Technocracy: YouTube Frauds and Freaks

My WND Technocracy column this week was inspired by the sad tale of a certain self-styled “ninjitsu” instructor who has been chronicling his extensive legal troubles on YouTube.

No matter the subject, somewhere on YouTube there is a large body of fakes, frauds and freaks who… nonetheless have subscribers and followers, friends and allies.

Blaming an elaborate conspiracy at every level of state and local government, as well as accusing as co-conspirators anyone with whom he has ever interacted in real life or online, the poor fellow has been going slightly mad for a while now — making references to Christopher Dorner and worse.

Before that he was churning out a steady stream of “instructional” videos that were ridiculous at best and dangerous to the practitioner at worst.  He’s not alone. There are countless participants like him at video sharing sites.

Read the full column here in WND News.