I have a feeling Brian Dunning is going to give Chuck Baldwin total and complete butthurt

Last week, Chuck Baldwin went off his meds and started raving about the FEMA death camps. It was an episode of "This Week in Batshit" that I really enjoyed and got a lot of mileage out of (see "Touring My Friendly Neighborhood FEMA Death Camp"). But this week, I was more annoyed for Brian Dunning, the evil genius behind Skeptoid. I pulled this rotting weasel carcass of an article out of the gutter that is..oh, who the fuck knows anymore? Seriously. I was just looking at it, and I have no idea. Rather than give the illusion that these sites have original content, and to underscore the fact that the sites I visit on a daily basis are all completely indistinguishable at this point, well, I'll just call it OneWorldviewProphecy. I mean, does it really matter anymore?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column questioning why it was necessary for our federal government to be constructing internment camps all over America (See the original column at Chuck Baldwin Live).

I felt it was time for someone such as me to publicly broach the subject. Needless to say, the response was overwhelming. Even more interesting is the fact that the web link to the National Guard Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of "Internment / Resettlement Specialist" that I included in my column was removed shortly after the column was published. Was this a coincidence?

Yep. The story had made the nutter rounds, so I'm positive that either the National Guard is sick of fielding questions from asshats or they filled the position. That ad was as dull as dirt. It was for an MP in the National Guard, who, let's face it, will likely get shipped to Iraq or some other shithole on earth. The fact that they had to take it down means that someone who should have been killing al-Qaida operatives had to waste a fucking second changing the website. And by the way, thanks ever so much for bringing to our attention a conspiracy that has been around since the 1960s. You are cutting-edge crazy. I mean, Cripes! How long does it take before the conspiracy is well and truly self-debunked by virtue of not taking place?

Of course, the U.S. Army still has their web site soliciting recruitment for "Internment / Resettlement Specialist" online.

And it too is completely unremarkable.

How afraid could you actually be of an outfit that was so incompetent at pulling off a coup that it was putting ads about it in the paper? I mean, really? It's like going into a gun store and asking, "How many cops you think I could kill with that rifle?"

Don't fuck w/ Mr. Paws, Chuck.

Predictably, I heard from a sizeable number of readers who expressed concern about my "credibility." Some were more direct: descriptions such as "conspiracy nut," "lunatic," "fringe," etc., popped up quite often. Several readers dismissed the entire proposition on the basis that, apparently, the link I provided to a photo of one such camp that was reported in the Idaho Observer as a FEMA camp was actually constructed in another country.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Heehee. Dickweed.

Which, if true, changes nothing, of course. Others pointed to a very shallow "exposé" published in Popular Mechanics that attempted (lamely) to debunk the whole notion of internment camps. This was the same source Glenn Beck used to dismiss the idea.

If Glenn Beck doesn't believe it, it's probably true. But look at how you dismiss the PM article: "It's lame." Not even addressing the thumping that they give your idiot position. Pathetic. It's like you are trying to lose the argument.

The lowest point of the whole article, however, was when he tried to marshal Brian Dunning as support for his position, who said a few weeks ago:

"When I first heard the FEMA Prison Camp conspiracy story, it seemed ridiculous and paranoid at face value. But when I finally dug in to research it, I started by searching for the origins of the rumors, and found to my surprise that nearly all of the legal foundation and precedent for such a plan does in fact exist."

If you were a student, I'd fail you for misusing sources, you twerp. Dunning concludes:

"I don't remember anyone electing a politician who wants to throw millions of Americans into prison camps. To make effective electoral decisions, you need to maintain a healthy skepticism, and not go off the deep end and suppose that every Halliburton contract is a slippery slope leading to Americans being gassed in military concentration camps. If you see barbed wire around a train yard, consider the possibility of other explanations (like the train company doesn't need stuff being stolen) before you conclude that the Illuminati are out to kill you."

Chuck. Saying something is "plausible" and something is "probable" are completely different cases and demand different standards of evidence. To simply ignore the difference is dishonest.

I'm warning you now, if you ever park in front of my apartment, I'm peeing in your gas tank.

HJ