dave is not budging on his pessimism here

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You might think I'm the very portrait of gloom and doom, but my dearest old friend makes me look like Snow White before the prince rescued her from her own innocence. Sheesh. He's NOT going to overlook Assange's weird and callous statment about 9/11 and grumbles that if the MSM is giving Assange this much play, he must be performing a service for the wrong people.

I don't like what Assange said about 9/11 conspiracies, but I know that several other highly respected and important people have made similar statements, to my shock, and have had to allow as how they cannot have credibility with their work if they do not do this sort of thing. I feel it would be best for them to simply nut up on the matter, not to besmirch the people working their hearts out to bring out the truth, but that simply won't do the trick for most of the people who are working at blasting some actuality out of our criminal government. If you are dealing with ANYTHING the power elite will try to downplay or minimize, their very first tactic is to diss you as some sort of conspiracy nut, and nothing works better to head off that action from interviewers than a gratuitous swipe at Truthers. I don't like it. I hate it. I understand it.

I don't think we should shut our minds to people because of this. Just like we shouldn't shut our minds to people who think the Queen of England shape-shifts back and forth between a large dragon-like space reptile that eats virgins and her dowdy old impeccable human form. Despite the fantastical, despite the despicable, despite any amount of disagreeable things coming out of people's mouths, we should NOT shut our minds to what else they have to say or teach. We all know that there are plenty of well-motivated people who diss Truthers. We would like to slap them silly for it, but we don't doubt that they wish the best for the world anyway. I don't think we should be harder on Assange in this respect than we are on Uncle Barney who rescues stray cats and gripes about the conspiracy nuts who think 9/11 was an inside job.

Anyway, anyway, there, to my mind, IS something kind of fishy about all this; to wit: They keep saying they can't find Assange. Give me a break! He's done a shitload of interviews over the latest leaks. I know our guys aren't as smart as James Bond by half, but, truly, this is unbelievable.

Notwithstanding anything less than glorious about his character, or EVEN if he's somehow playing a role meant to feed us propaganda, EVEN if it's all just some sick theater, the very NOTION of someone doing this is laudable enough all by itself. It is good for people to see men standing up against the terror machine, EVEN if they're faking.

Some heavy hitters are on his side, people I trust, and they might be being taken in like the rest of us, or the fucker at Cryptome who hates him and those who are outraged about his 9/11 comment are using him to illustrate their anger, not exactly thinking it all the way through... snapping their minds shut because of their anger... snapping our minds shut because of our confusion... just generally being in SUCH a state of horrified exasperation that our brains are pretty much globally attempting to shut down on us. We have to WORK at keeping them functional. One can't just point to the sleeping masses, believe oneself to be above it, and then succumb to the tons and tons and tons of sleeping powder being dropped on us daily.

The enemy is VERY good at this, and your own ego can kill you. Times like this demand putting a sock in that screaming from the ego and drinking as much coffee as it takes to get and stay awake.

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