You know, it’s instances such as this that so frustrate American voters who want to be knowledgeable.  If it is indeed no big deal to have been acquainted with Frank Marshall Davis, then say so and let it be known.  Twelve months ago, I didn’t know anything about the guy.  But now, I know he was a communist sympathizer and might have actually been a member of the CPUSA.  With the current state of the democrat party, it matters not one whit if Obama was affiliated in some way with someone who might have been a member of the CPUSA as “recently” as 21 years ago, or longer ago.  The democrat party is itself promoting communist policies!  And I believe that liberals from both sides of the aisle would easily trade policy ideas with current CPUSA members just as little leaguers trade baseball cards.

In other words, we don’t need tenuous affiliations with possible members of the old CPUSA to see the light.  We need only the truth of Obama’s intended policies to see that he is indeed a socialist.  If his socialist policies , and socialism in general, are good things, then why hide?

One need only review Obama’s voting record as a U.S. Senator to see he advocates for Socialism.

The tragedy is many Americans are also moving towards the same ideology and that is why he is so popular. The Democratic Party has moved further towards the left with each successive year and could rightly change its name to the Socialist Party.

So for many Americans Obama’s call for “change”, which actually means changing from a democratic republic to a socialist state, is heroic rather than something to be feared.

Great article, no wonder Obama tries so hard to remain free of scrutiny.  I am always leery of someone who cannot tell the entire truth and has to creatively edit information like the Obama campaign has done.  That has been what the main-stream media has been doing for far too many years.

Thank heavens we now have media sources, like AIM, who will present the other side of these candidates, not just the side that the main-stream media wants us to see.  Unfortunately, because of Obama’s popularity, it seems as if not enough people are really paying attention.  This guy needs to be exposed for who he truly is.  I usually pass on articles like this one and my friends pass them on as well. 

Complaining amongst ourselves is not enough, we need to get the word out, and quickly.

Excellent article.  The more we learn about Obama’s background, the better.  The MSM tries to hide anything that might shed light on this empty suit who fancies himself a great leader. 

As yet, nobody has provided any history of Obama having led anything of note.  He was an “also ran” in the Illinois Senate, where he would have been expected to make real change at least in his home district of Chicago’s south side.  At last check, that area is still plagued by crime and poverty.  I imagine he still has those citizens waiting for his promised changes.

You know, all through elementary school, I sat next to and constantly kibbitzed with a classmate, in and out of school, who, years later, was convicted of being a “hit man” for an organized crime family.  Does that make me a “murderer”, too ???

Get off it, already!  The dead horse is beginning to stink!

All through elemntary school, I sat next to a kid who, when he grew up, was eventually convicted of being a “hit man” for an organized crime family.  Does that make me a mrudered, too!

Get off it already!  The dead horse is beginning to stink!

Perhaps we need to get the National Enquirer involved in this?  It worked with Edwards – finally!  Edwards lied and lied, MSM covered it up and hid the story – and the Enquirer brought it out.  Obama’s supporters are working overtime covering this up, and will say and do anything to keep the truth from getting out – evidence are these very AIM articles and the vile nasty people that have intimidated, cowed and threatened commenters here with bodily harm. Frankly, last night it got so bad that I stopped just reading the incoming posts and tried to get these people to show just a smidgen of respect to commenters who do not believe Osamabama’s lying surrogates,  The resultant was that they became even more vile and then attacked me.

For the new posters here, expect that this discussion will include Mark who states he is Frank Davis’ son, once again going through the same old arguments repeatedly – though he is normally and mostly civil in his language.  BUT be careful, because when you are attacked by Brian R Sullivan, he is the most vile man I have ever heard in a comments section.  He has the typical liberal attitude that they are ALWAYS right and you are ignorant – and liberals use the word ignorant to describe those that oppose them all the time – but THIS MAN uses a Thesaurus to use every vile word he can to cow and manipulate and intimidate – and he will even threathen bodily harm.  That is when I finally posted last night – when he went beyond vile and became criminal.  He will try to get your address – DO NOT GIVE YOUR ADDRESS TO THIS SLEAZE – he says he has a Constitutional Right to Confront you in person.  If somehow he gets your address, I say you should fear for your life and immediately call your local law enforcement – his vile anger is obviously of someone who is NOT playing with a full deck – deranged comes to mind.

I suspect that the Osamabamaites have dispatched people like this that would normally rant on sites such as Daily KOS, the hate site, to stiffle all discussion of Obama that is negative.  But in this case, Cliff Kincaid probably hits the nail on the head better – as there IS a concerted effort by the campaign to hush this up – and that probably does mean there IS a lot more about this and they certainly do not want THAT to come out – whatever THAT IS?

If Sullivan tries to cop this thread like he did one a couple of days ago, with insults and threats, name-calling and blustering, I will again leave and stick to friendly and polite discussions.

I think that after the Brokeback Showdown, Obama is dropping like a rock anyway.  He exposed himself as incompetent, unable to come up with concise replies to simple questions, and on the wrong page regarding the beginning of life, the sources of evil, the definition of “rich” and even his own political misscues.  He made up a lie about abortion having increased in the past eight years, and about having reached over to join Republicans in the Senate.

Cliff Kincaid is doing a great service by exposing Obama’s communist leanings.  I wish we could rate the columns here – He gets five stars from me.

JA Woods – Why is his “mentor” important?  Go back and think of how many times your parents said something to you and YOU now use it! OR…something triggers a thought of them and what they told you.  Or… IF you have kids they will tell you, OH you say that over and over ….or we have heard this before and they or You to your parents roll your eyes. 

The same is true with OB.  He developed his philosophy listening to this man.  HIs thoughts, reflections, his actions, legislation etc are all attributable to those who “advised” him. 

That is why it is important to know.  And it important for you to understand how his plans, his thinking, his reflection on life are done with a Marxist and socialistic bent.  Further, he had TWENTY YEARS listening to Wright God Damn America and that alone is like brainwashing! 

IF you look at his speeches -what does he and Michelle say?:  YOU can’t sit on your couch and do nothing?  YOU can’t have as large a piece of the pie as you want, You must “sacrifice” for others.  Who says? We have DEMOCRATIC choices and those do include doing what ever we want to do.  We DON”T need a President telling us what we can eat or when!  We don’t want a president who gets into daily lives.  HIS/HER job is to run the country – not micromanage daily lives. 

Managing lives rather than the country is EXACTLY what HITLER and STALIN did and in Communistic countries to day this is what is done!  That is why it is so important JA to see what shapes OB’s thoughts. 

OB’s plans to “tax” the rich is marxist pure and simple.  WHy is it wrong to make money?  Why should he tax profits?  They belong to those who earn them! 

Why does he think he can get away with doing this?  Would you like to be taxed more than the next guy because you happen to have a good job and the other guy doesn’t?  Is that fair?  Democratic?  NO!  Its classical Marxism. 

IF the DAMN Democrats who are blocking drilling here and drilling NOW would act, – we could be free of debt, free of trade imbalances within a few short years.  We could be paying .25 cents a gallon like they do in Saudi Arabia.  We could have our trade imbalances corrected and say to HELL with you Saudis and the same to Russia and all other oil producers who “threaten” us by cutting off oil.

Get the book, Globilization, and read the analysis – you also will be screaming at the Democrats and the “group of ten” who are obstructing our resources and our country from benefitting from drilling. 

We also have over 300 years of coal which we could use to create ALL the electricity we need anywhere in the US at about 7-9 cents per KW hour.  Then, we add to the mix through the use of Nuclear, Wind, Solar, etc etc.  And our energy needs will be covered.

BUT….OB votes with his party and Nancy Pilosi in particular could give a damn about the average AMerican.  Obama lives in a 1.65 million dollar home with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms for his family of 4.  If he wants us to sacrifice, why doesn’t he move to a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home like most Americans live in?  He is a DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO Democrat whose change is nothing except higher taxes and government intrusion into people’s lives. 

Look at his response to the question asked at the Church debate:  Who are the three people you would consult for advice on the administration – his reply?  Michelle, (who hates America and has a BLACK inferiority complex), his Grandmother who he called a “typical WHITE person and from whom he is estranged – weird that he would use her when he wouldn’t listen to her when younger – and the SAME OLD SAME OLD STATUS QUO POLITICIANS LIKE TEDDY KENNEDY WHO IS A KILLER AND A COWARD.  WOW!! – these are his advisors?  What does THAT say about HIS judgment? 

That alone should tell you why he will be an awful POTUS and CIC – he is inexperienced, naive, lacks knowledge and is constantly contradicitng himself.

I am not a MCCain fan, but he sucks a lot less than OB who is a communist/Marxist/socialist in disguise who will take our country and trash it! 

START reading JA – open your eyes and listen with the intellect God gave you.  You will see why advisors that are communistic and hard core and NOT what YOU would want for your kids as mentors and why we don’t need a president with this background!

We also need to follow

What you need to do is look at You know, it’s instances such as this that so frustrate American voters who want to be knowledgeable.  If it is indeed no big deal to have been acquainted with Frank Marshall Davis, then say so and let it be known.  Twelve months ago, I didn’t know anything about the guy.  But now, I know he was a communist sympathizer and might have actually been a member of the CPUSA.  With the current state of the democrat party, it matters not one whit if Obama was affiliated in some way with someone who might have been a member of the CPUSA as “recently” as 21 years ago, or longer ago.  The democrat party is itself promoting communist policies!  And I believe that liberals from both sides of the aisle would easily trade policy ideas with current CPUSA members just as little leaguers trade baseball cards.

In other words, we don’t need tenuous affiliations with possible members of the old CPUSA to see the light.  We need only the truth of Obama’s intended policies to see that he is indeed a socialist.  If his socialist policies , and socialism in general, are good things, then why hide?

It’s hard to argue these days that Obama is the annointed one destined to become our next president. Even the MSM is starting to take stock of their over-coverage of The One. (Washington Post notes that Obama has gotten 3 to 1 front page coverage. The NY TIMES has even shown signs of being lucid recently, instead of the 24/7 propaganda outlet it has been in the past and continues yet.)

It was refreshing to watch the Saddlebrook (?) forum as Obama’s most-used term was “uh,” usually repeatedly as he tried to come up with something plausible. McCain showed no such reticence, but was much more aggressive in giving his views.

Experience does count.

Still, I am a fan of Langston Hughes and others of the Harlem Rennaisance as, where older poetry about urns and other flowery yawns (to me) didn’t move me, Hughes was able to present the black experience in terms that made me feel something, to sympathize with their condition.

Ironically, I was teaching black poetry to largely black classes (many of whom wouldn’t be going to college, so this was their last chance to be exposed to something that was very positive in my life and, hopefully, would be in theirs)…and I was criticized for racism.

Fortunately, the assistant principal was black and appreciated my situation. The text book had ONE black poet, an African, and the vp pointed out to me that many Africans don’t really consider American blacks to be genuine blacks and certainly not Africans.

Gwendolyn Brooks penned a few faves as well:

We real cool
We shoot pool…
We die soon.

I was unaware of the communist connection at the time, but took these poems at face value and was moved. (Pardon if my quote above isn’t exact: I’m quoting from memory.)

On the other hand, you would think that the republicans were bugging ML King’s motel rooms. JFK called King to the White House and told him he had a commie in a high position in his organization: this had to stop.

MLK agreed, but kept the commie on for another year on the (hush, hush, and very) QT, anyway. It was RFK’s Justice Dept that sicced the FBI onto ML King Jr. And, of course, King was a republican.

It would seem that blacks revere King…but aren’t entirely sure why.

Judge Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on the content (if any) of THEIR character.

Better: Just wait and let God do it. Who are we to judge? God can do a much better job of handling these two “reverends.”

VOXREEASON:  Again, who says we can’t judge?  We do it all the time!  We do that when we vote!  We do it evertyime we make a moral judgement or other choices where judgment is incurred! 
What OB doesn’t get is that YOUNG Blacks don’t think they are discriminated against!  THEY have more opportunity than I did when I was younger and that is due to the maturity of the nation! 

FDR/JKF didn’t like BLACKS and asJFK said, HE doesn’t lose sleep over the problems of the Negro.  MOST DEMS were anti -black and just recently I read a post where they are “scrubbing” their anti black positions from the “history” of the DEMS.  They were also eugenicists who wanted to do away with what they considered inferior beings.  When you look at WHO are the leaders of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY TODAY – YOU CAN SEE WHY THE BOOK BANKRUPT CLEARLY SHOWS WAHT DEMS ARE TODAY:
FDR – loved Marxism and Moussilini and ran this country like a Marxist one – didn’t like BLACKS

JFK – didn’t worry about blacks but was rabid anti communist/philanderer

LBJ – created the WELFARE society/philanderer

CLINTON – a do nothing president except for getting rid of welfare/philanderer

CARTER -worst president to date followed closely by Obama if elected! / lies down in bed with terrorist nations or marxist dicatators

SEE a pattern here?

Yes, I do see a pattern Helen!  Though I must start out by saying you forgot to put philanderer by FDR – remember his sceretary?

Anyway, I see philanderer by FDR, JFK, LBJ, and Clinton – I see the pattern of Marxism – and then we come to Jimmie – no philanderer, kisses up to all enemies of America, and absolutely dumber than a box of rocks.  So your pattern here IS: pick the philanderers over Jimmie Hahahahahaha

Now if we look at Osamabama – I think I can safely say he is like Jimmie in that I have no reason to believe he is a philanderer (besides I suspect Michelle would castrate him if he even tried), though he is like Jimmie and would kiss up to all of America’s enemies, and obviously even more than Jimmie does – and that takes some doing lol And Obama is the most Marxist/Totalitarian/ and Communistic of all the former Democraps.

So the pattern lol IS (the definition of IS is) that if we get a Demo go for the philanderer and not the one who keeps his pants up Hahahahahahaha

YES – when you have to vote with your nose held – its better with philanderer and not the appeaser.  Obama in about twenty years MIGHT get the knowledge he needs and MIGHT be good but with MIchelle as mean and evil as she is – I doubt it – unless he starts reading and heeding CLiff Kincaid, Rush Limbaugh and others.

