Charles The Technician

Idiot of the week: Mr. Illegal Windows

Posted by Charles | Filed under Idiot of the week

Microsoft came out with the “Windows Genuine Advantage” update sometime around summer last year, ever since then we get a rash of people that say they have “illegal windows” and need to purchase a valid license and to back up their stuff etc.

One guy came in 2 months ago and purchased XP Pro and asked that his system not be wiped at all. Since we were going from Pro to Pro we can just update the key using a tool that microsoft provides.

Went through and did the validation and put the new windows key in, ran full updates (cause I’m such a nice guy) and let him have his system back. Even showed him the new shiney key using Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder to display that it had infact taken the new key.
Now for most people, I probably wouldn’t ever hear of it again, unless he had some other issue needed taking care of.

Nope, just last week got a nice phone call…

Me: [my company], this is Charles how may I help you?
Him: You mother fucker you sold me an illegal copy of windows
Me: excuse me…? [he continued talking when I said this]
Him: I’m calling microsoft and reporting you, and also am going to take this shit to court. My buddy is a technician and he told me that it only looks like you took off the bubbles.[he takes a deep breath]
Me: Ok hang on just one second, who are you?
Him: [his name]
Me: Ok when did we sell you a copy of windows?
Him: Last month [he was off by a month]
Me: Ok, do you have a sticker on the side of your computer that has the key?
Him: Yep
Me: That is your license, it’s legit, we checked it before you left.
Him: Bullshit it says it is illegal, and I’m not the one who put it there you are, I’m going to call the police on you. Pirating is illegal.
Me: You realize that there can be false positives or even spyware that immitates that notification to try and get money from you correct?
Him: No I didn’t know that, how can you tell?
Me: It’s pretty complicated, bring your computer on down to the shop and I’ll be able to tell you in 5 minutes.
Him: [Deep breath] [Unintelligible Nueron Misfire] Mother fucker I’m not bringing my computer down there you can kiss my ass.
Me: Ok by me, just be sure and spell my name correctly. [Click]

I didn’t hear from him again until yesterday when he brought his computer in.

Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder says it is the old key, I have screenshots showing I had updated the key, it’s logged, and everything.

I start looking through event logs and all the sudden things start clicking. There is a big gap between 2 weeks prior to when he brought in the computer, and 2 weeks ago. Now I know I used that computer during that gap, so the event log should have something in that time frame. But nothing.

This dumbass went and did a system restore to a point prior to when we used the key updater tool provided by microsoft.

I called the idiot and explained to him what had happened and he flipped out again “That shouldn’t have changed my license”, well buddy apparantly it did. I refuse to work on this system unless you allow me to wipe it clean using the new license key.

Oh he would have none of that, in the face of glaring idiocy he still tried to blame it on me. “The system worked 2 weeks ago.”

I hate when people say that shit, my truck worked yesterday is it my mechanics fault that I let all the oil drain out today and drove for 4 miles? Then shut the hell up.

I told him he could do his own work, I refuse to fix it. He can come pick it up or he can let me wipe it (I’d backup as much as I could of course).

Ever the asshole to the end he said “Fine I’ll be there in 30 minutes”. 30 minutes passed, an hour, 2 hours, and in he came. His wife was obviously pissed off and was behind him, I was expecting a shouting match in the store but the wife looked at me and smiled.

“I’m sorry about my husband, he is sorry too, aren’t you?” He nodded. She continued, “Would you please go ahead and fix the computer, I understand if we will have to pay for your time but we do need it done.”

So I did. I wiped the drive, I installed fresh, did all the drivers (cause Windows sucks at finding all the drivers, ethernet, video, sound, all hardly ever work on fresh installs and people gripe about linux >_<). System went home, Charles got paid, Idiots shutup. All in all, a very good day for all.

