I wanted to respond to Trafton earlier, but I was so busy, I simply did not have the time. Nevertheless, what I need to say is so important, I knew I simply had to allocate a few minutes to write a brief letter on the subject. There are a number of reasons Trafton isn't telling us as to why he wants to champion censorship in the name of free speech, intolerance in the name of tolerance, and oppression in the name of freedom. In this letter, I will expose those reasons one-by-one, on the principle that if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. He says that his prank phone calls are Right with a capital R. Wow! Isn't that like hiding the stolen goods in the closet and, when the cops come in, standing in front of the closet door and exclaiming, "They're not in here!"?

When you tell Trafton's helpers that Trafton's few positive contributions will continue to be overshadowed by his broader message of hate, they begin to get fidgety, and their eyes begin to wander. They really don't care. They have no interest in hearing that all the deals he makes are strictly one-way. Trafton gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. Is it not positively the distinguishing feature of his ramblings to wage a clandestine guerilla war against many basic human rights? There are rumors circulating that Trafton is dead set on defending his position against what I have to say, regardless of what I have to say, so let me just clarify something: Trafton would have us believe that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world's people are all completely justified. Such flummery can be quickly dissipated merely by skimming a few random pages from any book on the subject. I find that I am embarrassed. Embarrassed that some people don't realize that his smear tactics always follow the same pattern. He puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that two wrongs make a right. Look at it from my point of view: Trafton is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to him whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Trafton is Marxism. Why? First, I'll give you a very brief answer, and then I'll go back and explain my answer in detail. As for the brief answer, almost every day, Trafton outreaches himself in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It's honestly breathtaking to watch him.

His smears symbolize lawlessness, violence, and misguided rebellion -- extreme liberty for a few, even if the rest of us lose more than a little freedom. Just to add a little more perspective, it takes more than a mass of patronizing hucksters to make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to reinforce what is best in people.

I could go on and on about Trafton's special form of unilateralism, but you get the general idea. Was Trafton just trying to be cute when he said that his practices are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos? I sure hope so, because anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that I've heard of villainous things like egotism and pharisaism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and of themselves -- ideas which his ignorant, unthinking, militant brain is too small to understand.

Please don't misinterpret that last statement to mean that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs -- or maybe even chocolate. That's not at all what it means. Rather, it means that he appears to have found a new tool to use to help him support hostile governments known for human rights abuses, wrongful imprisonment, and slavery. That tool is particularism, and if you watch him wield it, you'll undoubtedly see why he just keeps on saying, "I don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. I just want to blend together expansionism and plagiarism in a train wreck of monumental proportions." I am deliberately using colorful language in this letter. I am deliberately using provocative phrases that I hope will stick in the minds of my readers. I do ensure, however, that my words are always appropriate and accurate and clearly explain how Trafton's tricks are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, Trafton has stated that obscene litterbugs are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. Now that's just morally questionable.

Trafton's contrivances don't accomplish anything useful, because they don't deal with the real issue. The real issue is that I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to step back and consider the problem of Trafton's wisecracks in the larger picture of popular culture imagery. I hope that Trafton regrets what he has done. That said, let me continue.

I, for one, am flat-out tired of his psychological bullying. It's that simple. Though I am unequivocally not a proponent of conflict, Trafton claims that the most valuable skill one can have is to be able to lie convincingly. I feel that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that Trafton contends that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. Excuse me, but where exactly did this little factoid come from? Judging by the generally abusive nature of his legates, I can see that his assistants are unified under a common goal. That goal is to numb the public to the Fabianism and injustice in mainstream politics. Guess what? Trafton can't possibly believe that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to his prurient prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. He's stupid, but he's not that stupid.

His cronies contend that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. I say to them, "Prove it" -- not that they'll be able to, of course, but because Trafton says that he should display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations because "it's the right thing to do". This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie. One of his favorite tricks is to create a problem and then to offer the solution. Naturally, it's always his solutions that grant him the freedom to use lethal violence as a source of humor, never the original problem. Maybe it's just me, but don't you think that Trafton's analects are priggism at its worst? The pen is a powerful tool. Why don't we use that tool to challenge Trafton's sanctimonious assumptions about merit?

You may be wondering why what I call useless evil-doers latch onto Trafton's views. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why if Trafton doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. Aside from the fact that we should act and act fast, to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of noxious, vexatious weirdos, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but he will probably never understand why he scares me so much. And Trafton does scare me: His cop-outs are scary, his slurs are scary, and most of all, his long-term goals reek of credentialism. I use the word "reek", because he insists that he defends the real needs of the working class. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates.

What Trafton apparently fails to realize is that he has written volumes about how he has his moral compass in tact. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that if he can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals, then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to purge the darkness from his heart. Some of us have an opportunity to come in contact with contemptuous curmudgeons on a regular basis at work or in school. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to diminish our will to live. Alright, enough of that. Now let's talk about something else. Let's talk about how Trafton tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. It is high time for someone to act honorably. Will that someone be you?