HS

Jack: As a Catholic who practices the religion prior to its takeover in the 1960’s by the Commie/Socialist’s, I want you to know that Brian R. Sullivan’s views are perfectly aligned with the phony church he represents in his posts.

This phony church is nothing more than an arm of the Democratic Party and that is why as a believer, Sullivan can with a clear conscience, support Obama or any other abortion advocate.

Dear Mr.Hansen, As a long time Defense Dept. employee (Naval War College, 1988-91; Institute for National Strategic Studies, 1991-97; US Space Command, 1997-98), I am very reluctant to waste our government’s money. I certainly wouldn’t want some FBI agents to try to interview me and not find me at home. After all, they would waste expensive gasoline and take time away from other cases, all for nothing. So I would appreciate it if you could let me know when they are coming. If you don’t have any idea, could you please ask the agent you contacted to telephone me? I’m going to be out of town from late Sept. to late Oct. and unavialable. But if I know If and when the feds were coming, I could be sure to be home if they were to arrive over the next month. Thanks.

Dear Mr. Slinkiecat (or is it Ms. or Mrs.?), You blindness to you own foilbes continues to astonish me. You state that I have made insults, threats, engaged in name-calling and bluster. First of all, while acknowledging the truth about oneself can be painful, you could try to see yourself as someone with intelligence, good education and knowledge of the real world of international relations, intelligence and warfare views you. To dewscribe you as stupid, ignorant, gullible, biased and paranoid may sound like insults, they actually describe you quite accurately. Secondly, I remain extremely puzzled about what threats I have supposedly made. Please be as complete as possible. Personally, I do see a kind of threat I represent to morons such as yourself: I point out your intellectual vacuity. That, in turn, raises painful notions in your mind, I expect, even if only in your subconscious. At some level, even if you are in deep denial, you must have a sneaking suspicion, that you are detached from reality about the actual events of the past few years and the nature of this ongoing presidential campaign. Worse, you must fear the truth: you are incapable of reason. Your thought processes are shaped by hysteria. That’s quite sad, since what you fear are only fantasies in your tortured imagination. As for name-calling, why don’t you read through your various blogs of the past few weeks. You have constantly. As for my supposed blustering, please give me precise examples. I’m interested in finding out if you know the meaning of the word and, if so, what you consider bluster on my part. I would certainly not want to give anyone the notion that I engage in bluster (“to threaten noisily without the intention or power to make good the threat.”) After all, that’s what the despicable Mr. Hansen does and I surely don’t want to appear to be like him. To a certain extent, this question ties in with my previous one.
By the way, is this the sort of thing you meant that would encourage you to depart from this blog? If so, good riddance you puerile, brainless coward. As King Arthur says in Monte Python and the Holy Grail, “Run away! run away!”

Dear Mr./Ms voxoreason, You misquote Ms. Brooks extraordinarily concise and terribly painful poem. It actually goes: “We be cool // We quit school // Now be June // Be dead soon.” Look it up if you like.

Brian R, you ignorant slut,

>>Dear Mr./Ms voxoreason, You misquote Ms. Brooks…

What part of “(Pardon if my quote above isn’t exact: I’m quoting from memory.)” didn’t you understand?

You are too ignorant to address me, so please refrain from doing so. I don’t suffer fools gladly.

Have a good, if insignificant, day.

Dear Ms. Elaine, Your theological ignorance and confusion saddens me. Well over 1500 years ago, the Church Doctors expounded a doctrine about divine guidance of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church: it is under the perpetual guidance and protection of the Holy Spirit. Thus, you have fallen into a serious heresy. The Church leaders may fail morally, individual popes may be deeply corrupt but the Church Militant (that’s us) cannot be taken over by Communists (who are atheists, after all). Furthermore, how could the Church have been under Communist control from the time of John XXIII and yet had as its recent leader, the greatest and most successful Supreme Pontiff of all time? I refer to John Paul the Great, soon to be proclaimed a saint. He more than any man caused the downfall of the Evil Empire. Of course, he was aided by many others, living and dead. (How many souls of those murdered by Stalin, now in eternal bliss, implored God to end the murdrous madness of Communism? He who does not see the hand of God in this is blind.) Your inability to think clearly, your stupendous ignorance of Church history, your (possibly sinful) failure to educate yourself is deeply troubling to me.
Furthermore your presumption that you know more about this matter than the present Church hierarcy – you think that the deeply conservative briliant and highly educated Benedict XVI is under Commuhnist influence, when there isn’t even any serious Communist movement any more? – that the theological teachings of the Church fathers is wrong is a mind-boggling display of hubris. Remember, the greatest of all sins, that which led to the damnation of Lucifer and his rebel
angelic associates, is pride. I can’t see into your soul and heart. But I fear from your words you are in mortal peril – I mean of eternal death.

Dear Ms. voxoreason, I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings to point out that you misquoted Ms. Brook’s poem. But you decided to misquote, rather than to look up the correct version. Teh actual text is far more powerful than your misremembered version and I wanted to make that available to those who have never read that astounding compression of tragic feeling. Whose fault is that? Furthermore, by expressing your opinions in public, you are subject to anybody’s reply or retort. That’s the way our Constituion works. And I glory in being a free American protected in my right to express myself on any matter to anybody.
(By the way, in what way did I express ignorance? Do tell. As for “slut,” have you any idea what the word means? Apparently not. Again, you display your ignorance. That’s your problem, not mine. But I’ll try to do you a small favor to improve your vocabulary. Slut: “a dirty, slovenly woman; a woman of loose character; a bold or impudent gilr; a female dog.” Try as I can, I can’t see how any of those definitions could possibly apply to me. If you wish to insult me, try not top insult yourself by displaying your ignorance. dictionaries are useful for writers, even of blogs.

Speak of the devil, Elaine.  You no more posted, and the child that single-handedly has changed my belief in the honor and integrity of the USMC, climbed out from under the rock under which he slithers and once again opened his vile viper mouth.

He must certainly be a slick talker though, as I did not think it possible to spout the bile that he expels so easily, and also have the long career with the Corps that he did.  Honor Duty Country Corps (something like that)  A report card would give you an F in Honor, in Duty to the people of your country maybe a D, your sellout to those that would harm your country – treason – a handman’s rope, and the Colonel I talked with today certainly agree he went over the line on reasonableness, while agreeing with me that at present there is not a thing he can do BUT he did agree that the Corps does not knowing produce such “dishonorable men” – so I guess that’s an F in Corps.  The Colonel did say that after viewing the posts he saw, that a report would be added to some kind of file (I think the term he used was a sort of Natl Security file?) and he sincerely doubted if the Major (Sullivan) would ever be able to hold a clearance (Natl Security?) again?

Oh and Sully, you pathetic child, you may see an FBI agent?, but they were more interested in the words coming out of your mouth, especially given the credentials that you state (and I have no reason to doubt them), though they did agree that a reasonable person could think that your threat towards Mr Woods went to the point that it “may” have crossed the line.  So I guess you will just have to sit around and wait – I just passed on your various posts, especially of last evening, and they were non-committal on further action, but if I read what the man was saying, it is certainly in a file somewhere now.  Oh, and if its any consolation to you, they too were not impressed that someone with your background, would have such a vile mouth.

And I see that your post of today to slinkiecat says that your momma did not put a bar of lye in your mouth overnight – and coming from a man who is a Major (Ret), USMC Reserve, and from googling you, perhaps a military history man that I would have wanted to read before I found out what kind of man you “really” are.

I will give you this – you are correct – I was taught a long long time ago that yes the State Militias (now Natl Guard) had as their forerunners the minutemen of Lexington and Concord, but I was also taught that from these minutemen, specifically from minutemen of the regiment of Colonel John Glover’s Massachusetts Militia came the forerunners of the Corps (Glover’s men were Marbleheaders and fishermen and sailors).  It was Marbleheaders that ferried the retreating Continental Army away from New York City, and it was Marbleheaders that manned the boats that ferried the Army across the Delaware.  So I guess we are both kind of right?

Dear Mr. Hansen, I sincerely don’t want to waste the time of FBI agents. They have too many more important tasks than to show up at my door only to find me not at home. Please send me the information I requested about the time of their arrival. I don’t want to think that the threats you made about contacting the Feds about my supposed felonies is nothing but an example of blowhard bluster and deep mental confusion. I already have a very low opinion of your intellect and reasoning ability. But by blogging on the matter, you have exposed your attitudes to many others. Surely you don’t want them to hold you in deep contempt, too. Or, on some deep level because of inner guilt and shame do you want to be humiliated? Have you considered prayer?

Voxoreason – I agree!

Brian – You ignorant slut!

This guy just keeps discrediting himself.  Call the FBI yourself, felon.  I called them and explained the situation, and emailed them your posts, and then talked again to the same agent.  I truthfully do not know whether they will call you or visit you, or what – as I said in my last post – and they did say as I stated in that post.

I think I have figured it out though.  The Ha Ha House in which you reside just got computers and they let all those that do not eat their checkers and chessmen, play on them every evening, and they (being a government agency) have not figured out yet that they have to supervise you.  Maybe if you will let me know which Ha Ha Haven that is yours, I can help you and they can get you one of those wind-up Fisher Price Computers – I hear they got one that sings a song and then a little guy jumps up when the music stops and scares the dickens out of you – please make sure you are wearing diapers before you try that at home or have a whole lot of Toilet Paper available to clean up the mess!

“But the 40-page report, advertised and sold to the media as a refutation of Corsi’s “lies,” doesn’t identify Davis as a hard-core communist and it dishonestly edits an article about Davis to eliminate references to his admitted involvement in CPUSA activities and make the black revolutionary writer and “poet” look like a civil rights activist.”

What article about Davis was dishonestly edited?

Gosh, Kincaid!  If you are going to include:

“According to the editor of Davis’s books, John Edgar Tidwell, Davis was not only a secret CPUSA member but tried to recruit a prominent poet to the CPUSA. It’s not known if he tried to recruit Obama because the major media refuse to question Obama about his relationship with Davis, and Davis died in 1987.”

Why don’t you also include Tidwell’s statement:

“Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a “closet member” during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII.  Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology.”

Isn’t this a “key piece” of information?  Why is it “carefully omitted” from your reports?  Instead, your reports only use quotes that make it appear as though Davis was an extremist of some sort.  Is this “fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting,” or are you still stacking the evidence?  That’s a rhetorical question, because I see you are still emulating D.A. Nifong, from the Duke lacrosse case, by ignoring exculpatory evidence in your disinformation campaign.

But at least you corrected yourself (for the second time) by stating that Davis told Obama blacks have a “reason,” not a “right” to hate whites.  Hopefully, you will not return to repeating that canard once again.

Dear Mr. Hansen, Among your many delusions and illusions is your notion that you know what is American and un-American, that you are in a position to state who is a traitor and who is a patriot, that you understand the foundations of the American system and the threats thereto, that you undedrstand the law and the system under which security clearnces are granted or revoked. But your words indicate just the opposite.
I will review your latest examples of such ignorance and confusion. Do you think that a Marine colonel has any right, ability or authority to report on me, to enter a notation in a file on me, to influence my security clearances? What ignorance! I’m a civilian now, collecting a disabilty pension. The military has absolutely no jurisdiction over me, certainly not in regard to my exercise of freedom of speech. You seem to think we are living in a police state. (But we aren’t.) And if such a person told you that he did have such power, he was either lying or was trying to get rid of you. Even more to the point, it is highly unlikely that he would have a clearance higher than those I have, know what my clearances are, know why I have them and have any information on what I have used them for. Thus, even if he tried to get involved in such matters, he would never know the results or consequences. And, if he is interested in his own record and career, he would certainly not get involved in such dubious matters. (You think he used the term National Security file? You THINK he did? Didn’t you pay careful attention to what the fellow said?) And, what is a “National Security file.” Don’t you realize the guy was humoring you?
As for reporting me to the FBI, so what? As they tried to make clear to you, there is nothing to report over which they have any jurisdiction. They attempted to be nice to you. But you don’t understand what their use of “could” and “may” means, not do you appreciate what their non-committal response indicates. The FBI agent was obliged to listen to you. He was probably interested into looking into my background for reasons of which you have no idea. That’s understandable, again for reasons unknown to you whic I cannot reveal. Of course,since you did contact the FBI, now they have a file on you. Furthermore, under the Freedom of Information Act, I can get a copy of my FBI file (it goes back to 1964.) Anything in it that involves you will have your name blacked out but it would be obvious who made such statements, from the subject and the dates. It will be interesting to find out what you are recorded as stating in my regard. But you did answer my question. I don’t have to worry about any agent wasting the government’s money by arriving when I’m not home. None will call.
You are so mixed up that you have accused me of felonies for stating the truth as I see it, for being a traitor, that is, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime. You don’t seem to realize that we are not in a formal state of war, hence no American can be accused of treason. And if we were at war now, with al Qaeda or the Taliban, you think that I have given aid or comfort to them? If I had the slightest respect for you, I might be offended. But I hold you in contempt, little worm. Instead, you amuse me in that regard, although I am not at liberty to explain why. As for calling me a felon, that really indicates your hopeless ignorance. One becomes a felon only after conviction by a jury for a serious crime and after the presiding judge affirms the verdict. Even that can be reversed on appeal. Surely you remember one of the pillars of our legal system: “Innocent until proved guilty”? I’m not guilty of anything involving the law. But you are obviously either a fool or someone who doesn’t understand the basic workings of our legal system.
Now in regard to other, lesser matters. Do youunderstand what “vile” means? Apparently not. Why did you put “really” in quotation marks? Was that an attempt at emphasis? If so, then you don’t know how to write proper English. (Please consult a dictionary and a grammer and useage handbook. Your ignorant comments on American military history – the Marblehaed boys had nothing to do with the Marine Corps, whatever nonsense is implanted in your feeble mind – no longer concern me. I am interested in what you can’t inform me about in that regard: where did you pick up such nonsense? As for your use of the term “Senior Service”: that refers only to the Royal Navy, certainly not to your former service.
As for your later comments about my mental health, my intellectual abilities, my computer skills and my toilet training, I can only deduce that you are of mediocre intelligence, poor education attainments and have a feces obsession. I would have ignored those deficiencies save for this: I find it interesting to discover how your mind works. Your mental pathologies help me to understand how someone develops the political orientation you display. Your concern with defecation can best be explained by someone far more knowledgeable about psychiatirc problems than I am. I will note, however, that it has been a long time since I have heard an adult make such comments. They same holds true in regard to your statements about children’s toys and mental institutions. I’m no expert in what such weird attempts at humor mixed with efforts at insult reveal. But you aren’t really a mature, responsible adult, are you? Finally, I have several friends who write novels and short stories. I’m going to pass them your blogs. It may be that you will be immortalized in fiction. But, if so, I don’t think you will like the way you would be portrayed.

