I Am Not Silent.

 

 

As our masthead says in a quote from William Lloyd Garrison's first issue of The Liberator, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD."

The bad news is I'm in the dawg house over at facebook again for violating their so called community standards . 

So what's this big offense? I said this a year ago.

"You will note on his right arm his Gerard-Perrigaux gold watch my mother gave him in 1941 suitably engraved. which mysteriously disappeared thanks to those fucking russians..."

Well, it's true. Someone has the watch and it sure isn't me. It was worth a lot of money then and it is worth a lot of money now.

If you're reading this and you have this watch engraved RTL 1941 on the back, know that it was looted from  my father's estate in 2001 by someone in the family of his second wife.

When I look them up on the internet and I see all the self laudatory crap I think, "Yeah. And you stole a dead man's watch."

I did receive his replacement class ring from MIT a few years ago probably because it was all too traceable if it had been hocked in some crappy pawnshop. 

It was only twelve years late.

Apparently truth doesn't matter to the people over at Facebook when it comes to appeasing the Russians. 

And for their part the russians are in the habit as we have seen lately of just taking what they want and smashing it to bits if the proprietors hold up their hands and say "Hey. Wait a minute, Vlad."

Here's the picture and the proof.

To paraphrase Joseph Wambaugh, "And the sleaze will tell."