Crusader888
Leslie H. Higgins (aka crusader, crusader0, crusader00, crusader44, crusader88, crusader888, and Julius_A) is a rich, spoiled, weeaboo nerd and wannabe poet from Massachusetts. Despite his childish interests and being born and raised in Liberal World Headquarters, he abandoned atheism in order to become a Catholic, racist, anti-feminist, homophobic monarchist wingnut who majored in Political Science, Philosophy, and Theology at Assumption College and sent the last several years (since 2006) hours blogging about anime and protecting the purity of our precious bodily fluids against "Cultural Marxism". Needless to say, he must've been a massive disappointment to his parents.
Crusader--that is, Leslie Higgins--graduated from Assumption College with majors in Political Science, Philosophy, and Theology. A lover of soda, a frequenter of coffeehouses, a longtime sonneteer, a fan of manga and anime, and a lifelong monarchist, he is an ex-atheist convert to traditional Roman Catholicism and a supporter of the Crusade of Saint Benedict Center and the Social Kingship of Christ. Unafraid of mixing politics and religion, he is a registered Republican of the paleoconservative, nationalist variety. Quixotic and reactionary, he's often cheery, but can be rather in-thy-face.
Leslie also participates on Stormfront and participated on Metapedia.org as "Julius_A". He served as a Metapedia sysop from January 2013 to December 2014, when he left over the the banning of his friends and the deletion of his precious anime articles and was later desysopped for suggesting a boycott against Metapedia.
Schooling and blogging
Higgins was born on December 23, 1988, and sent most of his life in Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived as an atheist before having a spiritual awakening later in life. Leslie became a conservative in 2000.
He was inspired by a performance of West Side Story to always wear a tie:
—Leslie on feeling pretty, [1] |
He started crusader888.blogspot.com (then entitled The Young and Once Good Pundit) in 2006 to order to share his poetry, his feelings on women he can't keep, and his ravings on atheists, homosexuals, abortionists, and liberals. By February 2007, he began showing fascist leaning. He twice expressed sympathies towards the Christian Falangist Party ([2], [3]), and by May 2007, he even label himself "a right wing, Falangist character".
In June 2007, a comment by Leslie led to John W. Ratcliff creating two blog entries about him:
- http://jratcliffscarab.blogspot.com/2007/06/this-is-not-trick-question.html
- http://jratcliffscarab.blogspot.com/2007/06/crusader-should-be-certain-in-his.html
Here's what Ratcliff had to say about Leslie Higgins:
So, who stuck a burning ember up my ass tonight and inspired me to write a rant about theological logic? Why, it was an odd comment posted on one of my other web logs by an eighteen year old religious fundamentalist who, at this tender age, is already filled with hate, and fear, and anger.
I find it rather sad.
The comment I received is as follows:
"Not a good move you are making. The Freemasons are an antireligious, relativistic, vile entity." by Crusader88 AKA 'Leslie H. Higgins'
I can only feel relieved, I suppose, that I wasn't hassled by Crusaders number 1 through 87. This silly comment was posted by an 18 year old young man who lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. His occupation is as a cashier which is to assist him as a student pursuing his education. He is clearly male and sports the astrological sign of Capricorn and was born under the Zodiac year of the Dragon. But, why should I babble on here, let the Crusader speak for himself.
(Crusader88 strikes a pose for Universe)
About Me
Basically, I'm pretty cool, popular, and politically incorrect, very conservative, most Quixotic, in-thy-face, loving, and poetic. I am a hopeless romantic who both loves and hates his native, Godless Northampton Massachusetts.
I am a Republican, and I support President Bush on most issues, but where the Church teaches differently, I cannot support him. I am a traditional Catholic and a supporter of the Crusade of Saint Benedict Center, but a patriot who believes in capitalism, the Republic, and nonreligious liberties. A convert to the faith from atheism, I'm optimistic, but an often bitter warrior for truth and justice, who fights on alone with his large heart filled up with God's mission. I've got college ahead, and may become a lawyer, though no careers really interest me. But I must get one, because my #1 goal is to be married, and convince the wife to beget a big Catholic family!
At an uncertain date, Higgins was profiled on masonicinfo.com's list of anti-Masons:
Leslie H. Higgins - To those over the age of 25 or 26, it probably seems ludicrous to profile someone age 18 as an anti-Mason. Nevertheless, these are people who are old enough to drive, to drink, and to serve their country in time of war so they are as much a part of society as anyone despite the fact that we know fully well how immature and uninformed their ideas can be. Mr. Higgins' 'Crusader 88' blog identifies him as a cashier who wants to be a lawyer (uh-huh!) and who is interested in Jewish girls in order to raise a large Catholic family. Mr. Higgins comes from an area where some have been magnetically attracted to what others deem a heretical pseudo-Catholic enclave, the anti-Masonic Crusade of Saint Benedict Center who want to "...turn America into one true Church". It's sad to see young people with such malleable minds being told that the Masons are anti-religion and worse. We wish Mr. Higgins luck as he continues on life's journey. Hopefully when we look in on him a few years from now he will have matured and won't still be a cashier in some store.
