Thursday, September 18, 2008
I guess accounting professors have to invent their own fantasies once in a while in order to keep life interesting:
Following is an excerpt from an interview with Paul Sheldon Foote, professor of accounting at California State University, Fullerton, which aired on Press TV on September 11, 2008.
Interviewer: Do remarks by Israeli minister Rafi Eitan - indicating the use of force and resorting to violence against the officials of a sovereign country, a member of the United Nations - constitute a violation of international law?
Paul Sheldon Foote: This is the story of his life in all respects. It is very appropriate that we are talking about this on the anniversary of 9/11, because a year after September 11, 2001, this man was traveling around the United States for a year, using a false name on an Israeli passport, meeting with known drug dealers. The FBI monitored him very carefully, on the assumption that he might be plotting another 9/11-type attack on America that he could blame on the Islamic world. So it is beyond illegal... This guy makes the Mafia look like choir boys.
Sounds like he's been reading too many cheap detective novels ("This guy makes the Mafia look like choir boys." cliche!). Foote was a signatory to the Academics for Ron Paul statement.
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Foote reminds us Easterners why California is knows as the land of "Fruits and Nuts".