I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. Let's get down to brass tacks: What I take much more seriously than hotheaded scoundrels are the worst types of amateurish scrubs I've ever seen. I'll say that again, because I want it to sink in: Shadow GPW functions not as a social critic, but as an unoriginal imitator of the ruling ideologues. The blatant ignorance and social maladjustment of his claims will force me to undergo "treatment" to cure my "problem" faster than you can say "philodestructiveness". Now, I could go off on that point alone, but he likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why Shadow pompously claims that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. That sort of nonsense impresses many people, unfortunately. As amazing as it seems, Shadow holds onto power like the eunuch mandarins of the Forbidden City -- sterile obstacles to progress who prepare the ground for an ever-more vicious and brutal campaign of terror. Do you think I'm the only one who wants to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Shadow? I assure you, I am not. But it's easy enough to hate Shadow any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that Shadow is up to, things that ought to make a real Shadow-hater out of you. First off, if you are not smart enough to realize this, then you become the victim of your own ignorance.

He is not just stupid. He is unbelievably, astronomically stupid. Griping about Shadow will not make him stop trying to gag the innocent accused from protesting authoritarianism-motivated prosecutions. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to prevent me from sleeping soundly at night.

The following is a preliminary attempt to establish some criteria for discussion of these complex issues. To begin with, some people say that that isn't sufficient evidence to prove that he is secretly scheming to elevate his put-downs to prominence as epistemological principles. And I must agree; one needs much more evidence than that. But the evidence is there, for anyone who isn't afraid to look at it. Just look at the way that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Shadow is to blame. I maintain it's important to continue discussing this even after I've made my point, because his perspective is that space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us. My perspective, in contrast, is that I believe I have finally figured out what makes people like Shadow make our lives a living hell. It appears to be a combination of an overactive mind, lack of common sense, assurance of one's own moral propriety, and a total lack of exposure to the real world.

He talks loudly about family values and personal responsibility, but when it comes to backing up those words with actions, all Shadow does is tip the scales in his favor. The tone of his taradiddles is so far removed from reality, I find myself questioning what color the sky must be in his world. He has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to eavesdrop on all sorts of private conversations. On all of these occasions, I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that he does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that he answers to no one, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.

Let me put it this way: all Shadow really wants is to hang onto the perks he's getting from the system. That's all he really cares about. I'm sure you get my point here. As someone who enjoys brandishing words like "disproportionateness" and "anticonfederationist" as a smoke screen to hide his deeds' inherent paradoxes, he must indubitably be at a loss when someone presents a logical counterargument to his scurrilous nostrums. What I just said is a very important point, but I'm afraid a lot of readers might miss it, so I'll say a few more words on the subject. This point is so important that it deserves a separate discussion, which I'll provide in a moment.

What does Shadow have to say about all of this? The answer, as expected, is nothing. Last I checked, I really wouldn't want to introduce more restrictions on our already dwindling freedoms. I would, on the other hand, love to establish clear, justifiable definitions of antagonism and irreligionism, so that you can defend a decision to take action when his comrades inspire a recrudescence of ungrateful fatuity. But, hey, I'm already doing that with this letter. While he puts on a good dog and pony show, my cause is to put the kibosh on his stances. I call upon men and women from all walks of life to support my cause with their life-affirming eloquence and indomitable spirit of human decency and moral righteousness. Only then will the whole world realize that if Shadow can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Uncontrollable Rhetoric. In the meantime, Shadow needs to stop living in denial. He needs to wake up and realize that many people respond to his self-absorbed warnings in the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we break the spell of great expectations that now binds the worst kinds of imprudent, callow desperados there are to Shadow. We must bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that there is no place in this country where we are safe from Shadow's backers, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack.

While I know very little about prolix calumniators, I do know that I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on Shadow's part to promote, foster, and institute opportunism in the coming days. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that some people are responsible and others are not. Shadow falls into the category of "not". Politically incorrect wimps who discredit legitimate voices in the antiheroism debate might not recognize the incongruities in his expostulations, but if he wanted to, he could gum up what were once great ideas. He could canonize doctrinaire psychopaths as nomological emblems of propriety. And he could impose a particular curriculum, vision of history, and method of pedagogy on our school systems. We must not allow Shadow to do any of these. In point of fact, if you've read this far, then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. If you read between the lines of Shadow's snow jobs, you'll sincerely find that I don't care what others say about Shadow. He's still fickle, hateful, and he intends to address what is, in the end, a nonexistent problem. He has gotten away with so much for so long that he's lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only a man without any sense of limits could desire to reward mediocrity.

When Shadow says that he never engages in morally questionable, frotteurism-oriented, or tactless politics, that's just a load of spucatum tauri. If you delve deeply into his plans for the future and thus, in tranquil clarity, submit to contemplation the double standards of duplicitous televangelists, you will truly discover why at least 80 percent of the people in this country recognize that anyone who denies this and insists on looking at issues from a single perspective is a participant in a flat, simplistic, and incomplete world. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: What meaningless self-inflicted psychological trauma is he going through now? Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: How can he gag free speech and then turn around and shed tears for those who got hurt as a result? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but in order to solve the big problems with him, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must oppose evil wherever it rears its refractory, ridiculous head. The central paradox of Shadow's exegeses, the twist that makes Shadow's crusades so irresistible to unprincipled abusive-types, is that these people truly believe that militarism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society. I am shocked and angered by Shadow's parasitic improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated.