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From: Jasper
Date: 4/7/02
Time: 3:17:41 PM
Miss Marple,
I had the same reaction to Fuhrman's Hypothesis of a Murder" chapter that you did. Only I don't think he made himself look stupid to the vast majority of his readers and I don't think he overdid it a little; I think he overdid it a lot.
The reason his hypothesis looks absurd to us is because we know a hell of a lot more about the evidence than most people do and we are not looking at it through the prism of someone who is convinced that Fuhrman is a brilliant detective. To these people, you and I are the ones who look stupid for not recognizing how brilliant Fuhrman is. Fuhrman knows his audience and he plays to it. He doesn't care what you and I think because he is the one in the spotlight, not us. Before he got busted on the McKinney tapes, I'd say there was a good chance that he could have run for high political office and won.
The picture of Fuhrman's childhood does, indeed, have frightening similarities to Adolph Hitler. So does the picture of his adulthood, his "beer hall" meetings, his speaking and artistic talents combined with his involvement in politics (a leadership role in the Police Protective League, his special attachment to Bill Gates and in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, etc.).
Fuhrman, like Hitler, had the intelligence to do just about anything he wanted to. Like Hitler, he could have become an officer but preferred to stay in a job that he enjoyed. Although he had no combat duty I'm sure that his job as an MP in a combat zone was plenty exciting. Moreover, it was more likely to put him in the kinds of dangerous situations that he (like Hitler in World War I) craved because all American combat units were supposedly withdrawn from active duty in Vietnam two years before Fuhrman got there. That is not to say he didn't do a lot of killing in a covert capacity under the cover of a Marine Corps MP. This is something we just don't know about.
And let's not forget Fuhrman's affinity for German Word War "memorabilia" (Hitler in both wars) combined with his "final solution" solution to the mixed couple's "problem." This guy may not have been a Nazi (a member of the Nazi party" but he sure was a nazi (an adherent to the party's beliefs).
Anyone who doesn't think that particular combination of parallel traits isn't scary, cant be paying attention. --Jasper