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Old 09-24-2019, 04:32 PM   #2110
Anaraxes
 
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Default Re: Real-Life Weirdness

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
You could subject it to the rules of legal procedure...
"Mr. Meyer do Jews control the banking industry", "Do I look like I control the banking industry".
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure witnesses are allowed to answer a question with a question. At the very least, it's non-responsive and the question will just get asked again, maybe with instructions from the judge to just answer "yes or no". (That is, if the lawyer is really trying to get a yes or no answer; they might just be trying to make Meyer look evasive, in which case they already succeeded.)

A better response would probably be something like "I couldn't say, since I know less than half the people in control of banks, and frankly I wouldn't say that even they completely control their own companies. Even CEOs answer to a lot of other people, from shareholders to regulators. Of the CEOs I do know, there are only a few that are Jewish anyway."
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