Subject: Flakes and the FED

From: [email-masked] (John W. Redelfs)
Date: 13 Jan 1993 21:58:34 GMT

Are right-wing conspiracy types all flakes, or only some of them?  Are
there any Jewish flakes?  What makes someone a flake?

I asked a few honest questions about Bo Gritz, the Federal Reserve Board
and I received massive retaliation lumping me in with neo-Nazi white
racist anti-Semitic "flakes."

Well, the truth is hard enough to figure out without a lot of name
calling and emotional cant containing zero useful information.

If this is typical leftist, pro-Jewish rhetoric, no wonder the right is
growing so rapidly in this country.
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From: [email-masked] (Ted Frank)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 04:11:50 GMT

>there any Jewish flakes?  What makes someone a flake?

A "flake" is one who not only believes in a manifestly impossible event
against all evidence, but insists upon making it the core of his presidential
campaign.  Thus, when Bo Gritz suggests "solving" the deficit problem
by printing a four-trillion-dollar bill and giving it to the Jewish
bankers who control the Federal Reserve Bank, he qualifies for flakehood
by the sheer unreasonableness of his proposal.  I count at least four or
five complete untruths that it's based on, and could probably think of more
if I bothered.

His obsession with UPC symbols is another hint.

>racist anti-Semitic "flakes."

I don't recall anyone lumping *you* with neo-Nazi white racist anti-Semitic
flakes.  Bo Gritz was lumped with neo-Nazi white racist anti-Semitic
flakes because he is a neo-Nazi white racist anti-Semitic flake.

>growing so rapidly in this country.

I promise you that I'm not a leftist.  I don't deny that I'm pro-Jewish,
but mostly because I don't relish the thought of Nazis coming to power in
the country I love.

I haven't engaged in any name-calling.  Name-calling implies unreasonable
insults.  I get very upset when "Nazi" gets thrown around at people who
clearly aren't Nazis, because when real Nazis like Bo Gritz come around,
then people become skeptical because of all the prior crying of wolf.
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