Blog: Lordy! Look at who's Claiming to be a Member of The House of Lords

Before the stench of that odor emanating from the site where the commissoner's forum was staged fully dissipates, it would be well, I thought, to delve into the background of Christopher Monckton--the keynote speaker at the eagerly awaited (or scorned) event focused on PlanMaryland.

It was held in the afternoon at a hotel in Pikesville on Halloween, when the goblins and witches were already on the prowl looking to scare people out of their wits.

And judging by the critical reviews it received from many taxpayers, they must have taken time to cast an evil spell on that gathering of neo-cons, which  Commissioner Rothschild directed and choreographed (with the help of stagehand, Jim Simpson). 

As I listened to his canned speech, I became increasingly upset at him apparently expecting his arguments to be accepted as gospel and irrefutable, and with no one in attendance to counter them.

In Britain, he’s viewed if not as a quack, as an egocentric curmudgeon, for touting himself to be the most knowledgeable person in the world on the fallacies of climate warming. Also for his having blithely ignored being officially notified, in a letter dated 7/18/11 sent to him by David Beamish, Clerk of the Parliaments, telling him to “cease and desist” from claiming to be a member of the House of Lords, "either directly or by implication,” and referring to his having been previously put on notice to refrain from doing so, by letters dated 7/21 and 7/30/2010. 

And, as a reporter with the British Guardian newspaper once said of him, ”that his self-declared, worldwide fame is only eclipsed by the size of his fibs.”      

So, as a direct consequence of his duplicity, his attack on the validity of climate warming has to be taken with a mountain, not with “a grain" of salt.

And while having nothing to do with the contents of his speech, I couldn’t help but observe his close physical resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield, what with the same bulging eyes and with words pouring out their mouths like bullets from a machine-gun.  

Now, it must be said that his ruse puts him in the company of a long list of charlatans who throughout history were guilty of having made fraudulent claims of their holding prominent positions and/or titles. A few prime examples of which are:

      o Christopher Rocancourt, who pretended to be a member of the Rockefeller family.

      o Anna Anderson, who said she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tzar Nicholas 11 of Russia.

      o Lambert Simnel, a pretender to the throne of England, like a Perkin Warbeck was.

      o  Fritz Holm, a Danish adventurer and self-styled Duke of Colachine.

      o  Jerry Allen Whittredge, who claimed to be an Astronaut, CIA Regent for Life, Medal of Honor recipient and Top Gun Trophy winner

      o Barry Bremen, who had entered multiple sporting events by claiming to be an MLB umpire, an NBA All-Star and Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. 

      o Joseph A. Cafasso, a former Fox News military analyst, who claimed to be a highly decorated Special Forces soldier and Vietnam War veteran, and who actually served in the Army for 44 days.

Now, I’ve never represented myself to be anything other that what I’ve been in my life: an anomaly in my youth, an iconoclast in my middle years, and an anachronism in my old age.

And to show that I do posses at least a smidgen of humility, the bio in my blogs simply reads: “A superannuated, run-of-the mill provocateur.”        

Quote of the day: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”  Sir Walter Scott