Reasons you are an idiot:

1.) You blamed me for something you did, something you already admitted to doing.
2.) You screamed on the phone, most 7 year olds realized that when they start screaming people ignore them, atleast the one’s raised correctly. Perhaps you need a good spanking.
3.) You think “it worked last ____” means anything to me. Fuck off
4.) When you came into pick up the computer you tried to intimidate me, making a sullen defeated face like you had when your wife dragged you in shut you up quick.
5.) Because your reasoning skills barely equal that of a 9 year old, and it would be an insult to people with down syndrome for me to say you had an extra 23rd chromosome.

Fuck you,
Charles~

Virginia Tech shooting.

Posted by Charles | Filed under Rants

Most likely you have heard of the Virginia Tech shootings by a young man of questionable mental health and the uproar concerning that.

If not go turn on the T.V. I’m sure every channel is still covering it.

Now I have a few basic understandings of the situation.

1.) Schools are designated “No Gun Zones”, IE: it is illegal to carry a firearm onto campus.
2.) It is illegal to murder someone, let alone 30+
3.) The police presence necessary to protect innocent lives from being killed would far exceed that of an Orwellian government.
4.) The first shooting fit the Modus Operandi of a domestic shooting, not a spree killer. This was not a mass killing in 1 stage, but a 2 stage plan with 1st appearing to not be a spree killing.
5.) Virginia Tech’s campus is about 2,600 acre and has roughly 25,000 people on it at any given time.
6.) Making Virginia Tech a nicely sized town.
7.) It is standard operating procedure to seek out the last one to have seen a murder victim alive as your first lead, that this lead did not turn out the way police wanted does not mean it is a “bad lead” or a “false lead”, it is what helps solve crimes in 99% of all cases.
8.) The weapons were not purchased legally, he lied on the application, to call it a legal purchase is erroneous, and the reporting methods to keep such a lie from being accepted would remove patient doctor confidentiality.

Given all this, how should everyone reacted? Is it responsible to lock down an entire city because of a domestic violence shooting? Then why this shooting?

For the last week and probably for the rest of the year you are going to hear people blame everyone and their dog. However there is only one person to blame, and that is the shooter.

You will hear discussions on gun control and how people will use this tragedy to politicize the event. However no law of prohibition has ever worked, nor would arming every citizen be wise. One would argue that taking away the ability of one to defend themselves through their 2nd amendment rights by labeling an area a “gun free zone” should put those who labeled it such as responsible for protecting those inside the “gun free zone” but this is in and of itself absurd unless you treat the “gun free zone” as a prison, with central entrances and access control it is ineffective to even try as the efficiency of getting people in and out and maintaining high standards of student safety will not work.

Basically, if someone is determined to kill you or anyone and it is a congested area, that does not contain an Orwellian level police force, then there is no possible way to prevent this sort of tragedy.

I say all this for one reason. Right now we should be investigating the situation and how to better react or even be proactive in stopping such things from happening in the future. We should make intelligent decisions concerning ways to prevent this after the investigation is complete. Anyone who rushes to judgment at this point in time is doing so foolishly. It is this sort of policy making that erodes basic rights, by allowing policy to be backed by fear of a recent event.

And a message for those that believe the perfect answer is to make all guns illegal except those wielded by the government and government agencies. The 2nd amendment does not exist primarily so that one has the right to defend themselves against other citizens, it exists so that a population can defend against a tyrannical government, in a country where habeas corpus is suspended or altered, wiretapping is permitted and if by chance you appear a threat to the US or it’s people can be labeled a terrorist and have 4th amendment rights suspended, I believe the last thing we as a people should cry out for is a removal of the 2nd amendment.

Charles~

Correction: Number 8 above may or may not be true. The state law and federal requirements are not very well matched up. This would be a very good cause for updating the federal requirements to match current psychiatric practices. Thank you “Agripa” for pointing this out.

Idiot of the week: Mr. AT&T Tech can’t configure his own router.

