Gordon wrote:
>I met Bo Gritz long ago, and my personal
> experience of the breed and its witnesses >leads to me to believe it's
another bit of >romanticism greatly enlarged by the mass >media. There may
be little or no there there
> (speaking pragmatically; I'm not reflecting on >the philosophical validity
of their concerns).
Not that there aren't serious works to recommend on the militias like, "American Militias," by Richard Abanes (also the author of a recent book on millenialism entitled, "End Time Visions.") But for a funny interview with Bo Gritz check out a chapter in, "Cult Rapture," by Adam Parfrey from Feral House publishers who publish books in the conspiracy theory vein.
Bo Gritz has a show on the Republic Radio International radio network which when I need a change of pace from Pacifica or NPR sure does the trick. "Mark (Koernke) from Michigan," can be heard on the Genesis Communications Network. Both come in clearly through the RealAudio gizmo.
Finally, a book I haven't found as of yet from M.E. Sharpe publishers entitled, "Waves of Rancor," looks like it could be a good read. It is on far right radio talk shows, first saw notice of it in a N.Y. Times story some months back. Bill Clinton was vacationing on Cape Cod and the reporters asked if he was gonna do something besides golf. Joe Lockhart said the Prez was going to read a couple of novels and the book mentioned above. Perhaps Chip can give us a brief review?
URL's for two other right-wing radio networks: http://www.forerunner.com/ (Christian Reconstructionism ) http://www.audiocentral.com/rshows/ And not right wing necessarily, conspiracy minded though: Jeff Rense, "Sightings", Art Bell (reputed to be a 33rd degree Mason, Oh No!), really kooky, William Cooper, "Hour Of the Time."(Author of "Behold A Pale Horse", Cooper thinks the Secret Service limo driver killed JFK in Dealey Plaza!)
The Republic Radio and Genesis Network URL's I forgot to bookmark, though I did click the mouse to be able to add them as presets on my Real Audio player, duh! If anyone is interested further, I'm sure I can scrape it off the hard drive; better yet if any lbo'ers have, or can find 'em let me know.
Just tuned in to Republic Radio; what's that black helicopter doing above my building? And it's spraying one of those contrails!
Michael Pugliese
For your amusement, Art Hoppe from the S.F. Chronicle of Nov. 22, '99 : Beware of Contrails
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/22 /ED66131.DTL GOOD NEWS! Those black helicopters that threatened to take over America for years have vanished. The people who spend their time warning us about such things have discovered a new menace: jet contrails. As menaces go, this is a pretty good one. While hardly anyone you know has ever seen a black helicopter, a UFO or a giant man-eating squid, practically everyone's seen a contrail. You just know they're there. Unfortunately, among the several hundred Web sites on the Internet now devoted to this threat, there's some dispute over exactly what these con trails are doing to us. Quite a few of our alert citizens are sure that the contrails are composed of anthrax virus that the government is secretly showering down on us to inoculate us from terrorists' bacterial attacks. This may sound like a benevolent enterprise, but our keen watchdogs report thousands of unexplained deaths and debilitating illnesses. Optimists on the Internet think the contrails are only causing localized flu epidemics. Others are quite sure, though, that the vapor is actually pesticides. Why we are being sprayed with pesticides, however, is not quite clear. Perhaps it's in hopes our children will grow better. If you care, a trucker in Idaho writes that every time he gets under a contrail his nose burns. As you can see from all this, contrails would be a far more menacing menace if its observers could agree on what they are doing to us. I'm glad to be of help. Actually, contrails are composed of tiny drops of a liquid detergent that washes our brains. Take the case of Name Withheld of Twin Falls, Fla. Mr. Withheld looked up to see a contrail over his head, walked into an automobile dealer and bought an SUV. If you think these events were unrelated, consider that Mr. Withheld could offer no rational explanation as to why he purchased a gas- guzzling, road-hogging, universally despised, ugly hunk of expensive metal. Then there's Miss Name Withheld (no relation) of Silicon Valley, S.D. On being attacked by a contrail, Miss Withheld tore down three ranch homes in the Pruneview Gardens Tract in order to build a 27- room mansion. While this is not unusual for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with families, Miss Withheld has neither a cat nor a boyfriend. Another suspect phenomenon is the lack of parking spaces in Hot Springs, Nev., an area heavily crisscrossed by contrails. Residents there, it turns out, bought three and four cars each which they stored by their curbs in hopes they would some day become classics. Nor can anyone doubt that contrails have washed the brains of those poor souls who walk around holding dummy phones to their ears and talking to themselves. Not dummy phones? Just note that not one of these phones is ever plugged in! Thus it's clear the government has developed another new weapon in its unending efforts to brainwash us. So, when you see a contrail, take the advice of one of our many eager operatives out there studying the threat: STAY CALM AND TAKE COVER! It's a shame the rest of them don't do the same. Arthur Hoppe's column appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It is also available at sfgate.com. E-mail: hoppe at sfgate.com ©1999 San Francisco Chronicle Page A23