This is in response to your hit piece, "WINGs NOT Over The UK," posted beneath the Kirwan hit piece of a similar nature, near the top of the home page of Rense.com. I was hoping that, here in the place where your article is now posted (underneath Kirwan's), Jeff might post my response to that first article and give his readers the opportunity to hear BOTH sides of this story. But, sadly, I see that he has decided to post your article instead - in the place where mine SHOULD have been posted - further intensifying this one-sided attack on Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani of WING TV.

Since you have no email address listed at the top of the article to send my response to, I thought I might send it to the nearest geographic and (I think) philosophic equivalent: none other than Paul Joseph Watson, the esteemed webmaster of Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.com.

As a matter of fact, I've noticed a great deal of similarity in the writing styles of you, Mr. "Wiggins," and this other great Internet writer (Paul Joseph Watson), with whom you may in fact be acquainted (since both you AND he are residents of Britain).

After examining four (count them, FOUR!) of Mr. Watson's fine articles, it seems that (1) he ALSO writes in very short paragraphs (exactly like you do), and (2) he uses 'single' rather than "double" quote marks for most of his quoted words. Add this to the fact that his last name (like yours) starts with a "W," and it seems that you and he just might be the same person!

So, I'm forced to conclude that when your alarm goes off first thing in the morning and you shuffle across the floor, still in your pajamas, to take a look at yourself in the bathroom mirror, you might well be staring into the face of this Paul Joseph Watson! After all the exhaustive, self-proclaimed "research" performed by "this observer" across the pond, it seems that you, Mr. "Wiggins," "fit the profile" of being Mr. Watson EXACTLY, like the proverbial "glove" that you mention in your article. Tell me, Mr. "Wiggins," when you DO pull on those wool gloves of yours, exactly whose hands (or eyes) are you pulling them over?

"What an outrageous claim!" you may be thinking.

"You have no good evidence of me being someone else!"

"This is merely your own conjecture!"

"What the hell are you doing airing your DIRTY LAUNDRY in my face PUBLICLY as though it were as clean and pure (and proven) as the wind-driven snow?"

"How dare you throw such a NASTY charge at me without some PROOF to back up your assertion!"

"This is nothing but unfounded and unwarranted CHARACTER ASSASSINATION!"

"You, sir, are so low you'd require a TELESCOPE! to get even a GLIMPSE of a serpent's white belly!"

These are the thoughts you might be thinking in response to my assertion. And you know what, Mr. "Wiggins?" You'd be exactly right in thinking them too! I have NO irrefutable evidence that you are in fact Paul Joseph Watson posting incognito to the Jeff Rense website. What I have claimed in this response is based on flimsy NON-evidence, and can only be characterized as MERE SUPPOSITION. I might have the right to THINK this in private and possibly share such thoughts with a few of my friends, but I have no business whatsoever of airing this publicly.

So I publicly apologize and post an immediate retraction:

Sorry, Mr. Wiggins (and also Mr. Watson), for impugning your character by making unsubstantiated claims. But you see, I wasn't REALLY accusing anyone of anything. I was only using this as a PLOY - as a means of making my point, which I will now explain.

Are you beginning to see the point that I'm making? It should be crystal clear by now, I should think. What you, Mr. Wiggins, have done in your article is EXACTLY THE SAME THING that I've illustrated here. You have NO PROOF whatsoever that the folks at WING TV are intelligence assets, government agents, or that they are anything other than what they appear to be: REAL TV JOURNALISTS with a passion for truth and a penchant for justice.

Your filthy laundry of sheer supposition that you have no business whatsoever airing publicly in your article makes me sick to my stomach when you toss it in my face, and makes me want to THROW UP in heaving convulsions of uncontrollable vomiting! I think I'll take a break from my computer, make my way into the confines of my bathroom, and kneel down over the toilet till this sickness subsides!

Any one of us could be unfairly and unjustly accused, ANY one of us - just like in this article - accused of being an "intel asset," an "intel agent," a "Federal information gatherer," an "internet intel assest/agent [sic]," being a part of an "intel op," "mind op," "psy-op," "internet intel set-up," "internet intel op," or "net operation," or - to use the term that's currently in vogue that you somehow forgot to mention in your article - being a dirty, filthy, burrowing "mole." The dirty words just keep on coming! These are ALL BUT ONE taken directly from your article! It really is comical, if you want to know the truth, and you stop for a moment and think about what you're saying.

Oh, I almost forgot! Here's yet another pearl of wisdom from your article that I had almost forgotten to give you "credit" for: a "HIGH-LEVEL INTEL INTERNET PSY-OP." Imagine that! I certainly didn't want to leave THAT one out!

How does one defend against such a baseless accusation? How would I defend against it? Or how would you? I also appeared "out of the blue" just as you claim Victor and Lisa did, and for which reason you unjustly accuse THEM. Someone has actually said this of ME (that I just suddenly appeared "right out of the blue"). Is this any reason to throw PEJORATIVE accusations like this at ME as well? Are ANY of us safe? ANY ONE OF US could be the victim of this slander. I think the ground that you're standing on is quaking beneath you!

This despicable "mole" accusation that is currently being thrown at so many of our compatriots in the alternative news media and 9-11 truth movement is an insidious disease afflicting our entire online community. While it might be OK to express such thoughts privately, by confiding in a few very close friends and associates, it should NEVER be permissible to air such charges publicly - without irrefutable evidence to back them up.

Jeff Rense should be ashamed for ever posting such slander, and DOUBLY ashamed for not posting rebuttal!

And where are all you OTHER Internet writers who regularly post columns on the Jeff Rense website or who someday aspire to be able to do so? Why are YOUR voices silent in the face of injustice? Does he have you intimidated? Are you under his thumb? Are you CONTROLLED and compromised just like those reporters in the corporate media who are AFRAID of forfeiting their cushy positions (or never obtaining one) - if they dare speak up for truth and for justice? Will you stand by idly and remain totally silent while friends and colleagues whom you've laughed and worked with are scourged and crucified before your own eyes? Has "courage" become just an empty word?

I publicly apologize for MY groundless "accusation," and I do hereby retract my OWN baseless "claim." Now, Mr. Wiggins, it's YOUR turn to do likewise, and it's EVERYONE'S responsibility to see to it that you do.

Sincerely,
Michael Langston

Note: The original article referred to above can be found at: http://www.rense.com/general65/wwing.htm