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What? I can't call Daniel Pipes a fag?

I'm just coming out of my Business Law class. We were discussing pre-trial and the different forms of torts and crimes a person can be commited for. We went through assault, battery, false imprisonment etc. but I was moslty interested in 'defamation', just to see if I could be held liable for all the stuff that I write.

It turned out that if someone or something is a 'public figure', they can't sue anyone for defamation i.e. tabloids and movie stars or politians and all those election ads. The professor quoted a famous case from the civil rights movement era, "Sullivan VS. The New York Times", when a bigot police officer from the south sued the paper for defamation. The case got kicked out. My interest was basically joint to a line in my head that I wanted to write in an entry about Daniel Pipes, the famous Zionist idiot who's also a self declared master of MidEast politics. All I wanted to do was to say, "Daniel Pipes' a fag." Now what came out of that discussion with the professor was that calling someone a faggot would be implying that their gay, meaning that your declaring someone a homosexual without facts and knowledge (then what about accusing someone of sleeping with their mother?). My argument was that calling someone a "fag" has become more of slang, and doesn't always imply homosexuality, much like how Eminem pleaded innocent in one of his slander cases. Also, "a fag" is a ciggarette in British English (via UrbanDictionary.com) or "a student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class" (via Dictionary.com) . Anyway, the teacher's mostly right and I am not going to put that line on my blog. But I do have a few other words to say about Mr. Pipes...

Although I had known a bit about him before, I really got the whole picture via an entry over at the ~choco-bean~, a blog from a female MSA member at UC Berkley. I learnt that Pipes is against Muslims in American Institutes of Higher eduction, may it be instructors or students. He even has this site called "Campus Watch" where he supposedly keeps a 'black list' of individuals whom he believes to be maligned towards terrorism simply because they're against making pro-Israeli policies. That entry talks about Pipes' appearance at UC Berkeley, where his speech and the interuptive reaction from his opponents was a big news among people who either hate or love this guy as well as those with footballs up their asses.

I personally don't get involved into the whole MSA thing, and there's isn't anything like it (anymore) at my school anyway. May be in the future when Muslims become part of the American mainstream (Pipes biggest fear I guess) should they be so outspoken against their critics. And even so, like all critics, not everything that Pipes says could be harmful to Islam, even though that might be his intention. Even retards sometimes make a point. I believe that the only way to improve this situation is to educate the billions of Muslims worldwide, and to drop the whole "Mullahs knows better" deal, which in all forms leads to the "towelhead syndrome". But don't fret just yet, because although I do agree with those who criticize militancy, it's annoying to me also when someone starts blaming the religion and it's teachings for everything, instead of blaiming those who control the uneducated masses through intrepretations of holy scriptures that were only made for their own benefit and nothing else.

So the best way to handle ignorant assholes like Daniel Pipes is to leave 'em alone in their own corner, like ~choco-bean~'s professor said. Booing him and interrupting his speeches would only cause him to get more attention. I mean, look at the guy's picture for God's sake, doesn't he looks like the best devil look-alike ever?

Posted in My Life ; World View on February 17, 2004 2:46 PM
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First, you need to learn a bit about the use of the English language--your writing leaves much to be desired. Second, Berkely is known for its pro-Palestinian bias--the old leftie sort of thing. I note this having done grad work some years ago there. Third, Pipes is NOT against muslims so much as he is interested in the strong anti-West and esp anti-Israel stuff that comes out of the middle east studies programs--the record on that score pretty much speaks for its, as you might note if you looked at what is taking place at Columbia University.
Fourth, it should not need to be mentioned but your intolerance toward gays (fags) is worse than anything that Pipes might say and thus you are hardly in a position to denounce a guy whose work I am convinced you have not read. And, finally, you are an asshole.

Posted by: Ahab at February 17, 2004 7:00 PM

Posting with an 'Arab' sounding name is like being shit scared of that python who's sleeping behind a 3 inch glass wall at the zoo. Dude, for starters, get a life!

And if you had really read my entry you would have learnt that it has no degratory terms for homosexuals. May be you are a homophobe yourself?

And lastly, you're the bigger, meaner, uglier asshole here. :D

Posted by: Haydur at February 17, 2004 9:59 PM

http://www.barrychamish.com

REVENGE OF THE CFR by Barry Chamish

Here is a short list of CFR members who have shoved the Oslo/Roadmap processes down Israel's throat, resulting in thousands of dead Israelis and Arabs in barely ten years, not to mention the total demoralization of Israel and the mass insanity of its Islamic neighbors:

Clinton, Christopher, Baker, Albright, Zinni, Powell, Rice, Kurtzer, Seigman, Bronfman, Tenet, Haass, Friedman, Stephen Cohen, Carter, Armitage, Burns, Wolfowitz, Berger, etc. etc.

Oh yes, and Pipes, but he's pretending otherwise for the time being. That is why he spends much of his waking hours plotting to eliminate my voice. Imagine the nerve of me pointing out that he is a proud member of the little think tank that could wreck Israel and is leaving a trail of blood throughout the Middle East.
Now let us look at just how tied up he is to the CFR establishment:

**

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/mef.php
The Middle East Forum has existed since 1990, but in 1994 it became a nonprofit organization with Daniel Pipes as its director.
MEF is closely linked to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where Pipes is an adjunct scholar. Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is senior editor of MEF's Middle East Quarterly, and the institute's Robert Satloff and Samuel Lewis sit on the Quarterly's editorial board, along with Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation, and Steven Plaut of the University of Haifa.

