David Shayler

[ciphergoth]

There's only one explanation.

Clearly, in order to minimize the damage caused by his earlier revelations, the Powers that Be have used the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to cause David Shayler to do and say the most insane things he can think of and destroy his credibility.

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Wow! I didn't know about the recent stuff. Yes, I think you're right. (Hmm. Must integrate as throw-away into next Laundry novel ...)

[cyberinsekt.livejournal.com]

I'm in full agreement. It couldn't have anything to do with the amount of drugs he's allegedly been ingesting.

[(Anonymous)]

David Shayler announced publicly that he was the new Messiah, stating that much of his revelation had been attained as the result of drug-induced altered states of consciousness; listing mushrooms, Ayahuasca & Ibogaine coupled with the sustained use of marijuana, as the primary catalysts for the realisation of his divine mission.

Not only is he sufficiently drug-addled that he thinks he's the Messiah, but he's so *amazingly* drug-addled that he thinks telling people he thinks he's the Messiah because he took shitloads of drugs makes for a more convincing case. Wow.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

Oops. That was me. Bloody Livejournal keeps forgetting its cookies.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Another hit for Wikipedia - where else would you find a link from a summary of David Shayler to a list of Messiah claimants? (And am feeling pleased with myself for resisting the temptation to dispute the inclusion of H.I.M. Haile Selassie I.)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

What was that game where you had to guess what something was given only the Wikipedia categories it fell into? "Self-declared messiahs | People from Middlesbrough"

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Dunno, but ISTR NTK did it earlier with films and tags from some scary hybrid of IMDb and CAPalert.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Found it again:

http://kevan.org/catfishing.php

And of course lost another several hours to it!