It’s a clear sign of a healthy dose of free speech when three insane people can rant in self-contradicting terms about bizarre things. America may be the king of crazies, but the Romanians are contributing their own candidates for the race to the bottom.

First at bat, Grigore Foculescu struck out in his attempt to establish the 3rd Millenium Party and run for mayor of Bucureşti, complete with his stirring anthem “The Mariner is No More” (a reference to former-mayor, now Preşidente, Traian Basescu). His campaign seemed to revolve around a mixture of International Socialist doctrine and Ceauşescu cult-of-personality plagiarism.

Probably the best part of the freak show was when he put on a little mini-parade, of sorts, to garner votes from the few puzzled onlookers who bothered to glance his way for more than a couple seconds.

Next up, we have Lucian Iordanescu, pre-eminent scholar of the secret witchcraft government, parapsychological expert on phantasms, and, interestingly enough, a close buddy of Foculescu.

Don’t let his soft Texan looks fool you, Iordandescu is deadly serious in his efforts to expose the vast witch plot which currently runs all of Romania by secret councils and rituals and witch-secretaries.

And, finally, there is some bozo promoting Al Qaida support in Romania. This individual appears to be in Medias near Sibiu (but possibly may actually be in Germany or even New Jersey). He may be the known-basketcase “Wilhelm Langthaler” or disciple thereof. In any event, this agitator alternates between using the alias Ioan Stoica, infamous ringleader of an amazingly stupid-yet-successful Caritas investment ponzi scheme, and using the alias Ioan Pongrat, erstwhile Voivod of Transylvania back in 1463.

The content borrows heavily from proto-communist Campo Anti-Imperialista. His free-of-charge web host is T35, a company located in New Jersey who does have a Terms of Use against inappropriate content, if you feel like talking to them about this website they run. They’re connected to JustEdge networks which seems to have been associated with various scams and other ilk for years.

According to his posted information, Romanians can reach “Ioan” at +74 666 2717 while you Americans interested in sharing your thoughts in English can dial 011-40-74-666-2717.

Of course, he may not be any one single person, but could possibly represent a small group of wackos. On various bulletin boards, he has tried to recruit Romanians into joining Al Qaida using the following email addresses: felixroberto2001@yahoo.de, ioanpongrat@hotmail.com, ioanstoica@freenet.de

Before promoting the Al Qaida drivel, this person used to promote what he called the Anarchist Syndicate of Romania which was, of course, a mindless communist front trying to steal credibility from the legitimate name of intelligent anarchist philosophy.

Maybe someone can locate him and make sure he gets the help he needs.

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