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COLUMN SIXTY-NINE, MARCH 1, 2002
(Copyright © 2002 Al Aronowitz)

FROM A VETERAN OF THE LONG LINES TO THE LOOS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Subject: Isle of wight, fart articles
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:27:29 -0700
From: David Kohn dzkohn@att.net
To: <Address: info@blacklistedjournalist.com     

Hi Al,

I particularly enjoyed Gloria Klein's series on flatulence.

Your article on the Isle of Wight brought back some fine memories...I was one of those unworthy hippies who spent the weekend in the press enclosure. After a summer or bumming around England, sleeping in the back of a Fiat 500, I had ridden down to Portsmouth on the train with a reporter for the Montreal Gazette, who suggested that I try for a press pass by claiming to be his photographer. We showed up for the Dylan non-interview in Ryde, and surprisingly the ploy worked.

Later, when the crowd got out of hand they revoked my press pass temporarily, but I sought out Albert Grossman, who was the brother of a close family friend, and he grudgingly got it back for me.

For years I had the program, but lost it in one of my relocations. I still have a couple faded slides of the long lines to those inadequate loos you spoke of. What I really wish I could find was a photo I took from just off the front of the stage of Marsha Hunt's meaty black legs and thighs (shot up from underneath).

Another memory -- sleeping out in the field in a shelter made of hay bales and a tarp, sharing the space with some Scottish stoners, and the tarp catching fire.

Oh, the good old days...  ##

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GREAT READING

Subject: murray the k.
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:35:56 -0000
From: "joyce.somerville" joyce.somerville@ntlworld.com
To: <Address: info@blacklistedjournalist.com    

Dear Al - I have just been reading your story about Murray the K. Has anyone ever written his lifestory? If not, I might be interested.You obviously knew him well.Maybe you could do it yourself. I think it would make great reading.

You can mail me. All the best. Joyce Somerville. ##

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ANOTHER RESPONSE TO DARLENE FIFE'S ACCUSATION OF BIGOTRY (SEE COLUMN SIXTY-EIGHT)

Subject: finally we agree
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:34:50 -0500
From: Nat refuse.inc@verizon.net
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com  

dear al; as you know that no matter what our disagreements that my  ultra left anti vietnam war creds are pretty good. (we the people of the U.S.....hereby empower you to bring back the body of ....etc etc........),"  i first met and photographed Darlene in D.C. in 65  she was a great [anti war crusader] and it would give me great pleasure to photograph her in Mecca while she was wearing a miniskirt and driving down main street with her married boyfriend or female lover.  except we would all be stoned unto death (a pecularly islamic punishment). I spent fourteen days in a dungeon in El Jadida, maroc...sometimes hanging from a pole naked except for the starter cables running from my ears to the hand crank generator attached to the arab prick who didn't like a jew with a bit a hash in his pocket..... Great role models, Darlene. My great uncle Moishe and his wife and kids were slaughtered in hebron in 1928. There was no israel then. They were simple farmers who purchased the land from some Palestinians who themselves were killed for selling their property to "joods". oh Al, I could go on and give you a fair to middlin' article ...we could talk about Kosovo where a tiny minority islamic population was inflated by their nazi allies in ww2 and now kill serbs, justifying their atrocities with the logic that comes from the belief that because they are muslims they have "omroo'", The Right to wage "jihad". As a matter of fact, darlene, name any country in the world where there is a muslim majority who allow their neighbors full freedom of belief. Or their own women, for that matter. go to southern Sudan, Darlene and live with the Christian and animist African people. Try Indonesia, Darlene. East Timor, Darlene. Did you go there and fight the Islamic muderers? Nigeria, head for Nigeria, Darlene, or go to the Emirates and speak to the Goanese women held as slaves. Cechnya. The Philipines,  Iran...Muslims kill, Darlene. islam is religious fascism...and you are a counter revolutionary.

nat finkelstein

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A TYPICAL NIGERIAN CON (WE GET AN E LIKE THIS EVERY DAY)

Subject: LETTER FROM BOB
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:53:18

From: "Robert Eze" r_eze04@yahoo.com
To: "" info@blacklistedjournalist.com

NIGERIAN NATIONAL COAL MINNERS CORPORATION.
(DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES).

Robert Eze Esq

ATTN: THE PRESIDENT,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

ALTHOUGH THIS PROPOSAL MIGHT COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE SINCE IT IS COMING FROM  SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW OR EVER SEEN BEFORE, BUT AFTER DUE DELIBERATION WITH MY COLLEAGUES, I DECIDED TO FORWARD THIS BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO YOU. WE WANT A RELIABLE PERSON WHO COULD ASSIST US TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF TWENTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS. (US$25.5 MILLION) INTO HIS/HER ACCOUNT.  

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 (i) 20% FOR YOU THE ACCOUNT OWNER.
 (ii) 70% FOR US (THE OFFICIALS)
 (iii) 10% TO BE USED IN SETTLING TAXATION AND ALL LOCAL/FOREIGN EXPENSES.

AS YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW AND MAKE YOU LESS CURIOUS, I GOT YOUR ADDRESS FROM OUR REPUTABLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND I AM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONTRACT AWARD COMMITTEE OF THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL COAL MINNERS CORPORATION (DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES) THIS TRANSACTION IS VERY MUCH FREE FROM ALL SORT OF RISK BECAUSE THIS BUSINESS WAS CAREFULLY PLANNED BEFORE IT WAS SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED AND WE THE OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL HAVE PUT IN MANY YEARS OF MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO OUR PARASTATAL.

WE HAVE BEEN EXERCISING PATIENCE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR SO LONG AND FOR MOST OF US THIS IS A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY WE CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS.  

TO GET THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, WE HAVE TO PRESENT AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OUTFIT AND CONSEQUENT UPON INDICATION OF YOUR INTEREST TO FULLY ASSIST US IN THIS TRANSACTION, YOU ARE ADVISED TO FURNISH US WITH THE FOLLOWING:

 (i) THE BANK IN WHICH YOU WOULD WANT THE US$25.5  MILLION TO BE PAID INTO.
 (ii) BENEFICIARY OF THE ACCOUNT.
 (iii) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS FOR EASY COMMUNICATION

THIS INFORMATION WILL ENABLE US SEEK APPROVAL OF THE FUND FROM THE CONCERNED QUARTERS WITHIN 5-7 BANKING DAYS AND THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL COAL MINNERS CORPORATION (DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES) PAYMENT INFORMATION DATA WILL BE FAXED IMMEDIATELY TO YOU FOR COMPLETION. ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES AND I INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL WILL COME TO YOUR COUNTRY TO ARRRANGE FOR OUR SHARE UPON CONFIRMATION FROM YOU THAT THE MONEY HAS HIT YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT. ALL THESE WILL ONLY TAKE US ABOUT 14 WORKING DAYS TO TRANSFER THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FROM THE DAY WE RECEIVE THE REQUIREMENTS.

YOUR LINE OF BUSINESS IN THIS TRANSACTION DOES NOT MATTER. HONESTY AND YOUR ABILITY TO KEEP IT SECRET AND KEEP OUR OWN SHARE SAFE WHEN THE MONEY HITS YOUR ACCOUNT IS WHAT MATTERS. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE PERFECTLY UNDERSTAND AND CO-OPERATE WITH ONE ANOTHER TO ENSURE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS SUCESSFULLY CONCLUDED.  

 BEST REGARDS
 Robert Eze Esq  

 EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD COMMITTEE
 NIGERIAN NATIONAL COAL MINNERS CORPORATION.
 (DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES).  ##

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