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IP: [scary djf] Author's Y2K Presentation at Book Store
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:21:11 -0500
From: "John F. McMullen" <johnmac () acm org> To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:53:26 -0500 I went to a talk by an author, David E. Smith, Jr. ("Issues & Events To Come In The New Millennium"; Destech Press; ISBM 1-891641-52-2), at a local Barnes and Noble bookstore on Friday night, March 19th; it was supposed to be on Y2K but was on much more - the author had some very whacko theories. The Y2K was created intentionally by those who are part of the "New World Order" conspiracy - just as "They" are behind Y2K as well as everything else (FEMA's response at Waco, US troops under UN Control, elimination of the gold standard, etc.) I finally went bonkers and made him identify "they" (I got an advance look at his book) - "they" are the Illuminati - although he wasn't big on Jews either (he did say in the book that the Jews really scapecoats for the Illumanati and his book contains the "Protocols of The Elders of Zion", a well-known anti-semitic text which he says "is a document disguised by the Illumanti to portray that it was written by Jews", but the book also says that the Jews financed Hitler and that Hitler's mother was a Jew). His book also says that the Illuminati wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and attributed it to Karl Marx He also had many other mis-statements ("Bill Gates worked for IBM but stole the operating system away" but had enough facts (he quotes a real expert in the Y2K area, Dr. Edward Yardini, for example to substantiate a real fact) and half-truths to sound plausible to those who knew nothing. There were many seniors there who had heard that "this Y2K thing is going to screw up Social Security and foul up their bank accounts" and wanted to find out how to stop it. It was somewhat scarey that many of the audiance were turned onto him. One person, a stranger, heard me say (and I shouldn't have) "He's a nut" and replied "You voted for Clinton" - the same guy also said that the government has contracts out for railroad cars with no windows and rails along the walls with handcuffs already connected so that people may be taken away - when I asked him who was being taken away, he was fuzzy - but he meant "Dissenters against the New World Order" - the same guy said that Mary had said at Majorica (sp) not to worry about Y2K. The speaker, who was also into numerology, when I got him to respond to who "they" were, got into the Farrakan-type mumbo-jumbo ("3 times 3 is nine and 6 is 15 and that's the number of ...") while explaining the coding buried on dollar bills. He also warned about the Federal Reserve Boad and said that FDR had suspended the Constitution and identified the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission as part of the Illumaniti. He's an attorney from Peekskill, NY who self-publishes (another book of his is "Finding Your Perfect Soulmate or Business Partner") More will be said - I bought his book; unfortunately, others did too but for different reasons
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