In April, Daryl Bradford Smith, former GCN radio talk show host, tossed this blogger's name in his paranoid stew, a dizzy fermentation he calls the "criminal network." Now, when I post videos to YouTube, people ask if I am a Jew, or as Daryl would call me, a crypto-Jew, whatever that is exactly.

According to Smith and his sidekick, Eric Hufschmid, the entire "911 Truth Movement" needs to be investigated, in order to out the Zionists, crypto-Jews, shills, scammers, and criminals.

"Many businesses do background checks on prospective employees," writes Hufschmid. "The managers of some apartment buildings do a 'background check' on a person before they allow that person to rent an apartment.... Some jobs require a security clearance from the government, and those people are given a much more thorough investigation.... Since background checks are considered acceptable for businesses, why are we not allowed to investigate people in the 9/11 movement?"

Of course, this would be a large and expensive undertaking because there are thousands of people in the "911 Truth Movement," and no doubt Mr. Hufschmid and his mentor, the expatriate "patriot" Smith, who lives in France, or so we are led to believe, where he has vowed to protect the Constitution long distance, would be hard pressed to come up with the cash to hire private investigators, run credit checks, spend countless hours performing Google searches, and visiting city halls and sifting through public records.

Even so, in any such investigative role, Laura Knight Jadczyk's moniker, Agent Smith, would fit Bradford Smith like a well-worn shoe (see Knight Jadczyk's How to Spot COINTELPRO Agents).

"We especially need to keep our eye on the following people because are almost certain to be part of the criminal network," writes Agent Smith (actually Hufschmid, as it appears Smith has problems writing, as his specialty is verbally weaving conspiracy theories over the "air," or rather over podcast). "Phil Berg, Mike Berger (and everybody else in 911truth.org), Bob Bowman, Gabriel Day, Professor James Fetzer and other founding members of Scholars For 9/11 Truth, Jim Hoffman and his girlfriend Victoria Ashley, Gerard Holmgren, Phil Jayhan, Alex Jones, Jeff King (aka plaguepuppy), Nicholas Levis, Wayne Madsen, Scott Makufka (aka Victor Thorn), Kurt Nimmo, Jenna Orkin, Lisa Pease, Eric John Phelps, Jeff Rense, Mike Ruppert, Karl Schwarz, Rick Siegel (911eyewitness.com), Greg Szymanski, Webster Tarpley, Frank Whalen (RBN radio host)."

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines "network" as follows: "A complex, interconnected group or system: an espionage network" and "An extended group of people with similar interests or concerns who interact and remain in informal contact for mutual assistance or support."

Although I have no idea if the folks listed above comprise an "interconnected group or system," people who "interact and remain in informal contact for mutual assistance or support," I can say with absolute certainty I am not part of their network, if indeed they have one, and thus I am dumbfounded by Smith's assertion.

Maybe Smith regards the fact Alex Jones' Prison Planet website, edited by Paul Joseph Watson, regularly posts my blog entries as evidence I am part of the "criminal network," or that on rare occasion Jeff Rense's site does the same. I do not submit articles to sites on the web, and haven't since I wrote for Counterpunch nearly two years ago.

It is interesting to note Smith's claim is similar to one made by certain neocon crackpots, one who writes for David Horowitz's Frontpage Magazine, that I am the "spokesman" for the Italian antiwar site Uruknet, and I support the "terrorists" and Saddam Hussein. As well, I have never submitted an article to Uruknet-they simply harvest articles they agree with from this blog.

I don't encourage or discourage this behavior.

Prior to Smith's baseless (and slanderous) accusation that I am part and parcel of a "crypto-Jew" criminal network, Irish podcaster Fintan Dunne accused me of working for the CIA, an accusation so absurd and off-the-wall I really didn't bother to respond. Like Smith, Dunne did not bother to provide evidence, he simply went off the deep end, casting wildly about, probably in an effort to drive traffic to his site. I "retaliated" by removing his link from my blogroll.

As for Smith, I never added him to my blogroll, as our "relationship" (he called me twice from "France," or maybe Des Moines) was extremely short lived-he wasted precious time accusing me of criminal behavior, taking issue with a blog entry or two posted here (thus his "evidence" of my complicity in the "crypto-Jew criminal network").

I didn't jump on Smith's Vast Jewish Conspiracy bandwagon-going back several thousand years-and pay homage to his wisdom, or rather simplistic crackpot theories, and thus I became a suspect, a member of the criminal network.

According to Smith, the former Zionist Benjamin Freedman is a saint, no matter his theory about the Vast Jewish Conspiracy finds a welcome home over on the National Vanguard website (the National Vanguard is a white nationalist, or white separatist organization, so magnanimous they only assisted white people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina).

On his podcast, a carry-over from his radio program (GCN pulled the plug after Smith attacked other hosts at the network, in particular Alex Jones), Smith spends an inordinate amount of time telling his circle of listeners (supposedly numbering around 10,000) he is no antisemite, even though he is obsessed with Jews, the Kabbalah, the Talmud, and all things Rabbinic. Smith calls the Vast Jewish Conspiracy "Zionist," even though Zionism arose in the late 19th century. Smith does not let history get in the way, probably because he believes it was written by Zionists, that is to say Jews.