It does not take a rocket scientist to determine Sullivan that you are absolutely insane.  Wow, that America allows you out in public shows how far down the slope we have slipped.  The FBI and that Marine Colonel will love your latest rant.

Dear Mr. Woods, I never responded to your confused references to Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Jefferson. Now I will. What, exactly, Leviathan has to do with American liberalism, I don’t comprehend.Certainly, the book is of huge importance in the history of political theory and one of the foundations of modern conservative thought. But it is based on two erroneous notions. Hobbes can be excused for not knowing what archaeology, paleontology and anthropology have reveald about prehistoric, pre-civilized man. But his statement about their lives having been nasty, brutish and short is simply incorrect. Those attributes can be assigned to some of our forebears but hardly all, or even most. Research has revealed a richness, complexity, sociability of culture for many of our ancestors. Just the very recent discoveries about life in the pre-desert Sahara region reveal that. More important, as others have pointed out, is a man worse off being at the mercy of ten thousand others or of one man with the power of ten thousand? Is anarchy worse than living under a Stalin or a Hitler? I suppose the answer varies according to our individual ablities to defend ourselves. But it also explains why this country has liberal institutions and why the Alien and Sedition Acts, chattel slavery, the Palmer raids, the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in 1942 and McCarthyism are now considered stains on our history.
As for Thomas Jefferson disapproving of contemporary American society, he very will might. But while Jefferson was a great thinker and illustrious president, he was a very flawed human being. Had his vision of a largely agrarian American been fulfilled, likely the Union would have failed beyond redemption in the 1860s and, thereafter, the two American republics would likely have been at the mercy of the European powers. Worse, Jefferson’s wealth and privileges were based on his slaves, that hardly gives him much moral authority. But worst of all, his relations with Sally Hemmings began as statutory rape and continued under compulsion. After all, he never freed her during his lifetime. That seems to indicate she would have used her freedom to leave him. In those regards, he seems to have been less than a hero.
As for your argument that liberalism has degenerated into licentiousness, I think that only indicates your moral blindness. You seem to feel nostalgia for another time. But a time of what: back street abortions, racial discrimination, Jim Crow, anti-Semitism and nati-Catholicism, lower levels of public education and health, sexual hypocrisy, maybe even Prohibition? No thanks! You cannot legislate morality. If you try, your produce such monstrosities as the rise of the Mafia in the illegal liquor trade. Furthermore, licentiousness in the eyes of one person is freedom for another. And whose idea of morality would be imposed? I remember the Eisenhower era quite clearly. I do not want to go back to that time of narrow mindedness and discrimination. I wish all Americans to be free, even free to sin. That, after all, is what free will means, the road one chooses to salvation or damnation. Consider the message of Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. Separation of legality and morality is one the the pillars of American greatness. In that regard, Jefferson was a giant in his time. Today, however,he would be serving life without parole for child abuse, unlawful imprisonment and God only knows what other offenses to human dignity and human rights in regard to his hundreds of slaves.
You appear to be afraid of the future. You seem to want to stop it or reverse it. You can’t. A new and better era in American history will begin in January. And you will afterwards be ashamed, if you have a free conscince and a mind not clouded by sin, of your paranoid fantasies about Obama.

Dear Mr. Hansen, Do you understand the meaning of the word “insane,” that is, psychotic? Please explain in what ways I am deprived of reason.
As for you, would that God the gift would give you to see yourself as others see you. Consider your pitiful satement: “that Marine colonel and the FBI will love your latest rant.” Are you trying to frighten me? With what? Do you think that sending reports on me to anyone has any significance? What, exactly? Do you think I should be oppressed by what you see as authority figures? Why should I care what they or you might think of me? I am free in a way that you seem unable to grasp and which appears to fill you with envious hostility. Your babbling raises certain questions in my mind, not very complimentary to you. Do you believe you have any power over me? Do you think that your ignorant ideas have any influence or significance? These puerile notions only indicate totalitarian thinking on your part. (You do understand what “totalitarian” means, don’t you?) You just don’t seem very bright, nor knowledgeable about how your country operates on any level. I fear that you live in darkness in a spiritual sense, that you entire life reflects the dark night of your soul.
It is clear that my ideas intimidate you. After all, you are a conformist, a follower. You have never had any original ideas, I suspect. Well, to an extent that causes me some pity for you. Not much, I must admit because of your childish vulgarity and dimwitted obnoxiousness. You seem unable to tolerate ideas that you don’t understand. Clearly, you can only respond to concepts or even facts with which you disagree by accusing those who hold them of felony, treason, psychosis or some sinister plot. That, by the way, is not a healthy mentally. But I’m not responsible for your sense of alienation from contemporary American society. You are, at least to an extent. But in a larger sense, you are a victim of forces you don’t understand nor over which you have any control. To put it in the words of another time: “Little man, what now?”
I don’t know much about you. I’m not interested very much, to tell the truth. You are boring and have long since begun to repeat the same nonsensical opinions. That leaves me to surmise the following: You are not very happy. You probably have a job that is not very satisfying. Perhaps you don’t make as much money as you want or find your employment tedious. You seem to have a rather limited intelligence, as I have mentioned. You surely did not get a good formal education. I doubt that you have seen much of the world since your navy days. And what advantage did you take of your port calls? I suspect little but fornication and drunkeness. (Be honest now, at least with yourself.) You can’t understand complex ideas. So, in a time of increasing complexity, you are confused, bewildered, frightened. Yet on a certain level, you entertain fantasies about yourself. Maybe you think – at least on a superficial level – that you have been deprived of the recognition or success you really deserve. Perhaps you are proud of what you blog, not realizing how it only reveals the sadness and even despair in the center of your soul. There are consolations available to you but I imagine you reject them out of laziness or fear of the challenges they present. Have you any appreciation for great literature, music, serious history, philosophy, art or architecture? They can offer even someone like you a degree of comfort. But you would have to overcome your intellectual sloth and terror of the new and unexpected to do so.
Most important and significant, you fear death. Of course, we all do. And as we grow older, the sense of dread grows. Some fear physical annihilation as oblivion, some as the preface to standing before divine judgement. some as leading to eternal torment. But you, I suspect, have a special temporal dread: that, as you lay dying, you will be faced with the meaninglessness, emptiness, wastefulness and insignificance of your earthly life. That, too late to do anything about it, you will realize you have squandered your time as a man. That is a terrible feeling to confront. “Timor et tremor usque ad mortem.”
But it’s not too late. True, death comes like a thief in the night, we know not the time nor the hour. But you likely have some or more years left of mortal existence, maybe even decades. It’s not too late. You can save yourself. YOU can save yourself. But, for the love of God, take a stand FOR something, not against all the trends that so terrify you. Otherwise you will be “A dio spiacente ed ai nemici suoi.” Adieu.

Brian R. Sullivan, for my edification, are you of the belief that only Roman Catholics are truly Christian and that other denominations are heretics in danger or mortal peril, i.e., eternal death? This serious question is in response to your post #18 to Ms. Elaine.

Bob

Brian R: By the way, in what way did I express ignorance? Do tell. As for “slut,” have you any idea what the word means? Apparently not. Again, you display your ignorance.

Ignorance is a relative thing. One of the classic moments of the early Saturday Night Live shows involved a Point/Counterpoint segment in which Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtain “debated.” In one famous sketch, Dan retorted, “Jane, you ignorant slut.” That was the reference that you obviously missed.

If you would like, you can knock off a few hundred words that may or may not mean anything to anyone.

Dear Mr. Ms. or Mrs voxoreason, I find it difficult to follow your reasoning. Perhaps you might adopt a new pseudonym like “voxindeserto” or “voxaroundtheclox.” One reason I find your statements confused and confusing is this previous statement by you: “You are too ignorant to address me, so please refrain from doing so. I don’t suffer fools gladly.” But now you ARE asking me to address you. What do you want, what you stated before or what you are asking now? Furthermore, if you don’t suffer fools gladly, how do you abide yourself?
To answer your questions: Like almost anyone else who lived in New York City and was under the age of thirty when SNL began, I certainly remember the Ackroyd/Curtin exchanges. But if you had paid attention to my previous blog to you, you would have noticed that I saved you the trouble of consulting a dictionary. Ackroyd addressed Curtin as he did because he was speaking to a female. “Slut” can’t refer to a male, unless who does so is inventing new meanings for words. Are you familar with the term “slut’s wool”? It refers to the balls of dust that gather under furniture, that bear a certain resemblance to sheeps’ wool. Since housecleaning was long considered woman’s work, the phrase suggested that such dirt indicated that a housekeeper or maid was a slut for letting such accumulate. That is one example out of many indicating not only your ignorance but your mental laziness. You can discover the meaning of words in a dictionary. But you don’t seem to use one.
Other examples: Your misquote of the Brooks’ poem. It is extremely pithy. The poet compressed her meaning into a very few words. Almost every one has multiple meanings. Perhaps her major point is that those who despise education, those who think that it is “cool” to drop out of school in the African-American community run a very high risk of winding up dead at an early age. (The grammar in “We be cool” is obviously that of uneducated African-Americans.) But for some strange and probably revealing reason, you misquoted by stating “We shoot pool.” Do you think Brooks was warning about the dangers of hanging out in pool halls? That’s hilarious! Also, you left out “Now be June.” Brooks was evoking an image of young men dying in the late spring or summer of the year but also in the spring or summer of their lives. In other words, you don’t seem to have understood what she meant, even though a confused memory of her powerful words remained in your mind. This probably indicates you don’t know how to penetrate into the several meanings of great poetry. As further indication of that, you state that you were unaware at the time you (tried) to teach that poem of the “communist connection.” What does the politics of a person have to do with poetic genius? Should we not read Ezra Pound because he was a Fascist? How about Vladimir Mayakovsky or Isaac Babel? Their poetry is off limits because they were Communists? What ignorance to shut your mind off like that. Finally, you stated that you took Brools’ poems at “face value.” To read a great poem and only appreciate it on the most superficial level (“face value”) is truly a sign of base ignorance. Great poems have many layers of meaning. That’s what makes them great and provides one reason literary critics continue to study poems that may be hundreds (eg. Shakespeare, Milton, etc.) or even thousands of years old (Homer, Hesiod, etc.). Such works offer insight and wisdom that can’t ever be fully plumbed. Furthermore, they often make allusions to other great poems or to events at the time they were written. To appreciate that, you need to have a wide knowledge of literature, history, languages and so forth. That’s not to argue that only learned people should read poetry. But it does indicate that you probably have a hard time understanding the full, rich complexity of great literature. In this regard, I’ll leave you with an example. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 begins: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold // When yellow leaves or none or few, do hang // Upon those boughs which shake against the cold // Bare ruins where late the sweet birds sang.” To what recent historical event does the poet refer? What does he mean by “sweet birds”? (Hint: he does not mean little feathered animals.) You can begin to educate yourself in these regards by reading some of the classic works of poetic criticism and by immersing yourself in the great poems. But that takes hard work and great intellectual vigor. You don’t seem to have done that. Thus, your ignorance has left your life poorer and shallower than it has to have been. There’s still time, however.
As far as some other examples of your ignorance: Use of “Saddlebrook” when you meant “Saddleback.” That’s especially noteworthy because you didn’t have to go any further than this blog collection to discover the right word. You used “sympathize” instead of “empathize.” You misused “ironically.”
But your comments on Africans and African-Americans really underline your ignorance. Obviously, you have never been to West Africa. The relationship between people living there and African-American visitors is far, far more complicated than what that fellow told you. For example, consider the history of Liberia and Sierra Leone. (If you don’t know about that, you could try reading some histories of those countries.) In addition, the situation is even more complex because of a third group: Afro-Caribbean people. Their cultural attitudes, the ties they enjoy with both W. Africa and N. America, make the question of who considers whom “really black” or authentically African far more nuanced and internally contradictory than you appear to imagine. If you had spent sometime in one of the large W. African cities, like Dakar, Abijan or Lagos – as I have – you might understand this to some extent. In those giant cities you encounter these three streams of the African diaspora (including many rural people from those countries who have flooded into those places in search of work) and can observe their interaction and range of attitudes toward each other.I realize that was probably and remains financially impossible for you. But you don’t even seem to have done any serious reading on the matter, instead relying on someone else’s error-filled oversimplifactions. Wha tdoes that indicate? In a word, ignorance.
Yu wrote: “It would seem blacks revere King…but aren’t entirely sure why.” To put it in the vernacular: “Are you nuts?” Have you discussed this idea with enough African-Americans to gain a sense of what that ethnic group’s attitudes about King are? It seems not. Instead, you made a blatantly ignorant and condescending comment that stuns me.
You end by stating “Who are we to judge?” That’s really funny in a dark manner. All your blogs are judgemental from start to finish. Phyisicn, heal thyself.
I could offer you much more explanation of why you seem so poorly educated and living in a mental fog. But this must suffice.

