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October 29, 2002
Making friends:) I've gotten a couple of interesting responses to my post about the "Where is Raed?" site.
Legendary Monkey, on her Sudden Nothing site, does not appreciate my temerity in questioning the understandably concealed identity of the Raed author. Her main criticism seems to be that I can't read. Hey, it says right there on the site that he's in Iraq. I would hope for a more skeptical analysis than this from a student of Robert Anton Wilson. It was from him that I picked up much of my particularly sharply honed media cynicism.
Her other proof consists of having exchanged emails with the Raed author. What, a CIA agent wouldn't be clever enough to use Hotmail? Or are the Legendary Monkey and her cats CIA fronts? Wheels within wheels...
Still, I'm happy to have the attention of a cute monkey girl, even if it is but in the form of ridicule from 1000 miles away. Plus, she conceded that I'm not a TOTAL moron. Geez, I'm turning into Milhouse.
More significantly, Salam posted a response on the Raed website itself. He apparently feels that I have attacked him, when such was not at all my intent. For starters, I mentioned the rough quality of his use of the English language. That was not criticism. I cited it as some evidence of authenticity. I wouldn't expect someone in Iraq to speak or write the King's English. As it is, he expresses himself in English better than half the crackers here in Indiana.
I'm not saying that Salam is fraudulent. He seems convincing. I'm working on the assumption that he is exactly as he presents himself. That seems to be the most likely conclusion.
How would we know, though? That's no knock on Salam. That's more a commentary on the world we live in- particularly the world HE lives in. He CAN'T reveal himself. I wouldn't WANT him to; there's no need for him to get himself killed trying to prove his identity to me.
Which leads me back to my original point of that post: I'm just interested in what he's got to say. I doubt that I'm alone in wanting more windows into that part of the world- particularly ones not owned by Ted Turner or Rupert Murdoch. Please, come join our reindeer games.
Blog on brother!
POST SCRIPT: GO HERE for my new updated thoughts on Salam as of March 2003.
