This year there seems to be an extraordinary amount
of people in dire need of my money, with the victims
of the Sumatra earthquake among the first. As always,
the catastrophe has also brought out - in force - the
rabid America-haters, the Bushophobes, the Antisemites
and Israel-bashers.

Jan Egeland, the erstwhile UN mouthpiece for when sh*t
hits the fan, has been claiming that the US has met the
calamity with "stingyness". Of course, the fact that
the US carries more than 60% of the world's total food
aid isn't mentioned, nor the fact that private US
donations to charity exceeds $34 billion a year. The
UN thinks that while it's a good thing that the US and
Australia is doing the practical work in and around
Aceh, it would be much better for all concerned if
they would don UN uniforms while doing it.

It would no doubt be a bit better for the UN, who are
probably feeling a bit stigmatized by the "bluehelmets"
common association with sexual predation, corruption,
and unsavoury links to genocide.

But the UN, even in this horrendous tragedy, is unable
to hide its real pedigree: that of an antisemitic
freakshow. Mr. Egeland is calling the US military
infrastructure resources worth "their weight in gold"
in the context of helping. Of course, he is carefully
not mentioning Sri Lanka's telling Israel to keep their
uniformed helpers the heck out of the country. "Please
send us as much medicines and blankets as you can get
here, but keep your filthy Joos to yourself!" Yeah,
that's the ticket. And Mr. Egeland bows and scrapes
at the Islamic cues, and spits and cringes at the hand
that feeds him.

I'm not going to say anything more about the earthquake
tragedy, except that I don't think it's finished by a
long shot. Not the earthquakes, not the illnesses, and
not the several hundred thousand landmines set afloat
in the region.

On top of this thing screaming for money, there's the
"premier conservative chatboard" yelling for another
60 - 70 quarterly grand plus "tribute". I have a
question that may seem nasty. But it seems quite
relevant.

Free Republic (regular readers will know the place well)
has a subsection called "VetsCor" which is supposed to
focus on "Constitutional Restoration". Vetscor has a
board of directors, the composition of which is readily
found on the web.

Now, what I would dearly like to know is the exact
relationship between Vetscor and Free Republic. Others,
such as Evangelical Christian donors, may like to know
too.

Why? Well, the question presents itself rather force-
fully when we look at this set of addresses:

63.171.238.200 www.vetscor.org
63.171.238.200 www.normajeanalmodovar.com
63.171.238.200 www.new-enterprises.net
63.171.238.200 www.portraitsoffreedom.org
63.171.238.200 www.freedomusa.org

As anyone will see, these are the same machine. But
some of these domains seem to be connected to the sex
trade rather than conservative chat board activity.

For example, the freedomusa link features a series of
interesting subsections, such as Coyote LA. From what
I've been able to gather, "coyote" in this context stands
for "Call Off Your Tired Ethics". The first thing it blares
is : "Featured in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sex
on the Net" -- "For mature audiences only". Boy oh boy.

Now, for contrast, have a gander at the very same url, but
with a guiding html:

http://www.freedomusa.org/main.html

Looks a bit different, doesn't it?

Looking at the Vetscor.org url is even more different.
Offerings of free CD's for active personnel - you just have
to give an address to mail it to. And the ever-present
"grassroots organization" logo and begging bowl.

So, I'm curious. Bloody. Does the "Freepathoniacs" know
what they may be contributing to?