(BetteLu Saltzman nee Kutznik)

This is at the heart of C4′s dread. Meeting every century in a cemetary in Prague and controlling the affairs of the world – that’s one thing, that’s a serious matter, of course. But making mock of a married woman’s name?

For one thing, is one name more Jewish in his ears than the other? What is a conventional married woman to do? Is the combination of the two supposed to be hypnotic?

For another, BetteLu. That’s no Sasha or Dvora, that’s pretty much all-American-assimilated sounding by birth. So it’s not cultural necessarily. Or does it take so deeply?

For a third, who knows who this woman is and who cares. Did she bomb a school or something? Does she control BHO? Is that really a portrait of her, and not OBL, on the recent New Yorker cover?

If not, the notion that this is important enough in C4′s mind to devote space to – to dwell on, even to harp on – in his analysis, the idea that making his targets and their associations all nice and Jewishy-sounding will make his comments more persuasive or expressive, speaks to a superficiality of mind, a shallowness of perception and reasoning, that detracts from the respect which I am able to accord some of his loftier flights.

C4 is occasionally capable of reasoning that seems to parallel mine. In these cases I worry about myself, but really I figure C4 is only mad north-north-west or so. His intellect is thus retarded by these beliefs, and he would do better to disbelieve himself of them.

Someone was speaking of root causes of behavior, above – we always are, neh? – and I often wonder what is the spark of the flame that burns inside him. Was it a family upbringing or was he driven to these beliefs through his own experience?

C4, I try to avoid base notions of the roots of your conduct, but your slant on things is perfectly inexplicable by my perception of reality. Some explanation would perhaps not go amiss. I’m sure you have the expressive and forthright words at your command to make yourself even clearer than you seem to be.

In other words, what is wrong with me? Can I fix it? You have allowed at times that there are some Jews who may be allowed to exist and perhaps prosper under your rule. Could you describe your notion of a Good Jew?

Because it is important to please you; anyone not in agreement with your views or, apparently, standards of breed stock, is evidently bound for the chief torment of whatever religion (or tribal blood-creed if pagan) that you favor, after a grisly and well-deserved death if at all possible.

More importantly for purposes of discussion, it imposes a rhetorical cramp in your style and in mine. When apparently no Jews can be either believed or trusted except as it suits you, whether your basis is of precisely which mix of racialist, religious and/or other forms of distributed conspiracy it is that you follow, how are we even to be entertained by you in debate unless we understand exactly what it is that suits you.

You know, so we can straighten up and fly right.

Or at least not set you up on these repetitive and demeaning tirades. Every one is a few minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Like I said before, I generally cut out of your posts at the first use of the word “Jew.” But also as I said, if it contains none, you have a better chance of saying something.