In July 2007, Leslie became a Ron Paul supporter.
In August 2007, Higgins began attending Assumption College.
In February 2009, Leslie began to question the value of progressing toward a colorblind society, and in April 2009, Leslie expressed his support for the British National Party.
In December 2009, "Atobe", who speaks as if he were a character from The Prince of Tennis, joined the blog, and the blog was renamed to A Blog from Atobe.
Throughout his college years, Leslie served a member of Assumption's Student Government Association, and attempted to become SGA President in 2010 and lost.
In 2011, Higgins graduated from Assumption.
In October 2011, Higgins became the sole contributor to the blog again, and the blog was renamed to The E'er Good Pundit.
In May 2012, Leslie expressed his support for Greece's fascist Golden Dawn party.
Manga and anime
- See Crusader888/AnimangaIndex for an index of Leslie's and Atobe's thoughts and opinions on various animes, mangas, light novels, and video games.
In May 2007, Higgins expressed his admiration towards The Vision of Escaflowne and Le Chevalier D'Eon, which he called "the only two animes [he] like[s]", although he'll learn to like a lot more than that. In August, Higgins expressed his love for Escaflowne in greater detail, and he later did the same for Le Chevalier D'Eon in May 2009.
By November 2008, Higgins became a Bleach fan. In February 2009, Higgins became a Rozen Maiden fan. Leslie explains his passion for Rozen Maiden in fuller detail in June. According to Atone, Leslie's new-found interest in anime stemmed from listening to Smile.dk's "Butterfly".
By August 2010, Leslie watched every Sailor Moon episode and movie.
In September 2011, Leslie expressed his support for pedobear-endorsed manga Kodomo no Jikan, which he called a "masterwork".
In December 2011, Leslie blogged about his fondness for lolita fashion.
In December 2012, Leslie wrote of his love for moe and his distaste for feminism.
Wikipedia
| IP address | Date of activity | Wikipedia revisions with corresponding blog entries | Wikipedia revisions with corresponding Stormfront posts | Wikipedia revisions with corresponding Metapedia revisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 192.80.61.163 | October 2007 | N/A | N/A | |
| 192.80.61.184 | November 2007 | N/A | N/A | |
| 192.80.61.186 | Febuary–May 2009 | N/A | N/A | |
| 192.80.61.181 | December 2010 | N/A | N/A | |
| 192.80.61.180 | October–December 2010 | N/A | N/A | |
| 71.192.35.64 | 2011–2013 |
In October 2007, Leslie anonymously removed all references to evolution and time periods older than five thousand years ago from Wikipedia's articles on Aurochs and the European bison. On the next day, Leslie blogged about how wonderful it felt to be a Wikipedian:
I feel like such a chivalrous man today. Having found several errors on Wikipedia yesterday (i.e., things purporting evolution to be more than myth), this pundit set out to correct them. Not only is being a WikiWarrior fun and easy, but it's also a good way to fight for Truth and to live the Christian way each day.
The next month, Leslie used an Assumption College computer to anonymously call Northhampton a "People's Republic" and to insert a passage about himself into Wikipedia's "Northampton Public Schools, Massachusetts" article:
==Controversy==
In October 2006, during Northampton High School's school spirit week, Booster Week, the school's sports director changed the name of the annual girls-only flag football game from Powder Puff to Girl's Flag Football at the advice of several faculty members. The new shirts were also emblazoned with "THERE'S NO "PUFF" IN THIS GAME". Widely interpreted as a [[feminism]]-inspired switch, then-student and conservative activist [[Leslie Higgins]] wrote up a petition to bring back "Powder Puff" and reverse the switch, eventually collecting some 477 student and 3 faculty signatures.<ref>[http://www.hamphigh.org/content/nhsonline/05-06.issue2.pdf <em>"The Devils Advocate"</em>], The Devils Advocate, Vol 3 Issue 2.</ref>. The original name was restored with the support of the high school's principal, Dr. Beth Singer, although too late for the 2005 Booster Week shirts to bear the name "Powder Puff".
That passage about himself wasn't removed until September 2008 (way to go, Wikipedia patrol).
