This is Barrett Brown; I believe you caught my profile of Charles Johnson for Vanity Fair.

For some reason, I'm having a hell of a time trying to get anyone to debate me on the subject of the Founding Fathers and other revolutionary heroes and their relative distrust of Judeo-Christianity and their secular intent in creating our form of government. Some of the same people who are happy to insult me on their blogs (and sometimes on mine) don't seem to be willing to actually engage me on an issue of substance - which is odd, as all of these tribalist war bloggers are obviously quite a bit more brilliant than I and could easily beat me in such a way as to totally discredit me in the eyes of all observers as well as to help highlight the truth of the matter. If I didn't know better, I'd assume that all the fellows you hang around with are cowards who prefer to be able to respond or ignore points at will than to engage in an e-mail debate for publication in full, one in which they'd actually get stuck having to address things they might find inconvenient.

Perhaps you know of someone who'd actually be willing to debate me on this or any other matter? Like you, perhaps?

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY