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Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Tune In

Posted by on August 1 at 9:34 AM

I will be on KOMO radio (1000 AM) this morning at around 10 with Ken Schram and John Carlson to discuss the article and exclusive 3-hour interview that Brendan Kiley and I had with Naveed Haq’s recent roommate, Wick Renner.


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Many writers have made their careers constructing criminal identities for the commercial media. You backed off writing about Huff but may be able to do even more writing about our towns new murderer.


The complex strategic situation in a our particular society demands criminalization of unemployment, of not being able to get a woman, of reading. Further work must be done to cast doubt on service professions, pizza delivery, office cleaners, even migrant farm workers might be included in the "dangerous underclass".


Our goal of our discourse is to construct useful binaries - gainfully employed vs. unemployed - service workers vs. service consumers.


Recently an American service man tied up and murdered an entire Iraqi family so he could rape their fourteen year old daughter. We must distract the public from these events.


Writing fluff pieces about these local murders as the isolated act of a criminal deviant is an excellent distraction.


The reason we lost Viet Nam is artists and writers convinced the public that murders by our service men abroad were corrupting the very soul of our nation. Clever writers connected the Mai Lai massacre of March 1968 to the Manson Murders, and suggested that the Viet Nam war was a toxic cloud smothering goodness and decency in ways we couldn't fully understand. The public believed this nonsense.


Thanks for writing about the posters on the apartment wall in Everette instead. It must have something to do with those posters. Even though the murderer said he hated seeing Israel slaughter Lebanese woman and children, that's just his insanity talking. By the way you might research whether Members of the Manson Family were unemployed? Had any of them ever worked as pizza delivery drivers? What kind of posters were hanging in their rooms?

Just imagine some insane idiot in the 1960's coming unglued at home because we slaughtered a few gooks in Mai Lai? Crazy huh?

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I love these uneducated morons who can't even spell or write correct American English attempting to say something. If you can't spell no one will listen to what you have to say. We all know only dumb people can't spell.

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