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Truthers seethe over the removal of lies:

Virgin Airlines have pulled Loose Change from their in-flight movie roster after a cadre of Neo-Con slugs, bullies and enemies of free speech sent threatening complaints to the company, smearing the documentary ...

Whoa! They’re in a truthy rage:

These kinds of Gestapo tactics will not stop!

The Gestapo were way advanced in the art of internet complaint. Why, via a MySpace campaign they once stopped Vera Lynn songs being broadcast on Belgian radio.

UPDATE. A comment at 911blogger.com:

Personally, I don’t like to fly and I definitely wouldn’t want to see planes crashing into buildings while I’m riding in a plane. If they show it after the plane landed that would be fine.

Also, Rebecca H. objects to the term “Neo-Con slugs”:

That’s Mrs. Neo-Con Slug to you, Mr. Truthypants.

Posted by Tim B. on 05/04/2007 at 12:38 PM
  1. Anyone but you Tim, and I’d be sure it was a joke.

    Don’t these people realise how unstable they seem?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 04 at 12:51 PM • permalink

  2. Tim-woulda probably been a MeinSpace account right?

    Posted by 68W40 on 2007 05 04 at 01:07 PM • permalink

  3. “Virgin Airlines have pulled Loose Change from their in-flight movie roster after a cadre of Neo-Con slugs, bullies and enemies of free speech sent threatening complaints to the company . . .”

    Returns to hideout with cronies, who toss crow-bars, machetes, bicycle chains and knives in strong box.

    Nice work, boys! Next week: Code Pink! By the way, anybody got a copy of the Bill of Rights? I want to clean the blood off of my nija death stars.

    Posted by paco on 2007 05 04 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  4. First we had the sly and cynical Dectective Paco, now we see the fiendish and deadly Paco the Ninja. The world asks in wonder, what will that mystery man do next?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 04 at 01:15 PM • permalink

  5. Does anybody here even remember Vera Lynn?

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 05 04 at 01:15 PM • permalink

  6. Blogalog-sure, bless ‘em all, we’ll meet again and the white cliffs of Dover.

    What’s not to love?

    Posted by 68W40 on 2007 05 04 at 01:22 PM • permalink

  7. cadre of Neo-Con slugs

    So if a group of geese are a gaggle, a group of slugs is a cadre?

    Hey! I learned something despite myself!

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2007 05 04 at 01:29 PM • permalink

  8. “we’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when.”

    ..“enemies of freee speech.”  That clown should get his face out of the mirror.  That is projection on steroids.  Campus speech codes, “fairness doctrines”.  Somebody get me a 2X4.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 04 at 01:32 PM • permalink

  9. People really need to learn the difference between a company responding to customer complaints and state action to force them.

    At very least, if he’s intent on Godwinising, he should compare to the SA bully-boys, not the Gestapo.

    (Though even then, the SA were centrally organised and directed to do things by the Party.

    Bloggers calling despicable lies despicable lies and telling Virgin they’ll lose customers if they spread them? Not quite the same as High Command telling the stormtroopers to break some windows and beat people in the streets.)

    Posted by Sigivald on 2007 05 04 at 01:48 PM • permalink

  10. Dame Vera Lynn probably did more to keep up the spirit and morale of Britishers during the dark days of WW2 than anyone except Winston Churchill.

    Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 05 04 at 01:55 PM • permalink

  11. No one told me I was a member of the Gestapo.  Some one needs to get me my armband and riding crop….....

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 04 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  12. Old Tanker

    You must place you’re secret decoder ring in the “on” position.
    _______________

    Don’t forget “Apple Blossom Time” for the Yanks.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 04 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  13. #9 Sigivald

    Not quite the same as High Command telling the stormtroopers to break some windows and beat people in the streets.

    No, it isn’t: according to the moonbat left-wing fringe, it’s worse.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 04 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  14. We need to be thinking way more creatively, way more strategically, and be WAY MORE VOCAL, ACTIVE, AND AGGRESSIVE. (Aggressive in spreading information, not in any threatening way.)

