This wonderful declaration makes you think LESS of Levenda? Good Lord. Are you on Bizarro Planet or something? Considering the milieux in which he travels - both professionally and otherwise - I'd say this is downright brave. He's risking those all-important promo gigs on Red Ice, Rense, and other assorted alternative spaces by coming out against one of their biggest sources of traffic from the past month or so.
I have always admired Lavenda, but never knew whether or not it was safe to consider him a "good man". Now I know that he is.
Thanks, Agent Orange, for helping clear the air around this good man's name.
XO
[quote="[url=http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=622486#p622486]Agent Orange Cooper » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:06 pm[/url]"]Peter Levenda weighs in on #pizzagate:
[quote]Peter Levenda
December 7 at 4:33pm
As some of you may know, I was involved the past few months in a series of discussions concerning satanic cults and pedophilia, in particular the idea that there is an international cabal of satanic, devil-worshipping pedophiles. If you’ve been following this, you know my stand on the issue: that there are, indeed, international groups of those who traffic in children and who are engaged in child prostitution and child pornography rings, but that I do not find that dragging concepts like “satanic cult” into the mix does anything for the children who are, in fact, being trafficked. There is simply no evidence of the existence of a satanic cult specializing in the trafficking of children, and to insist otherwise only serves to devalue the discussion where real gangs and real organized crime rings are exploiting women and children around the world without the need of “satanic” trappings, rituals, or belief systems.
This discussion became overheated in the environment of “Pizzagate”, the inclusion of performance artist Marina Abramovic and Democratic Party officials in that faked scandal, and the resultant shooting this past weekend at Comet Ping Pong (the pizza parlor implicated as the center of this alleged satanic-Democratic cabal of child abusers). My objection to those who scream “satanic pedophiles” and who insist that there is overwhelming evidence of same is that they are using “spectral evidence”: a term coined at the time of the Salem witchcraft trials over three hundred years ago to denote evidence that no one can see except the accusers. Nineteen innocent people were executed on the basis of that “spectral evidence.” Today, Pizzagate is a case in point.
However, to those who still believe in such things I have a suggestion.
(No, not that. Another suggestion.)
You know that I just published a novel about international terrorists and religious groups. One of the groups I write about in that book is called the Yezidi or Yazidi. For centuries these people were considered to be “devil worshipers” by Muslims and Christians alike. They are still considered that way by the followers of the Islamic State, which has undertaken a campaign of genocide against them. Thousands of Yezidi have been slaughtered. Thousands more – women and children – have been taken into slavery, a fact that the Islamic State brags about in their own publications and on-line. Women and children are traded, sold, and bought. They are raped by their captors, and then sold to another set of captors where they are raped again. Prices range from about ten dollars each to more than twenty-five thousand dollars, depending on the desirability of the victim. The children who have been victimized this way already are showing evidence of severe psychological trauma.
There is little information about the Yezidi in the media, other than the fact that they are being killed in large numbers, their shrines defaced and destroyed, and the most vulnerable among them being brutalized in ways I hope you cannot imagine.
But see: here is real proof of the organized abuse and murder of children by a gang of religious fanatics. It is happening now. In huge numbers. And the excuse the Islamic State uses to conduct this barbarity? The Yezidi, they say, are devil-worshipers.
You know. Like Marina Abramovic and Tony Podesta and James Alefantis. Right?
Yeah. Think about that.
If you truly believe in any of this despite all evidence to the contrary, and if you still insist that there is an international cult of satanic child molesters, then put your money where your mouth is. Do something for children who are being abused right now by just such a cult. Take a stand on something real, and help save a child or its mother right now.
You can send a donation via the website http://www.yazda.org. Or via UNICEF.
Do it. Show the world you’re serious and that you really care about children, and that you care about them more than you do your own fevered fantasies. Show the world you have nothing in common with the bigotry of the Islamic State, or with shooting up pizza parlors on the basis of false stories and unsubstantiated, unsupported reports in un-refereed alternate media.
In other words, grow the f*** up.[/quote]
I officially retract my defense of Levenda in past threads/venues (paging guruilla). Well-meaning or not, this mistakes the point abso-lutely. It reads like something drawn up in a DNC conference room, or by someone who subscribes to the same worldview propagated by CNN. "If you want to do something, donate to UNICEF!" Give me a fucking break.[/quote]
