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Clive,

They invited me to speak.

They begged me to speak.

And many people think it’s important that I get to speak.

So kindly fuck off.

Sincerely,

Scott Ritter

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This is an amazing piece, Scott. So glad to see you’re back on the list of speakers. They made the right move by reinstating you.

Preventing nuclear war is all too important of an issue to mindlessly use cancel culture against others.

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And we will not quit you.

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My Gawd we live in a sewer of cowardly tattletales, hall monitors and snitches. Not one of them has the courage of their convictions, if indeed they have ANY! You live your convictions every day. Stand proud. So few have your courage and far fewer have contributed as much to humanity as you have, and continue to do.

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You have an army at your back

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A pretext to cancel any speaker can always be manufactured.

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Ah.... good for you, Scott. Good for you.

I take my hat off to you. You've been there.

How you've survived and retained some balance, sanity, humanity I don't know But you have.

:)

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It's 3:05 am here so i apologize for my "broken English " ... Just like any soldier must have training and must harden up before major battle i guess Iraq experience was yours .... just a preparation for these times when World's future is at stake ... For whatever is worth, you have my huge respect, Sir

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Scott I am so thankful that you did not roll over and take your mask off. Know this - we need you here now. I bless you every time I hear you speak or read something you write.

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Feb 3, 2023·edited Feb 3, 2023

You are a great man.

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You can count with me Scott. Don't let those lame SOB get to you.

With great Respect from Portugal

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My husband and I moved from the US to South America because we didn't want to live the last years of our lives in a country that has almost completely lost it sense of ethics and morality. The endless coups, interventions, propoganda, and wars have destroyed the US. Look what's happened recently in Brazil and now Peru. They don't stop trying to destroy sovereign nations. We honor your commitment to humanity, and your fight to create a more peaceful and loving world. We stand next to you in this fight and we can only hope our efforts will save humanity.

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From my position as living in the US vassal state of Norway [the home country of the CIA gofer Jens Stoltenberg!], where the population has been inundated on a daily basis with a Washington scripted narrative so transparent, you'd HAVE to be in a constant state of cognitive dissonance to even consider it! . . .

(And all the while, this is being broadcast and infused into the minds of gullible individuals at their OWN expense - by their quisling tax payer financed, state run public service broadcaster NrK!)

Among the myriad voices speaking out against the US proxy war against Russia [OFFICIALLY being ''fought to the last Ukrainian!], no voice carries the same exact weight as that of Scott Ritter, emphatically pointing out that we are ALL in the same shit creek, and we're ALL in the same damned canoe - seemingly without a useful implement to employ as a paddle.

The 'paddle' Scott Ritter is IMPLORING us to take, is the ONLY 'paddle' enabling us to get OUT of this vile, stinking, man made shit creek, with a modicum of 'humanity' still left in us as a species! . . . .

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Evening Scott. Gosh I have just read your statement slowly and thoroughly. I am both sad and angry over the rotten treatment you have received. I am here in NewZealand so cannot attend this anti war rally. But I am with you in spirit. Janine.

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A long while back I heard that cancel culture started in Nazi Germany in the early 1930's, and those that opposed Hitler were violently canceled. During the Trump years I thought the democrats implemented similar tactics with all manner of accusations to cancel his presidency, and I think it has become normalized in our culture. If you don't except a given narrative you'll be labeled a racist, a xenophobe a homophobe. a sexist, or just labeled one of those illiterate, amoral deplorables who voted for him. They'll even use psychological warfare to influence the attitudes of others, like your past, true, or false. I'm glad many on that list supported you. Sticking together is the only think that will change anything. Who wants to be a Dick Cheney? He may have been given a new heart, but no one can give him a new soul.

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