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Freedom of Expression #4 (1994)

"Crackpots, Kooks & Weirdos"
 
It was with this issue that I decided to compile the most outlandish published materials from every imaginable type of wacko who has ever sent me mail or handed me their literature on the street.

Contained inside this 32 page, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" booklet are the writings of the Flat Earth Society, Charles Fourier, The Remain Intact Organization (an "out-there" anti-circumcision group), and (my favorite) a man who sent out a series of letters telling people the world would come to an end and the Messiah would arrive on October 7, 1994.

I always wanted to know what a person who predicted the end of the world said or did when the apocalyptic date came and went. To my delight, I got my answer, and I reprinted part of the letter from the guy in "Crackpots, Kooks, and Weirdos."