September 6, 2005

Justin Raimondo is shocked David Horowitz's online magazine would post an article calling for his murder. "Should the likes of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Michael Moore, Ward Churchill, Dennis Raimondo, et al. act out their sedition in a just-nuked America, expect their bodies to be found shot full of holes.... Leftist professors will be strung up," writes Michael Calderon, a school teacher at Rockville High School in Maryland. "In the perfervid fantasy-world of Horowitz and his flying monkeys," Raimondo opines, "the nuking of America is an event to be eagerly anticipated as a golden opportunity to shoot their enemies 'full of holes.' And they've got me in their sights."

Welcome to America, Justin. I have weathered death threats for some time now, ever since I wrote about Pat Tillman, the ex-football star killed by his own troops in Afghanistan. I have received threatening phone calls at work from Zionists, homicidal maniacs who surpass Horowitz and his demented minions in the desire for violence and murder. One such Zionist did a Whois search on my domain, located my home address, and posted this in a hate-filled post (fortunately, I moved before this post appeared and have since updated my domain information, listing my contact information as a post office box). A few months ago, another right-winger suggested somebody (not him of course) kill me in the name of patriotism. He made suggestions on how fascists might glom together and form vigilante groups tasked with going around and killing people like me (shades of brownshirt behavior). I have endured slander and libelous accusations. A certain Zionist who lives in Israel started authoring posts in my name.

It should not be particularly shocking David Horowitz, a former Marxist gone neocon, allows one of his writers to post an article calling for organized murder (in brownshirt fashion) in his Scaife-funded magazine (it would seem Raimondo has a case for a lawsuit against Horowitz and the high school teacher Calderon -- maybe he can get one of his wealthy Libertarian friends to hire a good lawyer). I had initially considered doing this myself when the above mentioned Israeli writer began to post allegations that I belong to "neonazi" organizations (of course not offering any evidence) and an anonymous somebody hijacked my name and posted derogatory articles on the internet (earlier somebody had hijacked my email address as well and was using it to make threats). I fired off an email to the corporation that hosts the blog where these scurrilous lies are posted and they sent back a canned email basically indicating they are not responsible and the guy is free to write whatever the heck he wants. I don't have the money to hire a lawyer and no doubt the ACLU wouldn't be interested. In short, I am legally screwed (lawyers are expensive) and these trogs are free to write whatever they want. Obviously, they are also free to threaten Raimondo and Zinn and Chomsky (and as a Libertarian, I am sure it irks Raimondo he is grouped together with aging doctrinaire leftists who pose absolutely no threat to America, post-nuke America or otherwise).

As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, no matter the calamity (nuke or otherwise) we can count on the fact the government will not protect us. Raimondo didn't mention it, but we can pretty much rest assured that if there is a "nuclear terrorism" in America, it will instigated by reactionary and fascist elements within the government since it is absurd to believe al-Qaeda (al-CIA-duh) has the capacity to do such a thing. If it happens -- and there is no reason to believe it will -- martial law will be declared and Raimondo will be rounded up by FEMA or the military and housed in a nice safe concentration camp where Mr. Calderon will be unable to get at him. In the meantime, as a proponent of the Second Amendment, Justin may want to get himself a gun and plenty of ammunition. Of course, it will be pointless to use a gun to protect yourself from helicopters and armored personnel carriers. In such a case, it would be instrumental to heed the lessons of the Iraqi resistance, although intellectuals usually make not good freedom fighters.

I understand Raimondo's outrage and fear. He will be looking over his shoulder from now on, especially at night in empty parking lots. If the threats against him mean anything, it is that America is now a fascist country not a whole lot different than the Weimar Republic in Germany, circa the 1920s and early 30s, when gangs of brownshirted Nazi thugs went after the opposition, gunning them down or disappearing them to later appear floating the local river or dumped in the street in the same way labor organizers are dumped in the streets of Latin America by US-trained paramilitary knuckle-draggers.

Calderon and Horowitz, as modern brownshirted thugs, differ only along the lines of ideology (they are motivated by a mawkish patriotism, nationalism, and apparently irrepressible hatred, but not racist theories, or not Aryan racist theories anyway), although the results are about the same: dead people, and a lot of them.

It should be indicative Horowitz has not taken any heat for posting death threats. It is also indicative he receives thousands and thousands of dollars from wealthy right-wingers, the same way Hitler did. In a non-fascistic, non-Bushzarro world, death threats would not be tolerated and Horowitz's site would be closed down. Raimondo would sue the pants off Horowitz (as I would sue the pants off a certain Israeli professor). But in Bushzarro world, where people are afraid of the next state-sponsored terrorist attack (we are told it is only a matter of time before Osama nukes us) and distracted by corporate media propaganda, the politically motivated murder of a Libertarian writer would gather few headlines, not when we have the hypothetical murder of a pretty white girl, Natalee Holloway, to spend our time worrying about.