Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: Real0ne as soon as you use the terms true and false it is of legal nature. That is itself a false statement, rather than a true one. Not the best point you could make to substantiate your argument, all things considered. quote:
ORIGINAL: The Oxford English Dictionary 1. the action or craft of forging metals… 2. invention, excogitation; fictitious invention, fiction… 3. the making of a thing in fraudulent imitation of something. There are legal measures that can be taken against three, but it is not a legal definition in itself. This is the sense in which The Protocols Of The Informed Elders Of Zion is a forgery: a document was invented (partly through plagiarism from another mendacious text, as Ken has pointed out) and passed off as proof of a sinister conspiracy. It is by definition a forgery, as that is one of those verbs that can also be used to describe the thing being made in that context. The point you seem to be missing is that something doesn't actually have to exist for a fraudulent copy to be made of it: a lot of special effects CGI programmers and prosthetic make up experts would be out of work if it did, wouldn't they?
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