Tom
Michael Pugliese wrote:
> 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
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