    First ... The ... CUSHIONS!

    Then ... THE COMFY CHAIR!!!!

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 04 at 03:15 PM • permalink

  15. A comment in the 911blogger.com link:

    Personally, I don’t like to fly and I definitely wouldn’t want to see planes crashing into buildings while I’m riding in a plane. If they show it after the plane landed that would be fine.

    I really don’t know what to say about this…

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 04 at 03:35 PM • permalink

  16. #5 blogagog -

    Does anybody here even remember Vera Lynn?

    If that’s the gal in White Christmas who performs dance skits with Danny Kaye, while wearing dance outfits that show off her long slender legs ...

    YES.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 04 at 03:55 PM • permalink

  17. 15. Lots of luck retrieving her luggage after the credits roll.

    Posted by Harry Eagar on 2007 05 04 at 04:22 PM • permalink

  18. Neo-Con slugs

    That’s Mrs. Neo-Con Slug to you, Mr. Truthypants.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 04 at 04:23 PM • permalink

  19. No one told me I was a member of the Gestapo.

    A Reich winger.

    If that’s the gal in White Christmas who performs dance skits with Danny Kaye, while wearing dance outfits that show off her long slender legs ...

    No, that was the tiny-waisted Vera-Ellen. Great little dancer.

    Good call by Virgin. Still won’t be flyin’ them though.

    One of the truthers remarked that these are indeed strange times, a battle for reality. I agree and suggest it’s a battle for which they are ill-equipped.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 05 04 at 05:27 PM • permalink

  20. sent threatening complaints to the company, smearing the documentary

    They ‘sent complaints’, surely they should have used their remote control devices to make a Virgin plane crash into a large building!

    Posted by Ross on 2007 05 04 at 05:35 PM • permalink

  21. Blogalog : for a second, I thought you were channelling Pink Floyd:

    Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
    Remember how she said that
    We would meet again
    Some sunny day?
    Vera! Vera!
    What has become of you?
    Does anybody else in here
    Feel the way I do?

    My parents had some Vera Lynn records, and as a child, I remember there were still some V2 craters near where I lived. I watched “All our yesterdays” on ITV(Granada), recounting the events of “25 years ago”.
    I can remember watching a safety film at about 3 years of age - how to recognise land mines, which in 1961 still sometimes were found on British beaches, laid only 20 years earlier.
    I feel that is why many of my generation have an aversion to the likes of Saddam Hussein, and do not go for “Peace at Any Price”. We see Islamism, the goose-stepping Judenhass of Hamas, and we gather our children and grandchildren closer while reaching for our guns. Aryan Superiority, Muslim Superiority, the end result is the same: bombs on peaceful cities, conquest and mass death.
    We may make different mistakes this time, but we have no excuse for making the same ones again.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2007 05 04 at 06:24 PM • permalink

  22. Did anyone else notice the “What Really Happened dot com” article about “Neocons” was filed under “Israel”?

    I suspect Neocon was a euphemism for Jews, who, as three quarters of the Arab world know, were the real perpetrators of 9/11 (oh, and that highway collapse last week).

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 05 04 at 07:24 PM • permalink

  23. Against my better judgment, I decided to read the whole article. I’m glad I did; it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on the Internet, sort of the textual equivalent of the rabid guy who grabs you on the street, spewing vodka fumes and BO into your face, and shouts about THEY’RE ALL OUT TO GET ME, ALL THE ALIENS AND CAN I HAVE A QUARTER.

    From one of the geniuses in the comments section:

    I think a double header of LC3 and 9/11 Mysteries should be mandatory in flight viewing personally.

    That revealed the whole plot. Given that Truthers seem to also be global warmenists, this proves that it’s all a giant conspiracy to reduce carbon emissions by shutting down the airlines. If people know they’re going to watch crap like “Loose Change,” they’ll take anything—train, bus, rickshaw—to avoid it.

