I'm wrong about your support for Fox. You were just against the PRI. Has anyone ever told you that you tend to become a nasty weasel when opposed? That's how I first encountered you. Once again I submit myself to the famous Al Giordano diarrhea barrage. I looked into all the charges of vote buying at great length and I showed how they were mainly culturally misconstrued. In many cases, the charges against Labastida were absolutely false.

If I quote you here you'll be really pissed off.

Why? Do you think I'm ashamed of what I said?

So I will just invite you to explain to the readers why you declined that very special invitation in your own city to see the true facts for yourself, in your own words.

The reason I didn't want to attend your Marcos event here is that I did not want to photographed by undercover agents. I have had enough problems with surveillance in my life and I really don't need to attract any more.

I was also totally uninterested in what he had to say because I think he is a complete and total fake. Revolutionaries with wooden guns don't impress me at all. Maybe it's because I slept with a machine gun beside my bed for a while in a dope-dealing social action commune where we fed at least ten thousand people in the course of three years.

In the course of this I came to see that our worst enemies were "revolutionary" types with big mouths who seemed to be mainly interested in pissing on us as drug-addled hippies instead of pitching in and washing some dishes. Later, many of the same wild-eyed dissidents turned out to have been undercover government agents. This is when I came up with the concept of the pseudo-dissident that I expounded on at your request at the J-School session. I also saw that any form of "revolutionary" action was doomed to fail because almost all the "revolutionaries" were either completely crazy or government provocateurs.

Even if geezer immigrants with more time there tell them to do so?

Oh, I see. Now we are descending to insults based on age. What kind of asshole tactic is that?

If you don’t wish to speak against the social order, or see too much personal risk in it, that's your prerogative.

Completely over the line and creepy. I've risked more and lost more than you ever had, pipsqueak. It's not because of personal risk. It's because I don't agree with much of your analysis or your methods or your style.

You know, I don't get any grants from celebrity liberal foundations. I earn my living by working as a graphic designer and a typographer and selling my own books online. I don't get published in big media any more because somehow I am no longer talented. Somehow I lost all my skills as a writer and observer when Ronald Reagan was elected. This happened at about the same time that my mail began being intercepted. This is all mere paranoia, of course. Ha ha.

I would add that you offered to help me promote my books, and then when I took you up on it, I got complete silence. Maybe I should go commit suicide like Gary Webb to get your attention.

But don't then try to silence those of us who, at considerable personal risk, refuse to shut up or defend a corrupt system. It is the easiest thing in the world to defend those in power. But to resent and try to foment distrust against those men and women that do have balls to risk all to tell inconvenient (or "inflammatory") truths is simply the worst form of cowardice. You are, or used to be, better than that.

Now the fangs really come out. I'm not fomenting distrust, I'm just telling you that you are having hysterics and running around waving red flags and generally acting like a complete and total jerk. I'm not telling you to shut up. I am telling you and people like you to calm down and present your claims in an orderly and believable manner without resorting to excessive rhetoric and flying spit.

So of course your response is to have more hysterics and get insulting and not just spit at me, but fling shit like an angry chimp. And I am a complete imbecile and am here allowing myself to be kicked around again by Al Giordano in full raving oral asshole mode.