Indeed, there are Jews involved in the real criminal network, emanating from corporate suites and neoliberal criminal organizations, and the neocons are primarily Jewish, as the neocons are Israel Firsters first and traditional neoliberals second. However, these organizations and bankster mafia organizations (World Bank, IMF, WTO, CFR, Trilateral Commission, etc.) also have Catholic, Protestant, Irish, German, French, British, maybe even Buddhist members, although the strings are pulled by the ruling elite, monarchs and inbred old families, going back before Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was indeed Jewish. Rothschild's war profiteering is more important than the possibility he did or did not practice Judaism or did or didn't keep a menorah on his mantle.

At any rate, I will spare Smith and his Boy Friday Hufschmid the trouble of investigating your humble blogger. As previously noted, I am not "interconnected" in any significant way with the above enumerated people. I receive about ten or twenty pieces of email a day, mostly from people who believe I should be on their email lists, although I have yet to ask to be included on any such lists. I do not attend local political meetings, although I marched, some may declare futilely, on the federal building here, protesting Bush's illegal invasions and current occupation (and, indeed, although it made me feel better, the effort was futile, as such events are studiously ignored by the corporate media and deemed a "focus group" by our appointed unitary decider).

I should probably mention here that I was an antiwar activist in 1970 and this behavior, equally an exercise in futility, caused me a lot of trouble, as I became a "person of interest" (in the day, they simply called us commies) for the FBI and the Michigan State Police, or its infamous "Red Squad" division, although I don't care to go into details.

Suffice it to say I had hands-on experience with COINTELPRO-the real McCoy, not the current lukewarm iteration. Back in the day they went around assassinating civil rights leaders, Black Panthers, AIM activists, and wrecking the lives of countless lessers, such as myself. From this experience, I learned to keep my distance, not trust leaders, or even "spokespersons," self-declared or otherwise, and that includes the megalomaniac Daryl Bradford Smith.

"We can easily figure who to investigate," Smith-Hufschmid continue. "They have names, addresses, and telephone numbers. We can deal with these criminals whenever we get enough people to stand up to them. We outnumber them a million to one."

Indeed, they can investigate me, but they are not going to find much of anything except a guy with a high school education, who was active in the 1960s antiwar movement, who worked in a factory for twenty years, wrote an unpublished novel and dozens of short stories, was married twice and divorced once, and who now works in yet another low-paying "professional" job, lives in the desert with his second wife and three cats, and writes a daily blog on politics.

For Smith-Hufschmid, it is apparently a crime to not buy into their reductionist, crackpot theory about conniving Jews reaching back into antiquity, fomenting a long-term conspiracy to reduce us all to exploitable cattle over the span of many thousands of years. Rabbi Mendel Schneerson, one of the Lubavitchers that gets Smith worked up into a lather, may believe the Jews are a Master Race, and Yeshiva students in Israel may chant "death to Arabs," but it does not mean they have the power and resources to reduce goyim to slaves.

Hitler tried this with non-Aryans and got his ass kicked.

I'm more worried about the New World Order, what I prefer to call the Neoliberal Order, rabid and predatory mercantilism, a global "Washington Consensus" as practiced by the WTO, the United Nations, and the World Bank. I am more worried about traditional neoliberals masquerading under the so-called "Third Way," a term first popularized by Benito Mussolini in the 1920s to describe fascism. Smith complains when people talk about the "New World Order" because the term is so general and amorphous and he believes the perpetrators remain nameless.

I got some names for you, Daryl.

John Rockefeller, George Bush, Alan Greenspan, all the neocons, Gerhard Schröder, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, everybody who attends the Bilderberger meetings, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Henry Kissinger, Lord Browne of Madingley, Jürgen E. Schrempp, Denis Healey, Lord Black of Crossharbour, all of the European Union Commissioners, Bill Clinton and his wife, John Kerry and his wife, Natan Sharansky, everybody at the Council on Foreign Relations, everybody at the Brookings Institution, everybody at the Rand Corporation, everybody at the Trilateral Commission, especially Zbigniew Brzezinski and Bush Senior, Frank Carlucci and all the criminals at the Carlyle Group, Dick Cheney (especially Dick Cheney, and his wife too), Dianne Feinstein, Hank Greenberg (and everybody in the upper echelon of the American International Group), Paul Volcker, Jeb Bush and the September criminals, etc. In fact, it's a good idea to raid Wall Street, sweep out all the financiers, and put all the owners and upper management in a line-up. And while we're at it, clean up the corporate media, especially Fox News.

I missed a few hundred, but you get the picture.

Start with them. Otherwise, with all this nebulous Lubavitcher nonsense, people are going to think you're taking people down the wrong road.

Or they will write you off as an antisemitic crank.

In fact, many of them already have.