"What's-His-Name," Top Skeptic,-
Still in the Clink...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate
Tim
Bolen
Friday,
September 23rd, 2011
Start smiling. The "skeptic"
operation is in deep trouble - and they
did it to themselves.
I have been
pointing out, for some time, how the
so-called "skeptics" (pseudo-skeptics)
prefer anonymity, lashing out nastily
from a hidden position, usually using a
fake internet identity.
I suspected,
quite correctly, as it turns out, now,
that there were good reasons for that
secrecy. I also knew, from reading
their recruiting literature, that the
central unit sought out society's
flotsam,
ne'er-do-wells, weirdos,
and rejects.
But last week all that was
topped after I was sent two articles from the
Broward County Sun Sentinel - one called
"Celebrated South
Florida artist Jose Alvarez accused
of identity theft"
and the other
'"The Amazing' Randi, renowned
supernatural investigator, immersed
in mystery about partner's alleged
ID theft."
What those
articles were telling me was that I had
miscalculated. I had thought that all those
creepy "skeptics" were using fake internet names to
cover up their real identities. But, that's
not true. At least some of them (and maybe ALL
of them?), according to official reports, were using
"fake" names in real life.
Oh my...
Those two Broward county articles were
informing the world that the world's top skeptic,
the self-styled "Amazing Randi," had a long time
live-in lover who everyone THOUGHT was named Jose
Luis Alvarez, but US Federal Agents had determined
otherwise - and arrested "what's-his-name" on
various "Identity Theft" federal criminal counts.
Alvarez, or whomever he really is, is on the James
Randi Educational Foundation Board of Directors.
THAT certainly trumps a fake
internet ID. The feds, right there on the
spot, handcuffed "what's-his-name," and dragged him
off to the poky.
A Federal Grand Jury had
indicted "what's-his-name."
And
then the plot thickened...
Time for a laugh...
Get this - Randi's group then
began a letter-writing campaign asking that
"what's-his-name" be let out on bail using the
excuse (get ready) that "what's-his-name" was doing
good work as a "skeptic" exposing hoaxes and frauds.
(insert belly-laugh here). A bail hearing was
set for September 21st, 2011.
Well, Florida-based Federal
Judges aren't as dumb as James Randi thinks they are
I guess. Because the Judge rescheduled the
bail hearing to October 4th, 2011, giving Federal
Agents time, I think, to personally question some of
those letter writers, asking probably every one of
them to produce LEGITIMATE identification,
themselves. And, I suspect, to inquire what
THEIR role in the "Jose Luis Alvarez" hoax might be.
As it turns out "James Randi"
isn't really "James Randi, but "Randall James
Hamilton Zwinge."
Oh my, my...
What next? I suspect
there is a very large, expanded, federal
investigation going on.
Gee, I wonder how that could
have happened?
Stay tuned.
Tim Bolen - Consumer
Advocate