I do not have a country

A UK man who has been on benefits for the last 6 or 7 years showed up in Skypeland to spew some nonsense. He likes to talk about his own made-up economic theories. He said, "The government denies me a share of British natural resources. So I collect benefits. I always steal from my enemies... According to the British government, I am a citizen of Britain. However, I do not have a country... The US owns the British government. However, we could argue that the bankers are controlling America from Britain." He also claimed the United States was the biggest threat to world peace. (When I hear this guy, I always wonder if he is sitting in front of his computer wearing a tin foil hat?)

A redneck defended the US by saying, "The United States has the best capitalist system in the world, and it is a conglomeration of immigrants, lacklusters, assholes, and French." The redneck later told us that the original languages of the Koran were "Hebrew, Farsi and Greek." (oh really?) He said that Allah was Satan in disguise (yeah, I have heard that rumor before...oh brother). "What am I to believe when Muslims cut off the head of a Jew, Richard Perle, and say 'Praise Allah'? That is human sacrifice" (I think he meant Daniel Pearl). He claimed that the Muslims were not moving fast enough to condemn the wrong-doers in their religion.

Others in the room tried to point out that very few Catholic priests had gone to prison, and that obviously the West and the Catholic Church was not moving fast enough. A couple of examples of priests who had gone to prison were mentioned, but I noted that most go to therapy at the St. Luke Institute in Maryland and related facilities:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/clergy/clergy325.html
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/disneyslut.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1637/is_200204/ai_n6875279
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2003_01_06/2003_06_30_Westcott_RebuildingTrust.htm
Some sources state that 130 or so priests were treated at the St. Luke Institute over a period of 9 years, but other sources give much greater figures of several hundred.

The redneck denied that Timothy McVeigh had any connection to a Christian organization (looking on Wikipedia, this might be correct, but I am not sure). The redneck also suggested that he and many of his friends were sufficiently angry that they might have done something as radical as McVeigh did (just talk?).

A person who was making fun of the accent of an Israeli living in Japan had an accent himself, and used the word "axe" for "ask" repeatedly (people in glass houses, should not throw stones...). The Israeli lady hosting the cast said that a new federal law after 9/11 makes it a terrorist act to threaten someone with a weapon. The "axe" person claimed that this was not true because it will get thrown out of court, and therefore you would never be arrested (sounds highly doubtful at best to me). He claimed that no one would ever be arrested for something that would not stand up in court (huh?). Someone else claimed that this terrorist law did not exist, and just wanted to argue, based on no information. The Israeli asked for a reference, and he said he did not have any, but still wanted to dispute the details of the alleged terrorism law. I said he should have the information or else it was not worth discussing (well, I said something more like "put up or shut up"). He got angry. People love to argue on the basis of no information, don't they? Makes for such rational and reasonable debates...