The Character Assassins: How the War Party smears its opponents

This is a very entertaining rant about neocon Stephen Schwartz...

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5226

by Justin Raimondo

Every couple of months or so, Stephen Schwartz, aka Suleyman Ahmad, aka "Comrade Sandalio," the Trotskyite-cum-Sufi, turns up with a long, vehement screed recycling the same tired charges against Antiwar.com and me, albeit worded a bit differently. Of course, David Horowitz's Frontpage is the only venue he can find for this kind of kookery. This time, however, he's managed to cram far more lies into a single piece than ever before: some of them quite mystifying.

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One of his favorite tricks is the mendacious use of hyperlinks, giving the impression that his statements are backed by other sources. These are usually his own articles, immodestly declared by him to be 'classics,' which in fact have little or nothing to do with his latest ravings, but lead to more lies through more links. This, too, is not original with Raimondo; it is the Chomsky method of meretricious citations."

Oh, yes, all those "meretricious" hyperlinks! It's just soooo confusing to a genius of Schwartz's caliber! He isn't even a good liar: anyone reading this or any other essay of mine can see that the vast majority of my links are to articles by others, and I've never referred to my own articles as "classics." But lying is what this cretin does best, and he sure manages to pack a lot of prevarication into a single screed. He mentions Web sites and individuals that Antiwar.com is supposed to be having a "love affair" with, like the racist site Overthrow.com: but we've never featured their garbage on our site. I've never given permission to Pravda.ru to run my articles: commies don't respect property rights, just as Schwartz doesn't respect truth. But to a lying sack of sh*t like Schwartz, who disdains hyperlinks as "meretricious," such old-fashioned concepts as truth, evidence, and proof are for lesser beings: the Sufi mystic sees a "higher" reality, one that conveniently conforms to his ideological convictions.

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"The United States, which has entered into a military alliance with Uzbekistan, must support the Uzbeks in their internal as well as their external combat, and must repudiate the blandishments of the human rights industry."

Yeah, forget the "human rights industry" – what we need to embrace is the torture industry. That's what Schwartz believes.

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