Eoin Colfer Quotes


The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.


Citations

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. Miramax, 2002.

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The CIA had attempted to employ the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro, the strongman of Cuba, and Castro found out about it. He then warned that U. S. leaders could be assassinated in retaliation. Although LBJ appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination and the commission concluded that Castro and Cuba had nothing to do with it—Oswald was a gunman acting alone. Johnson privately never believed that but only confided his believes to his closest confidants lest there would be public pressure to retaliate against Cuba and Johnson had no hard proof—just a suspicion.


Lyford was convinced that the Satanists had killed and eaten many children. The eaten children had been missing and were not found and since they had been eaten there was no evidence of the deaths. Texas has had more than its share of prosecutors who have very loose legal standards, but this was exteme, even in Texas, Incredibly enough some people were almost convicted of murder in this modern version of a witch hunt with the same logic that the lack of evidence proved Satan was behind it as only he could cover up all that evidence. Fortunately the Texas Attorney General dismissed Lyford and exonerated the suspects.


Note the use of the word “alien” to describe the American owners of newspapers, radio and TV stations. Oliver was a right wing, racist, paranoid, fanatic and extremist. His quotations are interesting because he often said in public what many right wing extremists believed but only said in private. Joseph McCarthy was a senator who suffered from alcoholism and claimed that there were communists throughout the government and the military. However, while he claimed there were all these communists, he was never able to identify them. After a few years of his antics, he was censured by the Senate and he died shortly thereafter. Oliver and a few other extremists believe that McCarthy was silenced by a national communist conspiracy. However, McCarthy was never silent on anything.


Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer
  • Born: May 14, 1965
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Writer

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. In September 2008, Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing ..., which was published in October 2009. In October 2016, in a contract with Marvel Comics, he released Iron Man: The Gauntlet. He served as Laureate na nÓg (Ireland's Children's Laureate) between 2014 and 2016.