To: Fellow Mensans
From: John Bryant (bio and contact info below)
Re: Information which the Mensa establishment is
desperately trying to
suppress
Contents: Opinion
Date: Mayday, 2001
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Dear fellow Mensans:
Approximately one year ago I made Mensa history -- I was the
first person
to be attacked in a major screamfest-hatefest in the Mensa
Bulletin (March
2000, pp 6-7). This attack came about as a result of a
short piece of mine
(which was not even a complete article) published in the previous
Bulletin
(Jan/Feb 2000 2% Solution). This attack was unique for
several reasons:
* It consisted of numerous letters brimming with hateful
denunciations, but
did not allow even a single letter in support of my position, in
spite of
the fact that my article generated a great deal of mail.
* It was published as a special section, and introduced by a
hate-squib
written by the AMC Communications Director
* It was a response to a piece that had appeared only the
previous month,
whereas commentary on published pieces is usually confined to the
second or
third issue after the original publication (This fact
demonstrated the
importance given to the attack by those who made it.)
* It prompted a shortening of the allowed length of letters which
has only
recently been rescinded due to numerous protests.
* It was brought on because I dared to dabble in the most
forbidden of all
forbidden topics: Criticism of Jews.
* I was not allowed to respond to the attack in any way in the
pages of the
Bulletin. Altho the Letters Editor originally promised to
publish a letter
from me of (a measly) 150 words -- a length restriction which
'just
happened' to be imposed on all future letters in the very issue
in which
the attack appeared and was evidently intended to limit me
severely in what
I could say -- this tiny genuflection to fairness was quickly
rescinded by
the Big Cheese himself, AMC Chairman Beatty, when I used the 150
words to
point to a location on the Internet where I had posted a complete
and
devastating response (see below).
The evident purpose of the Bulletin attack was not to answer my
criticisms
of Jews -- leftists and others of the politically-correct
persuasion will
NEVER answer criticisms except with name-calling and other forms
of ad
hominem attacks. Rather the attack on me was for the
purpose of PUNISHING
me for what I did, and -- far more importantly -- to let the rest
of the
Mensa membership know that anyone else having the chutzpah to say
anything
like I said would be punished swiftly and brutally, as I was.
Well, folks, it's payback time. The attack spurred me to
put up a website
-- www.thebirdman.org
-- where I have posted all the documents of this
controversy along with a great deal of supporting documentation
for those
who might think that my statements are simply a matter of
irrationality or
misinformation. In particular, besides an excellent
selection of documents
on Jews in general, the postings include my original article
(along with
all the stuff that was 'edited out'), the letters of denunciation
published
in the Bulletin, my devastating response letter, my
correspondence with the
Mensa Ombudsman in my attempt to get some justice, plus all other
relevant
documents -- in short, THE WHOLE SORDID, STINKING VIPER PIT OF
DISHONESTY,
HYPOCRISY, COWARDICE AND IMMORALITY of the AMC, the liberals, the
leftists,
and all the other politically-correct errand-boys of the Jewish
establishment.
But be warned -- my enemies don't want you to read this stuff,
and they
will move quickly to try to get my page taken down and my
Internet account
canceled (that's their Standard Operating Procedure). If
either effort is
successful, of course, it will only serve to prove me right: That
the
behavior of organized Jewry poses an important danger to the rest
of us,
and that these folks regard what I have to say as sufficiently
important
and revealing to try to keep people from seeing it or contacting
me. So my
suggestion is, read the page NOW, before You-Know-Who start
whining and
bleating. (On my page, just click on 'Jewish Question' and
scroll down to
'Mensa Flap'.) But even if my page is not up, you can still
access the
most important document in the case -- the response to the
Bulletin attack
-- at the following location:
http://www.revilo-oliver.com/Writers/Bryant/mensa.html
Also, if my email account is canceled, I can be contacted at the
following
alternate addresses (but don't use them unless you have to, since
I check
them only once a week or so): CMA_man@yahoo.com
and birdman@ematic.com.
In passing I might mention that, while the attack in the Bulletin
spurred
me to put up my webpage, my site has many other features,
including a page
of hard-to-find news stories which is updated daily, and which is
so good
that even the editor of the most popular news site on the Net --
WorldNetDaily -- reads it (tho he wouldn't dare post the stories
that we
post). If you care to visit us, as more than 16,000 unique
visitors have
done in the few months since my page has been up (and without any
advertising yet!), you may just find yourself acquiring a whole
new
perspective on a lot of controversial subjects. You may
also discover why,
in spite of forcefully violating the taboo of criticizing Jews,
we have had
several friendly letters from rabbis and other Jews (posted on
the site),
and virtually no hate mail (all posted) -- tho no doubt this fact
will
change now that we are alerting almost a thousand
notoriously-liberal
Mensans to our page.
In the present context I would like to comment on AMC Chairman
Bob Beatty,
who was the person that prevented me from responding to the
Bulletin
attack. Beatty, as you probably know, recently announced
his resignation
of the AMC chairmanship due to blood pressure caused by stress,
and while I
am not of the school which believes that 'God punishes sinners',
the fact
remains that unethical behavior, such as that which Beatty
exhibited toward
me, can have physiological as well as social consequences.
Maybe Beatty
should give some thought to righting the wrong he has done to me
lest it be
contributing to -- or causing -- his health problems. This
wrong, it may
be noted, is compounded by the fact that in the Jan/Feb 2000
Bulletin
Beatty made the following statements (p 2): "... we revel in
our diversity.
... What we thrive on is new ideas. We may differ greatly
in our opinions,
but we also know that by debating and discussing thoughts and
ideas with
our fellow Mensans, we will learn much -- some of which we may
agree with,
some of which we may disagree with, but our knowledge base will
expand. As
our knowledge base expands, so does our degree of
tolerance." Now tell me,
Bob, how did all that 'thriving on new ideas' and 'tolerance'
come to a
screeching halt in just two months?
In closing, I request that you contact me if you are willing to
send me a
photocopy (or, even better, an electronic copy) of your local
Mensa
directory, or if you have a copy of the Mensa email
directory. I want to
compile an email list which I can use to notify as many Mensans
by email as
possible.
And finally, keep in mind that the only purpose of censorship is
to keep
you from finding out things you really need to know.
JOHN BRYANT is a philosopher, logician, cartoonist, libertarian,
the author
of 40 highly-praised books (available thru Amazon.com or his
website at
www.thebirdman.org),
and was dubbed "Mensa's resident iconoclast" by Tom
Elliott, the high-IQ organization's book review editor
(Mensa Bulletin,
Oct
97). He is listed in Who's Who in the World and
other prestigious
volumes,
was dubbed the "Birdman of Pinellas County" (FL) by a
local radio station,
and is one of the few individuals in the world to have had three
separate
laws passed specifically against him (for the infernal crime of
bird
feeding). He writes the politically-incorrect Birdman's
Weekly Letter,
available free via email from john@thebirdman.org.
Snailmail address: PO
Box 66683, St Pete Beach FL 33736-6683.
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