I’ve always had a special affinity for the Scandahoovian phrase ‘husker du’ which translates into English as ‘Do you remember‘, because one of my grandmothers commonly used it in a rather sing song way, as if it was the openings words of some old country ballad of some kind. She was a terrible singer, but I still enjoyed hearing her songs because they were always kind of like a familiar lullabye of happiness when I visited.
I’ve tried a few times to search the Internet looking to see if there is some song from the late 19th or early 20th century Scandinavian song that starts with those words, but all Google keeps serving up is endless pages about the 80’s rock group, and the memory game. I suppose it could narrow it down by being selective in the search words, or changing the search engine, or even finding someone old enough to remember.
The Internet age is funny that way. Sometimes it’s quite easy to find information, but sometimes the only way to find trivia or background information is to find someone with a long memory.
What got me going on this trip down memory lane was something Warren Kinsella posted today on his blog - ‘Marc Lemire: A cautionary note‘ where he makes the statement “What it doesn’t tell you is why some conservatives have taken leave of their senses, and are promoting him”. In doing so he provides some decade old link to a Metro Toronto report by the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Of course all this is taking place as Ezra Levant is waxes eloquent about ‘Richard Warman’s attempt to block U.S. websites‘, and how we should all give him money to ensure he protects the rights of the unheard - a la - even if he doesn’t agree with them he’ll defend their rights to free speech to the death.
The thing is one of the sites that Ezra is pimping is tied to William White. The other site he names is a blog and I don’t have access to the registrant info but I suspect it’s tied to another neo-nazi nut named Grosvenor. For those of you who don’t know William Grosvenor or William Gruber as he is also known, is a neo-nazi - same as Marc Lemire.
Grosvenor has a lonnnnnnnnnng history of posting in the part of the Internet known as Usenet or newsgroups with his neo-nazi anti-Semite crud. To give you an idea of how prolific he is Google shows over 33,000 hits for his name as opposed to 3,300 for Lemire. The thing is both of these bozo have been posting using hundreds of aliases so the real count of posts will run into the hundreds of thousands.
Over the years Grosvenor had been responsible for so much crud and abuse of the Internet as well as on the Internet, that he was sentenced to the global kill file by most newsgroup administrators. In short that means whatever he posted didn’t get propagated anywhere else but on whatever dim witted Internet service provider gave him an account.
The thing is Kinsella doesn’t have the balls to come out and say what’s on his mind. Instead he mentions the political right and makes some vague reference to an extremely dated material by the CJC - the Canadian Jewish Congress. Then again perhaps he isn’t playing dog in the manger - maybe he really is that dim.
The history of the Internet and all it’s predecessors is a very long and, for most people, boring story even in readers digest version. But some background is in order. Over the last 16 years of Canadian Internet there’s been a variety of pain in the asses and characters, some American and some Canadian, that the descriptive term ‘net-kook‘ was applied. Grosvenor was long ago identified as a net-kook and problem, as have most other extremist nut jobs.
So why would Levant make a pretext of supporting the right to free speech of neo-nazis such as Grosvenor and White? I don’t know. But after several decades of using computers and the various forms of computer communication that have evolved, I do know that for every neo-nazi that has popped up they’re matched by the number of neo-con Zionist extremists and other assorted nut jobs that are bound and determined to turn newsgroups, web sites, and blogs into a battle field in some personal war with them that most people don’t give a rats ass about.
At the same time the CJC - Canadian Jewish Congress and to some degree the B’nai brith has been whining about how much abuse and hatred Jews are being subject to on the internet. The problem is a small handfull of people have been actively engaged in fomenting the discord and creating situations then citing them as evidence by these organizations of some growing organized web of hatred.
Anyone that complains about the antics is branded an anti-semite, a bigot, Jew-hater, etc. followed in many cases by a complaint to their ISP. Sorry but a ket-kook like Grosvenor dumping massive amounts of posts into newsgroups is just as vile as the stuff coming from Ken McVay and his Nizkor web site or Sara Saltzman et al. If you want to see how vile the whole lot is tune into the newsgroup alt.revisionism.
I’m tired of having Human Rights Commisions being subverted and bastardized into intruments of personal religious and political views. I don’t care if it’s a Jew, Muslim, or a neo-nazi that’s abusing the system. I’m tired of the antics that have been going on for years to turn the internet into the same kind of farce.
It’s bad enough that access to this resource is only available by a small handful of commercial Internet Providers that don’t have any qualms about corporate intrusion into every aspect . Politicians and government wants to get their greasy little meathooks in there too. It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that special interest groups of all kinds want to ensure that they have the ability to exercise power and control too.
It’s going to happen eventually - the people using the internet will be paying the bills, have all the responsibility, but any rights, power, and control will have willingly been transfered to an elite. Perhaps when that day happen someone will stare at their monitor and say ‘husker du’ - even if it’ll be too late by then.
