The company he keeps

"Birds of a feather flock together," says the old saying. That's because of human nature. People with similar backgrounds, viewpoints, worldviews, hobbies, addictions or religions are more familiar and automatically more comfortable with one another than those who aren't. That is why Barbour's words ring strange and peculiar; as he frequents Robert Young Pelton's Black Flag Cafe, and touts himself to be a super sleuthing soldier in Army Intelligence even though he was nowhere near that-having served as an MP.

Perhaps the attraction to the BFC is the ability to post his journal entries and garner attention for his poor writing. One might recall he did precisely that when he was writing at the Jack Idema blogspot blog; he tried to create more traffic by sowing comments on the web with links back to it.

Or maybe it's the fact that numerous military-obsessed losers in their underwear as opposed to men who have already done it-or are really doing it even today and don't have time to spend online- frequent that forum and together they can stroke each other's egos and Pelton's while they fuel their already over active imaginations there.  Because you know Pelton is one of those that craves getting his ego stroked; it's the purpose for the forum.

What is Barbour doing on Pelton's Black Flag Cafe message boards and communicating with Penny Alesi, the leftist Michael Moore sympathizer & homosexual activist (and dare I say communist) if he claims to be a "Tea Party" supporter and the 'follower of a carpenter'?  This does not compute. What DOES compute is his avoidance of using the word "Jesus", and that's befitting of the company he keeps. Although partnering with Alesi surely has given him the inside track on Idema's life, understanding why he even cares about it escapes me.

Pelton is one of the snooty uber elitist journalist types that believes that journalists are smarter than the military about war.

Alesi is...someone who would hang out with Larry Flynt; and I'm not sure what sway that would have with the 'carpenter' Barbour supposedly follows.

If Ronbo really is what he says he is, he wouldn't be placing himself in juxtaposition with people who are ideological opposites. Ideologically speaking, the worldview he is dealing with in his online associations is like the Clintons', who he loves to hate. And he is spreading their propaganda for them. Surely it's not that he's an unwitting accomplice; he knows precisely what he is doing.

Unless the real reason he wanted to kill Clinton is to get himself planted permanently into the history books; and the obsession with Hitler and Idema and claiming he's a card carrying Republican and an outspoken Tea Party person-are all more a case of transforming himself into a celebrity than about ideology.

(Incidentally Pelton wore Islamic clothing, too.  Do you suppose he joined Al Qaida? Just sayin'.)