Yes. Good slogan. Even written documents are often replied to with non sequitur, such is the power of the minds of delusional and sloppy readers. Learning to ask oneself “what does this mean, this word, that phrase, what does it imply about the author? – these are important, but often the document in question is poorly written. Alas! Recalling the children’s game of sitting in a circle and whispering in sequence one to another an initial statement, by the time it gets ’round it’s changed, often with an entirely different meaning… Recalling that illustration, and remembering that any statement one makes to, for example, the cops, get’s noted down according to their pre-conceived ideas since there is no stenographer… things such as “I did not do it and I know nothing about it” get’s noted as “Subject is uncooperative and hostile”. I remember one night at gunpoint when two cops were screaming at me “How many people are there?”…“how should I know, but there are at least three” was my reply 😉 “Where are they?” they screamed more…“Well”, I replied, “there’s you and your cop girlfriend and there’s me, but it’s dark, maybe your cop pals are in the dark and I can’t see ’em to count…is this trick question, please put the guns away, your girlfriend is nervous and waving that gun around”. Recalling that process, of course, it’s often best to say nothing, if possible. Paralleling that, I applaud reading the original, and, as you say, not what somebody else says the speaker said.
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Along such lines, here are two about a murder or two that changed history, but not the original report!
https://popularresistance.org/united-nations-releases-new-report-on-death-of-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961/
and
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155876
I don’t see the report or a link to it, which is disappointing.
Of course, everybody knows who does political murders. It’s interesting that the UN seems to have, just now, published a report. I wonder what they wrote.