Dear Mr. Benitez, Your ignorant anti-Catholic opinions and attitudes amaze me. You live in a country with tens of millions of Catholics, yet you have little or know understanding of their beliefs. Have you ever considered looking at the latest American catechism? It might – just might -teach you something.
But to answer your stupendously uninformed question. 1) Why not read a book about the decisions and conclusions of the Second Vatican Council? 2) According to Church teaching, a Christian is one who has been baptized. In a more general sense, however, Catholics consider all those who believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God and the divine savior of the human race to be Christian. Heretics (Protestants) and Schismatics (Orthodox Christians unaffilated with Rome) are certainly Christians. But the Church teaches that those who are cut off from the sacraments and from the teachings and guidance of the Church to face greater obstacles to salvation than Catholics. Furthermore, as John XXIII, John Paul II and Benedict XVI have written and expounded, non-Christians are also able to enter the Divine Presence – again, with greater difficulty. As for me, I fully accept the teachings of my church in these matters. I must state, however, that you could have easily instructed yourself in these matters. There have been numerous newspaper articles about these questions over the past few years, in reprting about statments issued from the Vatican. I don’t think that you have been living like a hermit for the past several decades. So why haven’t you educated yourself in these matters? I’m not a catechist, after all – although you are asking me to act like one.

Brian R: I find it difficult to follow your
reasoning.

Then don’t. Waste somebody else’s time with your nonsense. I would say you probably have better things to do, but you obviously don’t.

I gotta go see a man about a dog.

Mr. Sullivan your verbosity is tedious and meaningless. Write a book if you are so inclined. These blogs are for those who are interesting and have something to say on the topic. Usually brief and to the point. You sir, are boring and obnoxious. Have a great day…….somewhere else

To Jack H Hansen from post on 8/18/08 @ 2:33.  You do not have to give your address (or any other information) to anyone in this forum.  Only people who have been charged with a “criminal offense” have a right to confront their accusers.  This right is found in the 6th Amendment.

So, don’t let anyone try to bully you into giving them something that they are not entitled to have.

“… All your blogs are judgemental from start to finish. Phyisicn [sic], heal thyself. …” -BR Sullivan

Your blogs are somewhat interesting sir when you’re taking pride in your apparently extensive reading, but are less so when you delve into psychoanalysis. I’d say (my opinion, mind you) is your above-quoted phrase is classic projection.

While I find some of your non-psychoanalytic conclusions interesting I still have difficulty understanding how Obama “trips your trigger” so to speak. Listening to his speeches and looking at the economic “plans” his crew have put together for him, his considerable “Present” (non)voting on issues, his apparent inability to carry a coherent thought without a teleprompter, etc. I judge the guy to be a lightweight and unsuitable from either an experience or a philosophical perspective to be Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.

Philosophically he’s a collectivist and statist it seems. On the political compass he would be well into the upper left quadrant (socialist authoritarian). To me he is antagonistic to Capitalism. Capitalism creates wealth; collectivism destroys wealth. How can that be a good thing?

Thanks Shirlyn – and I do know that, and would never give out my address.  My post was to warn others about Brian R Sullivan.  This vile man, as you can see from every single time he gets online, has single handedly cowed, intimidated and threathened many commenters on the AIM site.  And last night he was of course at it again, as he was the night before. 

I have tried to do and say anything I could to get this sleazebag to go away like a bad smell and have not been successful – and of course brought vile langauge from Sullivan upon myself for my efforts.  My post was in the hopes that others, and especially new posters, would not have to go through what some have when Sullivan rants.

He was very successful last night, as it was down to Mark, the son of Frank Davis, myself and Sullivan – every single other commenter left the site after being berated by Sullivan.  And I finally left when it bacame apparent that this man is either absolutely insane or a plant by Obama, and just will not willingly leave where he is not wanted.

Perhaps he is an Obama plant, especially when we see that he has been so successful in driving off posters – he was able to close this site down last night.  And as Cliff Kincaid has stated, the Obamaites are working overtime trying to stop the free discourse of information that is negative to Obama.  It takes just one vile person like Sullivan at each Conservative site and they obviously reek havoc to free discussion.

I have been in contact with Cliff Kincaid, and he passed it on to the Chairman of AIM, in the hopes we can get this sleaze to take his toys and go away.  Free Speech is one thing, but this man goes way way beyond what is reasonable.  I know if I went on the hate site, Daily KOS, and just respectfully discussion my thoughts, I would be driven away, banned, my Conservative ideas would be labelled hate speech, and the vulgarity from those at the site would probably make me think Sullivan is a choir boy.  So it is only reasonable that Sullivan needs to go from this site as he does not understand the word respectful and almost all he utters is vile bile towards all that disagree with him – and everybody on this site is disagreeable to him.

If AIM wants people to comment on articles on this site, then they will recognize that this man is running most people off and is not conducive to free discussion.  I have no problem with anti opinions to Cliff’s articles, and that is what free discussion is all about, but this man believes he is on a mission to shut up all those he opposes and he certainly does it in the most vile manner.

I know I probably speak for many when I say that I would like to be able to state my opinion and comment on the AIM articles and not be spoken to in return for that like I am some ignorant idiot.  This man has an advanced edition of the Thesaurus – as I do believe he knows every single word for ignorant and idiot in the English language – even the slang words that are not necessarily in any dictionary or Thesaurus.  The recipients of his bile and vulgarities almost all have to feel intimidated, cowed, and he is not above actually threatening – as if I was Mr Woods, a poster on this site, I would have felt threatened after his comments of a few days ago – as I do believe he wanted to confront Mr Woods in person and I sure felt he wanted to do bodily harm.

If AIM wants to keep comments as a function of their site, they need to address this, as I am tired of Sullivan, as I am sure many others are, and it would be far easier to just unsubscribe than have to put up with this.  ON ANY monitored site, this man would have been banned days ago and his rants would be deleted – and HE knows this.  This being an unmonitored site, he knows he is pushing it far beyond what is reasonable.

Hello everyone. My suggestion is to ignore Sullivan.

Jack, I found Mark’s stuff tiresome, but learned to ignore it. Sullivan’s stuff can get tiresome also; you might try ignoring it.

Of course Mark’s stuff can be tiresome, but he is not nasty and mean, and therefore I have no problem with him.

And YES, the simple solution is to just ignor Sullivan, and the way many commenters on this site ignor him is to just leave the site, and THEN free discourse of opinions and comments STOP completely.  I ignored him all Saturday, and all Sunday, until later in the evening when his vile sleaze finally went in my mind to the point it went beyond reasonable – he threathened Mr Woods.  And I realize that at that point it was none of my business, but as a regular commenter on this site, for the good of the site (in my thinking), I made it my business, logged on and commenced on my mission to get this sleaze to just leave.

So Yes, Elaine, and Mr Galt, I can ignor him – it is easy – but then I lose my site to freely discuss – as last night, EVERYONE left after being berated by this man – I even finally left myself.  It was then down to Mark and Sullivan – and guess what – they are the two that are most against the topics being discussed.  So we can ignor them and let them win?  They shut down a Conservative leaning discussion site.

What are we to do when they shut down all Conservative sites?  We sure aren’t welcome on their sites – what we say and believe is called Hate speech!

And if you have noticed it, the topic we are here to discuss, is being ignored right now mostly – and why – because of the antics of the insane Brian R Sullivan.

Jack: I’m new here but you know it isn’t unusual for nut cases to be on every blog.

How about if we all ignore Sullivan and any other loonies and just keep to the subject ourselves so that those who may be inclined to leave may be inclined to stay.

It doesn’t take long to weed out the loons. Usually one or two posts and then you skip over anything they have posted.

Please don’t let him upset you. That is his goal and you don’t want him to win.

Sounds good to me Elaine, I tried it other ways, and that didn’t work, so I am with you.  Though I do still worry that he will get others new like yourself to leave after being intimidated, and my hope is that we lose no posters because of him.

Mr. Sullivan, I asked you a straight forward honest question as to whether or not YOU believed that only Catholics were Christians, not what the 2nd Vatican Council or the Pope taught. By the way, I sincerely doubt you’ve even read the complete 2nd Vatican Council documents, if at any of it. But are you now claiming to be a Canon Law and 2nd Vatican Council expert? If so, I wonder, have you ever read the New Testament completely including Paul’s statements about salvation and what was the proof of a Christian?

As my father, uncle, and aunt were Catholics, I was quite aware of the current Catholic denomination’s teaching about other Christian denominations and even though I’m a Protestant I greatly respect the late Pope John Paul II and the current Pope. To me they’re strong Christian who are to be regarded as Archbishops. By the way, my aunt is a nun. So much for my anti-catholic animus, but I do understand your need to lie about others views. But what of your animus to those who even dare ask you to clarify a simple position? I’d ask you to apologize but I doubt that word is in the vocabulary or nature.

Like most political and religious demagogues you needed to resort to an an hominem attack. You’ve done that with all who’ve disagreed with you, resorting to name calling and veiled threats and have refused to answer simple questions. Furthermore, your responses remind me of dialectics. You might have a PhD, although I found no direct references to you on the internet, and you might have been a Marine Major, but in light of your pugnacious animus you’re neither an intellect nor a gentleman. However, you’re quite aliterate.

Dear Mr. Benitez, I can’t teach you to read. I wish you would learn, however. It would make your life a bit easier. But if you will read the sixth line up from the bottom in blog to which you refer, you will find the answer to your question about what I believe. Furthermore, you seem oblivious to what I have written about my acceptance of Church teaching. How more clear can I get?
As for the rest of your inane comments. What gives you the idea that I consider myself an expert on Church history? I have only read about it, discussed it with people more knowledgeable than I and remembered what I learned. What possibly led you to the conclusion that I claim to have read every document released by Vatican II? I have, however, read a good deal about it and I was living in Rome through the final portion of the conference during the pontificate of Paul VI. Since I became friendly with a number of American and Italian priests – and one bishop -in attednance, they told me a bit about what was going on behind closed doors. No secrets, of course, but the tenor of discussions. Your expressed animosity puzzles me. As far as I can figure out, since I know more than you do on the subject, that intimidates you. I can’t help that, only you can. The fact that you have Catholic family members tells me nothing about your personal attitudes regarding the Church. I can only judge from your words, which indicate both animus and ignorance in its regards. Why don’t you re-read your recent blogs? Look at the questions you posed to me. Then consider the attitudes they suggest. Beyond that, I can’t help you to think any more clearly. What I do suspect, however, is that you think you can somehow pose a question about the Church that would either embarrass me or serve to discredit the Church. Each time you fail, you get upset. Well who’s problem is that. How about trying to act like an adult?
As for reading the New Testament, I have read it through many times. It’s not very long, after all. Now I am probably really going to intimidate
you some more. Since I had to learn Attic Greek in high school (first Xenophon’s Anabasis, then the Odyssey), I figured I might as well continue in college. There, I took a course to learn the New Testament in Koine Greek, quite a bit simpler. Since then, when I have read portions – such as the Epistles – I have read them in the original. Now the difference between that and English translations is not so great. But the different Christain sects have commissione their own translations. Why? To support their own doctrine. Take the Lutherans for example. Given the huge importance of the Epistle to the Romans on Martin Luther, they offer somewhat differnent take on the words than translations used by the Catholics or by the Anglicans in the King James version. The result is that it is very difficult to conduct an objecive discussion of doctrinla points when people argue from different translations. It becomes even harder if I discuss my reading of the Greek original with someone of any faith who can’t read Greek.
I need to lie about other’s religious views? Why? How? More to the point, if you are a Christian
you feel comfortable about telling me I commit he sin of lying? How could you possibly know that? That comes pretty close to blasphemy in my book, that is a man claiming to know what only God can.
I can hardly apologize for writing the truth as I see it. In your case, you don’t seem to be able to comprehend a good deal of what I write. You often seem confused. You want me to apologize, I take it, because you aren’t very smart. Well, I could offer you my sympathy for your lack of intelligence. But you are still responsible for what you write and think.
Do you understand what “demogogue” means? I hardly think that applies to me. Please explain. As for not answering simple, direct questions, which? I have done my best. But you seem annoyed that I didn’t give you the responses you expected or wanted. Nonetheless, if you pose them again, i will either point out to you where I have already answered or will try again. But I fear I will still face tha problem of your inability to understand me.
As for ad hominem attacks, that’s hilarious. these blogs are filled with outrageous, ignorant, hopelessly confused ad hominem attacks on Obama, his wife and numerous other Democratic politicians. That is everyone’s right, of course. But I’m not doing that. I simply describe people and their opinions as I see them. Since so many are ignoramuses, I so call them that. Furthermore, I have, I must admit, another purpose. To those who display their ignorance, I point that out, including you. You find that offensive? well, educate yourself. If you can’t, then why not give up expressing so many stupidities?
If you can’t find references to me on the internet, it would likely be that you don’t know how to do so. Get on Google and type in “Brian R. Sullivan.” (Remember to use the quotation marks.)
Finally, I don’t understand what you mean by “you’re neither an intellect nor a gentleman” Do you mean “intellectual”? As for gentleman, in the strictest sense of the word, no American can be one. The Constitution forbids American citizens from having titles. If you mean that I’m not polite, you are right. I have no interest in being being polite to people whom I find despicable and deliberately blind to the facts. On a blog where most writers make nonsensical attacks on people they have never met, charge them with offenses which are the false accusations of liars and moral degenerates, have hoplessly ignorant opinions abut matters they don’t understand, accept the fairy tales produced by right-wing con artists and refuse to educate themselves, how else can I react. I call ‘em as I see ‘em. Except that in my case, I know whereof I blog.
Finally I don’t make threats veiled or otherwise. What I have said is if you make false acusations about me or call me dishonorable, then have the courage to say it to my face. Given what I have revealed about myself, it should be easy to find me. If you can’t afford to come, let me know where to find you. You find that a threat? If so, you are unable to think clearly.
Finally, what does the word “aliterate” mean?

