On Friday, I mentioned the Raelian alien worshipping dolts in a lighthearted post directed at the cloned baby hoax that these people have been perpetrating over the past few weeks. But after a little digging, I'm no longer amused. It seems that the grand poobah of this "movement" has another agenda, as well. Yeah, that again. In "Rael's" own words: A small handful of the millions of American Jews are holding the rest of the 250 million Americans hostage, through the powerful grip that their lobby has on elections and through this on American unconditional support of Israel, and this is unacceptable. Muslim Arab people do not understand this. Bush would only need one second of consciousness to send troops to protect Palestinians, to be on the side of one million powerless people while still protecting Israel. When you witness your house being invaded, your mother and father publicly stripped of their clothing to be searched, your furniture or even your house destroyed and there is absolutely no recourse nor home insurance, when you have lost everything including your dignity, wouldn't you be tempted to retaliate with bombs ? Love is to be on the side of the weak, to show the left cheek.There are Palestinians in concentration camps, assassinated by a country that pretends to defend its rights when, in fact, it is betraying its very foundation. Everyone loved Americans 50 years ago. Today, they are despised by one billion Muslims. Why ? Because they sent troops to Serbia to protect Muslim Kosovars but are not sending troops to help Palestinians who are in the same situation. They should do the same for Palestine. When someone blows himself up with a bomb, it's because he does not have anything else. And we call these acts 'terrorism' but the real terrorism is what brought them to this last resort. We intervened in Serbia but not Palestine. Why ? Because the U.S. is held hostage by Jewish Americans who have not yet understood, unlike those who are in jail in Israel for refusing to kill.
Well, that last line is kinda funny, in the context of what precedes it, and in the context of the events of the past few hours. Not. Tell it to the families of the human beings who were blown to bits in Tel Aviv today, Claude. Oh. Did I forget to mention that this piece of human debris is, um, French?
Claude has a special reason to be pissed at the Israelis, though. You see, several years ago, he was officially declared the messiah (by someone or other) "at the Wailing Wall [sic] to the sound of the Shofar Gadol [sic]." And his messiah-hood was confirmed in simultaneous telepathic messages transmitted by his alien friends (the "Elohim" - get it?) to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and "President Menahem Begin" [sic], among others. Claude even went to the trouble of changing the official symbol of his "religion" from a swastika to a galaxy so as not to offend Holocaust victims. Nice touch. Nevertheless, Claude's petition to the Israeli government to provide him with land in or near Jerusalem for his 3,470,000 square meter extraterrestrial embassy was inexplicably denied. You can find detailed accounts of all this on the Raelian website. Go on. Take a look.
Whimsical note: I gave up on trying to figure out whether Claude appropriated his messianic name from the hero of the Genesis epic rock fantasy The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway or whether perhaps he believes he's related to Superman. Although he claims to have "received" the name Raël during his first alien encounter in December, 1973, I can't find any evidence that he used it until well after The Lamb was released late in 1974. And his first book, which was published "privately" in French that same year, was apparently published under his given name, Vorilhon. Hey, maybe he should have just used a variation on that -- but Babylon 5 wasn't even on the drawing board back then (was it, Meryl?)
Yeah, OK. Enough of this.
