PART 8:

LAWYER VICTOR ZAMMIT CROSS-EXAMINES SKEPTIC James RANDI
(This is a continuation from part 7)

(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).

Part 8.

Victor: Do you remember American celebrity Don Lane interviewing you on his Australian television show in Sydney?

Randi: I don’t remember…

Victor: You don’t? Let me briefly remind you. That was when Don Lane was asking you about your skepticism and the aggressive attacks you made on medium Doris Stokes. At one time you were seen by the television viewers sitting on a chair near Don Lane trying to secretly bend a key on the edge of the chair you were sitting on. Why did you try to CHEAT to use trickery, to use dishonesty … when Don Lane and millions of viewers caught you cheating?

Randi: That never happened the way you described it …

Victor: Never happened eh? With your permission your Honor I have a video to submit into evidence marked item 4 to be shown right now. It shows clearly the defendant was trying to bend the key, using dishonesty, deception and cheating ….

Randi: OK, OK, OK …You don’t have to do that … I was trying to show how those who claim they can bend keys with their mind really do it.

Victor: Answer the question, you were cheating, right?

Randi: I suppose one could….

Victor: ANSWER THE QUESTION – YOU WERE CHEATING, YES OR NO?

Randi: Yes ….

Victor: YES WHAT?

Randi: Yes, I was cheating … that’s how these so called psychics do …

Victor: Have you yourself ever caught just one psychic in the last forty years cheating the way you were trying to cheat when millions witnessed it on television?

Randi: No … but it happens ..

Victor: Why would you say that when not one psychic ever has been caught cheating the way you were?

Randi: (Remains quiet …)

Victor: So, you’ve been investigating the paranormal for over forty years?

Randi: Yes, something like that …

Victor: And you never ever found any evidence for the paranormal or the afterlife?

Randi: No, never …

Victor: And you are on record for stating that all so-called mediumship can be accounted for by cold reading … right?

Randi: Absolutely!!!

Victor: Are you aware that materializations are the greatest proof for the afterlife …

Randi: I don’t believe that …

Victor: Have you ever empirically investigated materializations?

Randi: There’s nothing to investigate … they’re all frauds …

Victor: So, your answer is NO?

Randi: No …

Victor: How do you know they’re all fraud if you have never investigated materializations?

Randi: Simply because the afterlife does not exist …

Victor: You do not think that materialization mediumship is really contacting those from the afterlife …

Randi: Absolutely NOT!

Victor: What’s your evidence for that?

Randi: It’s all cold reading … that’s my evidence …

Victor: What do you mean by cold reading …

Randi: This is when the psychic asks questions and gets the information through trick questions and body language … Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject …

Victor: So this means that the coldreader has to be able to see the sitter...

Randi: Yes, absolutely ….

Victor: But how can this happen when a materialization medium is tied and gagged BEHIND A CURTAIN in the dark? He can’t see anyone.

Randi: (Hesitating …) They collude with others …

Victor: When independent scientists investigated materialization it was IMPOSSIBLE for the medium to collude… those present were all scientists, security people experts in fraud detection and selected observers … are you calling these scientists, security people and other professionals all frauds?

Randi: Can’t you see … if there is no afterlife they have to be indulging in fraud …

Victor: Fraud? Are you into what psychology calls ‘PROJECTION’ – projecting onto others what you do when YOU YOURSELF do testing yourself …?

Randi: (Does not answer)

Victor: And yes, you were convinced that everything is cold reading … did you not try to do a demonstration of cold reading for Fulcrum TV - in London – a television pilot called THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE?

Randi: I don’t remember …

Victor: This was another one of YOUR HOAXES, remember?

Randi: NO, I don’t remember the details ..

Victor: My what a SELECTIVE memory you have! Of course you don’t remember, you tried to CHEAT, you tried to collude with those materialist producers, you were trying to be DISHONEST…But you were so bad trying to pretend to be a gifted professional medium that the audience very loudly booed you off the stage…

Randi: I was not booed off …

Victor: That’s what the record shows … And did not those materialist producers who conspired with you state they were very embarrassed and they were cutting all the ridiculous cold-reading idiocy exhibited by you from the show?

Randi: I don’t remember …

Victor: Of course not … Given your conduct and your crusades against the paranormal – and given the fact that there are now more people in the world who accept the paranormal and the afterlife than at any other time in history, don’t you think in fact that by your conniving, and your hoaxes you are successfully converting more people to the extreme opposite beliefs you hold?

Randi: I deny that …

Victor: OF COURSE YOU DO!!

Victor: Let’s move on … you are on record for publicly stating that you can duplicate anything a psychic can do… Do you still hold that belief?

Randi: Yes ….

Victor: Ever heard of psychic medium Michelle Whitedove?

Randi: NO …

Victor: She won the best American psychic a couple of years ago and why is it that people such as yourself run interstate in great panic when she comes to town?

Randi: I don’t do that …

Victor: Does not your failure to deal with Michelle Whitedove show that you just cannot duplicate the brilliant demonstration she performed for millions of viewers around the world?

Randi: (Hesitating) … What did she do?

Victor: Why is it that everybody else seems to know what she did except you --- does she scare you that much?

Randi: No she doesn’t …

Victor: Since you boasted you could DUPLICATE anything a psychic can do, all you have to do is to do what Michelle Whitedove did, find a buried stuntman in a 12 acre area of near desert land within 29 minutes – CAN YOU DO THAT, YES OR NO?

Randi: No …. I think whoever televised her was fraudulent …

Victor: Always projecting what you have in your own mind again Randi?

Randi: Naaaaah ……

Victor: She had during the psychic test one most fundamental, most precious thing YOU REFUSE to have in your HOAX challenge … TRULY INDEPENDENT ADJUDICATORS… again, will you do what the psychic Michelle Whitedove did and allow, with joint approval, truly independent adjudicators for your challenge?

Randi: Absolutely NOT ….

Victor: You conceded YOU CANNOT DO WHAT THIS BRILLIANT PSYCHIC CAN DO even with independent experts conducting the experiment … you only try to ridicule and bully the very weak psychics. You do not even try to take on the $500,000 challenge to duplicate her psychic performance. What’s the matter with you, don’t you have the moral courage and the fortitude to take on the challenge to show the world you’re right?

Randi: Does not answer …

Victor: Or is it that you are really scared out of your wits you make a fool of yourself as you did in your hoax at Fulcrum?

Randi: No I’m not scared ….

Victor: So you keep on saying ..

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