Personally, if I really believed that our own government was conducting deadly anthrax experiments on us and preparing concentration camps, I couldn't continue loving the country. I would have to do everything in my power to move to Canada or Australia or something.
I asked Professor Boyle what he thought about the documents produced by the DIA under FOIA and he said that he dismissed them as all those nice convenient documents planted by the DIA and Army psyops in Afghanistan.
But with all due respect, that’s stupid. Ayman has unfettered access to the media and he would just poke fun at the USG if they made things up and claimed he had written them or that they were correspondence directed to him.
I mean that’s really stupid.
I had a problem with the Federalist Society types just as he did. But I also have a problem with people that take positions that lack common sense — and that argue politics in a criminal matter where many lives are at stake.
He expects to give it a rest given that he doesn’t have time to do adequate factual inquiry and that the numerous leads he’s pursued haven’t panned out. He does commend BHR, though, like Ed says. I told him that at least BHR reigned in her views after she was criticized for her March 2002 BBC interview.
errata - Above I mistakenly said he was HLS summa which I found impressive because it is pretty rarefied air. But now I don’t know where I thought I had seen that. That’s mistaken. He’s not.
I know how you feel. But such people will argue that they also love America, they just think the Bush Administration is evil, and they feel it is their duty to warn America about what they believe the Bush Administration is conspiring to do.
There are plenty of Right Wingers who are equally filled with hatred and who view all sorts of imagined Left Wing conspiracies as being threats to the American Way Of Life.
Conspiracy theorists from all camps seem to really be getting a lot of attention these days. They probably all claim to love America, they just hate many of the people in it.
Hatred is becoming a very popular emotion these days.