PART 10:

LAWYER VICTOR ZAMMIT CROSS-EXAMINES SKEPTIC James RANDI
(This is a continuation from part 9 )

(This would be fairly close to a real cross-examination- the information is taken from what closed-minded materialist J.Zwingi Randi has ALREADY ACCEPTED and IMPLIED. Some very minor flexibility and embellishment consistent with Zwingi Randi’s beliefs and record have been used for easier reading and understanding of the script. Randi's beliefs have not been misrepresented. Words in caps are there for emphasis - very important in cross-examination).

Victor: Have you come across magicians who have accepted the paranormal?

Randi: I don’t know of any magician who accepts the paranormal ..

Victor: Every heard of the former skeptic James Webster, Master magician from England? He investigated the famous five year study called the SCOLE EXPERIMENT– and conceded that no magician can duplicate the SCOLE’S mediums’ stunning results. He accepted the evidence for the afterlife … AFTER he investigated – why would you not agree with him?

Randi: Don’t know him …

Victor: Of course not! Every heard of George Hansen, a professional who is a full-time researcher in the paranormal?

Randi: Name rings a bell, but can’t place him …

Victor: Every heard of his study which stated that there have been many magicians – naming a number of them - who accepted the evidence for the paranormal and/or the afterlife?

Randi: (not answering … then) … He might have written an article but I don’t agree with him …

Victor: Every heard of Polly Birdsell from California?

Randi: I don’t remember her ..

Victor: She wrote a university Master’s thesis about magicians and the paranormal and the afterlife. She claims that EIGHTY TWO per cent of magicians surveyed accepted there is evidence for the paranormal or the afterlife – do you remember that?

Randi: No, I don’t remember her …

Victor: Did you ever hear of that highly intelligent, highly gifted no-nonsense world renowned Howard Thurston, one of the greatest and most famous magicians of all times?

Randi: Yes, of course I have …

Victor: Did you know that in the twenties and thirties he offered TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for anyone to prove the paranormal or psychic phenomena?

Randi: I don’t quite remember that one …

Victor: Did you know that gifted medium Arthur Ford counter offered by offering TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to Howard Thurston if he could find fraud in Arthur Ford’s mediumship?

Randi: I don’t remember …

Victor: Did you know about the incident happened at Carnegie Hall when Howard Thurston and Arthur Ford debated the issue – and Howard Thurston lost very badly and promised he would investigate the paranormal properly?

Randi: I don’t remember …

Victor: Did you know that the world famous magician and former skeptic Howard Thurston after investigating the paranormal accepted the evidence for the paranormal and became a researcher for the American Society for Psychical Research?

Randi: I don’t remember that …

Victor: Of course not!

Randi: But Houdini never admitted the paranormal when he was alive …

Victor: Have you come across information that Houdini’s wife Beatrice confirmed that Houdini transmitted the code he had arranged with her from the other side?

Randi: No, I never heard that and I don’t want to hear it, there is no other side …

Victor: Do you know the secret code that was agreed to between?

Randi: I don’t remember ...

Victor: Do you remember if the secret code was just one word ‘forgive’?

Randi: I don’t remember …

Victor: That was in a letter from Mrs Beatrice Houdini, Bess, as Harry Houdini used to call her, to medium Arthur Ford, congratulating him and confirming that the secret word ‘forgive’ was the right one. Do you know anything about that?

Randi: Nobody transmitted anything from the afterlife because there is no afterlife …

Victor: During these transmissions there were highly credible independent witnesses from the press – Mr. H. R. Zander, Representative of the United Press; Mrs. Minnie Chester, life-long friend of Mrs. Houdini and Mr. John W. Stafford, Associate Editor of Scientific American – do you say these are not credible witnesses when the secret code was transmitted through the medium Arthur Ford?

Randi: It couldn’t have happened … there is no afterlife …

Victor: My question is, were the witnesses mentioned credible or not?

Randi: No … not credible … there is no afterlife … I just remembered ... Mrs Houdini changed her mind later on ..

Victor: Are you referring to those aggressive skeptics who applied a great deal of pressure and forced her to recant?

Randi: She wasn't forced to do anything ...

Victor: Does not the record show that even after the alleged recanting, she came back to the original confirmation that the
the code was absolutely correct?

Randi: No it doesn't ...

Victor: Why don't you do proper research to get the right answer? Forget it.... Let's move on ... What contribution did you make in this world?

Randi: I educate people how to be critical thinkers …

Victor: Don’t you think many people fall off their chair laughing when you say that?

Randi: And why should they?

Victor: AREN’T YOU ARE THE PERFECT EXAMPLE of NOT being a critical thinker?

Randi: And why not? Victor: Did you not come to conclusions BEFORE you investigated - you say that the paranormal does not exist, the afterlife does not exist and that you have not rebutted the brilliant evidence for the paranormal and the afterlife … you have not shown where, when, how, and why the paranormal cannot be valid – so how can you call yourself critical thinker …?

Randi: I know my way of doing things is effective …

Victor: The only time you were able to get the media to report on what you’re doing was when you indulged in HOAXES, in DECEPTION in DISHONESTY – these things you admit yourself … and YOU call that critical thinking and making a contribution to society?

Randi: You’re twisting things around …

Victor: What one thing did I twist around to your disadvantage …?

Randi: ……(quiet) …..

Victor: Would it not be right to say that you yourself have been the greatest HOAX yourself to the American public?

Randi: I reject that …

Victor: Recently you have been putting videos on the internet to justify your HOAXES … you still to-day try to justify the DECEPTION and the dishonesty you made over the years – like that fraudulent Carlos HOAX?

Randi: The hoaxes you talk about were successful …

Victor: Are you not really deluding yourself – fooling yourself they have any value?

Randi: No, I don’t agree with that ..

Victor: Of course not. Would you not say that anything planned by you was for your own personal publicity, personal profit at the expense of truth, integrity and equity?

Randi: I wouldn’t say that …

Victor: In the last 40 years you were always extremely rude to those genuine people who tried to demonstrate there is validity in the paranormal. You pushed yourself for attention, you highlighted yourself, you organized hoaxes – which are public MISREPRESENATIONS, DISHONESTY AND DECEPTION - for your own publicity, your own ego and for your own aggrandizement … And yet we see that more people to-day accept the paranormal and the afterlife than ever before. So don’t you agree that you’ve been a HUGE national flop- to be forgotten in the dustbin of history?

Randi: I’m not a flop ..

Victor: But in some FIFTY years you were NOT able to show why the paranormal is not valid, you did NOT rebut the evidence for the paranormal or the afterlife – not even for the alluring ONE MILLION DOLLARS … isn’t that the record of a complete FLOP?

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