UPDATE
Further substantiating my accurate analysis that Vidal’s “anti-establishment” stance (including his “antiwar” stance) was not in anyway a principled objection to abusive power, notice from this report that he craved the status granted by elite institutions like Harvard (not having gone to college himself); notice that his hatred of the state was mixed with feelings of thwarted ambition because he’d always wanted to be president; notice that his anti-establishment rants were mingled with constant remembrances of status symbols and the upper-class gilded life to which he belonged and in which he reveled; notice the opulent life-style he lived (not that I have anything against that) and his $37 million estate); notice the deep alcoholism and madness in which he ended his life.
Now put against that the FACTS about Gandhi:
1. Was in excellent physical and mental condition late into life, when he was undergoing month-long fasts.
2. Was repeatedly offered leadership positions in the state and turned them down. Counseled against imitating Western state structures.
3. Although once prosperous, gave away most of his belongings and was left with nothing more than a watch, his glasses, his loincloth and shawl, and a bowl out of which he ate.
4. Died not from alcoholism and insanity, but from a bullet delivered by an assassin. His last words were “He Ram” (Oh God).
No need to demonize Vidal, of course.
He was a talented, clever, witty man, who said many true things about history and government and he was a prolific, popular novelist of varying ability. He was a fine essayist, no doubt.
But he was also a compulsive promiscuous pedophile (and most likely a child rapist) who publicly defended other child rapists (Roman Polansky, Catholic priests).
He was nasty to friends and foes, envied others and relentlessly slandered them. He harbored demons to the end of his life that he was too weak to overcome. He deserved the prayers and intervention of his friends and family in life, not the mindless adulation of strangers in death. He doubtless victimized scores of children, Thai children, whom we’ll never hear about. Safe Horizon, so exercised about the Indian nanny fake-slaver case should perhaps be called in about this compelling example of real child-sex tourism.
The American media can keep Gore Vidal for a hero. He fits their values.
I’d rather look among hundreds of unsung activists/writers for mine.
ORIGINAL POST
Gore Vidal’s family supports the long-standing rumors of Vidal’s pedophilia that I published here and that I decided, after analysis, were credible.
For that, this blog was hacked, and a week or so later, some spooky electronic harassment took place. I’m not really sure how that happened. I only know it took place.
I think I was alone among antiwar bloggers, most of whom praised Vidal to the skies, ignoring everything except the fact that his position on war was theirs.
I usually wouldn’t criticize a man on his death, but the universal praise of such a deeply flawed man, just after the contemptible and untruthful slurs against Gandhi, cried out to be corrected.
So here’s the post I wrote: Vidal, Polanksy and Kinsey, August 4, 2012.
In contrast, here’s Justin Raimondo’s piece “The Last Jeffersonian,” August 3, 2012
[I have always liked Raimondo’s investigative pieces on the Israeli lobby, one of the more dangerous areas for writers, so this isn’t meant as an attack on him.]
Here’s another libertarian Bill Kauffman on Vidal.
Now for the main points from the Daily Mail piece on Vidal:
“In a feature that appeared in the New York Times, Ms Straight – who had a ‘turbulent though close relationship’ with Vidal – said the openly-gay author had had sex with underage men.
“She described the alleged circumstances as ‘Jerry Sandusky acts’, referring to the former Penn State assistant football coach convicted of child molestation.
“Mr Steers – who directed the Zac Efron film Charlie St Cloud – said that conservative columnist William F. Buckley – who had a long-running public feud with Vidal, which also played out in court – had evidence linking Vidal to the alleged crimes.”
AND
“The New York Times article also says that the ever-opinionated Vidal had a strange and controversial take on the abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests.
“‘He would say that the young guys involved were hustlers who were sending signals,’ Mr Steers said.
[Lila: Based on this statement alone, I would give credibility to the charges against Vidal.]
“However the author of the article, Tim Teeman, wrote that ‘other friends of Mr. Vidal told me they doubted he had sex with underage men’.
“I”Vidal suffered from dementia and alcoholism towards the end of his life.
“Mr Steers said he would drink single male scotch ‘until he collapsed’.
Vidal also had ‘wet brain’ – proper name Wernicke-Korsakoff – a syndrome characterized by a number of symptoms, including confusion and hallucination.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2496631/Family-Gore-Vidal-allege-pedophile-challenge-writers-37-million-will.html#ixzz2q2g6wNOz
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Vidal was not only a pedophile, it seems he beat up gays, so intense was his own self-loathing.
[Lila: I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not his “pedophilia” but his involvement in even worse – violence against male child prostitutes that might be the real story and the “yes he was a pedophile” simply a diversion. After all, pedophilia apologias have already appeared in mainstream media, like The Atlantic.]
Consider the reverential treatment given to this insane, addicted, unpleasant man, who was a self-confessed pederast. His well-documented compulsive lifestyle was passed over in silence by the establishment media, since he was “one of them,” from the ruling class.
But of Gandhi, a man who fought his devils all his life bravely, with the utmost candor, and engaged, successfully or not, in one of the biggest social upheavals in modern history, the same media has recently had nothing but scurrilous and easily discredited innuendo.
Malicious critics called him a bisexual pedophile molester, based on deliberate falsification and exaggeration of historical evidence. They called him a hypocrite, whereas the truth was he was compulsively open to his critics, even begging them to write the worst they knew about him.
