by: Dr. Peter Breggin & Ginger Breggin
As I was finishing last-minute editing on this paper on September 5, 2022, at 2:57 pm NY Time, I received a call from a phone in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Voice (very dark, demanding tone): Is this Dr. Peter Breggin?
Me (hesitantly): Yes…(thinking it’s spam and ready to hang up)
Voice (continuing dark and demanding): This is Dr. Malone. Why are you targeting me? I will have to send you a cease and desist letter.
Me: Are you threatening me? (Then calling to Ginger, who’s nearby) Ginger, it’s Malone on the phone.
Ginger (entering my office): What’s he saying?
Me: I’ll put him on speaker.
The next thing I heard is the sound of Malone’s phone slamming down.
My conjecture is that Malone did not want a witness to what he was about to say.
It is possible that Malone had some hint about the incredible news we were about to break in this column, not about him, but about Mattias Desmet. The only other time Malone ever contacted us was by email to me to complain about our criticizing Desmet in an earlier column on America Out Loud.
Malone clearly wants to stifle my freedom of speech and freedom to criticize his ideology around matters of enormous political importance to society. Our debate is about how to view global predators or totalitarians and how to act in response to their predations. This question is of central importance to the future of individual freedom and political liberty.
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