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A Tribute to Hereunder
I am not in the habit of recommending other sites, not through any desire to avoid competition, but more through the sheer hassle of having to insert the HTML tags to a link. There is one blog, however, that is so excellent that I am forced to applaud it in these pages. It's name is Hereunder and I would particularly recommend the work of its most prolific contributor, Remainderman.
Having said that, I must point out that a document was recently forwarded to me that may give us pause for thought. This document, a torn and dirtied fragment discovered drifting in the wind near a Los Angeles garbage dump, purports to be a report on the group Hereunder, produced for the information of an unnamed investigatory meeting. Understand, the authenticity of the document is not established and it may well be nothing more than a crude hoax.
I give the full transcript below:
'Interim Report on Progress of the Hereunder Investigation
Per Agent (name removed by Security Division)
A preliminary examination of known facts has given rise to the following, based entirely upon the codenames assumed by the adherents to the conspiracy:
Blue Clinkers
For those who may not know the meaning of the word "clinker", I give below a definition culled from the pages of Dictionary.com:
Clinker: "The incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
An extremely hard burned brick.
Vitrified matter expelled by a volcano.
Slang.
1. A sour note in a musical performance: hit a clinker.
2. A mistake; a blunder.
3. Something of inferior quality; a conspicuous failure: a clinker of a show."
I would draw your attention to the slang meanings especially. Clearly this is a word intended to denigrate and debase. And let us not forget that it is used in conjunction with the color blue. If we note that this color is commonly used to mean the opposite of red, it becomes clear that the entire name is intended to indicate an antagonism to all that is blue, to whit, the West, as opposed to the once communist-dominated Eastern bloc, the red.
Remember too that the name is in the plural: Clinkers. This would indicate that the one named is the leader of the band since his very name defines the whole crew. It is no accident that his name appears at the head of the list.
Full Cost Serf
Again, for the sake of accuracy, I have recourse to Dictionary.com:
Serf: "1. A member of the lowest feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights.
2. An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in 18th- and 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe.
3. A person in bondage or servitude."
Note the clear reference to Russia and Eastern Europe in the definition. This is an open statement that the owner of the name is proud to belong to that class of people so often lauded in the mythology of communism. And the fact that he is "full cost" shows that he intends to make us pay for whatever wrongs he imagines the West to have dealt him in the past.
Remainderman
Almost laughably simple, this one. It is merely a straightforward anagram of the statement, "Man Remain Red". One senses the pride in the thinly disguised assertion that he, at least, will not be turned from his chosen ideology.
Palinurus
Palinurus was Aeneas' helmsman. Aeneas visited him in the Underworld where he promised to give Palinurus a proper burial. Here is a veiled statement that our modern Palinurus has received a promise of fitting interment. Burial of what? That is revealed if we consider the sound of the name:
"Pally New Russ".
Could there be a clearer statement that the owner of the name intends to bury the friendly New Russia that so offends him?
This investigation is continuing.'
Having said that, I must point out that a document was recently forwarded to me that may give us pause for thought. This document, a torn and dirtied fragment discovered drifting in the wind near a Los Angeles garbage dump, purports to be a report on the group Hereunder, produced for the information of an unnamed investigatory meeting. Understand, the authenticity of the document is not established and it may well be nothing more than a crude hoax.
I give the full transcript below:
'Interim Report on Progress of the Hereunder Investigation
Per Agent (name removed by Security Division)
A preliminary examination of known facts has given rise to the following, based entirely upon the codenames assumed by the adherents to the conspiracy:
Blue Clinkers
For those who may not know the meaning of the word "clinker", I give below a definition culled from the pages of Dictionary.com:
Clinker: "The incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
An extremely hard burned brick.
Vitrified matter expelled by a volcano.
Slang.
1. A sour note in a musical performance: hit a clinker.
2. A mistake; a blunder.
3. Something of inferior quality; a conspicuous failure: a clinker of a show."
I would draw your attention to the slang meanings especially. Clearly this is a word intended to denigrate and debase. And let us not forget that it is used in conjunction with the color blue. If we note that this color is commonly used to mean the opposite of red, it becomes clear that the entire name is intended to indicate an antagonism to all that is blue, to whit, the West, as opposed to the once communist-dominated Eastern bloc, the red.
Remember too that the name is in the plural: Clinkers. This would indicate that the one named is the leader of the band since his very name defines the whole crew. It is no accident that his name appears at the head of the list.
Full Cost Serf
Again, for the sake of accuracy, I have recourse to Dictionary.com:
Serf: "1. A member of the lowest feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights.
2. An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in 18th- and 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe.
3. A person in bondage or servitude."
Note the clear reference to Russia and Eastern Europe in the definition. This is an open statement that the owner of the name is proud to belong to that class of people so often lauded in the mythology of communism. And the fact that he is "full cost" shows that he intends to make us pay for whatever wrongs he imagines the West to have dealt him in the past.
Remainderman
Almost laughably simple, this one. It is merely a straightforward anagram of the statement, "Man Remain Red". One senses the pride in the thinly disguised assertion that he, at least, will not be turned from his chosen ideology.
Palinurus
Palinurus was Aeneas' helmsman. Aeneas visited him in the Underworld where he promised to give Palinurus a proper burial. Here is a veiled statement that our modern Palinurus has received a promise of fitting interment. Burial of what? That is revealed if we consider the sound of the name:
"Pally New Russ".
Could there be a clearer statement that the owner of the name intends to bury the friendly New Russia that so offends him?
This investigation is continuing.'