Hey you all – instead of yelling at EACH OTHER -how about a laugh instead.  Read this and react to MEXICO – and other countries who expect us to do their job:  Enjoy!!

MEXICO IS MAD AT ARIZONA

—- Mexico is angry at the influx of Mexicans into Mexico!

The worm has turned. Wait till Arizona ships a bunch more back
home…the yelling will be deafening.

The Mexican State of Sonora is angry at the Influx of Mexicans into Mexico.  Can you believe this? Can you believe the nerve of these people?

Nine state legislators from the Mexican state of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona’s new employer crackdown on illegals from Mexico.

It seems many Mexican illegals are now returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked! A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say the State of Arizona’s new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state.

At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora, Arizona’s southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns—cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs, and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers in Arizona return to their hometowns without jobs or money.

The law, which took effect January 1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don’t have valid legal documents to work in the United States.  Penalties include suspension or loss of a business license.

The Mexican officials are ticked off because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing an extensive burden on their state government.

Mexican State Representative Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales, has some nerve. She wants to tell the state of Arizona how the law will affect Mexican families on both sides of the border. “How can they pass a law like this?” asked Mexican Rep. Amparano- Gamez. “There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,” she said in Spanish. “Mexico is not prepared for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans who worked in Arizona to send home money, now are jobless and returning to hometowns in Sonora.” Then she added,  “We, Sonora and Arizona, are one family, socially, and economically.”

Wrong. The United States is a sovereign nation and its states and its citizens are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico’s citizens.  It’s time for the Mexican government to stop parasitically feeding off of the United States and start taking care of its own citizens. All our states should pass a law like Arizona.

Maybe that’s the answer since Congress will not do anything.

Dear Ms./Mrs./Ms. vox, I can fully understand that you have a difficult time following my reasoning. That appears to be because you can’t think logically or consistently. First you demanded that I cease to communicate with you, then you asked me to answer your questions. I responded to your latest request. I answered your questions about your displays of ignorance as completely as I could. In particular, I tried to explain how to read adn understand a poem in particular and poetry in general. But that created a problem for you, doesn’t it? You were faced with explanations you could not comprehend. But that’s not my problem, is it? Perhaps you might try to communicate with your new dog. there are some good books that explain how to do that.

Dear Ms. O, Did you inspire “The Story of O”? If you did, could you describe your experiences in more detail? If you find me tedious, it might be because you don’t have the slightest idea what I write about. In case it hasn’t occured to you, I feel an obligation to point out that you and others are incapable of understanding and judging the issues confronting us at the moment. I find your blogs reminiscent of old John Birch Society publications. You know, don’t you, where the Birchites accused Pres. Eisenhower of being a Communist agent? Now it’s the same old conspiracy nonsense put in new bottles. True, that helps the ignorant to explain things going on that they can’t understand. But it certainly doesn’t provide any solutions, does it? This free speech business can be annoying, can’t it. How about circulating a petition to abolish the First Amendment?

Sullivan, Brian R. A Thirst for Glory : Mussolini, the Italian Military and the Fascist Regime, 1922-1936. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1984.

No doubt Mr. Sullivan, this Author is the person that has caused such a ruckus in this forum. Mr. Sullivan, I appreciate your intelligence and definetely demur to your superior knowledge in all things political and warlike. But, your agenda is not mine, nor is it most of the others writing their thoughts on these subjects. They have the right to do so in peace without your untoward and bombastically rude and abrasive rubukes of their intelligence. I have known truly brilliant people in my life. Those wonderful people that I am proud to call my friends would never use their superior knowledge to blast other people in a public forum for their views. They have far too much class for such crass behavior. I respect your accomplishments, and I am sorry for your poisonous character. You must be a very unhappy man to have to strike out so rudely at others in order to feel good about yourself. Tis a pity.

Hi again Jack.  When you first warned about Mr. Sullivan I didn’t even read ANY of his posts because I felt it was a waste of my time so I don’t know anything of what he has been saying – and I really don’t care what he has to say.  I don’t pay attention to people like him.  Let him trash me all he wants, I will never see it anyway.  Then he will be a big man, huh?  And, I am not intimidated by people like him either.  I don’t let them bother me in the slightest little bit.

I am more than happy to debate people on the issues but people who just name-call and try to upset others don’t want to talk about the issues, they just distract. 

If everyone would quit reading his posts and stop responding to him, he will eventually go away.  If he doesn’t that’s okay as well.  He obviously likes the attention and I refuse to give it to him.

Personally, when I see someone who posts a negative or rude comment I just go on to the next one and read the ones that have something worth while to say.  There are so many good ones, why even look at the others?

Take care.

And Mr. Sullivan as to your comment on “The Story of O”. My, what a sleezy suggestion. I happen to be a mature woman with several Grandchildren. I am a Christian to boot sir. I had to google that to find out what it was. I chuckled that you would insult a woman of my age with such crass garbage. How sad you are. But, my self respect is certainly not damaged, in fact I had quite a laugh at the suggestion. The truth is, I called my father Daddyo in the sixties. He returned the favor. Since I lost him at an early age, I adopted the name. I am very surprised that a man of your intellect had to stoop so low to hurl another insult.

Getting back to the article about Obama’s Communist influences—-

what troubles me is that I see both the Democratic and Republican party leaders heading into the same direction although in different ways. That direction is towards tyranny with a loss of our Constitutional rights and at the same time, confiscating more of our wealth to redistribute as government bureaucrats see fit.

Obviously, this doesn’t bother Obama supporters in the least who seem to embrace socialism as a “change” for the better.

Dear Ms. Elaine, You certainly have Socialism and Communism as symbols of your deepest fears. But that reveals only your paranoia. Consider your rage as the Catholic Church beng taken over by Commie/Socialists 1960, creating what you label the “phony church.” Leaving aside theological issues, let me teach you a bit of history. In 1864, Pope Pius IX, surely the most reactionary Supreme Pontiff of modern times, issued The Syllabus of Errors. He did so in what you seem to think were the good old days of of the Latin Mass, nuns dressed up like medieval women, attempts at censorship like the Index of Forbidden Books (remember that more recent abomination, “The League of Decency” lists of what movies you should or not see?) and other such disgraces. Well in that far-off and happy time, let me list some of the things Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus. 22) Freedom of thought and expression; 23, 55, 56, 57, 75, 76) Separation of church and state; 24) the end to the Vatican’s right to wage war; 30, 31, 32, 41, 52) The subjection in any way of the Church, its priests and its hierarchy to civil law; 45, 47) Public Schools; 77, 78, 79) Freedom of worship and conscience; 80) Modern civilization, voting rights and democracy.
Leo XIII, Pius IX’s successor began the very slow process of rescinding such nonsense. But only at the Second Vatican Council were the condemnations of Pius IX formally abolished
So you want to go back to such a Church? Are you insane or just studpid and ignorant?

Concerning Mr. Sullivan, I agree with you, Julie O.  Please, Mr. Sullivan, remove yourself from this comment forum and find somewhere else to bore others to tears with your windy blatherings.
We said PLEASE!

“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”

Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter MD in his book “The Liberal Mind” The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

Sound familiar Shedworld, Elaine, Jack and Shirlyn?

To Julie O.,  You hit “nuthin’ but net!”

Bovine Fecal matter or BS on the comments about the Liberal Mind.  NONSENSE!!  I was raised conservatively, in my late teens and college years until 30 switched to liberalism and then got married and had kids and went ack to conservatism.  This sounds like a lot of whoo whoo to make money for the doc who wrote it!! 

There are SOOOOOOOO many exceptions to the info posted about this book that it makes me laugh!

Julie O, I hope Dr. Sullivan doesn’t think you’re discussing him lest he find you and give you a knuckle sandwich. After all, he’s one of the most erudite and tolerant persons on this forum.

Dear Ms./Mrs./Mr. Shedworld, Isn’t freedom of the press and freedom of speech annoying! Isn’t it outrageous that anybody can use a medium governed by the First Amendment?
Seriously, why do you read something that offends you? Is it “the fascination of the abominable”? In any case, there is no moral, legal or any other type of compulsion that I can think that forces you to read my blogs. If they annoy you, then don’t read them. But as to asking me to “please” stop exercising my rights as an American and a human being, my answer is simple. I am a free man and I do as I please. I guess that the freedom of others disturbs you, too. But I have this weird idea that if you press facts upon people, sometimes they are forced to think.

Dear Mr. Benitez, Why you have adopted the paranoia of Mr. Hansen escapes me. When a person anonymously tells me I lack honor because of expressing my opinions, I find that cowardly and despicable. I would like to know that person’s address and identity to bring a civil law suit against them. I also want to see what sort of person they are, in the flesh, and discover if they have the guts to tell me to my face what they previously wrote to me under cover. I have made that clear repeatedly. I do so again now. Why you think that insinuates a desire or intention to inflict bodily harm, I do not know. As far as I can figure it out, you are placing yourself in what you think is my position and then thinking how YOU would react. That, in an ironic way, proves my point.
And, in yur case, I repeat what I have already written: I have answered every question you have posed to me to the best of my ability. But you have refused to answer my questions. Of what are you afraid?

Helen…what are you doing? I have read your posts. I know you are conservative. This a paragraph out of a book. It had some relevant items for what was going on today. All of us at one time or another with the exception of my husband went through a Liberal stage. Then we grew up. Get your panties out a wad and read the book and you will get the whole paragraph in context. Whew……..

Mr Sullivan,

You obviously have a “god complex,” constantly surmising things (personality profiles, level of intelligence; all of which are clearly inferior to your own, at least in your own mind) that are simply beyond your ken.

You obviously have nothing else to do with your time as you compulsively, it would seem, feed your seeming obsession with long, boring, and interminable “contributions” to this blog.

It becomes increasingly obvious that you seek some sort of self-justification by means of your obnoxious spews which don’t rise to the level of actual writing, stopping short at psycho-babble tirades.

Any disinterested party would pick up on this from reading any of the AIM columns to which you respond.

I can only imagine your miserable existence as the dogshiet on the shoe of life.

I will eagerly await your response…so that I can consciously and deliberately avoid reading it or anything else you have to “contribute” to this blog.

Listen closely and you may hear the sound of one hand clapping.

Have a nice day.

I am not afraid of Mr. Sullivan Roberto. But, I bet some of his collegues may be a bit wary. This man is a bloviating megalomaniac. He has also shown tendencies of having visions of grandeur. Writing books does not nesessarily make one famous, especially if they are tedious and slow reading war history books. I believe Mr. Sullivan is famous in his own mind. It is funny that he gloats in a public forum about his Worldly goods. Aren’t we the wrong people for that? We, as Conservatives do not possess class envy. But of course Mr. Sullivan has displayed no class in his posts, so why would we be envyous. I am not afraid of this man in any way. He is angry and hateful, but only the spineless will demean strangers in an invisible forum. I can only imagine how horrible it would have been to have had him as a Professor. Not one time has he displayed one act of kindness. But that is typical in an enraged Liberal. Conservatives are nothing but red meat and are not to be treated as living breathing human beings. And this is the party of bipartisanship??????

Mr. Sullivan, Believe me, I will always respect your freedom of speech.  The point that I find myself in agreement with some other people here is that you insist on using this comment forum as your personal blog.  Since there are no rules (none that I have seen specifically) about limiting the length of comments here, you indeed have the right to write whatever you please.  My request is simply that the discourse would be more engaging and enlightening for all readers if we would commit to, as a matter of civility and courtesy, avoiding any name calling and personal attacks, and most importantly whenever necessary, stay with the subject of the article.  And by the way, I think only a masochist would read all of your postings in their entirety.  Jeesh!

Dear Ms./Mrs./Mr. voxounreason, I have no way to know but I very much doubt that you will actually stop reading my blogs. You appear attracted and repelled simultaneously, with the former in ascent.
As to your comments about my “god complex” : please try to think clearly and logically about what you have written. It presents what appears to be a case of “wearing your subconscious on your sleeve.” Consider the following that you wrote to and about me: “You obviously have nothing else to do…It becomes increasingly obvious…Any disinterested party would pick up…. I can only imagine your miserable existence.”
Please try to think this through. I don’t expect you to believe it, only to understand it. You are making statements about what you cannot know. I don’t mean arguing about who I am or what I do. I mean you are expressing an implied ability beyond human powers, a kind of vision into other people’s minds and into mine. That approaches a concept of your own omniscience. MY “god complex”?
P.S. Why do you think when I address a blog to you, you are my intended recipient. Isn’t it possible I have other readers in mind?
PP.S. “The dogshiet on the shoe of of life”? No wonder you have a hard time understanding good poetry. You can’t create images that make any sense. Why should life wear shoes? Does life wear other clothing? If I’m dogshiet (I suppose you were trying to write the vulgar expression for dog feces), who is the dog? What does the dog eat to produce such excrement? Is the dog a companion to life? How and why has life stepped on the dog’s droppings? But enough. Even if you can’t comprehend this, others will.

Major Sullivan, I believe there’re a number of posters who believe you might react with violence in a face to face discussion, including myself. You’ve shown your belligerency and have stated your disrespect for those who disagree with you. So please don’t insinuate I would use violence. It only shows your have no idea what being an officer and a gentleman means. As for your questions, go ahead and ask them.

“… All your blogs are judgemental [sic] from start to finish. Phyisicn [sic], heal thyself. …” -BR Sullivan

“… Dear Ms. Elaine, You certainly have Socialism and Communism as symbols of your deepest fears. But that reveals only your paranoia. …” – BR Sullivan

“…Dear Mr. Benitez, Why you have adopted the paranoia of Mr. Hansen escapes me. When a person anonymously tells me I lack honor because of expressing my opinions, I find that cowardly and despicable. I would like to know that person’s address and identity to bring a civil law suit against them. …” – BR Sullivan

“… I tried to explain how to read adn [sic] understand a poem in particular and poetry in general. …” – BR Sullivan

“… Please try to think this through. I don’t expect you to believe it, only to understand it. You are making statements about what you cannot know. I don’t mean arguing about who I am or what I do. I mean you are expressing an implied ability beyond human powers, a kind of vision into other people’s minds and into mine. That approaches a concept of your own omniscience. MY “god complex”?  …” – BR Sullivan

You know Sullivan, you really have a hard time accepting the fact that not everyone thinks like you, nor should they. I’d like to see you attempt to file a credible civil lawsuit against someone who points out your caustic behavior lacks honor. That would be great comic relief!

