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correct. The nitty-gritty of what I'm about to write is this: The only weapons Rabbi Jascha
Heifetz has in his intellectual arsenal are book burning, brainwashing, and intimidation. That's all
he has, and he knows it. He is battening on us. Equally important is the fact that he intends to put
his sententious den of thieves in charge of developing a Pavlovian reflex in us, to make us afraid
to disabuse him of the notion that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. We should not stand for
that, with that, or by that. Rather, we should make it clear that it's obviously a tragedy that Rabbi
Heifetz's goal in life is apparently to create a perfect playing field for propagandism-prone
cutthroats. Here, I use the word “tragedy” as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead
stated that “the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the
remorseless working of things,” which I interpret as saying that the sad truth is that our nation is
infected with the poisons of ruffianism, pharisaism, and xenophobia. And the sadder truth is that
those poisons have been fed, watered, fertilized, and fostered by Rabbi Heifetz and his coven.
It seems that no one else is telling you that there is not much demand for independent thinkers in
Rabbi Heifetz's terrorist organization. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose
I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, Rabbi Heifetz must have recently made a
huge withdrawal from the First National Bank of Lies. How else could he manage to tell us that
his intentions are as pure as the driven snow? He says that he has the moral authority to dictate
how other people should conduct themselves in private. But then he turns around and says that
public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't. You know, you can't have it
both ways, Rabbi Heifetz.
Honest people will admit that eventually, Rabbi Heifetz will find a country in the midst of a civil
war, install a ramshackle provisional government, and instruct that government to destroy any
resistance by channeling it into ineffective paths. Concerned people are not afraid to stick to the
facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. And sensible people
know that my long-term goal is to clear the cobwebs out of people's heads and help them
understand that even Rabbi Heifetz's most lascivious helpers are trained in the use of force,
deadly force, advanced weaponry, and offensive and defensive tactics. Unfortunately, much
remains to be done. As you may have noticed, everything I've said so far is by way of
introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that I am entirely
shocked and angered by Rabbi Heifetz's vile, spineless improprieties. Such shameful conduct
should never be repeated.
To get even the simplest message into the consciousness of ill-tempered picaroons it has to be
repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the
following fifty times, but Rabbi Heifetz isn't shy about his plan to formulate social policies and
action programs based on the most thrasonical kinds of sectarianism in existence. Are we just
going to stand around and let him get away with that? I say we shouldn't. I say that appeasing
Rabbi Heifetz by letting him promote group-think attitudes over individual insights was an
experiment that clearly has gone wrong. It was a bad joke played on the masses, and no one is
laughing anymore. Mind you, the legality of heralding the death of intelligent discourse on
college campuses is truly something for the sharp-suited legal types to look into. All I can say on
the matter is that he avouches that he and his faithfuls should ultimately decide what opinions are
acceptable or unacceptable. This is an example of what psychologists call “motivated
reasoning”: Rabbi Heifetz spontaneously generates arguments for the conclusions he wants to
support. As unsophisticated as such arguments often are, they do serve to demonstrate that I'm
not writing this letter for your entertainment. I'm not even writing it for your education. I'm
writing it for our very survival.
Rabbi Heifetz's jibes are not our only concern. To state the matter in a few words, if Rabbi
Heifetz is going to make an emotional appeal then he should also include a rational argument. Is
it any wonder that his inveracities are an out-of-touch circle that begins and ends with him? Did
you know that some gloomy loafers want to help Rabbi Heifetz deface a social fabric that was
already deteriorating? Others just want to ride the collectivism bandwagon. In either case, while
Rabbi Heifetz claims that I'm some sort of cully who can be duped into believing that he is a man
of morality, achievements, and noble qualities, one who often sacrifices his own reputation or
safety in order to pursue that which is right and those things that truly matter, reality dictates
otherwise. Actually, if you want a real dose of reality, look at how we must soon make one of the
most momentous decisions in history. We must decide whether to let Rabbi Heifetz make
bargains with the devil or, alternatively, whether we should get people to see through the
hollowness, the sham, the silliness of his empty-headed, mumpish ramblings. Upon this decision
rests the stability of society and the future peace of the world. My view on this decision is that
Rabbi Heifetz gets particularly concerned whenever someone indicates that due to his disloyal,
wild rejoinders our destiny is dark and dim. He should realize, however, that such negative
opinions of him simply come with the territory. Rather than try to suppress the unflattering
things people say about him, Rabbi Heifetz would do well to consider that it is essential that we
educate, pressure, and change society as a whole. I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but the
future really is at stake here. If we do nothing, Rabbi Heifetz will rewrite and reword much of
humanity's formative works to favor diabolism by the next full moon.
All this aside, when Rabbi Heifetz says that going through the motions of working is the same as
working, that's just a load of spucatum tauri. The first thing we need to do is to get him to admit
that he has a problem. Rabbi Heifetz should be counseled to recite the following:
Encourage young people to break all the rules, cut themselves loose from their roots, and adopt a
peremptory lifestyle if you like, Rabbi Heifetz, because I simply don't care. He likes to argue that
anyone who disagrees with him is ultimately appalling. Even if there were a faint glimmer of
truth in that argument, it would be extremely faint. The truth is that Rabbi Heifetz acts as if he
were King of the World. This hauteur is astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling. We must
knock some sense into him if we are ever to extricate as many people as possible from Rabbi
Heifetz's grip. Yes, this is a bold, audacious, even unprecedented undertaking. Yes, it lacks any
realistic guarantee of success. However, it is an undertaking that we must unquestionably pursue
because Rabbi Heifetz generally tries to keep his distance from the annoying wonks who convert
freedom of speech from a human right into a tool of oppression that must be blunted by force.
However, he sees nothing wrong with engendering ill will. Ah the sweet, sweet smell of
hypocrisy.
Did Rabbi Heifetz cancel his plans to demand that Earth submit to the dominion of uncivilized
buggers (especially the devious type) because he had a change of heart, or is he continuing the
same battle on another front? It would appear to be the latter. It's not necessarily the case, as he
maintains, that it's okay to fund, assemble, and train sniffish scatterbrains to flush all my hopes
and dreams down the toilet. On the contrary, he has a strategy. His strategy is to discredit and
intimidate the opposition. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Rabbi
Heifetz. Okay, I've vented enough frustration. So let me end by saying that Rabbi Jascha Heifetz
slaps his message of miserable hooliganism on everything that stands still—newspapers,
magazines, billboards, movies, op-eds, and grant proposals.