My prediction for president

[Devils Advocate]

(07-30-2015, 10:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Actually there is nothing "convenient" about it.  

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/11/usa.past

The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin's young friend and protege, William Hewson. He had been a pupil of the most brilliant anatomist of the day, William Hunter, but the two fell out and Hewson started his own anatomy school - at the home of his mother-in-law Margaret Stephenson, just off the Strand, where Benjamin Franklin was also a lodger for 16 years.


It takes a much lager leap of logic to assume that Ben Franklin was a mass murderer than it is to believe that his protege did anatomical studies in his basement.   Mass murderers are actually very rare, and there is nothing in Franklin's well documented life to suggest that he was a mass murderer.

 Then you don't know too much of the man. Only second hand knowledge, as I pointed out somewhere in this thread, that you only hope to be true.

Ben lived at this house for more than year after his 'protege' moved out. Do tell, how he knew nothing of the corpses? Did they not stink? And if he was innocent of that ( which I doubt ), then surely he was suspect of grave robbing. And the coroner ( when the bodies were found ) said he couldn't rule out criminal behavior. 

Franklin was an occultist. It is well documented. Think of Crowley when thinking of Franklin. There is also sufficient evidence in existence to show he was a double agent during the war. But yeah, his exploits are 'well documented'. Reference John Adams thoughts on ol' Ben if you think I'm making this up. Maybe look into some of the things written of him across the Atlantic. History is told by the victors.