Posted by Charles | Filed under Idiot of the week

Today was kinda interesting. Our mail server hosting provider updated the firewall and left the old access list up. So I had went around diagnosing the problem till I just tracked it down to a firewall problem. Mail server is also our radius server so it kept our billing system from being able to create new accounts, change passwords or check radius.

Then I got a phone call from one of the county offices that they were leaving the city provided internet connection (Some DSL on a dry pair) and going to AT&T but they had an idiot installing who just spent 2 hours on the phone with a “Level 4″ tech back at base. Also they wanted help setting up their email. So I’m expecting some issues with the phone system since they are basically switching from one DSL provider to another.

Nope, phone system looks fine he had stuck the DSL on the circuit properly and all (good job). What was stumping him was the fact that they had ordered a static IP address. Now here is the fun part.

This business has all internal IP addresses setup statically and in the subnet of 192.168.38.XX (255.255.255.0)
The default setting for this router is 10.0.X.X (255.255.0.0), this customer had literally 114 systems on the inside of their network all with IP addresses setup at those machines, most being windows 2k, some *nix boxes and 1 Mac (el oh el!)

PPPoE was not turned on or given login / password, wrong internal network subnet (unless he was going to change 114 systems himself), and he didn’t know the way his own company goes about giving static IP addresses is by using dedicated dynamic ip addresses. So when he said “I’m done” and then nothing worked I had to go to lunch, I advised the guy there to do the same and let this technician play.

One hour later it still doesn’t work and he is still on the phone with the “Level 4″ tech and the “level 4″ tech’s boss.

I go and shut off the wireless from another system (he was using wireless to connect to the router on his laptop) and then go and setup the entire network, put in the password, set the internal IP address to 192.168.38.1 (like all 114 systems are expecting) and then configured PPPoE, configured the external address to be grabbed automatically (DHCP) and rebooted the router, and turned on the wireless.

I walked back in and said “It’s working now, what did you do?” Dumbfounded for a moment he looks up and says “Well I configured the router of course.” about this time I walk away and head back to the shop and let this douchenozzle figure out all the changes that occured while he was unable to connect to the router.

Reasons you are an idiot

1.) 4 fucking hours and even phone tech support and the ability to google using the other router and you still can’t figure out BASIC settings for your own routers that your company installs at almost EVERY single location.
2.) You made 4 or 5 jokes about how easy the training for DSL tech was and that you had slept through half of it, believe us…we can tell.
3.) You claimed to be a linux admin but had no clue what distro you use. Great use of Linux to try and make yourself seem a higher tier geek.
4.) I gave you hints along the way and you still failed miserably.
5.) You failed to convince the guy that you fixed it in the end even though I didn’t tell him who it was or what I was doing.
6.) You actually brought the average level of competance of the AT&T / SBC’s technician down by joining up with them. WHICH IS PRETTY FUCKING HARD TO DO, considering how low it is.

Fuck you,
Charles~

Crappy update brought to you by Clippy

Posted by Clippy | Filed under News

Hey!

Charles has been pretty busy lately, he’s doing some work for a doctor that was a rush job. Guy came in said “I need cables ran, Dell _____ Server, this software configured, installed, 7 client systems, VPN, Email setup, and training for my staff.” At first Charles laughed and said no problem. Then the doctors said “2 weeks” and Charles surveyed his surroundings, all the work he had to do besides this project, and his already active duties maintaining his current customers. Then this doctor started waving around barely sub 5 digit figures around.

“I can do it”      $_$

So, for the last bit or so, Charles has been pretty busy.

However some interesting things have occured, remember our gentleman from Charles’ last post? His wife finally emailed Charles. I think I will share it with you, ehem.

Charles,

I wanted to thank you for bringing my husbands actions to my attention. I had known that he had a porn problem in the past but did not know it was current or how bad it was. We’ve seeked professional help and I believe we will make it through this. You forced him to face his shame and that was a great step into recovery. [Blah Blah Blah, didn’t have to be a jerk about it though, blah blah blah]

Signed,
CS Simpson

About 2 days before this email arrived Charles’ mail box was seeing less and less flaming, screaming, pissed off emails from JJ Simpson, I personally hope the best for him but Charles has a different message “Fuck him!”, though I surely hope he doesn’t mean the literal way.

