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In Reply to: Re: shock absorbers, my favorite setup posted by Dale in Los Gatos on March 22, 2002 at 10:56:16:
Although I respect his right to free speech just as I respect it for nutty anarchists, insecure dweebs, and benighted maniacs, if we let Dale produce a new generation of predaceous criminals whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized, then greed, corruption, and jujuism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock and trade of the media and educational institutions. Personally, I don't expect him to give up his crusade to reduce human beings to the status of domestic animals. But we'll see.
He spouts a lot of numbers whenever he wants to make a point. He then subjectively interprets those numbers to support his catch-phrases while ignoring the fact that he has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. Dale has gotten away with so much for so long that he's lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only a man without any sense of limits could desire to create a beachhead for organized sensationalism. He may be sincere, but he is also sincerely avaricious. His insinuations present us with a riddle: What is this duplicitous, hopeless fascination he has with paternalism? Whatever the answer, my general thesis is that he has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that he just keeps on saying, "I don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. I just want to kill the goose bearing the golden egg." I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: Dale wants me to stop trying to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim that sometimes, what you don't know can hurt you. Instead, he'd rather I fall into the traps set for me by his proxies. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily. It troubles and amazes me to think that if you intend to challenge someone's assertions, you need to present a counterargument. He provides none.
In light of my stance on this issue, we mustn't let Dale pander to our worst fears. That would be like letting the Mafia serve as a new national police force in Italy. I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to establish a supportive -- rather than an intimidating -- atmosphere for offering public comment. Dale's analects have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life!
Because we continue to share a common, albeit abused, atmospheric envelope, Dale extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. His words would be thoroughly risible if they weren't so hotheaded. You might suspect I'm telling you this because I like to beat up on him. Really, that isn't my principal reason. I don't especially need to beat up on Dale, because he is already despised by decent and knowledgeable people almost everywhere. If we can understand what has caused the current plague of vindictive, mischievous card sharks, I believe that we can then arraign him at the tribunal of public opinion. I use such language purposefully -- and somewhat sardonically -- to illustrate how it has been said that all of his claims share elements of traditional, audacious conspiracy themes in which the most sex-crazed hackers you'll ever see secretly make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what he has planned for the future. I believe that to be true. I also believe that if Dale doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere.
One might contend that evil prevails when good people do nothing. While that's true, it does somewhat miss the point. You see, for the nonce, he is content to feature simplistic answers to complex problems. But in the immediate years ahead, he will annihilate a person's personality, individuality, will, and character. Dale should clarify his point, so people like you and me can tell what the heck he's talking about. Without clarification, Dale's credos sound lofty and include some emotionally charged words but don't really seem to make any sense. When we put inexorable pressure on him to be a bit more careful about what he says and does, we are not only threading our way through a maze of competing interests; we are weaving the very pattern of our social fabric.
He maintains that either the sun rises just for him or that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. Dale denies any other possibility. Of course, he is like a stray pigeon. Pigeons are too self-absorbed to care about anyone else. They poo on people they don't like; they poo on people they don't even know. The only real difference between Dale and a pigeon is that Dale intends to cultivate an unhealthy sense of victimhood. That's why his theories are based on a technique I'm sure you've heard of. It's called "lying".
Although everyone has goals, his goal seems to be to give rise to incomprehensible low-lifes. I don't get it: What demons possessed Dale to remove society's moral barriers and allow perversion to prosper? I mean, the gloss that his grunts put on his put-downs unfortunately does little to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change. To those few who disagree with some of the things I've written, I ask for your tolerance. At the very least, he speaks like a true defender of the status quo -- a status quo, we should not forget, that enables him to lay waste to the environment.
I know that I'm emotional now, but Dale plans to siphon off scarce international capital intended for underdeveloped countries. He has instructed his expositors not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Dale knows he has something to hide. I myself can only inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Dale's subordinates take for granted if Dale's army of unstable, tactless extortionists is decimated down to those whose inborn lack of character permits them to betray anyone and everyone for the well-known thirty pieces of silver. He is typical of incorrigible, deluded shirkers in his wild invocations to the irrational, the magic, and the fantastic to dramatize his arguments. While I agree with others' assessment that Dale doesn't let a day pass without showing to the world that he is as little fitted to be trusted with liberty as thieves with keys or children with firearms, still, implying that Dale's diatribes won't be used for political retribution is no different from implying that Dale has mystical powers of divination and prophecy. Both statements are ludicrous. His nerdy philippics convince me of only one thing: that he uses isolated incidents to make lousy, all-encompassing claims about his adversaries. Dale vehemently denies that, of course. But he obviously would, because he says that the sky is falling. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life.
The notion that he can be reformed into an upright and honorable person may be a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that this can happen should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe. What is often overlooked, however, is that Dale's solutions are a house of mirrors. How are we to find the opening that leads to freedom? Dale doesn't want you to know the answer to that question; he wants to ensure you don't provide people the wherewithal to carry out the famous French admonition, écrasez l'infâme!, against Dale's grievances. He has no moral qualities whatsoever. There's really no other conclusion you can reach. You might not care that it's time for him to grow up, but you'd better start caring if you don't want him to recruit and encourage young people to foist the most poisonously false and destructive myths imaginable upon us, just as older drug dealers use young kids to push drugs. And what about Dale's chums? They, like Dale, are effete rabble-rousers. After having read this, you may think that it is indeed not the intention of Heaven to let Dale Phelps develop a credible pretext to forcibly silence his opponents. Nevertheless, you should always remember that we must unquestionably raise ridiculous ideologues out of their cultural misery and lead them to the national community as a valuable, united factor without the slightest consideration for any screams and complaints that might arise.
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