At 09:33 PM 4/24/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
The author of the Iron Mountain Report was interviewed on PBS a few weeks ago. It was a really over-the-top parody published in 1967.
That's _Nationalized_ Public Radio; any conspiracy that couldn't get somebody on their denying that they were the secret power behind the government is obviously not competent to be the _real_ secret power behind the government. The interview just shows how pervasive they are. :-) Meanwhile, Robert Ludlum's got a new book out, doing another "hidden Nazis-will-rise-again" conspiracy. It's ok, though not as good as his best work. Among other events, the disinformation leaked out by the Neo-Nazis frames many prominent people as Nazis, a critical few of whom really are. And there's a bad parody of a fat talk-show host somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun (Caller: "Double whippo, Arnie!") who gets framed on the air...
Every once in a while, I get mail asking whether I really have contacts in Sendero Luminoso, since a bit of satire I wrote was quoted in the Web Review (which made no attempt to contact me before printing the satire as my position).
Foo - even I've had contacts in the Sendero Luminoso, though they all would have strictly denied it - they were just "good Socialist college students" and "immigrant refugees" from Peru, which _does_ have a fairly brutal and sleazy elected dictator. Not everybody in the anti-war business is pro-peace.
Truth is far more fragile than fiction. Sure, cause fiction's supposed to make sense. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215