Apologies
Subject: Apologies
From: William Walshe <billywalshe@gmail.com>
Date: 5/11/12, 02:28
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Rep Hank Johnson has provided some evidence that my cynical and frankly polemic bent against your ass has been at least partly a load of shit. You were man enough to say you were wrong about Sabu, and I'm man enough to say I  have been totally wrong about HBGary and your "pyrrhic" victory.

The public faces we wear are not our private, personal selves. The vitriol between us is probably about 99.9% bullshit, because we both care deeply about Anon. Just cause we have fundamental disagreements about direction or appropriate tactics doesn't mean we aren't both interested in stirring public debate about matters of real importance. I've turned my focus inwards on Anon, you've turned it on the serious offenders. I think that both of our roles are helpful and necessary.

Publicly, we are fine enemies. Two of the best. Personally, I find myself wanting to be your friend. We're both wrong, and both right, and that's a damn good thing. Two opposing views which synthesize into something new and more accurate is the best outcome possible. I would never wish prison upon my worst enemies, except maybe Sabu and child molesters, and I hope this indictment against you is bullshit, although I do not know the details.

You seem to be the type of guy I'd like to smoke some weed with and engage in some real substantive debate, not someone I'd want to fight. This damn internet though, it turns us inhuman, TransHuman, and in taking the role of a "troll," or dissident, shit has gotten out of hand! As an ironic paranoid fascist populist, I feel remorse for where the irony was lost on the STUPID. At the same time, I still think the Chronicle's propaganda campaigns were funny as fuck. At any rate, I'm swearing that shit off and moving onto more schizoid forms of propaganda, which primarily educate and raise questions rather than deceive and mislead. (Of course I have absolutely no remorse about the piece about Romney masturbating on a balcony.)

Anyway, congratulations on a job well done. May Hank Johnson's inquisition find ALL the sinners and have them burned at the stake. Also, I'd like to bring your attention to France in May of 1968. It is the most successful example of insurrection in a modernized industrial nation. The key is reaching the students, and then the rest will fall. I have recently recognized the sacred nature of discussion, and you have never failed to extend it to me, so good on you.

SINCERELY,

WILLIAM WALSHE
AKA
KILGOAR TROUT, ET AL.