Down South Perspective

 

Hi folks,

Seems I've lost about 5% of my subscribers over the past few weeks, due to my straying into annoying areas, like 9/11 and Bob Woodward's status as a sniveling, gaslighting toady. (I've also gotten a lot of encouragement, for which I'm grateful.)

What follows are my final words on "world affairs" (or whatever), then I'll link you to a "lost chapter" from In Search of Captain Zero, which I've been meaning to post.

First, a question to folks who finger-point me as a "conspiracy theorist" and "America hater": What were you up to in April of 2001, six months before 9/11? I mean given that you must love America?

Here's what I was doing, while taking care of my dying Mom and being broke and dealing with a demented editor while trying to make a book out of my Central America journey and not getting laid and worrying about all kinds of other personal stuff: I was trying to warn America that terrorists would strike via suicide pilots in commercial aircraft, that's what I was doing. I wrote newsletter saying how Bush was lying to us all with his rationalization for Star Wars; Bush was claiming we needed it to protect America from terrorists (he was predicting they'd use ICBMs to attack us). Predictably, the media would not go near calling him on this utter horseshit – which was meant to make his corporate cronies richer (plus create an offensive weapon platform in space).

As I say, the media never challenges Bush on his motives.

So I wrote a press release and sent it to a couple hundred media outlets. Right: Six months prior to 9/11 I was trying to protect America from suicide terrorists in commercial jets; trying to protect America from a lying shitball motherfucker of a president. (As far as I know, only NPR picked it up — they used my exact words, although un-attributed.)

Again: What were you America lovers doing in April of 2001? 

Too bad no one listened to me then, huh?

One more thing: When Bush attacked Iraq and said the Iraqis will welcome his liberating forces with "open arms," I said to anyone who would listen: "He's nuts. After what we've been doing to that country for the last 20 odd years, he's going be in a shit storm like he's never imagined."

I've spelled out the inescapable logic here on this site, in States of Denial (Part Three), which is in this section, below.

So: I've beaten all the multi-billion dollar think tanks and intelligence organizations and Joint Chiefs and neo-con and liberal pundits in predicting the two most devastating catastrophes in recent American history. Haven't I?

Yet I'm a "conspiracy theorist" and an "America hater."

Maybe I'm just someone who pays attention to what's going on around him.

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Click here to go to "A Surfbum in El Salvador," plus some photos. This is a chapter from Zero as I originally wrote it, before being cut down. (I did the cutting, not my editor.) It's long, about 10,000 words, so we're posting it in pdf. I suggest you print it out and relax in your easy chair (or wherever you like to read). It needs a line edit – sorry, I'm just too busy. And hey: You get what you pay for.

I'll be in touch.

Allan

Hold on. There's irony here, and stupidity on my part. I got all cranky in my opening rant and guess what? Odds are that you (the personal you, you) are behind me in what I've been doing. The more than 500 people who recently unsubscribed are not reading this.

You wanna talk about frustration?

And hey: I'm sorry! Hang in! More cool cowabunga stuff is coming!

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One more time: Hold on. This is too important.

Listen:

Between writing the above message and today something happened. According to a highly respected constitutional scholar, what happened resulted in "a fundamental change (in) who we are as a country."

On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 the sitting president of the United States signed a bill called the Military Commissions Act of 2006. If you don't know about this, you should, whether you're interested in world affairs or not.  Why? Because this affects YOU and who you are, since, presumably, you consider yourself an American citizen.

Here's a video link to one of the only mainstream media commentators who isn't part of the problem:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/181006Olbermann.htm

Here's a transcript to the above:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15342.htm

As I say in my new book: "Orwell was an optimist."

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