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Subject: Re: DeMeo admits to Mid East disaster - Fri, 16 Feb 1996
13:37:18 -0500
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0500
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: DeMeo admits to Mid East disaster
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
I am sure most OML readers reakize this is Carlinsky defending himself.
You are welcome to him.
On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:49:13 -0500,
GalileoII@aol.com <GalileoII@aol.com> wrote:
>To Jamerling Ogg:
>
>I find your response to my letter, "Carlinsky's challenge; deMeo's retreat,"
>which I sent to PORE, quite intriguing. Though I sent the letter direct to
>you with you and your legal situation in mind, I don't mind that you
>published my letter on the Orgonomy Mailing List (OML). Considering what's
>being happening this past week, I think that it's perfectly OK for others to
>see what you've discovered.
>
>You have pointed out some facts to me that I was not aware of. It would
>appear from the material you researched in the #4 issue of "Pulse of the
>Planet," James deMeo's own publication, that, if push comes to shove, deMeo
>actually could be considered as being responsible for causing the deaths of
>innocent people, along with considerable damage to property and to the
>environment, during one of his cloudbusting experiments in the Middle East
>--just as Joel Carlinsky alleged in his article earlier this week on OML.
>
>Specifically, you indicated that, on page 96 of the Pulse #4 issue, there is
>a report by deMeo entitled "OROP ISRAEL 1991-1992," in which [deMeo] does
>
><<mention flooding, homes destroyed, and people dieing [sic] from traffic
><<accidents on flooded roads as a result of the heavy rains>>
>
>occuring after DeMeo's November 1991 cloudbusting operations in the Middle
>East. Quoting now from deMeo's own report:
>
><<Our research team had not anticipated the strength of the storms
>which subsequently developed in the eastern Mediterranian.... When heavy
>rains came, traffic often came to a standstill for hours. Previously
>bone-dry river beds and conduits filled quickly, and overflowed onto major
>roads.... A few deaths also occured on the highways due to the fatal
>combination of rain-slickstreets and highway speeding, or when people
>attempted to drive their cars through rain-swollen streams.... Additional
>difficulties also occured in a few areas when power lines were knocked down
>by heavy winds or accumulated snow, leaving many persons without power,
>sometimes for days."
>
>Here, in his own words, deMeo admits to having participated in a scientific
>experiment which appears to have wreaked havoc on the ecology while
>concurrently serving as the direct or indirect cause of several deaths. Can
>any rational, caring person honestly defend this kind of irresponsible,
>anti-social behavior as something that could be justifiably done "in the
>spirit of Wilhelm Reich" or for the furtherance of orgonomy?
>
>Now, I wouldn't go so far as to call deMeo's activities "murder," for I
>seriously doubt that he performed his obviously reckless operation with
>malice aforethought or an intent to harm people. Nonetheless, for those of
>us who understand and believe in the effectiveness of cloud-busting, it is
>impossible to overlook the fact that there is certainly considerable
>culpability involved here.
>
>It's bad enough that deMeo engaged in such a diastrous experiment, and that
>he can only write about it in the detached tone of a superior being, or of a
>child who has just flooded a backyard of helpless ants and watches their
>habitat get washed away. What I find even more reprehensible is for deMeo to
>be able to acknowledge that his cloudbusting activities actually did result
>in human deaths and in ecological damage, but not to cease from performing
>subsequent cloudbusting operations!
>
>Anyone continuing to perform reckless cloudbusting operations with little
>regards to the consequences of their behavior does so with an arrogance that
>deserves to be treated with the same contempt with which he apparently views
>his fellow human beings and the planet upon which he resides. DeMeo's
>decision to continue his cloudbusting operations, after he has consciously
>observed and reported on the connection between his cloudbusting activities
>and their disastrous results on other people and on the environment,
>inevitably raises certain moral, ethical, and legal questions which should
>not be ignored by any life-affirming, rational, caring human being.
>
>It is apparently cloudbusting operations like this one in the Middle East
>which Joel Carlinsky had in mind when he published his provocative, if not
>well documented, article earlier this week.
>
>Of course, what is peculiarly interesting about the ensuing flack that has
>resulted is not only the complete unwillingness on deMeo's and his
>supporters' part to deal rationally with the facts (or, if they prefer, with
>the "accusations"), but also their holier-than-thou scare tactics and their
>belittling, name-calling attempts to side-step the issues by fomenting the
>preposterous idea that anyone who questions the authority or integrity of
>deMeo and his cultish group are, de facto, non-persons, or just plain fools
>undeserving of their august company.
>
>Although a real-life courtroom trial on the matters touched upon by these
>revelations would be a highly detrimental way to introduce cloudbusting,
>orgonomy, and Reich to the general public, litigating the issues surrounding
>deMeo's rain-making activities in the Middle East and elsewhere would
>undoubtedly raise some rather fascinating legal and moral questions.
>
>What a case it would be, though! The legal principles would probably turn
>out to be something completely new in the annals of a murder trial: Can a
>man be found guilty of negligent homocide, or reckless endangerment, or some
>such crime related to having caused the deaths of innocent people, for having
>allegedly performed scientific experiments involving nothing more than a
>turret-like set of metal pipes pointed at the sky in order to tap into an
>energy source that mainstream scientists have long claimed does not exist?
>
>Quick! Call Mulder and Scully! This sounds like a story for the "X-Files!"
>
>Or, in real life, has James deMeo become so wrapped up into believing that he
>is the only rightful successor to Wilhelm Reich's throne of orgonomic science
>such that he has ascended above the law and need not tolerate any criticism
>whatsoever--even after he follows his martyred master's footsteps all the way
>to jail?!
>
>Stay tuned.
>
>
>
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