By the magic of goodle, I found out this morning that you referenced Judeosphere’s excerpts from my article. “Purigying the World: What the Radical New Ideology Stands For.”

The article makes the point (among other points) that the strange coalitions that fall under the anti-Empire movement movement depend for their tenuous solidarity on hatred of an “enemy of humanity” –and once again it’s Israel, the collective Jew. It’s this common hatred that alows bizarre commonalities between Neoprogressives and various brands of theocrats, fascists and totalitarians. The article is in the winter 2010 issue of the journal Orbis.

For those who may want to check out the whole piece, I’m attaching a link to a PDF: http://spme.net/library/pdf/PurifyingtheWorld.pdf

The whole journal is at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00304387 (but this is an electronic version–not formatted like the printed original.)

I expect to be writing more on the matter and appreciate critical or constructive comments.

Ernie

OMG..I used to LIVE in that house in the early 70’s, and it WAS HAUNTED! The walls would look like they moved in and out like someone was breathing

My apology for such a delayed reply. Yes, the characters I wrote about are real, and those were their names. Funny that you were searching for a Kenny Robbins, when I knew a Kenny Robinson, but you were several years ahead of me, as I was class of ’70. I went to PS 104 from 4th to 6th grades and junior high school in Jamaica before we moved back to Rockaway and I entered Far Rockaway High. Far Rock was a fun and exciting place to be a teen and young hippie in the late 60s (though, of course, I hated the one-horse world-unto-itself and was dying to leave). The beach enhances everything. We even had our own anti-war strike, complete with closing down the school and a police riot during the march down Central Avenue. I moved into Manhattan in ’74, but I returned regularly for fifteen years to visit my parents. By then my parents had moved to Rockaway Park, further out on the peninsula, and it is probably close to thirty years now since the usual white flight from an arriving poor black underclass completely changed Far Rockaway. The town has long been a shell of itself, many of the stores empty, all three movie theaters closed. There was a 100th anniversary reunion of all classes for FRHS that I did not attend, but FRHS was officially terminated as a school a couple of years ago, with, I think, three separate “academies” now operating out of the building. You can find what has to be among the more extensive and impressive high school and community reunion sites at http://www.farrockaway.com/. (You may recognize the front image of FRHS, of which I made use in one of my posts.) And now, among other luminaries we have Bernie Madoff of whom to be proud.

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