Justin Raimondo has revealed his true calling in life. He is destined to be not merely a conman, a liar, a lunatic paranoid conspiracy theorist, a gullible idiot, and an anti-Semite. He has promoted himself into the ranks of the common criminal, for he is a petty thief.
In today's drooling rant, Raimondo attacks Ronald Radosh for a piece that Radosh wrote in the Boston Globe. Among other things, Radosh criticized Raimondo for continuing to insist that ''Israel had foreknowledge of 9/11". In his own defense, Raimondo says:
And I have another news flash for Radosh: Die Zeit, a generally pro-Israel German weekly of some repute, is now reporting that the Israeli spy operation I've been detailing in this space since last year was indeed watching the hijackers, which is precisely what I've said all along.This is a most remarkable bit of news, for several reasons. The Die Zeit article that he is referring to is the one that I translated several days ago. It does not imply in any way that Israel had foreknowledge of the attacks, only that Israel was investigating some of the hijackers. And as it turns out, the Die Zeit piece was ultimately fact-checked and dismissed as being based on a discredited source. I posted an update to that effect on my translation of the Die Zeit article. Still, Raimondo linked to my translation anyway, even though the original story was both lacking in credibility and spun opposite of the story that Raimondo in his hallucinatory anti-Semitic view of the world wanted to tell.
And then it gets even better. After I discovered Raimondo's link, I revised my translation to include an even more prominent disclaimer, at the top of the page and in red letters:
Note: This report appears to based mainly on questionable and previously discredited sources, mainly a DEA investigation report on the so-called art students. Blogger Bruce Rolston fact-checks a number of Die Zeit's claims in this story. I'm inclined to go along with Rolston's interpretation and to disregard this article. I've e-mailed [article author] Oliver Schröm, inviting him to respond to Rolston's critique and I'm still waiting for his response.So what do you suppose Raimondo did next? He removed the link to my website, and linked instead to a BBC Report about the Die Zeit article that didn't bother to question Die Zeit's sources. And he posted an unattributed copy of my translation on his website, without my permission, and without any of my disclaimers and links to Bruce Rolston's fact checking.
So he simply stole my work (or at least the parts that serve his idiotic fantasy world) and took credit for it. He is an ordinary thief, a piece of trash. One wonders what else he steals when he's not too busy spreading lies.
UPDATE: Raimondo removed his shameless rip-off of my translation from his own website, apparently after seeing this post. Instead he links to another copy someplace else
UPDATE #2: "On the Internet no one knows you're a dog", but the Internet does keep an audit trail. The comment entry from "wendy rimely" came from IP address 66.125.92.172, which the preponderence of circumstancial evidence in my traffic log suggests belongs to either Justin Raimondo, or to the person who maintains his online column.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 14, 2002 01:39 PMSounds like it's time for a DMCA request. Make it to whoever hosts his site or provides his bandwidth.
Posted by: Robert Crawford on October 15, 2002 08:59 AMLooks like he took the plagiarized translation down from his site. What a weasel.
And we wonder why he has to resort to the Oral Roberts-style pleas for charitable contributions.
Posted by: Bill Herbert on October 15, 2002 11:44 AMSo what's the big deal? Aren't you guys being a little too nasty? After all, the Die Zeit story is not written by Stefan, and antiwar.com may have gotten permission from the author. And how do you know it's your translation: they could have translated it themselves (not trusting yours....). And who cares, anyway? It's all public information, and should be disseminated as widely as possible.
And that Crawford guy seems, well, a little creepy. A DMCA -- sounds ominous. LOL
Posted by: wendy rimely on October 15, 2002 02:25 PMAs I understand it, wendy, translations are copyrighted by the translator. I could quite easily be wrong; they may be considered "derivative works". In which case Justin is ripping off Die Zeit and not Stefan.
As for why we care, well, Raimondo's not giving his readers the whole story. He's not giving them an opportunity to see the counter evidence, only the evidence he WANTS them to see.
"DMCA" stands for "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" and a "DMCA request" is what you send when someone's pirating your work.
As for my sounding creepy -- you clearly haven't read anything by Raimondo. He's the creepiest creep that ever creeped.
I commented before the second update. I guess it's a badge of honor to be considered "creepy" by the likes of them.
Posted by: Robert Crawford on October 16, 2002 08:10 AMIt's funny how some supposed anti-staters tend to love to run to the state to solve whatever problem that does not resolve in their favor.
Posted by: Frank L. Rosello on October 16, 2002 01:30 PMGaws, you are sooooo lame, Stefan darlink! As much as I would like to personally meet Justin the studmuffin, I never have. As for BEING him -- honey, you have a LOT to learn. The next thing you know you'll being tryng to sell me some Israeli "artwork"! LOL!
Posted by: wendy rimely on October 19, 2002 10:48 AMWell. She told you, Stefan. Time to close up shop, go home, and admit that she won.
Guilty!
"Don't you guys have some 'art work' to sell?" was Raimondo's pitiful attempt at a come-back on the warbloggerwatch yahoo! group -- back in April when the entire "warblogger" community rained blows down on his pea-sized head (it was beautiful).
Really, "Wendy." Creating a fake persona to shower yourself with compliments like "studmuffin" -- that's just sad.
Posted by: Bill Herbert on October 19, 2002 03:25 PMSad. Very, very sad. Apparently the Wendy persona has now completely taken over the Justin persona... poor little guy, trapped in a body he no longer controls like that. What have we done, people?
Posted by: BruceR on October 20, 2002 03:06 PMThis Justin/Wendy freak is a bleeding-brain-leftist-lying-weasel-son-of-a-mutant-pig.
Just felt like blowing off some steam.
David - An outrageous slur! Raimondo is not a leftist!
Posted by: Steven Chapman on October 28, 2002 06:35 PMI'm afraid your detective work is seriously defective. Moi -- a boy? I don't think so, Sharkie! Would love to show you how wrong you are, but since you're a married man, I don't think that would be... appropriate.
Posted by: Wendy Rimely on November 2, 2002 10:55 AMughhhh
Posted by: ploome on December 18, 2002 03:21 PMOh, come on. You fat, ugly, hairy types don't get propositions like that very often.
Posted by: austin262@hotmail.com on February 13, 2003 12:00 AMUh oh, looks like the Israeli art students are baaaaaaaaaaaaack!
http://www.myantiwar.org/view/6864.html
Yikes! Uh, Stefan, how do you explain THIS?
Posted by: Wendy Rimely on September 28, 2003 12:00 PMHave you been to Canada recently? Just asking....
Posted by: Wendy Rimely on November 24, 2003 02:26 PMOh, Stephen, you've moved to Seattle! Does this mean it's all over between us????
Posted by: Wendy Rimely on October 20, 2004 08:47 PMThis Raimondo is about as American as a dead commie or terrorist. What a pathetic man. He needs serious mental help.
Posted by: JCP on December 29, 2004 03:58 PMFrom the Bay Area to Seattle,
He's fought his battle,
Kvetching and barking
He's havin' a lark in.
We know what he wants
He is such a schwantz
What doesn't he shut up?