Right Wing Fwds

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I was reading through my emails today and opened an attachment forwarded by a friend from the next state to the west of us. She and I had gone to church together in the 90s when I lived over there.
She is a retired woman and I remember her to be quite intelligent. I have received a few of this type of forward from her before which really surprises me. I wouldn't have thought her to be the kind of woman who would send such things.
These emails are the kind that inform us of the secret things at work in our nations capital. This particular email is being sent around to alert us of the covert plan in Washington to separate us from our firearms. Now I myself do not own a firearm of any kind, but I do have a great appreciation for those who defend our constitutional rights. And I might add, I support the folks who put this email together to warn us.
The problem that I have is this; the information in the email is not correct. The way it opens is a clue to me that I should be wary of its contents.
Like most dictatorial communications, it began by telling me that we were all dupes. It said it nicer than that, but still . . . It was something about the nation being distracted by news events such as the Gulf spill and the World Cup. We were looking the other way as The dictator Hillary, upon her dictator boss's direction, was secretly conspiring with the world's leaders to take away our guns.
The first thing that must happen, with any mind control technique, is for the controller to get me to take notice of something that I had missed. And it must be very important. He must create a premise from which to build an agenda.
Then he must inform me of that which has supposedly been denied me.
These emails do this at every posting. And why not? It works. Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck use this technique every day. They come to us incredulous over some point and press upon us how important it is that they inform us. God knows we won't be told the truth from the real press of this nation.
I grow so tired of it all.
In the case of Hillary sneaking around behind the back of our constitution to make treaties with foreign governments in order take away our firearms, I call "bunk."
To begin with, this story was provided to us through our very functional press. All the wire services carried it. Furthermore, Obama and Clinton are not trying to trick us out of our guns. They both took oaths of office to uphold our constitution, not to tear it down.
What has happened, if anyone cares to actually Google the story, is that we have flipped the Bush era's stance on the international talks on arms sales. Folks, this is concerning the talks nation to nation. It isn't some ploy to get the UN to pass laws about your personal firearms.
But the Obama administration has required something that protects us and our Constitution. That is the clause concerning consensus. It means that we will enter into talks with the world about arms dealing, (We are the largest supplier of arms to the world.) and we have a clause that allows us to basically veto anything in any treaty that is a threat to our own constitution.
Now please listen to me carefully those of you on the religious right; we supply the weapons that are used in countless murders around the world. The big ten urge us to not commit murder. Yet you would have us follow the Bush policies that aid this abomination. Now back to my original point; these emails that are forwarded around the would, disseminating half truth and complete fabrication are equal to bearing false witness. Isn't there a commandment against this? I put it to you; are you not violating the very commandments that you claim to hold dear every time you send these vile emails on to the next right leaning citizen?
I am not calling for anyone to join the dems over the repubs. I am asking us all to do a simple thing. Check the facts and follow the truth. Think independently and respond with love. I realize that the left is equally guilty in certain areas, but our great land is not going to be brought down by covert operations in high places, if it falls, it will be because we loved untruth and lies more than what was noble and true.
Well, that's my two cents. In closing I want to tell what I personally do; when sent something that tells me to send it along if I love Jesus or the Republican party, I can pretty much rest assured that the philosophy of the email doesn't adequately represent the true values of either and I simply delete it.