In October 2010, Leslie created his "Julius_A" persona and joined Stormfront.
By Autumn 2011, Leslie was again editing Wikipedia as an anon. The post-2011 revisions from that IP address are obviously his, but how can we tell that the 2011 revisions belong to Higgins as well? Elementary, dear readers: The anon added a reference to the author of the Detective Conan manga series to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle article, and a few months later, Leslie boasted about having watched over 500 episodes of the Detective Conan anime:
Admittedly, besides the usual reading and writing, my free time has been taken up in trying to finish one spectacular and spectacularly long anime, Detective Conan. […] As of yesterday, I passed episode 550, and have about 100 more to go before I can finally add this hefty notch to my anime belt.
By February 2012, Leslie was making anonymous revisions to Wikipedia's "American Freedom Party" article, of which Leslie (as "Julius_A") will later claim to be the 257th member of.
In March 2012, Leslie joined Metapedia, and on October 1, 2012, he anonymously inserted a reference to a Metapedia article into Wikipedia's "2011 England riots" article:
Outside of the lamestream media, several monikers derisive of migrants and Black British were concocted, most notably Metapedia's term, [[Planet of the Apes]] Riots.
From August 2011 until January 2015, Metapedia's article on the riots was entitled the "Planet of the Apes riots".
Around seventeen minutes after his revision to the "2011 England riots" article, Leslie anonymously revised Wikipedia's article on "The Wizard (film)". A few days later, he argued with the Wikipedians over the "American Freedom Party" article through the same IP address, and then boasted about it on Stormfront:
Well, I gave my mind to the antifa[cist] encyclopedists. Good luck convincing the gatekeepers though.
Several days after that, Leslie published his thoughts on The Wizard on his blog, and by the end of the month, the blog's sidebar contained a link to Metapedia under the "Of Interest" section.
Stormfront
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Metapedia
| Subject | Blog entries | Metapedia revisions |
|---|---|---|
| Assumption College | [36] | [37] |
| National Christian Phalange of America | [38], [39] | [40] |
| Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon | [41] | [42], [43] |
| Tokyo Mew Mew | [44] | [45] |
| Pollyanna | [46] | [47], [48] |
| A Little Princess | [49], [50] | [51] |
| GoodSearch | [52] | [53] |
| Radisson, Quebec | [54] | [55] |
In March 2012, Leslie created his Metapedia, and in June 2012, Julius_A tried to bring his love of anime to the wiki by advocatedthe creation of a Metapedia counterpart to Wikipe-tan:
Gentlemen,
I really love Metapedia, and though I don't plan on being an editor or contributor, I do want to help expand its readership and give it a better image. When I was looking at other wikis, I noticed that we lack a great asset they all have. We need a -tan character. Wikipe-tan has been an adorable fixture on the Internet since 2006. Now she has sisters, Commons-tan and Quote-tan. Uncyclopedia has Uncyclo-tan, Encyclopedia Dramatica has Ae-tan, and Conservapedia even has the foe-designed Conservape-tan. I think it is time someone create Metape-tan! Not only would having a moe anthropomorphization be really cute, but it could help to create a softer side to Metapedia and to White advocacy in general. I can see Metape-tan as a real draw for White otakus who've never considered our movement, and helping to break the ice for newbies still initimdated by our harsh appearance and articles on the Jews.
Like Wikipe-tan, Metape-tan wouldn't need to be official, but I am asking here in case anyone good with image design is up to the task. In any case, I think it's better if we design our -tan now, instead of waiting for a hostile designer with a bias to create our Conservape-tan! 30 June 2012, Julius A.
Julius_A then reposted his plea at Stormfront, along with a request for a "Storm-tan":
I imagine there will be objections, but there are a lot of people on the Internet to whom this would instantly appeal, whom we have not, by and large, reached yet. Plus, there is great potential for a design: so many anime characters already have European features! Thus do I submit my task to anyone with the skill and imagination to make a dream reality! (Also, though Stormfront is a forum rather than a wiki, how about a Storm-tan?!)
Both requests fell on death's ears, but by September 2014, Julius_A's dreams came true in the form of Ebola-chan, which he created a Metapedia article for. Julius_A also authored Metapedia's articles on Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, and Dragon Ball.
In January 2013, NatAll75 made Julius_A a sysop.
