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
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>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
>