That’s all for now and remember…I’m just a F1 press away!

Love,
OPENClippyGNU V0.98.12 RC4

Idiot of the week: Mr. Trying to hack one of my customers (hotels)

Posted by Charles | Filed under Idiot of the week

My company provides internet services to 2 hotels outside of the city limits. This includes wireless internet access. Every now and again we get some dipshit that thinks he is some L33T HAXXOR. I’ve setup a few networks in my time so I think I know what I’m doing.

I setup a redirect for the “access denied” after so many attempts on all my routers and accesspoints at the hotels. These redirects point to what’s called a “honey pot”. a “honey pot” is basically a THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE looks-like-you-got-in-but-you-really-didn’t style page. Complete with fake data abilities to change settings that doesn’t really effect anything. This honey pot comes up after 10 tries at the login and pw after that point anyone that tries to login for the next 30 minutes that doesn’t get the correct password is shot over to the honey pot.
What this page does do is send me an email and a text message on my cellphone once someone starts digging around and changing settings (you have to change settings and hit ok for it to email me)

So yesterday at around 4am there was a 22 year old punk sitting in the hotels parking lot surfing around checking his email trying to figure a way to break the router. Google searches included: “How to tell what router is being used”, “Default passwords for routers”, “How to break a password”, “How to break a network”, “How to get little boys to come into your van with candy”,”Class action lawsuit against Barney for mental redardation inflicted upon viewers.” (ok so I made that last one up, but I’ll leave you guessing on the prior one.).

My phone starts doing it’s dance across the nightstand and finally wakes me up, I look over to find no less then 20 attempts to get into the router, so I spring into action with my handy dandy laptop and scooby doo boxers only to get half way down the stairs to the front door and realize…I need more clothes. So after preparing to go kick some ass (which included much needed shirt and pants (shoes optional (going for three levels deep of parenthetic yumminess!))) I drive down to the hotel and start sniffing around for transmissions coming from his computer, armed with his IP address, his MAC address I start driving around the parking lot scanning channel 6 when I get a flood of traffic with really good reception.

I had found him. Now most people right about now would get out of the truck and go beat the shit out of this guy…not me. I parked a little bit away and I started watching and had my laptop sniffing any packets from his system.

Hi login and password to your email account (picture is of a packet dump):

It’s a link so you can see the large version if you want without the funky zoom effect (GO GO MSPAINT + GIMP!)

oh it got better, he downloaded femdom porn (man is dominated by the woman), donkey show porn, then there was 10 minutes where it was nothing but Instant messenger beacons going out and no data, which I assume he was masturbating.
Then this dipshit thought he shutdown the router, but the second he did all it did was add his computer to the list of mac addresses that couldn’t connect. I get out of my truck, go and knock on his door and he jumps 2 feet in the air from a sitting position, his pants were unzipped and down a bit and it must have been cold outside (65 degrees but I’ll give Mr. lost in the bushes the benefit of the doubt) the conversation went like this.

“Hi, I’m the network administrator for this hotel and I’ve been watching you for the last 45 minutes, I noticed you were trying to shut down my network.

“I don’t know what your talking about man.”

“I also know your are into donkey shows, femdom porn and that your email address is JJsimpson@[deleted.com]”

“Dude you been spying on me!?!”

“Yeah, you trying to break into my router got my attention, so here is the deal, either you give me your wireless card out of your laptop over there or I’m calling the cops, which is it gonna be.”

He’s looking me up and down now trying to figure out if I’m joking or if he can over power me, I’m 6′4″ weigh 225. He’s about 5′8″ to 5′9″ and I want to say weighs 160 maybe 170 and is in his early early 20’s.

He tells me no so I pull out my cell phone and start dialing, the phone is ringing and I say “Just so I got all this straight your license plate number is Lousiana: 54G[rest deleted] and your last name is simpson and your hair color is brown and you have a small scar on your left chin looks like you got cut a few years ago?” and he says “No man, quit here you can have it.”

I take his card and break it in half and say “Have a nice day, don’t try and break my networks again or you won’t be given the same choice next time.”

Reasons you are an idiot:

1.) You use an email service which doesn’t encrpyt the login and password prior to sending.
2.) You had to use 20 attempts to get in instead of 10, WTF. You are twice as stupid as the regular script kiddy.
3.) I really dialed the store, I hate involving the police in anything especially when a good ass kicking would suffice.
4.) You don’t have the balls to surf porn at your own home because of (I assume a wife judging by the wedding ring), so you sneak out like a little bitch to get your fix.
5.) Most relationship counselors would call that a very destructive habit, and what the hell are you doing it at 4am-4:45am for?
6.) I just used your own email account to send your wife an email detailing why your laptop no longer has a wireless card and where you were sunday morning at 4am.

Fuck you,
Charles~

Idiot of the week: Spam Protection? What Protection?

Posted by Charles | Filed under Idiot of the week

Layers of protection work like this: Outside gets most of it, closer gets more specialized stuff, and further in should see less and less.

But what if what you are trying to protect is going out and telling people how to get in? What if what you are trying to protect has actually gone out and asked people to attack?

This is the situation with one of my customers. We have spam blocking software on our email server, it’s pretty accurate, though I want to find a way to block the posts that have just the .gif file with “purchase this stock” on them without getting to crazy with grandma not being able to see the .gif of her grandchild.

You don’t fuck with Grandma’s and their pictures of grandchildren….ever.

We sent out a system wide email about 2 months ago on how to set up the spam filter to do more then just label spam “*******SPAM********* Subj: Hi” in the subject field. But to actually delete it or not download it from the server. Alot of our internet customers sent us back thank you letters etc for setting them up with a tutorial on how to block spam. Hell it’s pretty simple, click here click here click ok. 3 steps.

Not for this one customer:

To: Help@[mycompany.com]
From: LilMisDipShit@[mycompany.com]
Subj: Re: How to setup your spam filter.

I did exactly as you told me, in the email was a link, it goes to a site that does not exist. I cannot believe you would send an email out on how to get rid of all this spam I’m recieving and screw it up.

I get 60 or so spam emails a day, it’s gotten to the point I don’t even want to check my email anymore.

So I was nice and called her and setup the email filter for her. Remember how I said our email filter doesn’t catch everything? There is one or two that will get around it. Well I got this nice little jewel in my inbox a couple of days ago. I wouldn’t feel so bad for her if I hadn’t gone through and showed her in 4 of those emails (which were legit sign up emails she had signed up for when she went to get some software or sign up for another service)

To: Help@[mycompany.com]
From: LilMisDipShit@[mycompany.com]
Subj: Is this as good as it gets?

I’m still getting spam email, except now it isn’t labeled spam. I got a new email address with a different provider and it’s been 2 days and I haven’t recieved any spam at that email address. Also I’m recieving other people’s spam as well.

If this is as good as it gets then I’m going to have to go with this new provider who doesn’t let ANY spam through.

Remember those spam emails I told you that are able to get around the filter? Yeah she was still getting those. The “Other people’s email” is from a newsletter she signed up for. They have to put SOMEONE in the TO line and everyone else in the BCC line so it looks like you are recieving their email but in reality alot of people are.

So I was nice…

To: LilmisDipShit@[mycompany.com]
From: ME!
Subj: Is this as good as it gets?

Martha,

There are a couple of issues with the email you sent me that I’d like to address before I get to the meat and potatoes of the matter.

