"merely on the basis on headlines".    Hey, no problem.    How about somebody leaping to the conclusion that the US murdered Chavez because one of his allies says he was done in by "enemies"?

Gee, I'm still patiently waiting for you to show you have any knowledge whatsoever of Chavez' health prior to yesterday. Wonder why you still haven't gotten around to addressing this---since it is in fact the crux of the problem.


Look, it boils down to the difference between theory and rumor. Without any evidence, an allegation is a rumor.

There are allegations that Churchill withdrew ships shepherding the "Lusitania" so that it would be sunk, and the loss of American life would bring the US into World War I right then--1915.   I have looked into this.   There is no evidence to support it. So it is no more than a rumor.

I could cite other outlandish assertions for which the same is true.

Quite a few posters left of center need learn the difference between theory and rumor.   Otherwise they appear weak-minded or prisoners of their own paranoia.

To reject rumor does not mean you are "rushing to judgment". It means you can think--and are willing to do so.

So it's time for anybody who wants to elevate the "US murdered Chavez" idea from rumor to theory to come up with some actual evidence.

Now.

Otherwise they seem rather pathetically gullible.