GregD wrote:runsforcelery wrote:
But when you have something like 40-plus nuclear detonations, spread through an entire star system — including orbital structures, not on the planetary surface where all of the other “terrorist” attacks occurred — and all of them occurring simultaneously, not spread out and sequenced the way the “terrorist” attacks were, you are clearly talking about a far more sophisticated operation. And the only people reasonably in place to carryout that operation are the Manties and their Havenite allies.
It is totally reasonable for O’Hanrahan — and a whole stack of other newsies — to follow exactly that chain of logic, and there would be absolutely no legitimate grounds for Mike Henke or anyone else to single Audrey O’Hanrahan out of all the other background noise for following a completely logical perspective on the story. And she didn’t exactly shift her theories overnight, either. It’s an ongoing process, and the last thing she said is that there are unanswered questions, that she is no longer certain of anything, and that she intends to follow the story wherever he goes.
Please point me at something suspicious in that.
No, it's not reasonable to believe that 1 day ofter the Manties arrived they were capable of doing that, without a single missile trace showing up anywhere.
Hell, I'm guess that the Manties hadn't even managed to get a single ship anywhere near a bunch of the places that were nuked.
The point is that the newsies (and the League) are being fed the "well, of course the records show no missile traces, but that's because the Manties control all of the sensors that would have seen them." The fact that Manticore has no explanation for how the explosions were arranged --- aside from "the Alignment did it" --- is falling on deaf ears (in many cases) because the existence of the Alignment has already been written off as a paranoid fabrication. In fact, you are right in a lot of what you're saying. My point is that Hanrahan has no access to any information other than that available to all the other newsies and that what she's saying at this point is that she doesn't know how the warheads were delivered, that she doesn't
want to think it was the Manties, but that the only people who had ships in position to deliver them were the GA and that no one is offering any
other explanation that makes sense. She is saying she will get to the bottom of it, wherever it leads,
not that she already
knows the GA did it.
And, trust me, the whole situation with the Alignment is about to get a
lot muddier on the surface of Mesa, as well.
My point is that it isn't at all unreasonable for her to say that she doesn't see anyone
else[ in a position to have executed the attacks, that they coincided with the Mantie's arrival; that they are fundamentally
different from the "terrorist" attacks which preceded them, and thatg in the absence of
independently verified evidence of how the warheads
weren't delivered, the GA's claims that it didn't do it are unproveable.
If she were the only journalist saying that, if she were offering "evidence" that the GA
did do it rather than saying that she doesn't know that it
didn't then she might ---
might --- be saying something sufficiently unreasonable for Mike to say to herself "Aha! This journalist who has spent decades, at the risk of her own life, uncovering one scandal after another and has
never been caught falsifying evidence (who, in fact, apologized publicly when someone
fed her falsified evidence) is
obviously a member of the Allignment!"
Can you really not see how unlikely it is that someone with O'Hanrahan's reputation and proven chops as
the gold standard of honest, investigative journalism would suddenly be seen as a member of the Allignment only because she is saying
she doesn't know what happened?!
