Reply #76: WE?

[JackRiddler]

Who are "we"? The James Randi Freedom Hit Squad?

Well please go ahead and defame me, people, long as you provide links to the objects of your calumny. I'll be happy to let independent readers compare for themselves.

Thanks for plugging my ancient (2002) page of joke "Letters from the Editor," (which is what the letters page in the old National Lampoon was called),including the self-deprecating piece you quote above. And thanks for showing your usual sterling sense of humor in the process.

I'll be happy if anyone still goes there and reads the whole thing, since it's addressed to various parties. (I wonder what's causing that damned layout thing where it eliminates the spaces between words. Like I need more things to fix on my plate!)

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Straight Talk to A Selection of My Visitors
Get yourself a beverage and lean back with Jack...

Dear American Believer in the Official Conspiracy Theory...

CONTINUED HERE http://911truth.org/osamas/visitors.html

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That used to be my most popular page, I suspect because one of the pieces was linked from the main page via a text that read, "Hey FBI! Meat for Carnivore! Here boy! woof, woof."

Here's that one. I think you may recognize someone in the last section. I've bolded it to help the fast readers among you.

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Dear FBI, Spooks and Cops of All Nations, Self-Appointed Patriotic Spies, Etc.,

You aren't really reading this, are you? If you are: Why?

Yeah, I know it all gets munched through Echelon/Carnivore/Herbivore or whatever you're calling it this week, but (I bet you're thinking this too...) you... a human... are... not... really reading this, are you?

Do you want to?

I'd like to think you're here because you are curious about what I have to say. You're wondering yourself what really happened on Sept. 11. You know that the FBI investigation was a joke. You probably know that the serious agents among you, the ones who wanted to bag terrorists, were held back before AND after Sept. 11. Maybe you're even angry about what happened to John O'Neill. And now you're running around the Skeptic sites, trying to find out what they think, weighing their arguments.

But - if you are here - that is almost certainly not the reason, is it? You're here - and you've been in lots of other places besides- because you've been told to observe subversives and potential troublemakers.

Isn't that embarrassing? Do you know how insignificant I am? Of course you do, I use a pseudonym but you can find out who I am in about a minute. Why are you here?! Don't you have any REAL fish to fry? Even more so, don't you feel it's wrong? You may think I'm crazy, but actually I am exercising the rights that, last I looked, were still legal. The rights celebrated as the greatest achievements of the democratic way of life, etc. etc. I ain't no terrorist, no matter what crazy law the government decides to pass.

They'll try to make everything illegal, in the end. How did one fellow I read it put it? The logic of the state is such that in the end, "everything that is not forbidden will be made compulsory." Are you really for that? Do you get kicks out of it? I doubt it, for most of you. Just doing your job. But what would you do if one of your bosses was the real criminal?

(You're not all on the take, are you? Is there a Serpico in the house?)

I speak my mind. Sometimes too dramatic, but I'm legal and non-violent. I sincerely believe it's my patriotic duty to put up my doubts about the official story of Sept. 11 here, on the Net, where others might see it. In London, in Hyde Park, they'd at least let me make speeches on a Sunday.

Or am I threat? Maybe you're taking the ideas espoused on this site more seriously than you admit?

Hey, some of you self-proclaimed patriotic censors are out there too. War Bloggers and Neo-McCarthyites and even some Protectors of Leftist Propriety Against the Conspiracy Menace. Making the rounds for heretics, are you?

Well you're right. I must be a heretic. I don't love an ideology. I don't love a flag. Any flag. I don't hate anything or anyone all that much, either. I ain't crazy. I ain't for war. I don't believe ANYTHING the government (or any government) says if not multiply confirmed through other independent sources. On questions of war and grand policy I always assume they will lie, because that is what the historical record shows they do with great consistency. And I don't need to apologize. I gain nothing by putting up this site. Just a feeling that it's the right thing to do, for all my doubts. Of course I could be wrong about so many things, but I do it anyway, because I seriously believe what I write. I love my country. More to the point, I love my people. The American people,and the people of the world. Together. I am the patriot.

If you're a cop and you're reading this, ask yourself: Why are you wasting time with me, who knows nothing, who can only present fragments and speculate, who is powerless? Why aren't you spending your time going after some real crimes? What are your bosses trying to hide, by sending you off to read conspiracy lunatics on the Web?

Enjoy your coffee,

Jack

(Nicholas Levis (c) 2002.)

Originally published on the defunct website "Osama's Kidneys," which is archived as a piece of historical interest at 911Truth.org here:
http://911truth.org/osamas/main.html