In April 2013, Julius_A, who hadn't forgotten his argument with the Wikipedians over the "American Freedom Party" article, added an "American Freedom Party" entry to Metapedia's "Examples of censorship and propaganda in Wikipedia" article and listed "Orangemike", "Heironymous Rowe", and "Dominus Vobisdu" as the "enforcers" of the article. This led to Metapedia's attack dog Basileus creating a article on Orangemike:
[…] How familiar are you with the [[American Freedom Party]]? I notice that you added some information about the bias against this party on Wikipedia. We certainly need a good article on this group since they seem to be the best option for American nationalism. I have created an article on the communist Wikipedia admin [[Orange Mike]] to humiliate and expose him for his attacks on the AFP Wikipedia article. Basileus 17:00, 23 April 2013 (CEST)
Julius_A responded to Basileus' comment by saying that he had considered writing a hit piece on Orangemike himself:
Yeah, Mike Orange? I considered doing a write-up on him, but figured any piece on that cheesehead would end up looking like an Encyclopedia Dramatica article. Julius A 02:28, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
In August 2013, Julius_A attempted to defend the dignity of weeaboos everywhere by claiming that "weeaboos" and "otakus" aren't anything alike ([56], [57]):
Amen to that! I was working on a belated artice on Dragon Ball right before turning here. I really think the video is just a childish insult with no place here and will remove it. Then a distinction between otaku and weeaboo is in order, at least. Julius A 05:20, 11 August 2013 (CEST)
Removed needless anti-anime bias. Added standard distinction between otaku/weeaboo, etc.
Well, I still think the video itself, while billed as describing a Weeaboo, is really just insulting otakus. But the article has had some clarification, and one can't always have things their way, so I guess I will accept it for now. Julius A 18:13, 12 August 2013 (CEST)
Departure from Metapedia
On November 12, 2014, Metapedia's "Month of Long Knives" began with the banning of Basileus. Within the next thirty days, "Galileo", "A Wyatt Man", and Vajna were also disenfranchised and banned, and a great article purge had commenced. On December 10th, Upplysning deleted the articles on Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Dragon Ball, and Manga. Julius_A didn't notice any of these events until December 18th: [58], [59], [60]. On the next day, Julius flounced ([61], [62]), and asked Stormfront users to boycott Metapedia. This led to Upplysning desyopping Julius. Self-righteous, drama queen Julius then made a comment about "laying down his life sysop rights for his friends".
In March 2015, Julius_A requested the blocking of his own account and the deletion of his account's talk page, apparently leaving Metapedia for good and perhaps setting his path on a positive coarse.
Flight from the Internet
On December 29th, a relentless Encyclopedia Dramatica user connected Julius_A to crusader888.blogspot.com and constructed an article on the next day. A little over a week after that, Leslie apparently discovered the article, and deleted his blog, his tradyouth.org account, and his Amazon account.
Relationship with the "damsels"
High school
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Leslie writes poetry for the ladies, whom he called "damsels" and "dames". He published his first such poet online in April 2006 in hopes of "win[ning] a nice hug." In June, Leslie tried winning the heart of the girl he wished to take to prom by dedicating a tl;dr poem about the English Civil War to her.
On October 2, 2006, he wrote a poem for his Atheist girlfriend, and on October 10th, this "de facto girlfriend" of his (srsly, his words) broke his heart:
—lol, "de facto", [63] |
Yet Higgins got over it the very next day. On October 25th, Leslie attempted to win back the heart of his former "de facto" girlfriend with more poetry:
On November 13th, Leslie wrote about not being able to see his "damsel" anymore:
—Leslie, [65] |
On November 17th, Higgins wrote about meeting his former girlfriend at a blooddrive, reading her a poem, and obtaining – wait for it – a hug! Plus, he wanted her to convert to the One True Faith:
I am very happy today. God certainly does reward good works! As I donated blood, I noticed that my dear damsel was donating blood at the same time! After shouting for the volunteers to let me go over to see her, I was able to read my dear Sonnet XX, which is posted below. As it denotes, her eyes are brown, but really closer to deep, dried and thickened blood red, but not to bad effect. They are as beautiful as rose petals, as innocent as the blood Christ shed on the Cross [okay, but nearly so!]; they are good to look into. Shy and modest as ever, she enjoyed the poem, and I got to hug her. Maybe next week I can convince her to go out [okay, but it's worth a try].
And when I'm a monk, this will all be of another life. She is indeed a soft jewel, but I do not want her as much as I want purity. I hope though to always pray for her, and a Jewish girl I knew last school year. I mean, they are so fine (though just the former in purity): would it not be the ultimate tragedy if both were tortured in Hell forever?
Pray for their conversions to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ; just think of the maidens as 'the heathens that crusader88 is concerned for' if necessary!
