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From: Jasper
Date: 6/29/03
Time: 2:53:36 AM
Remote User:
John,
You make a big point of “proving” that Kato volunteered information to lead Fuhrman to the glove by quoting his words and leaving out Fuhrman’s questions. I counter by including the questions IN CONTEXT: Fuhrman was searching Kato’s room, checking his clothes, asking him questions and not telling him what had happened to cause him to be in his room doing these things. Whether he was a “truth-teller” or a “liar” he would have had to answer the same way (Iago Chap 27: The Science of Reason, page 395). That was the context imposed by the uncertain situation and the tacit threat of legal jeopardy for noncompliance imposed by Fuhrman’s “routine questions.” That was the trap….
I would not have picked Shipp for the Rockingham observer if he did not have all his senses, reasonable intelligence, familiarity with the Rockingham layout and experience in covert surveillance – in addition to being “an old friend” of Mark Fuhrman.
It would have taken Shipp only one glimpse of Kato or observing any other sigh of life in that room to know when to whack the wall hard enough – three times – that Kato would be sure to react to it. If Shipp had surveillance equipment that allowed him to make out even a portion of Kato’s telephone conversation he would have known from the conversation that Kato “felt” the thumps and had a strong reaction to them. Ron Shipp ran a business where devises like these were easy to come by (another reason I picked Shipp for the Rockingham lookout).
And how could Kato have forgotten the thumps? Nobody has made a better argument than you have about how strange they were. You argued they were SO strange nobody outside of Kato’s head could have made them. He asked Rachel about an earthquake. He cut short his conversation with her to see what they were. He had to find a flashlight. The flashlight he found was so poor that he asked O.J. for a better one. From 10:40 or 10:45 for at least five minutes after 11:00 most of what he did, said and felt was predicated on the mystery of the thumps. Kato could not have answered Fuhrman’s questions (Where were you and what did you do?) without bringing up the thumps. –Jasper