** I have thoughtfully provided a list of CFR members. Visit the site and confirm the facts. Now we all know that the Washington Institute For Near East Policy is the Martin Indyk - run monstrosity that became the locomotive for Oslo, so considering his public stance on Israel, Pipes' chair there is suspicious enough, but let's look at his own board:

From the 2001, Membership Roster Of The Council On Foreign Relations **
http://www.stanley2002.org/pfiles/a_f.htm

Robert B. Satloff - CFR
Samuel W. Lewis - CFR
Anthony H. Cordesman - CFR

** Continuing... **

"Virtually all 31 signatories of the MEF report, which was used to persuade Congress to introduce and pass the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act in 2003, were USCFL members, and several became high officials or advisers in the Bush foreign policy team, including Elliott Abrams, Paula Dobriansky, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser."

Elliot Abrams - CFR
Paula J. Dobriansky - CFR
Richard Perle - CFR
Douglas J. Feith - CFR

** Now look at the final name on Pipe's MEF board: why it's that pesky economics teacher from Haifa! Could that mean that the big fish and little minnow are coordinating their attacks against me? And what does the little minnow get for his effort?
You can be sure, there is a reward but it's not membership in the CFR. Searching his name
I came across one other namesake:

Peter Plaut, Managing Director and Head of European Credit Research, BANK OF AMERICA SECURITIES LTD.

He is not merely on the CFR members' list, he is also one of its biggest donors.

http://www.cfr.org/about/pdf/ar_2003/termmember.pdf.

I tried but couldn't prove a family tie to the minnow, But I'll bet you there is and it's close. But even if not, the story of Peter Plaut bears telling. Here's who he is: **

http://www.euromoney.com/?Page=792&P=/creditresearchpoll2004/hyOVERALL

In addition, he was responsible for helping the Korean and Malaysian governments re-establish capital markets access through their highly successful global debt offerings during this difficult time. He was also credited with anticipating the debt and currency crisis in Brazil and other Latin American sovereigns in late 1998.

Mr. Plaut worked at UBS Securities Inc. from 1992 to 1994, as a U.S. and international corporate and bank credit analyst and prior to that was an associate at JP Morgan Securities, Inc.

Mr. Plaut has been in Institutional Investor ranked analyst. In June 1998, he was elected as a term member to The Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves as an active participant in issues concerning U.S. and international economic and foreign policy.

** Lucky old Pete, he gets to bail out countries after the IMF has bankrupted them. And since JP Morgan was a founder of the CFR, naturally he gets to manipulate currencies for his bank while he's at it. But that's not all, look who was in Singapore, Malaysia's financial headquarters, when Pete was sorting out their World Bank debts. Why it was old Tom Plaut. And need we say that he also works for a JP Morgan affiliate?**

http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/key_executives.htm

Thomas F. Plaut
Mr. Plaut brings sixteen years of foreign exchange trading experience to F.X. Solutions. He is a former Member of Senior Management at Credit Suisse A.G. and Global Head of Proprietary Trading at Dresdner Bank A.G. While at Credit Suisse and stationed in Singapore, Mr. Plaut was in charge of all foreign exchange trading activities in the Asian region.

http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/company_profile.htm

FX Solutions currently holds client funds at JP Morgan Chase bank.

** How the Plauts diddle with the tills of nations while their peoples starve. Yes, Peter must be a very important component of the CFR's global economics plan. But then, so is Pipes, diplomatically. Look how the CFR funnels him the money he needs to carry on. **

Funding
Between 1996 and 1998, the Middle East Forum received $130,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the top right wing foundations. (9)

http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm


Mark O'Keefe
Newhouse News Service
VALUES AND PHILANTHROPY
September 18, 2003
Foundation Excels at Fueling Conservative Agenda
Name a conservative idea -- whether it's school vouchers, faith-based initiatives or the premise that there's a worldwide clash of civilizations -- and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is apt to have its fingerprints on it.

Milwukee Journal Sentinel
April 3, 2003
Bradley Fighting Vehicle
A comprehensive new report makes clear the foundation's import in the feeding and nurturing of the Neoconservative Movement that has led the US to war in the Middle East.
It directly ascribes the war on Iraq to the "playbook" of the neocons, a group of "mostly Republicans," "many of whom have gotten funding from Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation."
A Newly Enriched Foundation Hires Chairman
Things changed dramatically in 1985, when the Allen-Bradley Company was sold to Rockwell International, a leading defense and aerospace conglomerate, for a whopping $1.651 billion. The Foundation benefited heavily from the sale, seeing its assets shoot up overnight from less than $14 million to more than $290 million, catapulting it into the ranks of the country's largest foundations. At that point its name was changed to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, to publicly separate it from the company. Flush with new money and an understanding that they were now poised to play a more national role, foundation trustees decided it was time to hire a professional to run the organization. They found their man in New York at the John M. Olin Foundation.

** Now I flip to page 106 of my 2000 CFR Annual Report which lists foundations that offered generous grants to the CFR and right after The Norwegian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs comes, surprise, surprise The John M. Olin Foundation. I said previously that I'd prove Pipes gets his money directly or indirectly from the CFR and I just did.
Now would you trust him with YOUR country? **

end

My tour schedule looks like this:

April 24-25, Sacramento
April 26 - Berkeley
April 28 - Reno
May 1 -Denver
May 3-6 - Toronto
May 9-17 - Miami making a documentary, no lecture dates yet
May 18 - Birmingham, AL to record a religious network TV show

Write me if you'd like to attend and I'll pass you the organizers' details.

Of interest. I copied my English language video Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin to sell at my lecture venues. It's 2 1/2 hours long and really impressive. I now have NTSC copies if anyone would like to order before I travel.

When I get back, I'll be putting together a new book. In the meantime, as usual, you can order my English books, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Betrayed, The Last Days Of Israel and Save Israel! by writing me at chamish@netvision.net.il

Posted by: bob neiman at April 6, 2004 6:36 PM
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