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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: An Apologia (or Catch Me
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ezlee.m.pressed@pooodle.pancake.org

>I have been crossing paths (and swords) with Co$ since 1968. It has
>usually been occasioned by the capture of someone I knew and cared
>for by  the organization. Sometimes these people were intimately
>important to me, some were merely acquaintances. Sometimes they were
>people with whom I had a professional involvement.
>
>In every case I was proselytised; first subtly, then overtly. I never revealed
>how much I actually knew/understood to the person in question. I knew
>that I had to be very subtle myself to maintain the personal relationship for
>as long as possible.
>
>I learned to hover at the very edge of their game - trust me, I was never in
>danger - and to play their game. I have successfully  infiltrated them by
>using their predictability and greed against them. Ultimately, though,  they
>would tumble to it and mandate a "disconnect" on the part of the person(s).
>
>Starting about ten years ago, whenever I met (and charmed or otherwise
>became a person of interest to) an active clam, the "Church"  would
>seemingly know about it instantly and the person would be ratholed within
>hours. And while I don't know the precise instrumentality of their
>"intelligence" system, over time it markedly improved to the point that I
>could no longer carry out covert trasnsits of their "space".
>
>It's as though their organizational immune system learned to instantly re-
>cognize the "virus" I am. This is truly one of my proudest achievements.
>
>I am committed to the cause of human liberation from any form of
>organized subversion of human dignity, and have been since before there
>was an Usenet. And I have watched for many years as good and decent
>people swirled 'round the bowl and were flushed from sight/site. I pulled in
>my horns when I became alarmed that the reaction might result in
>unrecoverable danger and harm to any clam that might have the (mis?)
>(good?) fortune to encounter me, even if innocently. Hence, my
>nom-de-guerre (Ezlee,et al.)
>
>I have long recognized and understood that these people are
>not simply dirty tricksters - they are lethally dangerous. They are in
>reliance upon the credulity of most people's reluctance to accept as
>*possible* things which they are *actually* capable. They can keep this
>chilling and reprehensible reality from their victims because the
>public at large has been, and continues to be, too credulous.
>
>I am very CLEAR that many good and worthy humans have been swallowed
>alive. Some have never re-emerged. I have grave doubts that all still live.

    I know some good people trapped within the beast's bowels.

>I wish to emhasize that as much as I applaud and support the worthwhile
>and necessary criticism/ridicule heaped richly and deservedly upon
>the Clam-Bed, I cannot forget the (largely) innocent humans who have
>been ground up within it's diabolical, mechanistic structure.
                                                      
    That's the truely sad part.  Most people within could not, 
    morally, do the dirty deads that the higher-ups in the cult 
    do daily in the persuit of stats.

>We find Co$ laughable, inane and banal. I suggest that anyone who has not
>done so read _The Banality of Evil_, by Hannah Arendt (whew, just barely
>missed Godwin on that fly-by). There is a deeper and blood-chilling
>underbelly to this thing. It has happened before, it is happening still.
>
>What, then, of our clammy brothers and sisters? I become more concerned
>(for myself, this is not an implied criticism of my fellow ars bigots :-} )
with
>finding a genuine expression of caring to share with these human beings,
>even as I deplore and contend with the soulless cancer of the "church" and
>its organizational imperatives.
>
>If we succeed in exposing this stinking, corrupt Virtual Religion for the
>moral Ebola it is, what then do we do with, to & about the stunned and
>reeling victims that emerge from the wreakage? What will we hold out to
>them, what comfort and solace can we offer? And can we not begin now to
>offer it to these humans while remaining in integrity with our commitment to
>the extinction of a societal menace?
                                     
    I was gonna put a half-way/safe house for the culties to flee
    into.  Transition into society.  Counselling.  FindWork 
    programs.  A six-month to one year stay go get recovery 
    going.

>I am not new to this crusade, but I am relatively new to this manifestation
>of it. I am reassured greatly by what I find here, and by the quality of our
>"bigots". And I may be raising questions that I would not raise but for my
>own ignorance.
          
    No way, sir.
    
    The issue you raise is the central issue to dealing with the 
    cult problem.  Society provides no alternative for the cult 
    or ramp back into the real world.  Cultists live in another 
    world.  Literally.  They see a totally different world around
    them.  Filled with espees, oateas, arcees, beetees and 
    deebees.

>As crucial as it is to render Church o' Clam's ratfucking tactics useless by
>holding a mirror up to them, the final collapse won't occur until the
>"swabbies" within the hull begin to put on their life-jackets and abandon
>ship.
            
    The pressure from the outside (us) can be felt deep in the 
    cult's interior.  We are squeezing the infection out of their
    encysted cult-think.

>Surely we can to offer a "lure" that will speak to whatever is left of the
>genuine humanity inside these unfortunates. And if we expect this to
>happen one day perhaps  we need to be alongside with lifeboats.
                        
    This is a board ceritfied "True Fact"(sm).

>For now, I no longer lurk. As for my real indentity...wellll, not just
>yet. When I do "show up"  it won't be "de-lurking" it will be "de-cloaking"
>(can you say, "Klingon Bird of Prey"? Sure ya can, knew ya could...)
>
>Turbo & I await your flames...