by threadbear » Thu 09 Nov 2006, 17:22:02
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newsseeker', 'I') have to second the motion that Ruppert is a wing nut. He said after Hurricane Rita that the US was finished as a nation and that when you hear the "click" of furnaces in winter '05 you are hearing the collapse of the US economy. That and he is quite paranoid. Are people out to get him or has he just attracted completely dysfunctional people who want to trash the FTW office when given the chance?
That being said I did like the article links to mainstream news articles that they posted and some of the writers were good at FTW.
I've had first hand experience with people who have exceptionally keen senses and high intellect and creativity. They are usually highly eccentric, and often hard to get along with on a mundane level. They are the visionaries, the leaders, the charismatics who lead their people "out of the wilderness" or into it. They can also lead their people right off a cliff. It's part of the personality comlex.
People like this are very dymamic and they attract the next level type--the true nutcases who try to contact the virgin Mary through a device built into their shoe. Sometime the visionary's visions ratchet into full blown ideological fantasies too, but I don't get a sense of that with Ruppert. He's made a couple of bad calls, but in the long run, history will view him favorably. His books may be read in classrooms one day.
Ruppert isn't crazy. His movement was likely the target of dirty operations.