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SHE LOVED COLUMN 82

Subject: Col. 82
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:23:05 EST
From: ELopez002@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com

I love it.  You are so right on with this problem.  Our government is so blinded by its greed and inability to deal with cultural differences it is scary and hopeless to think that they are going to protect us.  The best they can do is sell us out.  I have been saying for years that someone should start a movement that no one with any ties to oil can run for office.  Also, there should be a law ENFORCED that we begin immediately the conversion of alternative energy as our survival source of power and empowerment.  It's over though.  The world really doesn't have a chance with the fools running it the way they are.  Anything short of a revolution will never change the way things are.  People are asleep, as well as ignorant, dumb and stupid.  The polls they devise ask the wrong questions and when they do ask anything near the real issues the people answer from their brainwashed ignorance.  You are beautiful and I'm going to keep an eye out for your work.  Take care of yourself!  ##

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DUMB DUMBYA INSANITY SATIRIZED

Subject: Monty Python on BUSH/IRAQ/ SADDAM
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:10:12 -0800
From: Anita Sands Hernandez astrology@earthlink.net
Organization: StarPower Map of the Month
To:  info@blacklistedjournalist.com

A Modest proposal by Python guy.

MONTY PYTHON ON SADDAM AND BUSH! HILARIOUS!

This is the unedited version of a piece by Terry Jones, former of  Monty Python, which appeared in the Sunday Observer ...

INSANITY IN OUR STREET

I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's  running out of patience. And so am I! You see for some time now I've  been really pissed-off with Mr. Johnson who lives a couple of doors down  the street. Well, him and Mr. Patel who runs the health food shop. They  both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr. Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what.

I've been  round his place a few times while he was away just to see what he's up to, but he's got everything really well hidden away. That's how devious he is. As for Mr. Patel don't ask me how I know -I just know---from very good sources---that he is in reality a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the whole street telling them that if we don't act first he'll pick us all off one by one. Now some of my neighbours say, if I've proof, why don't I go to the police? But of course that's simply ridiculous. The police will say they need stupid stuff like evidence or a crime to charge Mr. Johnson or Mr. Patel with. They'll come up with endless red-tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike--- all the while Mr. Johnson will be finalizing his plans to do terrible things to me and Mr. Patel will be running around secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a half-way decent range of fully automatic fire-arms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But up until now that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want! And let's face it, Mr. Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is certainly the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Moslem fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to go and bomb a few Moslem countries that have never threatened us. Exactly.

That's why I want to go and blow up Mr.Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That's only the way to teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and quiet and won't go round peering at me in that totally unacceptable way. Mr. Bush makes it quite clear that all he needs, in order to start bombing Iraq, is to know that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION---even if no one can find them. And I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr. Johnson's wife and children as Mr. Bush has for bombing Iraq. Mr. Bush says his long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it?

How will Mr. Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What about all those other would-be terrorists who are just about to commit the next acts of terror? Those are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the already known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves. So perhaps Mr. Bush will need to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every single Moslem fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Moslems might convert to fundamentalism? Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr. Bush to eliminate all Moslems? This is what I propose in my street. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who---well quite frankly---look at me in odd ways. Nowhere and no one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out. My wife says I might be going a little too far, but I tell her that I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up. If George W. Bush can publicly state that Saddam Hussein is the most likely person to supply Al-Qaida with WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION without anyone laughing in his face, then I can say that Mr. Johnson down the road is actually an alien who has designs on the whole planet. I know it might be hard to believe when you see him trimming his hedge, but it's just as likely as Saddam's secularist Islamic regime giving aid to a terrorist group belonging to a strict fundamentalist sect like the Wahabis or Salafis (as they prefer to be called). Like Mr. Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks...no! ten days...to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist master-minds and if they don't hand them over nicely and say "Thank you" I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come. It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing---and, unlike what he's intending to do, it'll only destroy one street.

Terry Jones Jan 23/2003  ##

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AARON THINKS I'M BIASED---I SAY WHY NOT?

Subject: Re: my comments on your biased reporting
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:34:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Aaron Hughes aaronchughes@yahoo.com
To: al aronowitz info@blacklistedjournalist.com

Al,

I was nonetheless surprised by your quick response.  So, that would mean that the left is right?

For example, how was Clinton's missing years and clinton's lack of service in the military different than Bush'?  I read the stuff posted on Bush but...  I think "BOTH" are weak men who lack courage.

I guess if there is a Rush Limbaugh of the right there should be the likes of him on the left.

Once again, thanks for your reply

Aaron  ##

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JOSH THINKS 'THE DUMB SOUND' IS A 'GREAT HISTORIC CHRONICLE'

Subject: Dumb Sound
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:47:44 -0800
From: Josh Friedman bcracker@earthlink.net
To: Al Aronowitz info@blacklistedjournalist.com

"The Dumb Sound" is a mind-blower. Has everything sort of gone back to the way it was then, except much, much worse? I don't know, but if America gets nuked to oblivion, at least the record business gets nuked along with it. That would be one of the benefits. A great historic chronicle that should be required reading.

Best,

Josh Alan Friedman  ##

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ANOTHER READER CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEALTH

Subject: Re: [AGALIST] COLUMN EIGHTY-FOUR
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:59:17 -0000
From: "joyce.somerville" joyce.somerville@ntlworld.com
To: AGALIST-owner@yahoogroups.com  

Dear Al- I am so sorry to hear of your ill-health and hope that all goes well for you. I love reading your stories about the music biz. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Joyce S.  ##

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