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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 89
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY CONFERENCE PLANS ATTACK ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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Four Dangerous Minds Said To Be Planning Invasion Of Small School
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Panic Sets In!
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Gerald Posner and "Chip" Berlet Help "Circle the Wagons!"
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Will YOUR College Be Next!?
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An article in the Los Angeles Times, dated August 21, 1997
("Community College Course Claims JFK Conspiracy"), warns readers
of an apparent stealthy attack planned by certain "conspiracy
theorists" on an idyllic community college. Said to be part of
the invasion were SHERMAN SKOLNICK, a telephone-addicted mutterer
on supposed dark plots, DAVE EMORY, who spreads his seductive
ideas via small radio stations, JOHN JUDGE, a local Washington,
DC character, and MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER, sometime scribbler for a
fringe newspaper.
The ever-alert L.A. Times warns that the South Orange County
Community College District "has approved a course that claims a
conspiracy was behind the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy and has committed $5,000 for flying in four guest
speakers..."
Rushing to guard against such conspiracy ideas being discussed
on, of all places, a college campus, was the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), which may have been correct in accusing ONE of the
four invited speakers, Mr. Piper, of anti-Semitism. From there
it was just a short hop-skip-and-a-jump to the conclusion that
"if one speaker is anti-Semitic, others must also be." At least
that is what the L.A. Times article directly states in its
headline, "SOME scheduled speakers contend [JFK] killing was
planned by Israel."
Although too-trusting Americans may wonder how such as SKOLNICK
(himself an orthodox Jew), EMORY (a well-respected anti-fascist
researcher), and JUDGE (a tireless investigator of CIA
skullduggery) could possibly be "anti-Semitic," Gerald Posner (an
"Oswald did it" stalwart) and John Foster "Chip" Berlet
(described as an "examiner of authoritarian thinking") were quick
to stomp out the question. Regarding the fevered thinkers about
to shamble onto campus, Posner exclaimed that he was "aghast" at
hearing of the planned course. He added that a conference on
conspiracies behind the Kennedy assassination strikes him "as
similar to the notion that the Holocaust was a hoax." John
Foster Berlet, named after beloved State Department personage
John Foster Dulles, on hearing of the sneaky thought-crime attack
on the hallowed halls of academe, exclaimed, "Oh, get out of
here!"
Others were not so kind regarding the planned invasion of the
Hallowed Halls of Correct Thought. "All of this is out-and-out
anti-Semitism," fumed Cheryl Altman of Saddleback Community
College. Roy Bauer, a philosophy instructor at Irvine Valley
Community College, called the invited guests "crackpots." And
Joyce Greenspan of the ADL darkly warned that some of the planned
speakers write for the feared "extremist organizations." (Since
Skolnick writes for Conspiracy Nation, among other publications,
the inference is clear: CONSPIRACY NATION ITSELF MAY BE AN
"EXTREMIST" ORGANIZATION.)
This editor has learned that a puzzled Sherman Skolnick never
made a definite committment to attend the proposed conference.
Reportedly, John Judge had never even been formally asked to
attend. Emory and Piper could not be reached for comment as we
go to press.
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