would have know it since you are such an authority you probably know that people did scream about an alleged massive cover up in the number of people killed in the detroit riot some claimed dead others said the offical number is but the concise columbia encyclopedia says it was several i ve also heard some things about that but i won t dare repeat them you d assert that i claimed they were truth unless you also claim that the national guard managed to cover it up taking the tour after the riots it was pretty easy to tell the difference between army and guard troops or so i recall from years ago and i seem to recall it was the army running the tanks so it would have been an army cover up another part of my memories was that while most damaged building were burnt some were in rubble based on what i remember i was and am inclined to believe an old sarge or two if your mind is open enough to believe that well good for you i prefer to live in reality and here in reality i find it hard to believe that those tanks even had any shells much less fired them given the level in destruction in detroit i m quite willing to believe that they did fire their guns now then we ve bored the shit out of anyone whose bothered to read this far and all you ve managed to say is that you don t believe the account i cited john l scott wes
