Bad mouth Waters on his blog, all you supposed pagans are going to starve to death soon enough and good riddance to role playing rubbish.

I mean, you get that Western Civilization collapsed a few months ago right? That within five years you’ll be lucky to find a doctor, food or someone who wants to talk to a grown man calling himself “Lokisgohdi” or Dragonbane Thunderpants or whatever you’ll be calling yourself?

Get lost. The rest of your comments will be moved to spam unless they relate to the new material Red Alerts deals with (which is survivalism and preparedness) and before you get all rude and disrespectful and start hurling your threats around I live in Mauldin South Carolina so any of you “pagans’ who wants to “teach me a lesson’ can let me know when they’ll be in town.

And just for the record, I don’t give a shit about Jason or The Wild Hunt. I hope he makes good money and don’t have any persona ax to grind with some Internet weirdo. Maybe you should stop hanging around his site if he sucks so bad, but then I guess you’d have to set up your own Google alert for the word “Pagan” and I’m sure your busy.

Let’s get some things straight about Herman Slater.

First off, I knew him well. I’ve had personal experiences with him before he died in 1992.

Slater *might* have promoted monogamy among gays to curtail the spread of AIDS, but he sure didn’t practice it. As far as I’m concerned he only paid lip service to it. I Knew several people in the NYC Pagan community who claimed to have contracted AIDS through unprotected sex with Herman Slater. I have no reason doubt them. They were people that I knew and liked and who didn’t deserve to die the way they did. Herman talked a good game but did not practice what he preached and other people paid for it.

I don’t revel in his death from AIDS. I wish the scumbag never contracted it. He then would not have taken down several individuals who were far better human beings that he ever was.

It’s moronic to make stupid statements about ‘sheer gay malice’ when anyone with a functioning brain knows that AIDS can easily jump from gay to straight people because people are not monosexual. There’s a huge bisexual component who have relationships with both gay and straight people. So Slater introduced AIDS into the NYC Pagan community period.

What Slater most deserves to be spending eternity having unspeakable thing done to him is for his actions towards some of his employees at the Magickal Childe. I know for a fact that he threated to fire employees who asked for time off to care for terminal partners. To abuse people at that point is unspeakable. In my book and in the book of many others, that makes him one of the biggest scumbags who ever walked the planet.

It sounds to me that you’re the one who knows jack about Herman Slater.

Second, you have absolutely no idea what my politics are. So I’d suggest you stop attributing political attributes to statements when you have no idea what’s behind them.

Third, I’m not a Wiccan. Which should have been quite obvious from my screen name. I’m an Asatruar and I don’t care all that much for Wicca or Wiccans. I don’t think they add much to the credibility of Pagan religions.

Jason Pitzl-Waters is avant-garde and progressive. You can tell this from his edgy black and white portrait on his home page and his chic little goatee. Maybe he is for Eugene, Oregon. For the rest of the world however, he’s a pretty much just a prude and a hack.

About the only real and useful contribution he makes to the Pagan community is the fact the Wild Hunt gets information about Pagan related happenings out in a timely manner. Hey, isn’t that what hacks do best?

We need our drones. If we have to put up with his infantile excuse for art, his crappy music, his being a whiny little attention whore, and have to put up with his hyperbole, so be it.

So don’t rock the boat.

If so i can see Wicca has “helped” you immensely.

There is so much cognitive dissonance and ambiguous statements regarding sex offenders it crazy. The most fearing are those nazi stereo type wiccans/pagans. jumping on the hate wagon forming there own Malleus Maleficarum. Just because a person stands up to protect another human being who committed a horrid act, against a bunch of like minded haters, does not mean that the protector condones the wrong doers actions or behavior.

Claiming you “see the point” of people who have literally claimed to be planning on killing me is a death threat, though as I said a rather mincing one. If I said the same to you you’d be in tears surely.

Let me guess, your friend Deirdre is still feverishly searching Red Alerts for something to cry about?

You think THAT’S a death threat??!! Oh dear . . . if I call you a silly dweebie, you’ll need therapy!

You could at least get your personal facts straight. How is anyone to accord you any professionalism when you can’t even accurately report the gender of the person who’s trying to kill you?

Do try to do better, eh?

You know, I haven’t been to TWH since I was a member of PaganSpace, way back when… it seemed like another PaganSpace type place to me, so I didn’t bother with it (figured one was enough, right?)

But it never ceases to amaze me how firmly so many Pagans have their blinders glued in place… why do they blatantly refuse to see the predators in their midst? It was the same thing at PaganSpace, and it scares the hell out of me that the same thing goes on at Pagan festivals everywhere. I’ve been to one or two of them, and folks just let their kids run wild, not really paying attention to where they are or what they’re doing. That, combined with their unwillingness to believe that any “Pagan” attending could potentially be there to prey on their children is a recipe for disaster. That anyone would so willingly and blindly put their child in that kind of danger is just disgusting.

Still, you would think that pagans of all people would cherish and value the concept of limited government and individual liberties. How adept can they be as magical practitioners if they think it is essential that they have the protection of big government looking over their shoulders and making sure everybody toes the line?

Do they even get the concept of republican (small r) principles, of majority rule concurrent with guaranteed minority protections, of government as a SERVANT of the people as opposed to being a tool of special interests to lord it over everybody else? Of course, they see themselves as a special interest, and they want the “protection” that status conveys. It’s sickening.

In the meantime, to them the burning issues of the day revolves around nativity scenes in public squares and public prayers to Jesus in obscure city council meetings. And I’m supposed to march hand in hand with them in solidarity while they proceed to make obnoxious asses out of themselves and everything they pretend to stand for in the eyes of the majority of Americans, where they make up at best one percent of the population, and most of them are poseurs.

And they call Sarah Palin a wingnut. They act like they’re scared to death of a woman who would probably be surprised to learn of their existence. What a joke.

Fair game, right Lefties? You started it.

Yes, there are some Christian bigots and some of them might even get violent, but like you, I’d much rather live next door to a Christian who believed strongly in the 1st and 2nd amendments than a pagan who had a chip on their shoulder about Christians and thinks guns are evil. I grew up in a household that was hellfire and brimstone, evangelical Christian. When I stopped going to church at age 13 and came out as pagan a few years later, no one followed me home, beat me up or burned a cross on my lawn.

If liberals really believe that the Sarah Palins of the world are the problem, then I’m truly afraid for the state of our nation.