IP: [scary djf] Author's Y2K Presentation at Book Store

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "John F. McMullen" <johnmac () acm org>
> To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:53:26 -0500
>
>
> I went to a talk by an author, David E. Smith, Jr. ("Issues & Events To Come
> In The New Millennium"; Destech Press; ISBM 1-891641-52-2),  at a local
> Barnes and Noble bookstore on Friday night, March 19th; it was supposed to
> be on Y2K but was on much more - the author had some very whacko theories.
> The Y2K was created intentionally by those who are part of the "New World
> Order" conspiracy - just as "They" are behind Y2K as well as everything else
> (FEMA's response at Waco, US troops under UN Control, elimination of the
> gold standard, etc.)
> I finally went bonkers and made him identify "they" (I got an advance look
> at his book) - "they" are the Illuminati - although he wasn't big on Jews
> either (he did say in the book that the Jews really scapecoats for the
> Illumanati and his book contains the "Protocols of The Elders of Zion", a
> well-known anti-semitic text which he says "is a document disguised by the
> Illumanti to portray that it was written by Jews", but the book also says
> that the Jews financed Hitler and that Hitler's mother was a Jew). His book
> also says that the Illuminati wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and attributed
> it to Karl Marx He also had many other mis-statements ("Bill Gates worked
> for IBM but stole the operating system away"  but had enough facts (he
> quotes a real expert in the Y2K area, Dr. Edward Yardini, for example to
> substantiate a real fact) and half-truths to sound plausible to those who
> knew nothing.
> There were many seniors there who had heard that "this Y2K thing is going to
> screw up Social Security and foul up their bank accounts" and wanted to find
> out how to stop it. It was somewhat scarey that many of the audiance were
> turned onto him. One person, a stranger, heard me say (and I shouldn't have)
> "He's a nut" and replied "You voted for Clinton" - the same guy also said
> that the government has contracts out for railroad cars with no windows and
> rails along the walls with handcuffs already connected so that people may be
> taken away - when I asked him who was being taken away, he was fuzzy - but
> he meant "Dissenters against the New World Order" - the same guy said that
> Mary had said at Majorica (sp) not to worry about Y2K.
> The speaker, who was also into numerology, when I got him to respond to who
> "they" were, got into the Farrakan-type mumbo-jumbo ("3 times 3 is nine and
> 6 is 15 and that's the number of ...") while explaining the coding buried on
> dollar bills.
> He also warned about the Federal Reserve Boad and said that FDR had
> suspended the Constitution and identified the Council of Foreign Relations
> and the Trilateral Commission as part of the Illumaniti.  He's an attorney
> from Peekskill, NY who self-publishes (another book of his is "Finding Your
> Perfect Soulmate or Business Partner")
> More will be said - I bought his book; unfortunately, others did too but for
> different reasons