1.) “My new email account doesn’t get any spam”

Go out in the middle of a what field and plant a US Post office approved mail box, after 2 days of not recieving any credit card offers or sweepstakes go and complain to your local post office that your “new mail box” doesn’t receive unwanted ads or junk mail. Because that is essentially what you just did to me. “I created an account 2 weeks ago.” No one in the world knows what that account is until you let them know. If no one knows it exists of course you aren’t getting any junk mail. The reason you are receiving junk mail now is bcause you wound up on someone’s email list, by either submitting your email address or asking to be removed from a dubious source which in acccordance with their unsubscribe methods (which no one reads) they sold your email address to other people.

2.) Drjimbob@[mycompany.com]

Anytime a spammer sends out email and is using a budget program for their mail list someone has to be in the To: list. Otherwise the email is invalid. What they do is put one of the people from the domain into the To: list and then put everyone else into the BCC: list. Which means you don’t see the name of every other recipient. Remember last email when you complained that you were recieving bulk email that had other [my company]’s customers on the list and how bulk emailers do that because it puts less stress on their mail servers and the reciepient mail servers which in turn get’s less attention from mail server admins because it’s not causing such a problem from a logistics standpoint? This is the same thing except instead of putting everyone in the To: list, it putting you in the Bcc: list.

All that aside the reason YOU are recieving spam is because YOU at one time or another put your email address out there for people to see and sell. I’ve had this account for 11 months, and I’ve yet to recieve ANY spam email on it. I don’t even have the spam filter on.

Personally I have 3 email accounts:

My “Junk” account: This account recieves all of my spam, if I need to sign up for anything I give this account out.
My Internet friends account: This is an account I give out to all of my friends that I meet on the internet, it’s disposable and would cause me minimum grief if I had to abandon it.
My real life friends / family account: This account isn’t known except by my friends and family I know face to face. This account is not disposable, it is not easily guessable name like “Charles@whatever.com” it contains a series of numbers not a recent year like “Charles2007@whatever.com”

Using this method I have never once recieved ANY spam on my 2 accounts shileded from it.

The reason you are still recieving spam emails after the filters are turned on is some spam emails don’t register as spam right away. You have emails being filtered, the ones that are now filtered are the one’s previously labeled as “******SPAM******” as the email server used to mark those that it found to be spam by putting that in the subject header. What we did by turning on the spam filter was changed it where instead of delivering the emails that it was marking as spam, it now deletes them.

It does sadden me that we cannot accomodate you but I’m sure that you will find once your mailbox out in the middle of a wheat field is found it will begin recieving junk mail as well and then you will understand. But in the mean time, if you wish to disconnect please come on down to the shop and fill out the disconnect form.

Charles
[Phone number]
[Email address]

Any person that goes into business will have 10% of their customers that take up 90% of their time. The trick is to get rid of these customers and make things better for the other 90% and let some other dipshit worry about the 10%.

This customer is still with us, I haven’t received an email back, we aren’t the only internet provider in town.

Reasons you are an idiot:

1.) Get the fuck out of the middle of the wheat field.
2.) You had “Disconnect after checking mail” checked and screamed that our internet was dropping you when it was Outlook Express.
3.) You can’t click a simple link and follow instructions that a thousand other customers including children had no problem understanding.
4.) You are still with us.
5.) You actually came in and paid for the next 6 months in advance yesterday.

Fuck you,
Charles~

Idiot of the week: Mrs. Didn’t check to see who she is calling.

Posted by Charles | Filed under Idiot of the week

DOUBLE POST THURSDAY! (You can probably skip the next post though if you don’t want to hear me rant politically)

I’ve had a laptop in the shop for a about 4 days. We quote 3-5 days on all work done, even if I know I’m going to have it done before the sun sets.

I have a love / hate relationship with laptops, I hate them because they are a BITCH to work on. I love them because when I do, I can make some $$.