As I said earlier: get over yourself.

Dear Mr. Benitez, I would find it extremely tedious to repeat the questions I have asked you but to which you have not responded. Those questions are located in the blogs I addressed to you. Surely you must remember SOME of them. But I’ll repeast a simple one. In what dictionary can oen find the word “aliterate”?

Dear Mr. Galt, Why don’t you consult a lawyer or law book about slander and libel suits? Then consult others about bringing a libel or slander suit in the United Kingdom. That may seem irrelevant. However, these blogs can be picked up across the Atlantic, so British laws are also applicable. Of course, for me to do so, once I had identified and located those against I wish to bring such suits, would cost me a considerable amount of money. But I have the money and the motivation. Even in this country, the Scientolgists have shown how much pain they can bring upon a person even if they lose a case. Ross Perot demonstrated how much information can be legally acquired about any individual through the use of private detectives. You also seem unaware of how any message sent by e-mail can be traced to its originator. And, you can appeal and appeal, even if you lose your case at first attempt. You think capitalism is a great system? So do I? But it’s based on money and money buys power in all sorts of ways. You really are amazingly ignorant.

Post #7
Hi Ms. Sabin—
Thankyou for sharing, and I must apologize.  I seems I didn’t make myself clear in trying to convey my frustration with situations like the subject of this article.  I thought my closing paragraph was to the point; namely that Obama, and the rest of the democrats and their liberal cohorts, are afraid to show their true selves:

“If his socialist policies , and socialism in general, are good things, then why hide? “

I’m with you, Ms. Helen!!  “Community organizer” is Obama’s way of saying COMMUNIST.

Dear Mr. Galt, (in case you didn’t see this from the other blog)
I must disappoint you. I have both fame and fortune. Admittedly, fame is a trivial thing. (After all, isn’t one of the criticisms of Obama is that he’s only a “celebrity”?) But I have quite a wide reputation among people in several fields of endeavor. Some must remain secret. But the reason why I was concerned about being home when the FBI was supposedly going to visit me, is that I have to be in Italy from late September to late October. I’ve been invited by the consortium of Italian Universities that have military history courses to deliver a paper at a meeting in Turin. My topic is scholarship by Americans on Italian military history over the past 25 years, about which I’m considered an expert. (Am I boasting? Well, it’s the truth.) After that, I’m going to Rome to give another paper to the leadership of the Carabinieri. It will be on the book I’m working on now: the history of intelligence opeerations during the Fascist Regime. In addition, if you look at a copy of the New York Times Book Review of 2 May 1993, you will find that a book I co-authored has a review on the front page. Do you know anything about the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University? If not, you can find another source of my fame, if you’re willing to do a small amount of research.  Finally, if you want a complete notion of what I have accomplished, send me a mailing address and I’ll send you back my C.V. (Use a post office box, if – as Mr. Hansen fears – you worry that I might come to murder you.) It’s up to you to decide if I’m irrelevant as far as you’re concerned. I could hardly care less, however, about your opinions. But relevant or irrelevant to what? Relevancy has nothing to do with celebrity.
As for fortune, I made enough to allow me to retire from money-making in 1993, at age 52. I have a very comfortable life, enjoy the best wine and food, travel overseas quite frequently, drive a BMW 500 series and do as I please – mostly writing.
But you don’t seem to remember what you asked me. That was: “Doesn’t a group of millions comprise millions of individuals? Does not the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution explicitly demand the protection of the inalienable rights of individuals? How can one morality or set of advice apply to individuals and another apply to a group of individuals as you imply above?” That I answered as fully as I could. From my point of view, I think I answered your question as posed above quite thorougly.
As for my supposed sense of superiority, that’s your impression based, I suppose, on jealousy. DON’T BE JEALOUS. The only superiority that has any value is in matters completely extraneous to what you know or could know about me. What is that? Well, to put it in theological terms, I don’t want to spend too many billions of years in Purgatory. However vain it may be, my hope is to get off with a few thousand. After that, I hope to get as close to the Divine Presence as I can. that the only superiority that matters.
As for me discussing my reading, I have two purposes. To suggest what bloggers might look at to correct their ignorance and to refute some of the nonsensical political opinions being expressed. Other than that, why should I bother to mention any books at all?
As for your other points, I’ve never read any French S&M;novels, or any in other languages. If you are referring to my mention of The Story of O, you will have to wait until I write to Ms.O to explain my point. It does seem that neither you nor her were able to grasp my point. But I promise to make it as clear as possible so that you can understand.
What makes you think that I’m angry about my mortality? You think that I’m angry at God? Now THAT woudl be extraordinary! Of course, I fear death but not for any reason you could understand, I don’t think. I’ve gone “looking for trouble” and found it so often that I’ve gotten used to feeling the terror of dying. I don’t enjoy feeling frightened out of my wits but I keep putting myself in the position to do so. One of my biggest weaknesses is a deep desire for adventure. that has led me into some serious predicaments, such as nearly being killed by a lion in Ngorogoro in Kenya in 1972 and being swept a fair way out to sea off the coast of Bali in 1994. But, of course, these anecdotes must annoy you. Sorry.
What personal relationships have I destroyed? That leaves me mystified. Even if I had done so, how would you know, in any case? As for my supposed pathos and pathology, that’s in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?
If you want to ask me a question about the teaching of Jesus, feel free. But up to know, you haven’t. And why do you think I’m trying to impress you? Of what possible benefit to me would that be? It does suggest, however, that you have a mighty high opinion of yourself and consider yourself someone I would like to so influence? It may be that such a high opinion of yourself is deserved. But how would I know? Care to enlighten me?
As for me being an “old bastard,” well, being 63 years old these days is hardly as bad as it used to be. If you eat and exercise properly, and don’t smoke or drink alcohol to excess, a person with good medical care is roughly in the condition of a man in his forties would have been a generation ago. As I mentioned to Mr. Hansen, rated 60% disabled. But that’s from being hit pretty badly in my right foot by mortar fragments in August 1968 inside the Northern Artillery Cantonment a few miles northwest of Danang (those wounds do hurt in cold, wet weather) and losing the hearing in my right ear from an RPG explosion on Hill 364 due west of Danang in February 1969 (I kept that to myself, so no second Purple Heart).
As for living some before I go into the grave – wow! First of all, I’m not going to have a grave. I’ll be cremated. “Living some”? You’ve got to be kidding. I’ve been doing thatto the fullest for over 50 years. And, based on the curent state of my health and the age of my parents, I fully expect to live into my nineties. With the medical research now being conducted, I may even live past 100. “Bastard”? Shame upon you. My parents were married at the time of my conception and my birth. But I suggest what you really mean is that you think you don’t like me. Why should I care?
Finally, you think that I’m unhappy? Certainly a number of things bother me, such as your ignorance and inability to think clearly. But I wake up almost every morning after a restful night’s sleep – although sometimes I have bad dreams, especially what happened to me in Mozambique back in the late 1970s. Thereafter, after a good breakfast and a glance at the papers, I get down to writing. Writing, at least good writing, is hard work. But I really love that way to spend my days. After a good dinner and half a bottle of good wine, I usually watch a DVD with my wife. Finally, even though I’m a pathetic pathological old bastard, we often make love. My wife is quite a bit younger than me and, I think, gorgeous. Even though we’ve been married for a number of years, the fire stil burns.
If I’m that busy, why am I blogging so much? Because I finished a chapter a few days ago and need a break. I decided to drop in on you right-wing morons to amuse myself (this HAS been fun!)and for a larger purpose, which I’ll soon reveal and explain. I’ll get to your next blog soon.
P.S. I’ve been insulted by experts, Mr. Galt. You hardly come close. But don’t try to mess with me. If you do, I’ll humiliate you far worse the next time. Don’t beleive me? Try it.

Here I begin.

1. AIM logic, using only the truth.

a. MCCAIN SPENT FIVE YEARS IN COMMUNIST NORTH VIETNAM WHILE THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN TROOP WERE DYING IN THE SOUTH! WORSE, WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE TO LEAVE, HE REFUSED! HE MUST HAVE LIKED IT THERE.

b. William Kristol, supposed conservative editor of the Weekly Standard and op-ed columnist for the New York Times was raised and mentored by a Trotskyite – his very own father, Irving Kristol! The elder Kristol was a long-time member of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party. Obviously, under such malignant influence, William Kristol must now be only pretending to be a neocon. Surely, he is some kind of Trot mole. Beware of anything he says or writes!

I assure you everything I have written about the Kristols is true. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
More to come.

JA – Obama is a Marxist in thinking, planning and legislation.  HE is obviously for eugenics as the Marxists were as he voted against the partial live birth abortion bill.  The chilling story of the baby that was born and dumped into a closet to die was the most disgusting thing I have ever heard and OB wasn’t bothered by it? 

HE rails against slavery and the young Black men impregnating their women and then leaving them – much like his father did to OBama but then he is for abortion? 

Have any of you ever wondered why the BLACKS didn’t thank the WHITES for stopping slavery? 

IN doing genealogy research, you can see where brother was set against brother during the civil war and families split up over the issue.  Many times, brother killed brother if their batallions ran against each other in the hills of Tennessee or South CArolina. 

Yet – you NEVER hear any BLACK say, Thank you! 

I wonder if Obama would like to start doing that??

Brian R. Sullivan,

You asked why didn’t I answer your questions. I believe I did but here are some answers if you’ll accept them.

Do you think that Catholic priests are more guilty of pedophilia than ministers, rabbis or imams?

How is one more guilty (guiltier) than another of the same crime. If you mean do I think the incidence of pedophilia is more prevalent among priests than among ministers and rabbis, the answer is no. But that has no relevance to the question I asked. I can’t change the question because as far as I know no one has ever accused Rev. Wright of pedophilia.

So why haven’t you educated yourself in these matters? (This was in regard to my question as to whether or not YOU believed non-Catholic Christians were saved.)

I did answer this. I said I asked YOU what YOU believed, not what the Vatican Council or the Pope believed. I was aware of what the Pope taught but I wanted to know your opinion. By the way, my wife was fired from teaching at a Catholic school because a parent and a nun believed that as a non-Catholic she wasn’t a Christian.

Furthermore, you seem oblivious to what I have written about my acceptance of Church teaching. How more clear can I get?

Rather than launch into long dissertations about what the Church taught on the matter, you could directly answer the question of what YOU personally believed. But I think you were just trying once again to impress people with your knowledge. It may be extensive, and God knows you’ve certainly bragged about it a lot, but a succinct answer would have sufficed.

What gives you the idea that I consider myself an expert on Church history?

Your braggadocio on a number of posts and your statement “I do know, however, that I am far more knowledgeable than most other people, including you.”

What possibly led you to the conclusion that I claim to have read every document released by Vatican II?

The question was rhetorical in light of your braggadocio although I suspect you are fairly well read in that regard, far more so than I am.

How about trying to act like an adult?

Is that a question or just another one of your grammatical mistakes? In any event, I hardly think your conduct is very adult like with your attempts at intimidation of about every poster who dares disagree with you, you berating of them, and you admitted contempt for those you consider beneath you.

More to the point, if you are a Christian you feel comfortable about telling me I commit he sin of lying? How could you possibly know that? That comes pretty close to blasphemy in my book, that is a man claiming to know what only God can.

So claiming that you lied is blasphemy? A person can know when another person lies when that person puts forth as fact what isn’t true. You have made assertions about me that weren’t true and when confronted have continued to do so. Specifically you have asserted that I’m anti-catholic. That is a lie on your part. By the way, there was another misspelling in your statement.

Do you understand what “demogogue” means?

A demagogue is one who treats or manipulates a political or other issue in the manner to obscure or distort with emotionalism, prejudice, etc. Addressing questions by verbosity and going off into irrelevant tangents are demagoguery, something that you do more of the than not on this forum.

As for not answering simple, direct questions, which?

Let’s start with my question about the situation I mentioned about the Rev. Wright and Obama, then with the question about your belief about other Christians. You didn’t answer my question as to what your PhD was in and wouldn’t give an internet address that listed your accomplishments although you’ve certainly bragged to quite a few poster about them.

You sure don’t know much about economics or economic history, do you?

It would seem I know more than you do. The basis of modern liberalism is the welfare state and redistributive taxation, not as you claimed classical liberalism based on the word liberty.  You implied it yourself when you said “the greater good” in your approval of the SCOTUS Kelo Decision which you first identified as Kay SCOTUS, a shorthand version of each according to his ability and to each according to his need. Now I didn’t say liberalism or socialism was the same as communism although you tried to imply that I did. Furthermore, I wasn’t discussing economics or economic history but the effect of the Kelo Decision on the Fifth Amendment and the right of private property ownership. It was you who once again decided to obfuscate the issue by going off on a tangent.

Since so many are ignoramuses, I so call them that. Furthermore, I have, I must admit, another purpose. To those who display their ignorance, I point that out, including you. You find that offensive?

Yes I do as I find calling people swine and ass as well. Perhaps to you that seems perfectly gentlemanly.  Oh, I forgot you abhor being gentlemanly.

well, educate yourself. If you can’t, then why not give up expressing so many stupidities?

Besides the additional grammatical mistake you make, perhaps I don’t believe I’ve expressed an stupidities, but then in your hubris I doubt you’d understand that.

You find that a threat?

As I said, in light of your demonstrated contempt for others I do find it a threat. But I live in Omaha, Nebraska.

Finally, what does the word “aliterate” mean?

