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To: BenLurkin
I actually am doing some research, and I find that Jon Ronson has written a previous book (Them: Adventures with Extremists) which sounds hilarious. I may have to pick it up..... I wonder if he has a chapter about FR?

Review from Amazon.com:

In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves.

18 posted on 11/30/2004 7:17:40 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (You cannot stop me...... I'll just make...... a "move"........)
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
"David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. "

I believe it . . .

20 posted on 11/30/2004 8:09:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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