2012 is shaping up to be a heck of a year for the military. On December 31, 2011, Obama signed the NDAA, codifying into law for the first time in American history that the military can imprison citizens or non-citizens indefinitely, inside or outside the United States, without charges or trial. (Source: American Civil Liberties Union) This obscene bill was…
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If Herb Caen, I can too
Back when newspapers were worth reading…and I’m outing myself as a real old-timer by admitting I can remember that far back…the San Francisco Chronicle featured a columnist named Herb Caen…who put three dots between everything he wrote…and just about everything else he wrote… Herb earned his keep by emitting a steady stream of witty little blurt-outs and brain-farts. Few rivaled…
Read MoreJonathan Kay and I agree: “Conspiracy theories” are getting out of hand!
Jonathan Kay is the author of Among the Truthers, an anti-9/11-truth rant that devotes more vitriolic attention to me than to any other 9/11 truth movement figure, and libels me outrageously in the process. So you wouldn’t think that Jonathan and I would ever see eye-to-eye. But it turns out that we agree on a very important point: The “Islamic…
Read MoreWHO’s paranoid?! My letter to Jonathan Kay of the National Post
Jonathan Kay of the Canadian National Post libeled me outrageously in his book Among the Truthers.Now Joshua Blakeney informs me that Kay mentioned me in a recent speech to the Hannah Arendt Center. The good news is that this time he doesn’t libel me. The bad news is that his speech continues the assault on reason, disguised as a defense…
Read MoreIslam and liberty: Contradictory or complementary?
In his classic On Liberty, John Stuart Mill observes: “Wherever the (religious) sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.”* More than 150 years later, Mill’s dictum holds true. In irreligious Europe, as in the great coastal metropolitan centers of the USA, there is little legal…
Read MoreBiggest anti-Semitic slur of the year: “Palestine is the Holy Land”
Wiesenthal Center names top 10 anti-Semitic slursDecember 13, 2011NEW YORK (JTA) – A comment by Mahmoud Abbas referring to Palestine as the “holy land” placed first in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Top 10 Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2011. The Palestinian Authority president made the remark at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23. “I come before you today from the Holy…
Read MoreIn which I turn myself in for Indefinite Military Detention
Sent to: www.dhs.gov/xutil/contactus.shtm Dear DHS, As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law. Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me. (I’d prefer the Marines because I’m a big fan of Gen. Smedley…
Read MoreLarry “Satan’s Slave” Silverstein invests in 666 !
Today’s headline reads: World Trade Center developer Silverstein in $666 million deal in Poland. What’s with Silverstein and 666? Exactly 911 days after 9/11 – on 3/11 (2004), the day of the Madrid bombings – Larry Silverstein bought the biggest building in the 60606 zip code: the “illuminati power center” Sears Tower. On June 6th, 2006 (6/6/6) a planned attack…
Read MoreConfessions of a “modern anti-Semite”
The modern anti-semite: The so-called Israel critic “The ‘Israel critic’ will never state ‘Jews go home’ but is questioning the legality of the incorporation of the State of Israel and therefore the right for the Jewish people to settle in their homeland. He will not say the Jews are the evil of the world but claim that the State…
Read MoreMy open letter to “Canada’s foremost philosopher of war”
Joshua Blakeney’s Open Letter to Dr. Viminitz inspired mine It never ceases to amaze me: The academy, whose job is to speak truth to power, has effectively banned serious questioning of what happened on 9/11/2001. If you’re a professor, you can say just about anything. You can even defend the mass slaughter of non-combatants on 9/11 and cheer the perpetrators…
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