Do we need to go over that again? It’s a person who can read but who chooses not to gain information from what the read. As I said, I use it in the sense William Buckley used it.

Finally, how DARE you state that I only “claim” to be a Catholic? What do you know about the state of my soul? What do you know about how I practise my religion?”

You claimed you were a Catholic making a big deal of it numerous times. That made it a legitimate issue. As to what do I know about the state of your soul? Well the Bible says you can tell about a tree from its fruits. Can you honestly say you have no respect for those who disagree with your views, that you can call them names like swine or ass, berate and bully them, make veiled threats, and say that’s good Christian conduct? I hardly thin so and I’m sure a lot of other posters would agree with me. How many do you think would agree with you or with your statement that you abhor being a gentleman, not to mention your utter misunderstanding of the term and your claim that it’s unconstitutional to say that you’re not a gentleman as I claimed?  However, that’s not to say you’re not saved. If you’ve accepted Jesus as your Savior, and from your somewhat convoluted answers I believe you have, then I believe you’re saved. That’s the most important thing that can be said between us.

Did you mean “illiteracy” and “illiterate”?

No, I meant aliteracy and aliterate. But you stated “That’s really funny, even though you didn’t intend it that way. That you so display your gnorance is astounding.”

But go to such sites as thefreedictionary.com, havenworks.com, wordsmith.org, merriam-webster.com, Dictionary.com, bartleby.com, dictionary.die.net, WordReferenced.com or wordwebonline.com which was the one where I first found it when I began to use the word which is defined as follows: aliterate: A noun;  1 aliterate, aliterate person;  a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources; in an archaic sense as Mr. William Buckley use it as meaning a person who could read and write but chose not to derive information from what they read, a trait he accused liberals of often having in that they would read what someone wrote but would intentionally choose to misinterpret what they read and then disseminate untruths about what someone wrote. That the sense of the word that I accuse you of. Now you may well disagree that you didn’t do so, but please have the courage and decency to apologize for calling me illiterate for using it.

Do you own a dictionary?

  Yes, I do.

While I’m on this subject: “Jewish Rabies”! Do you mean “Rabbis”? “bazaar claims”! Do you mean “bizarre”?

Ye, I did make those spelling errors, but unlike you I won’t claim I was tired although I did write the response in the very early morning. However, in that very response you made a few errors such as: gnorance rather than ignorance, Gramm rather than Graham, pedophila rather than pedophilia, youhave rather than you have, preist rather than priest, yu rather than you, So,go rather than So, go, intolerence rather than intolerance, and adieu which you chose to use the out dated definition rather than the more common usage as found in thesaurus.com as follows: main entry:  adieu; part of speech: noun; synonyms:  adios, aloha, au revoir, cheerio, exit, farewell, good-bye, so long, valediction. But I do see you didn’t challenge the rest of my interpretation of the meaning of your farewell. I didn’t include practise, as you spelled it three times, as that was on another of your posts where you also wrote citizens.Foreigners rather than citizens. Foreigners, dont’ rather than don’t, indeep rather than indeed, politicans rather than politicians, and diferent rather than different.

As I see it you made seventeen errors to my two. Yet you stated “I do know, however, that I am far more knowledgeable than most other people, including you.” I guess that justifies your calling me the semi-illiterate ignoramus rather than admit you have a problem with the English language as well. Furthermore, I see you don’t use paragraphs. I would think a PhD would know that using them makes for easier reading. It’s a matter of grammatical structure which you accuse me of knowing nothing about. Perhaps you’d like to elucidate more on that.

Now do you have any other questions? If not, I have a few.

What’s the basis for your claim that I’m anti-Catholic?
Why were you not able to find out that the word “aliterate” was a real word yet chose of chastise me because I couldn’t find any sites that lists your achievements?
What’s your constitutional argument that I’m not allowed to say you’re not a gentleman in the modern usage of the word?
If the modern word “gentleman” is unconstitutional, then isn’t your insistence that another poster address you as Major or professor hypocritical?
Would you reject the Dictionary.com definition of the term gentleman as a civilized, educated, sensitive, or well-mannered man?
Is the Naval War College, a prestigious institution, the only military war college?
Is the Naval War college a military war college or not?
Did you take offense because I forgot you said NAVAL War College as opposed to the Army War College or the Air War College?
Why did you imply I was racist?
Am I the semi-illiterate ignoramus when it’s you who made seventeen or more spelling errors to my two and it’s you who doesn’t know the existence of let alone the meaning of the word “aliterate?”

“Obama’s Communist Cover-up Continues”

Thanxs for an other excellent article Cliff.

As to the verbosity of B.S.‘s pedantic rubbish , or better B.R.S.‘s , these narcisstic types with waaaaayyyy too much time on their hands , also love to pose , mime and speak in front of a favoured mirror , those overbloated word accumulations serve only their own equally overblown vanity => a narcissistic Buffoon => a form of mental disorder.

Dear Ms. Sabin, Do you mean that Obama’s supposed support for eugenics makes him a COMMUNIST? In fact, the Commies had little or no interest in such racial fantasies. Why? Because both Stalin and Trotsky believed that human nature would be transformed by reorganizing society along Communist lines. They thought that capitalism lowered most people’s intelligence. thus, to end capitalism and creat a Communist society would transform human nature. That’s not eugenics but social engineering. Certainly the latter is as misguided as the former. But they are hardly the same. The two main groups of which I am aware that studied, practised or attempted to act on eugenic concepts were AMERICAN ANTI-BLACK RACISTS and the NAZIS.
So, do you think that Obama is a Nazi or an anti-Black racist? That’s really strange.

Dear Mr. Benitez, You have answered some of my questions but hardly all. Furthermore, you either didn’t read what I wrote very carefully or you can’t understand my words. I will point this out later.
But you have begun to explain yourself to me, perhaps unintentionally. The story about your wife being dismissed from her teaching job is quite revealing about the roots of your anti-Catholicism.
I will make one general comment however. You certainly jump to conclusions frequently, without evidence to support them. And you continue to ascribe motives, intentions and attitudes to me that defy logic or are contrary to the facts. I’ll cite chapter and verse in a while. And your number count of errors and mistakes is very amusing. In that regard, please keep playing the village idiot. You bring me – however uncharitable it is on my part – great joy.

>>And your number count of errors and mistakes is very amusing… You bring me – however uncharitable it is on my part – great joy.

Small pleasures for small minds.

;>)

“… You also seem unaware of how any message sent by e-mail can be traced to its originator. … You really are amazingly ignorant. …” – BR Sullivan

Dear poseur Sullivan:

I’ve forgotten a lot more about network and computer security than you’ll ever know. And yes I did read your earlier bloviation directed at me, but decided it merited no direct comment.

You should stick to Italian military history.

You should also stop your psychological projection on this forum. You expose what you hate most about yourself.

If you don’t understand what that means, read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

voxoreason, can we assume you’re another manifestation of Major Professor Brian Robert Sullivan, PhD, and world renowned writer and hero?

If you had read the reason for the count of the professor’s errors you might have understood, but that would mean acting like a mensch. The good gentleman Sullivan, your alter-ego I believe, chastised me for two spelling errors using some derogative names. Yet as I pointed out to him, you, in the very same post he, you, had made numerous spelling and grammatical errors. Now what would you call that professor? Please answer honestly if you can, like a real Marine officer would.

By the way, I understand very well that you’re uncharitable. I would add hypocritical, dishonest, and cowardly as well Mr. Sullivan.

Roberto

I have no beef with you. And I think I’ve made my opinion of Brian R abundantly clear.

I am at a loss as to why you would post such a negative description of me, as it is very much like something Brian would write.

Could you give me a post # (or #s, as the case may be) from which you have deduced the rude string of fallacies and insults that you have thrown my way?

I mean, I’m not going to lose any sleep over this, but it would be nice to know why you have addressed me in this fashion.

Thank you.

I continue

Nunc dimittis -quite literally. Have you right-wing fools gotten your passports yet? You do want to leave while you still can by plane, car or train. If you wait until January, you may be forced to flee to Cuba in a leaky boat. That’s not such a bad place any more, now that Raul Castro has begun instituting capitalism.
What do I mean? Over the past 48 hours, the campaign has been decided. It’s not so much McCain’s comments about bringing back the draft or seeming to be so disconnected from the rest of us by not even knowing how many houses he owns or even his stated belief that one has to have a net worth of at least $5 million to be rich. Rather, it’s one more sad sign of his incipient Alzheimer’s.
I don’t mean to gloat, this is a nightmare for him, his wife and kids. McCain deserves a better way to go into the dark night. But his remarks indicate what happens to one’s mind when assaulted by that horrible disease.
Of course, one can state something similar about Obama. He clearly is not in control of himself, either. He used to be a sweet guy. Not anymore. Now that he’s gone on the attack, what other explanation for this is there except he is possessed by a demon. Is it Beelzebub, the “Lord of the Flies”? Is it Mephistopheles, who dragged Faustus screaming down to hell? No, I think it’s far worse: it’s Legion.
Obama is clearly possessed not by one but multiple demons. (Remember what they told Jesus: “Our name is Legion, for we are many.”)

Voxoreason,

You made a comment that I felt was reminiscent of Brian’s posts. So I’ve assumed that you and Dr. Sullivan are the same person posting under different names and that’s the reason for the tenor of my post. There’ve been accusations that Dr. Sullivan may be using several different screen names. Or did I misattribute the remark on counting the number of errors that I pointed out in Dr. Sullivan’s post?

But let me ask, do you understand why I pointed out the numerous spelling and grammatical errors made by Prof. Sullivan, PhD or that gentleman Sullivan was resorting to the tactic of trying to divert attention from the question of what he’d do in a similar situation by accusing me of being anti-Catholic for daring to ask the question? Do you understand that since Major Sullivan made an issue of his Catholicism the best way to make a comparison for him to respond to was to ask what he’d do if faced within his own local church on the issue if a priest was involved in a scandal know to have occurred in a number of parishes and that mentioning those issues isn’t a condemnation of the Catholic Church or that the Catholic Church isn’t the only denomination that has had to deal with such a tragic issue? And can you understand that if the renowned Mr. Sullivan had said he was Muslim I would have asked him would he have left a temple if an imam had preached killing Jews or if he ware a member of the Assemblies of God as I am I would have asked if he would have left either Jimmy Swaggart’s or Jim Bakker’s church if he were aware of the problems occurring in them? Surely you don’t believe there be a complete disconnect between trying to ask questions based on comparisons of people’s experiences and backgrounds?

If you’re not the famous Major Dr. Professor Brian Robert Sullivan PhD, renowned writer, hero, military lecturer, linguist, and world traveler, then I apologize. But I think your comment was unfair in view of the specific reason I made in my response to Brian. Or did I misinterpret or misattribute the comment? If so I would owe you an apology. And just maybe the heat of this campaign is driving us all stir crazy.

Bob

Dear Mr. Benitez, Your story about how your wife was treated causes me outrage. If a priest and a nun dismissed your wife for the reasons you indicate they stated, then they are guilty of heresy theologically and also exhibited gross stupidity. What subject did your wife teach? I ask because while certain subjects taught in Catholic schools such as religion or even history are required by Canon Law to be taught by Catholics in Catholic schools (and that right is protected by civil law) that is not true for the majority of subjects. There is no such thing as Catholic mathematics or Catholic chemistry. But I am very curious about what the two of you did in response.
It is true, given our laws governing separation of church and state, that schools under religious authority enjoy certain exemptions from the laws that govern public or non-religious schools. Nonetheless, you had a number of options.
1) Did you write to the bishop of the diocese in which this outrage took place?
2) Did you contact whomever covered religion in your local newspaper? Likewise, did you contact local television stations?
3) Did you write to the representative of the Holy See to the United States?
4) If the priest was a member of a religious order, did you write to the head of that order, or, at least, to its local head? In the case of the nun, she had to have belonged to a particular order and therefore you could have contacted her mother superior?
5) Did you inform you state and federal representatives?
6) Did you picket the school?
I ask these questions because even without taking legal action – about which more below – one of the strongest weapons you could use in such a situation was ridicule and public shame. The Church is very sensitive to such accusations and, based on other examples, such actions almost always produce positive results.
I don’t know how you feel about the ACLU, but you might have contacted them, as well. I don’t know whether your local chapter would have been willing to take your case. But even if you had hired a regular lawyer, he could have most likely dealt with the situation in a private manner and arranged a settlement. Church authorities fear publicity about hypocrisy and scandal. In a country which presently has a Protetant majority, that is all the more true.
Of course, you would have been helped by some evidence, such as a baptismal certificate for your wife, if she belonged to a denomination which issues such. Or, at least, you could have been aided by a letter from whatever church she attended, to certify that she was a worshipper in a Christian church. In any case, with a certain effort on your part, you almost certainly would ahve gained satisfaction, at least in the form of money.
The Church can hardly claim to be the unique repository of virtue. Dante, after all, although not a member of the Church hierarchy, composed a epic poem about hell, purgatory and heaven that is in congruence with Cathoic doctrine. He placed many bishops, cardinals and popes in hell. (I might disagree with whom he chose. But that’s a quibble.) But the point is that Catholics are just a liable to eternal damnation as anyone else. What the Church does teach is that it is the repository of the truth as preached by Jesus and his apostles, and that truth is protected and guided by the Holy Spirit. However, that hardly offers insurance that anyone from the Catholic laity, the clergy or even the papacy is not at the same risk as any other person of bringing down upon themselves temporal or eternal punishment.
If what you have related is the full and true story – and I don’t mean to question that – you were dealing with evil. Evil must be exposed and confronted, lest it grow in power.
To put it in a very colloquial and non-religous sense, consider what Woody Allen once wrote: if you are dealing with Nazis, you don’t argue with them, you smash their heads with baseball bats. I mean that metaphorically in your case but I accept what Mr. Allen wrote in the case of Nazis and others of their kind.
You are a free man in a free state – based on liberal principles. But only if you take action, can you triumph over illiberal words and actions. 
As I said, I remain deeply outraged to learn what happened to your wife. May God forgive the people who wronged her. I don’t. (I will explain later why I seem to contradict Catholic doctrine in this case.)