    I have to report to His Glorious Capitalist, the grand master Rove. I hope he will be pleased with his slave’s work.

    Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 05 04 at 07:53 PM • permalink

  24. Let’s see:  They’re bitchin’ because the market said NO! to that crap, the company responded to complaints by pulling said crap, and that makes it a part of the VRWC of Neo-Con gestapo slugs. BUT forcing a captive audience on a plane to watch “a double header of LC3 and 9/11 Mysteries [by making it] mandatory in flight viewing” is the height of reason.  Yep.  They’re right.  It is a fight for reality.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 04 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  25. woulda probably been a MeinSpace account right?

    As Hitler said, “our youth need LebensMeinSpace…”

    Posted by PW on 2007 05 04 at 08:58 PM • permalink

  26. #22

    neocon is in fact a term for “joooos” who fell off the reservation (not Democrats anymore)  Although the leftards anymore call any conservative under the age of 40 a “neocon”

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 04 at 09:42 PM • permalink

  27. #3 Nice work, boys! Next week: Code Pink! By the way, anybody got a copy of the Bill of Rights? I want to clean the blood off of my nija death stars.


    A VRWC minion’s work is simply never done. This is fortunate as it provides employment for senior VRWC minions like me. And meals for Howard the Enceladan.

    Now, WHO is on punishment roster this week? O-ho! Well, he deserves it. Polishing henchman Paco’s ninja death stars with a brush made from his own nasal hairs, presently being carefully plucked from him by an apprentice VRWC torturer will be a suitable thing indeed. After all, we have not yet finished making the chamois cloths from the skin flayed from him so he can polish the Henchmans bar-top.

    Minion 134593845, fetch dear mister ‘boxofmatches’. We have a task for what is left of him.

    MarkL
    Minionmeister to the VRWC

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 05 04 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  28. #27 MarkL: Well done, thou good and faithful servant! Steward, fill Sir Mark’s goblet with choicest mead.

    Posted by paco on 2007 05 04 at 10:36 PM • permalink

  29. You should all be ashamed of youreselves! All you have done is stifled free speech and the the freedom of expression. It’s not about the marketplace and a company responding to complaints, it’s about the systematic degradation of society into the Neo-con fantasy land where you are not free to communicate your personally held beliefs or ideals. Where freedom of speech is gone and with it your own freedom to communicate whenever and however you choose! I say to all you Neo-con slugs out there stop communicating with Virgin by email immediately!!!

    Posted by Justin on 2007 05 04 at 11:20 PM • permalink


  30. We didn’t see a bunch of “bully boys” in action - we saw the market in action.

    Branson simply sniffed the wind and decided that showing the movie would gain him no customers, but possibly lose him some.  Net result - ditch the film.  If he thought people would flock to his airline to watch the film, it would be played non-stop on every channel on the plane.

    Why would it lose him customers?

    The type of people that want to watch this kind of movie probably don’t fly, given that they believe aircraft exhaust is going to boil the planet.  Or they aren’t making enough money from producing hemp shirts to afford a ticket to anywhere.

    The kind of people that don’t believe this conspiracy tripe are probably also the type that don’t believe in global warming, so are happy to commute across the Atlantic on a weekly basis and to hell with the penguins. 

    I wonder if we can now convince Branson to show “The great global warming swindle” in its place.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 04 at 11:37 PM • permalink

  31. I hope everyone realizes that Vera Lynn is still alive.  She’s 90 but she’s still alive.  I don’t know anything of her concert schedule, though. :)

    Posted by kcom on 2007 05 04 at 11:58 PM • permalink

  32. The Truthers need a great artist like Whiny Riefenstahl to tell their story…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 05 at 02:12 AM • permalink

  33. #10 and the Queen. Hitler hated the Queen of England because of the way she inspired the people to resist.

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 05 05 at 09:13 AM • permalink

  34. Gestapo tactics? I should have known Herr Flick was behind the whole business.

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 05 05 at 10:03 PM • permalink

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