This computer’s on/off switch had broken, this particular switch is soldered onto the motherboard. It has 5 contacts but only 2 are meaningful. The switch had worn out, I determined this because I could take a jumper and bypass the switch and the system would still come on.

I REALLY hate soldering on motherboards unless it’s voltage regulators (they’re big, bulky, and have large contacts, it’s really hard to fuck up that job)

Long story short I looked around and found that you couldn’t purchase a motherboard for this piece of shit toshiba for less then $400. She wasn’t willing to pay that but was willing for me to solder on a switch. This is now day 4 of the job and she is calling about once every 2 hours despite us telling her we will call her.

End of Day 4 I get this phone call.

Me: [My company name] this is Charles how can I help you?
Her: “Do you guys repair laptops?”
Me: “Yes ma’am, what seems to be the problem.”
Her: “I put my computer in the shop about 3 days ago, it has a broken switch on it the idiot that is working on it can’t seem to get the job done, I think he smokes crack, all it would take is replacing a simple on / off button, but they wanted to replace the WHOLE motherboard till they figured out 400 wasn’t ok with me. I will need to go pick it up before dropping it off at your shop, what time do you guys close?”
Me: “Ma’am, we close at 6, can I get your last name?”
Her: [Her last name]
Me: “Ok let me put your computer back together, you can come pick it up in about 30 minutes.”
Her: “Oh my!” {Click}

Reason you are an idiot:

1.) You can’t remember the name of the shop you dropped your computer off at.
2.) I clearly stated my name, my company and you even talked with me personally 4 times, we all answer the phone the same way.
3.) Three to Five days…….THREE TO FIVE MOTHER FUCKING DAYS.
4.) You got charged a $10 service fee just for the volume of phone calls you made to the shop and didn’t question that line on the invoice because your face was so red.

Fuck you,
Charles~

Why I hate stupid people.

Posted by Charles | Filed under Rants

/Political_blog on

Some of you may have read about the Asian Weekly article which was recently pulled from their website after having being published called “Why I hate blacks”.

There is a great uproar over this saying it’s wrong, etc etc. To quote Speaker Pelosi (D-San Francisco):

“Speech that promotes hate has no place in San Francisco or anywhere in our country. Eng’s words were not only offensive to African Americans, but to all Americans.”

This coming from the leader of the self proclaimed “Progressive party”. “Progressive towards what?” is my question. First we ban and condemn anything that sounds hateful. Next we ban and condemn anything that is objectionable. That’s progress right? No.

It stands diametrically opposed to the freedom of speech. What is amazing about all this is that this whole situation proved Kenneth Eng’s point. No one gave a shit when he said he hated asians, no one gave a shit when he wrote about other races, but the second he mentioned “blacks” all the sudden all hell broke lose.

You defend the radical ends of speech because then you do not have to defend the more acceptable forms of speech. If you give up ground, there is only more ground to lose.

Kenneth Eng has every right to say what he wants. Asian weekly has every right to publicize it if they so choose, they don’t have to because it is THEIR publication.

Kenneth Eng has my respect at this very moment, because he has YET to apologize for what he believes. Despite national news and even polytic’ians speaking out against him he has stood up for what he believes. I can’t stand his views but I will defend to the death his rights to hold them and express them.

The publication I have no respect for, you let that shit fly and print it for 4 months then when a politically correct temper tantrum is thrown you say “we don’t stand for this.” and remove it from your website and fire Kenneth Eng. You don’t stand for anything, you bow down to the whims of the public, you have no testicular fortitude.

Political correctness does not and will not ever over ride the Constitution, for all you dipshits in office and elsewhere who feel otherwise, FUCK YOU.

/political_blog off

Love,
Charles~

PS: For those of you that need “Fair and balanced” all Polytic’ians suck.

Edit:  The title for this post was meant for another posting, not sure why it was put here but to be honest…it works too.  If I go and edit it though it’s gonna screw up people reading this by RSS so I’m going to leave it alone for now.