Dear Ms. Sabin, your ignorance and implicit racism “stinks in the nostrils of God.” African-Americans were abused in the most horrendous way in this country for over 350 years. For a very short time, roughly from the late 1860s to the late 1870s, they gained some rights and freedoms. Then, in 1876, the Republican candidate for the presidency, Rutherford Hayes, made a corrupt bargain with southern Democrats to gain the presidency. The issue lay with the House of Representives over whether he or Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate, would be elected. Hayes offered an end to Reconstruction in return for southern votes. They agreed. Thus, no loger protected by the federal governemnt agains the Klan and other such swine, Afican-Americans were plunged back into what amounted to a new form of slavery and the additional horrors of Jim Crow. You expect them to express gratitude? Consider how your predecessors and you would feel if you had been subjected to that. In the end. African-Americans, inspired by Marin Luther King and many others, figured out how to shame their white fellow-citizens into granting them the rights they had supposedly been granted ninety years earlier. You expect them to express gratitude for for their supposed liberation? Do you have any idea about the course of American history? It seems not. Instead, your racism screams out from your blog.
You doubt this? You may lack the ability to read a serious book on the subject. But you might rent two movies to gain some idea of what happened: “Birth of a Nation” and “Home of the Brave.”
By the way, my maternal grandfather’s grandfather fought in the Civil War. He lost an arm In the Wilderness. From all accounts, he was a racist of the most abominable kind. He, like most Union soldiers, certainly didn’t fight for Black liberty, only to preserve the Union. (In fact, even Lincoln stated in 1860 and 1861, if the preservation of slavery would bring the Confedrate states back into the Union, he would support the continuation of the “peculiar institution.” You doubt this, don’t take my word, inform yourself.

Brian or whoever you are, thanks for showing your true colors. Of course you want all “right-wing fools” out of the country. It explains your comments about your disrespect and contempt for those you don’t agree with. If there were any doubt you wanted harm to come to others it’s over. So which Gulag camp have you signed up to run? For someone who claims to be a Marine Major, who if it were true would have taken a pledge to defend the Constitution, you post like a Jarhead.

Dear Mr. Benitez, I will get back to your latest blogs in a while. Once again, however, however much I sympathize with what happened to your wife – and I most sincerely do – I remain astonished by your inability to understand simple written English and even slighty complex ideas.

Dear Mr. Benitez, Once again I am astounded by your inability to think clearly and to read with comprehension. Look back through the blogs on this and other sites. Consider the paranoid comments about what would happen to the country if Obama were elected. If the people who wrote them actually believed what they wrote, then they should be preparing to flee. But I was ironic and sarcastic. It seems such takes on nonsense are beyond your ken. My point, you knucklehead, is that not only is the election now effectively decided and that we are witnessing a genuine tragedy – the mental disintegration of a true hero – but that if said bloggers were sincere, they would be preparing to depart for elsewhere. Of course, they aren’t.
In addition, why are you incapable of discovering what I have done and who I am? It’s all over the the internet and not posted by me. For example, look at the front page of the NY Times Book Review for 2 May 1993. Find a copy of any of my books or articles, as posted on line. Look at a Yale University course catalogue for the 1984-88 period or the same for the Naval War College for 1988-91. Look me up in the indexes to the NY Times. Find the book on those Marines who won Silver Stars in Vietnam. Look at microfilm of Corriere della Sera for the June-July 1994 period, etc. etc. Do you actually think that what I have written about myself isn’t true? Your use of “claim” in my regard astounds me. Get a post office box if you fear the consequences of supposed mad dog personality. I would be glad to mail you any proof you request as to what I have done and who I am. I can’t grasp the cause of your obtuseness. Perhaps it is because you think that a person who demolishes your fantasies has to be a liar, a con artist or a poseur. But the truth is that you are terrified of having your illusions shattered, isn’t it?

Brian, or whoever you are, in light of your incessant pugnaciousness with just about everyone on this forum it’s not just me that believes that you’re a liar., a fraud, and a blowhard. So as a matter of fact I doubt you ever served, were ever an instructor, or ever earned a PhD. More than likely you’ve stolen the accomplishment of others. But go ahead and ask others on this board their impression of you.

By the way, you needn’t answer the questions I asked you as I wouldn’t believe the answers of a cad and a cur. I do apologize for calling you a Jarhead however; that’s insulting to real Marines, officers, and gentlemen. My only regret is that your puerile posts couldn’t be given wider exposure on other boards. You’d be a secret weapon for McCain.

Dear Mr. Galt, Once again, you have made a fool of yourself. How could you possibly have any notion of my knowledge of network or computer security? Did you ever work for the NSA or even with the NSA? (Yes, there is a hint there.) I mentioned what I wrote in that regard only to point out what was incorrect about your notions of how effective libel and slander suits can be, however preposterous their legal premises might be in the eyes of some. (You raised the issue, not me.)
As for what you call MY bloviation, re-read your pitiful attempt to belittle me. You made a string of comments about me that were not only ridiculous but that revealed enraged jealousy. (By the way, would you like an invitation to dine with me and my wife? I would be happy to pay your way and put you up. I make the offer to prove to you that what I wrote is entirely true. If you do accept my invitation, let me know what you like to eat and what wines you prefer. I would be sure to suit your tastes. I assure you, I am completely sincere) 
As I wrote, I would also be glad to send you proof of everything I stated about my life, if I had a mailing address of any kind. 
Some other points: you acquire your knowledge of psychiatry and psychology from web sites? Amazing! You think you know what I hate most about myself? Think about what that reveals about you. It is certainly true that there are things that I have done and said, failures, missed opportunities and so forth that I very much regret. For example, I never visited the national museum in Baghdad before it was looted and I failed to prevent – insofar as I could – the suicide of a friend. But is that type of thing not true of all people? But as for hating myself, there are certain clear indications of such misery. To the best of my knowledge, none of them apply to me. Do you have any ideas in that regard? Do tell. Who knows, you might help me.
By the way, in regard to “poseur,” in what way do you think I deserve to be described as such?
But remember what I wrote to you about humiliation. You’ve already made a fool of yourself about such matters as my fame and fortune. Want to do so again?
And why should I stick to Italian military history? I certainly enjoy reading and writing about that subject. But, at the moment, I enjoy tormenting you far more. Please give me the chance for more of that.

John Galt,

Just who the hell is this Brian Sullivan? Now he’s an operative for no such agency. Next he’ll claim he worked for the CIA, SRC, or the NCA thru NEACP. I’ll even bet he claims to have directed RC135S Cobra Ball. What a braggart.

Dear Messrs Benitez and Galt, I address this blog to both of you on the same matter. The existence and name of the National Security Agency was never a secret. That was true about the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which operates our spy satellite system. By the last years of the Cold War, such secrecy had become rather pointless, hence the joke about “no such ORGANIZATION.” NSA headquarters is located at Ft. Meade MD, that of the NSO near Dulles airport – although that latter fact is not widely known.
Are either of you willing to travel to Arlington National Cemetery on 8 September? If so, I would be happy to meet you there and makes things clearer to you. That day, LtGen William Odom’s body will be buried. He died unexpectedly in his sleep several weeks ago. But it takes time to prepare a burial ceremony for a three star general. There are only a small number of horses to draw the caisson and the guard troops at Ft. McNair need time to rehearse.
Bill Odom was an instructor at West Point in the early 1970s. He expected to retire soon and began studying at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Columbia U toward a PhD, to prepare for entering civilian life. One of his professors was Zbigniew Brezhinski. Since Odom had been US military attache in Moscow, he and Zbig had many interests in common and soon became close friends. After Pres. Carter made ZB his national security adviser in 1977, the latter persuaded Odom to become his deputy. Bill rose in rank very rapidly. By the end of Carter’s term, he had risen to lieutenant general and been appointed to head the NSA.
Odom was extremely liberal. (I guess the Commies must have noticed and turned him during Bill’s Moscow days, right?) Nonetheless, Pres. Reagan left Odom in place during the first part of his administration. Despite a common perception to the contrary, Reagan had many liberal friends and was even close to a goood number of ex-Communists. After all, Reagan had spent many years in the Hollywood community and been head of the Screen Actors Guild. He had no objection to keeping Bill as head of the NSA. (So Reagan must have been a Commie or, at least, heavily influenced by them, don’t you think?)I became acquainted with Odom thereafter and eventually we became friends. That relationship strengthened after Bill became an adjunct professor at Yale.
As for your doubts about what I only hinted vaguely about, they should be resolved that day at the ceremony. I’m quite serious about this suggestion.
P.S. Mr. Galt, do you have some kind of compulsion to make yourself look like an idiot?

Dear Mr. Galt, I forgot to mention one point. I never worked for the CIA. Neither have I ever claimed to or even hinted at such. I did work with some its members both on Italian matters and counter-terrorism matters over a number of years. As I mentioned, I was a senior research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) inside National Defense University, from 1991 to 1998. INSS and CIA are closely linked and members of each visit the headquarters of the other quite frequently. It’s a fairly short drive from F. Mcnair to Maclean, VA. (Despite many ignorant sttements made in movies, the CIA HQ is not in Langley.) By the way, it’s ill-advised to mention even the code names of certain projects and organizations.

Bob: Or did I misattribute the remark on counting the number of errors that I pointed out in Dr. Sullivan’s post?

Could be. I don’t pay that much attention to this guy’s posts, but have noted that he can’t write a post without a number of misspellings, typos, and a large dose of what John Galt called (correctly, in my view) projection. Brain is a legend in his own mind.

Accusing me of being Brian writing under another alias was very insulting. I’m sure you’d feel the same way!

I do think you went off a bit half-cocked in the blast you leveled at me, but if there was some kind of misunderstanding on your part, apology accepted. As stated, I have no beef with you, and I am by no means a Brian clone.

Some people DO consider me rather opinionated. Imagine that!

“Dear Mr. Galt, Once again, you have made a fool of yourself. How could you possibly have any notion of my knowledge of network or computer security? …” – BR Sullivan

My comment was based on your apparent lack of understanding the distinction between HTTP POST and SMTP. You referenced tracing e-mails when most of the discussion of your libel allegations related to the messages posted here.

One does not have to have worked for or with a government intelligence agency to know things about network and computer security. Your question can be reflected back to you: how could you possibly have any notion of my knowledge of network or computer security?

I am neither enraged or jealous I did get a little too quick with one of my early responses admittedly… nobody’s perfect. So sorry for having a human reaction to your unpleasantness.

Again you accuse me of ignorance, stupidity and being a fool when you know nothing about me other than what you’ve read of my postings here. On the other hand I have looked at your writings and other “footprints” on the Internet.

I do not doubt that Brian R. Sullivan has written extensively about military history, strategy, and political developments affecting various military issues, and a lot about the rise of Fascism and Mussolini and his purported diaries, etc. or that you have been involved in teaching at military schools and other places. I, like others here would indeed be interested in tapping your knowledge and having wide-ranging discussions with you if it weren’t such an unpleasant experience to be the constant butt of your arrogance and condescension.

I suspect that your condescension and abusive attacks on posters here must have some basis in psychological issues, one of which would seem to be projection, but I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. I do have an amateur interest in such topics inspired by my desire to understand both myself and people I either need or choose to deal with in my life.

I could enjoy having dinner with you and Laura, however that pleasure will need to be deferred to some future time when we both know more about each other.

One question: why were you taken off the development of a Space Defense Strategy document (or Earth Defense as you called it)?

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I could enjoy having dinner with you and Laura, however that pleasure will need to be deferred to some future time when we both know more about each other and have developed some mutual trust and respect.

With the petty bickering I see going on here you all remind me of my boys when they were younger and were debating who was smarter, stronger, etc etc. 

You ALL have made good points and you ALL have intelligence so instead of posturing here on this blog – why not write congress and DEMAND changes?  Your time would be better spent and perhaps if enough of us would do so, we could get those SOB’s to actually earn their keep?

Folks on my email list have stopped doing this and are now using their time to advance our agenda and to promote the general welfare of our nation!  It has paid off in getting two politicians out of office here where I live.  THen we went out and have a couple of beers and then yelled at each other!

To Brian R. Sullivan – #85:

I believe your Post #85 is right on.  There are a lot of partisan bloviators, spinners, revisionists and theorists rambling on and on here who, while painting their own particular works of verbal propagandistic art, ignore the workings of the real world and the realities and practicalities that go with it.  Your post certainly reflects real world history as I know it.

Personally, and unfortunately, I believe there’s still more than enough ethnocentrism – - and garden-variety prejudice and chauvinism – - alive and well in this country to preclude the election of a black man or a white woman as president.

voxoreason, being opinionated is no sin (guilty myself) and it makes you interesting. It’s the pugnacious manner in which Mr. Sullivan conducts himself that’s so offensive and counterproductive. Claiming to be a Marine officer he has shown he’s not a gentleman and I’ve stated I doubt he was an officer. If he were and if his experience were as he claimed and if he could hold a civil discussion he would be a most interesting person to talk to even with his liberal bent. As a conservative who admires classical liberalism and early libertarianism I would enjoy a friendly discussion with someone with such experience.  But sadly, he holds those who don’t agree with him in contempt and believes he has no responsibility to engage in civil debate.

That said I do apologize. I assumed due to the remark you made about being uncharitable that you were Brian as he has bragged about his disdain for common courtesy and his abhorrence of the idea of being a gentleman. I doubt his goal is to elucidate anyone about anything but rather to intimidate others off a forum he dislikes. Despite his protestations about respecting other peoples’ right to speech, like all too many demagogic partisans, left or right, he wants to bully them into silence. that’s sad as he might have a lot to offer.

Unfortunately, he has caused us to at times stoop to his level, something I believe he relishes. So again, my apologies.

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