On December 8th, Higgins published what appears to be his final online poem to his former girlfriend, and by December 18th, Higgins was telling "Ted Kennedy" of how how going on on a date with a girl once was enough for him and that he was only interested in "simple joys" now:
It should be noted that this "overreacting Ted Kennedy" that Leslie was replying to was an obvious troll:
I've read your entire blog and I have only one thing to say about it:
The Virgin Mary is a CUNT!
You need a fucking life you loser. What is wrong with you, go have a good wank. God HATES YOU. He would anyway if he was real :) which he ISN'T. hahaha, yes yes, scorn the nonbeliever, I know, I know.
I am a 26 year old Wisconsin male, and my boyfriend's name is Gerard, and according to you I am an evil sodomite who will burn in Hell.
Maybe. But you know what?
I GET BLOWJOBS LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE. I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A BLOWJOB IS, YOU DICK. I hope you never have sex in your life, as obviously all those girls are only humouring you.
yours truly
~Ted Kennedy(PS. John Kerry just whispered fondly into my ear how much he loves my burning loins and how much he hates you. He likes it when I dress up like Chairman Mao and tell dead baby jokes.)
Way to show your web-smarts, Leslie. "Ted" must've been laughing his ass off when he saw how Leslie took him serious, "I feel that it was enough", and "I merely want to be a monk now."
In February 2007, Leslie wrote a poem about a girl that he wished to take out on a date.
College
By June 2007, Leslie was once again without a girlfriend, and in November 2007, Leslie was complaining about being unable to find a girlfriend in a college with more girls than guys:
And followed up with a rant the next day:
Maybe I could have a girlfriend if I dressed in a manner everyone else accepts and I have. So what! Should I really be looking for a woman who is so influenced by the society around her that she is scared off by a style of dress that was perfectly acceptable for our age group before the late 1960s? Or by a my cleanly parted, relatively long hair? Or by my obsessions with Catholicism and politics? Or which my poetry which, despite criticism from the tails of the bell curve, the actual recipients have always appreciated? Or from any of that sort of jazz? No. If a damsel doesn't want to go out with me because of my crooked smile, or another facet of my physical appearance, more power to them. I'm just looking for a lady that is wise and independent enough to look past the standards and expectations or society, and who will judge a person by something more than how they match up to the media-made templete of attractiveness. Contrary to what some have gotten from their first impression of me, the intellectual, makeup-hating damsel in cultural distress has no greater friend than me, crusader88.
Anyhow, this has been irrelevent thusfar in college. Of the three ladies I either planned to ask out or actually did, two already had boyfriends and one was still sad because of a painful breakup, God help her soul. Besides, don't James Bond and Justin Timberlake also wear ties and sportcoats? I see no deficit of women for either of them.
If I don't find my true love at Assumption, I can always go after a Traditional Catholic hottie. Where they come from (St. Mary's, KS, and other rural communities), ties are all the rage.
In May 2009, Leslie attempted to win a girl's heart via manga rather than poetry but failed:
—Leslie on (not) winning girls via manga, [68] |
Fun facts
- Higgins opposes divorce.
- Higgins hates drag queens.
- Higgins wants to restore the French monarchy.
- Higgins believed that global warming is God's way of punishing liberals but later changed his views.
- Higgins believes that drugs turns people into atheist liberals.
- Higgins believes that there'll be a resurgence of Catholicism and monarchism in Europe "within a few decades".
- Higgins supports the WWI Central Powers.
- Higgins supports tobacco and marijuana use.
- Higgins believes that women need to go back to the kitchen.
- Higgins believes that women are "physically weaker" than men, are "emotionally vacillating", and require protection by men.
- Higgins believes that "a woman needs a man just as furrows need be sewn" (i.e. women are fields that need to be implanted with seeds).
- Higgins believes that medieval chivalry should be practiced.
- Higgins watches chick flicks for the hotties.
- Higgins believes that Santa Claus is a bad influence on children.
- Higgins supports France, even at women's expense.
- Higgins dressed as Assumption's mascot for at least twice: [69], [70]
- Higgins is an anti-Revolutionary Redcoat.
- Higgins is weeaboo enough to eat pocky.
- Leslie believes that women "have no place in our [US] armed forces".
Gallery
- crusader888.blogspot.com's sidebar of nerddom
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A thousand words about Leslie.
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Let's be honest with ourselves: The inclusion of ED links reinforces what a sad, twisted nerd Leslie is.
See also
External links
- John Ratcliff's Weblog: This is not a trick question – A blog entry about crusader888 by John W. Ratcliff
- Anti-Masonic Examples: The Others (A-L) – Leslie earned an entry there
- Blogger profile (archive.org)
- Crusader888's blog (archive.org)
- Traditional Youth Network account
- Metapedia account
Amazon account