(continued) PART 3:

LAWYER VICTOR ZAMMIT CROSS-EXAMINES SKEPTIC James RANDI
(This is a continuation from part 2)

For those who never heard of J Zwingi Randi before, below is a very brief 'cross-examination' on just a few issues. For decades closed minded skeptic Randi is on record for organizing hoaxes to fool, cheat, mislead and deceive innocent people. He has viciously attacked mediums, psychics and afterlife investigators. This is a cross-examination on just some of the things he has said, done and implied. He continues to deny the existence of the paranormal even when there is objective and repeatable evidence for the paranormal and the afterlife produced by scientists and empiricists - and lawyers.

(This would be fairly close to a real cross-examination- the information is taken from what Randi has ALREADY ACCEPTED and IMPLIED. Some very minor flexibility and embellishment consistent with Randi’s beliefs and record have been used for easier reading and understanding of the script. In no way this closed minded skeptic's beliefs are misrepresented. Words in caps are there for emphasis - very important in cross-examination).

Part 3

(Continues from Part 2 'Cross-examination'):

Randi: I was honest ... in my hoaxes ...

Victor: Ohhhh!!!!!!!, you were HONEST in your DECEPTION?
… Let me remind you that you are on oath – it IS on record you instigated and organized serious public hoaxes .. YES or NO?

Randi: Yes …

Victor: Do you know Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards?

Randi: Yes, yes …

Victor: You are on record for claiming that you used these teenagers in what has become known as the notorious Alpha Project HOAX- that correct?

Randi: Yes, I had a lot to do with that ... no it's not notorious ... at my age I don't remember all the details ... it's been a while ago now ..

Victor: You DON’T remember all that well? With His Honor’s permission, let me jog the witness’ memory of incidents the defendant has already admitted to before I ask the question again.

The public record claims that you, James Randi, took credit for coaching these two boys, to infiltrate an important psychic research project to try to deceive and misrepresent themselves as psychics to experimenters who were trying to see if some aspect of the paranormal was valid.

For the purpose of the record, did YOU PERSONALLY coach these two boys mentioned to mislead the experimenters in the Alpha project?

Randi: Yes ... those so-called scientific experimenters needed to learn a lesson ...

Victor: But the record shows that when the experimenters applied 'controlled-testing' your stooges COULD NOT PASS the controlled test, COULD NOT FOOL anyone that they had psychic abilities ... right?

Randi: Yes, but it took them a long time ....

Victor: and you caused great waste of their funding ... Do you understand that no fake psychic has ever beaten properly controlled tests based on scientific method when PROFESSIONALLY handled by scientists?

Randi: I can't accept that ...

Victor: Then tell us WHEN and WHERE fake psychics ever beat properly controlled tests...

Randi: (No answer) ...

Victor: Did you not try to create a PUBLIC MISCHIEF, a PUBLIC NUISANCE to MALICIOUSLY try to HUMILIATE by way of a HOAX, to DENIGRATE the decent and honest experimenters, to knowingly waste funding? Yes or NO?

Randi: Yes, I was doing a service to the public … I showed that the scientists were too lenient with their tests and were ignorant of basic information about how to detect fraud …

Victor: What evidence do you have to show that the scientists were lenient or incompetent?

Randi: I just know ….

Victor: Of course, there is another possible reason for your negative involvement. If the results of well funded psychic tests were postitive you could LOSE your career of debunking-the-psychics and have to go back to working for a living, right?

Randi: No, that's not right ...

Victor: Further, how can you prove the scientists in the Alpha Project were lenient and not adhering to Scientific Method, when you admit you know absolutely nothing about Scientific Method?

Randi: I just know …

Victor: Ahh ... YOU'RE PSYCHIC!!!!!??

Randi: (Does not answer)

Victor: Isn't that the logical conclusion - you're not professionally trained, you're not a scientist, you've never done any study on Scientific Method, then you say, you JUST KNOW .. that's exactly how a psychic or a medium would answer - they just know, right?

Randi: (Does not respond) ....

Victor: Or you wouldn't be like that gentleman from the Vatican - claiming to be omniscient and infallible?

Randi: (does not answer)

Victor: Or are you just deluding yourself about how much you know?

Randi: NO I'm not deluding myself ...

Victor: But you do know how to organize hoaxes ... which in fact means MISLEADING ... CHEATING ... TICKERY and NEGATIVE MANIPULATION of the experimenters, right?

Randi: not really …

Victor: You already accepted you were responsible for the Alpha Project HOAX and a HOAX is about DECEPTION .... RIGHT?

Randi: Yes, yes but...

Victor: But, when you gave that press release about the Alpha Project, you told the journalists that you had fooled the experimenters.

Randi: I told them the truth ...

Victor: The truth? ...Would it not be the whole TRUTH to say that what you did to the experimenters in the Alpha Project will go down in history as a most SHAMEFUL and most DISGUSTINGLY CONCOCTED FRAUD?

Randi: I was doing a service … I showed that scientists can be fooled …

Victor: But the experimenters were NOT fooled ... YOU TOLD THE MEDIA they were fooled ... it just took them some time to flush out the fraudulent stooges ... do you want to dispute that?

Randi: Not really ...

Victor: Just one more question before we move on … You get money for NOT accepting the paranormal, YES or NO ..

Randi: For educating the public about critical thinking …

Victor: Answer the question …

Randi: Yes …

Victor: Now, if the scientists and lawyers are producing the proof for the paranormal and you accept the proof, won't you LOSE FUNDING …and YOU LOSE MONEY …YOU LOSE PRESTIGE, you LOSE the kind of celebrity STATUS…NO
more media attention … and become a complete NON-ENTITY, A NOBODY, A HAS-BEEN AND A FAILURE?

Randi (nervously): No … not really … I reject that ..

Victor: If you ACCEPT that the paranormal and the afterlife evidence are real, would you not feel you have completely WASTED YOUR LIFE as a debunker knowing toward the end of your life you have been absolutely WRONG all the time ...

Randi: No ... I don't accept that ...

Victor: Is that the real reason why you CONTINUE rejecting the paranormal and the afterlife evidence – the real FEAR that you’ll go from being a rooster to a feather-duster – completely forgotten, ending in the dustbin of history?

Randi: I reject the claim …

Victor: Of course you do ....

PART 4 NEXT WEEK

Chapter 4 Cross examination