Why so much venom? Because Gandhi was Indian and the media in the West has over the last two years been engaged in a systematic campaign of vilification and half-truths against India, along with literal provocations, as I’ve amply documented.
While Vidal, a hero of modern liberals, lived in terror of the truth about himself coming out, Gandhi courageously reported every passing sexual feeling in his diaries, urged his critics to say the worst about him that they could, and berated himself endlessly for even mental failures of continence.
Here’s more about the new claims about Vidal:
“Vidal accused Buckley of being a “crypto-Nazi”; Buckley responded by labelling Vidal a “queer” and telling him to stop his insults or Buckley would “sock [him] in the goddamn face”.
Their argument ended up in the courts, where Buckley first lost an expensive lawsuit against Vidal for libel, before winning a settlement from a magazine that republished Vidal’s written attack years later.
Vidal once estimated he had slept with 1,000 men before he was 25, and boasted of having had sex with Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson and Noel Coward, according to Mr Teeman.
While enjoying a 53-year relationship with his long-term partner, Howard Austen, before Austen’s death in 2003, he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Palimpsest, that he was “attracted to adolescent males”…….
…Buckley’s son, Christopher, has said that while clearing out his late father’s study, he found a file labelled “Vidal Legal”, which he threw into a dumpster…….
An unidentified “longtime friend” of Vidal’s added that the author had once shocked a guest at his home in Ravello, Italy, by announcing: “You know I’m a pederast”.
This friend focused on Vidal’s time spent in Bangkok, Thailand, a city notorious for its sex trade. “He did go to Thailand every year, and he was definitely having sex with male prostitutes there, and they weren’t older male prostitutes,” the friend said.”
Evil people lie about good people for one principal reason – vanity.
They cannot stand being shown up by anything or anyone better than they are. A couple of years ago, the Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, wrote about the profound intolerance of sin for anything that rebukes it, in an essay, “Evil preaches tolerance only when it’s weak.”
So also lies cannot tolerate truth.
But the world is not built on lies. And man cannot live on lies.
At the end, when the mud and the bile and the envious distortions of petty men have had their day, the truth will be vindicated.
@Heath
Actually, the diplomat is from the lowest rank – a Dalit, what used to be called Untouchable.
That is precisely why she was chosen, since the banking cartel (Rothschild related) work WITH older families, higher castes, who have traditionally aligned themselves with foreign interests over Indian ones.
For eg. the Tatas, now so respectable, made their money through the opium trade and the addiction and impoverishment of the Asian masses. The Tatas worked then and now with the Rothschilds, who also made money in the opium trade in India.
Bharara, a Sikh (a community at odds with Indian interests over the years), has a Jewish wife, incidentally, and his brother’s business was bought out by Amazon for hundreds of millions of dollars. He’s also deeply embedded in the NY and NJ Democrat political machinery, through his work with Chuck Schumer
Perhaps because of this, he has avoided going after any major wrong-doers on Wall Street (except for Cotzein), and has gone after patsies. Even with the non-patsy, SAC, he avoided going after major wrong-doing, and just slapped a fine on it for insider-trading, a marginal issue. He is seen as a grand-stander and politically ambitious, as well as rather unscrupulous (duh).
The Devyani story seems to be an intelligence pysop, just like the Rajat Gupta affair. Gupta, was a patsy thrown to the wolves to save Blankfein’s skin at Goldman Sachs, because of his status as a director at McKinsey, the firm most responsible for outsourcing American jobs, which had nothing to do with the financial crisis, but made Gupta a good target in a time of job loss and xenophobia.
More crucially, Gupta was a power player in the rise of the Indian lobby in DC and of South Asia in the financial world, which the banking cartel wanted to curb, thus again making him a ripe target.
I believe Devyani’s targeting is similarly political. It is part of a pattern of targeting the Indian Foreign Service, the elite cadre of the civil service.
This group is actually LESS corrupt than others. And the civil service itself is less corrupt (at least until the last few years) than the larger group of politicians.
The targeting of the IFS would make India less effective in diplomatic circles.
Why do I suspect an intel psyop?
There has been a history of CIA infiltration into India, especially in recent years.
The maid’s family worked for the US embassy. She was interested in getting a more permanent visa to the US than the one she got through her employment with the diplomat, who from the account of the maid’s own daughter, treated her well. The maid is a Christian convert from a highly unionized state (Kerala) with a strong communist and Christian (Zionist Christian) influence.
The maid tried to extort and blackmail the diplomat, who filed a case against her in India,
Instead of letting that case take its course, the USG along with a NY NGO interfered in the judiciary in India, by spiriting the maid out of the country, and giving her and her family different visas – very strange behavior in the circumstances.
All this happened over the months leading up to the arrest of the diplomat and while the Indian gvt was keeping the US gvt informed, the US gvt appeared to be conspiring with the maid to arrest the diplomat, along with the human-trafficking NGO, Safe Horizon, whose Board of Advisers gives the game away – it’s all big bank (Rothschild-related -JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, UBS and so on).
Safe Horizon is a prominent New York NGO, working closely with the NY government and therefore probably quite close to NY AG Preet Bharara, who was the lawyer in the Gupta case too.
http://www.safehorizon.org/index/about-us-1/board-of-directors-88.html