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30-12-02
2002
Crackpot of The Year: Richard Neville
Ex-hippie, sadcase
and general raving loon Richard (lets call him "Dick") Neville
is back to blogging with his latest...erm....essay, titled "Maybe
Dr Evil Isn't Who You Think". It's a masterpiece of conspiracy
theory, ignorance, leftist paranoia and the best evidence yet that Dick's
brain has enjoyed way too much chemical engorgement.
The essay (something
about computer problems, Americans destroying the planet and our evil
Prime Minister) is too long to tackle in full. Not that it matters, as
these borderline-psychotic yelps are almost impossible to take out of
context (there isn't any). Here are my favourites from this edition of
classic Dick-isms....
One outcome of
today’s Totalitarian Creep, is that imminent instrument of oppression,
Total Information Awareness. An upside is that the Pentagon is likely
to launch a lucrative sideline, Total Global Back-Up. Now that we’re
citizens-without-rights in a looming American Empire and privacy is
considered unpatriotic, we might at least get Total Data Protection.
On behalf of the readers,
I say: huh???
Why should non
US citizens be bullied by an uptight government in which they have no
say? A regime which aspires to rule the world is one to bemoan, not
congratulate.
You're right Dick:
they were known as The Soviet Union, and the Americans killed them off
good, much your chagrin no doubt...
Athens could
have been the bread basket of Europe. Instead, the drudgery of grinding
the corn was left to the slaves and not even philosophers cared about
them. Slaves were non people. It was the same in the Roman empire, the
British Empire and now the American Empire.
 Slavery
was abolished in the USA well over a century ago, Dick. Funnily
enough, it still exists in a lot of those honest-to-goodness non-American
countries you never criticise.
The innovations
of the Greeks centred on intellectual liberation. The innovations of
the West centre on weapons, toys and consumer products .
That would be because
we're already intellectually liberated, Dick. This gives us the
time to be productive and buy n' sell stuff.
Today’s
Socrates would ask:
Socrates wouldn't
have touched these questions for all the caramel inside your head,
Dick.
• By what
law, either moral or legal, is it okay for some nations to possess and
sell weapons of mass destruction, while others cannot?
"Common Sense"
would be my guess, Dick. It's the same reason the USA went to fight against
Hitler and not Churchill (though Richard would have argued they both had
naughty bombs and guns, so the English were as bad as the Nazis)
• It is
no longer possible to turn a blind eye to global warming, the major
impact of which will fall on the developing world. Australia and the
US refuse to co-operate with the 100 plus signatories of Kyoto –
by what right?
The right of people
not to want their economy destroyed by lefty junk science while developing
nations' "greenhouse sins" go unpunished.
• If the
sea level rises in Bangladesh and millions of refugees head towards
Oz, who will decide their fate? Those who caused it?
The Australian Government
is responsible for rising sea levels?
• What is
the difference between a bomber pilot and a suicide bomber, other than
one is airborne, the other is braver & neither go to jail?
Yes, he really wrote
this.
• If a Prime
Minister who professes to be ethical is found to found to engage in
serious deception and nepotism, as well as the condoning of his minister’s
conflicts of interest, in what esteem should he be held?
Pretty high esteem
if three election victories and current opinion polls are anything to
go by.
• Over 3000
“suspected” al Qaeda members and “their supporters,”
whatever that means, have been detained in secret locations outside
the US since 9/11, without due process or legal representation. Torture
is routinely inflicted, despite US Government crocodile condemnations.
Secret
locations? Torture?
This guy needs to see a doctor.
• When the
Australian Minister of Immigration knowingly deports refugees to a land
where death awaits them, why is he not charged with their murder?
Maybe because he didn't
murder anybody.
My oft disputed
claim that America’s plans to dominate the world at any cost is
largely based on observation and inference.
Paranoia and
stupidity more like.
Let’s ponder
the implications of this policy, one of Pre-emptive Lifestyle Protection.
If Australia invents a cheap, patented, ubiquitous source of clean energy
which drives new kinds of engines and threatens Detroit, will Sydney
be bombed?
No.
If a Global Messiah
emerges to popularise the practice of voluntary simplicity and the rejection
of Hollywood, will he be liquidated by a robo-assassin?
No.
("robo-assassin"???)
If famished Africans
refuse to consume GM modified mood, will they be left to starve?
Hard to see how this
could be prevented if they refuse to eat.
Right on! Unleash
the Predators. Send in the Special Forces. Lie to the world. Torture
all suspects. Hurrah for Pre-emptive Lifestyle Protection. Tra la la
la la..
Somebody needs his
meds.
There are more popular
loons (Moore) and more despicable ones (Pilger, Chomsky and 99% of Islamic
websites), but for sheer, deranged bats-in-the-belfry ravings, Richard
Neville is simply without peer.
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Empire
Bill Whittle has a
new essay
up, guaranteed to make all the terminally insecure hate-America crowd
froth at the mouth. I loved this bit....
And
these feared and ruthless Americans, a people who had incinerated cities
in Europe and Japan and whose ferocity and tenacity on island jungles
and French beaches had brought fanatical warrior cultures to their knees
– what did these new conquerors of the world do?
They
went home is what they did. They did pause for a few years to rebuild
the nations sworn to their destruction and the murder of their people.
They carbon-copied their own system of government and enforced it on
their most bitterly hated enemy, a people who have since given so much
back to the world as a result of this generosity. They left troops in
and sent huge sums of money to Europe to rebuild what they all knew
would eventually become trading partners, but also determined competitors.
Then they sent huge steel blades through their hard-earned fleets of
ships and airplanes and came home to get on with their lives in peace
and quiet.
Oh,
and some of the islands they had visited had asked to remain under the
American flag as territories and protectorates, free to leave whenever
they choose.
If this is American
tyranny, let there be more of it.
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Top Wog
The Wogblogger is
on a roll right now, with some top-shelf posts about illegal
immigrant arsonists, the Windschuttle
controversy, and Italian
morons.
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Blair vs. Moore
Tim Blair has a kick-ass
review of Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine.
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Lack of security at universities
Thanks to Zem at VigilantTV
for the heads-up on this
item....
I can already picture
the inevitable moralist outrage that would accompany any person being
excluded from certain fields of study as a result of their background.
Sadly, for many people security will always play 2nd fiddle to not hurting
anyone's feelings.
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America yawns while the world doesn't really rebel
Pejman has some
things to say.
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