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Hoax emails as part of the counter revolution

Donald Hank

This morning I got an email from a friend reporting on a nationwide bank closing next week. I didn’t know what to make of it, because I had never heard of the author or the group that originally developed the mailing, but since it predicted the bank closing for tomorrow I thought I had better find out more. I sent it under the title “Are the banks closing next week?”

If there is a bank closing next week, that will be a coincidence because the email, as it turned out, is at least a year old, according to one of my sources.

So we laugh it off and relax, right?

Not exactly.

Lately there has been a spate of hoax and semi-hoax emails making their rounds and I believe this is deliberate dysinformation. No, none of you are implicated in this, even those who have forwarded these, because you did so in good faith.

One of the tactics the far left uses is to send phony messages around, mostly by internet. The messages say things that are almost true. They reflect the machinations of the world banking community, the CFR, the Obama Administration, etc. But the dates are often wrong, the facts exaggerated, and the recipients are made to believe that none of what was mentioned in the email will ever happen. And that is the whole point.

You are supposed to believe that conservatives and libertarians are loony conspiracy theorists and that there is no CFR conspiracy to devalue the dollar and replace it with an international fiat currency. Yet we have  allseen concrete steps that would lead us in that direction — the CRA requiring banks to lend mortgages to people without jobs and documents (5 million undocumented aliens got mortgages under this plan), the complicity of the Democrat-run Fanny-Freddy and other Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), the absurd statements by Democrat stooge Barney Frank — before the bank crash –that anyone who predicted the crash was harming America and/or was just making it up — in other words, that these rumors were part of a whacky conspiracy theory. It is astonishing how many people can be thrown off the track by this clever subterfuge, which the Left has been using liberally for over 100 years.

This latter tactic is one instance of the kind of cheap tricks that we can fully expect government (RINOs and Dems, etc) to play on us these days. And indeed, nothing could be a better indicator that such tricks are in the works than the rash of false or partially false emails now circulating on the net. So, what to do? Just dismiss all such reports and pretend there is no crisis? Of course not. Despite the mind-numbing tactics of the Left, based on a tragic flaw in human behavior and intended to make us deny the truth as seen by our own eyes, we know there is an economic crisis! In fact, Obama rode the crisis into the White House by talking incessantly about it. No, instead we must be much more vigilant now than ever before.

We — myself included — need to check the veracity of all the emails we receive. That is why I put a question mark after the title of that forward this morning. I didn’t want anyone to think I swallowed this. I wanted your input and I got it. And I thank those of you who helped me interpret it.

This is part of the counter-revolution that Andrew Thomas discusses in the article reproduced below.

Don’t panic, don’t lash out, just be careful about emails you receive and emails you forward and keep patiently resisting the bad guys.

Beware the Counterrevolution

By Andrew Thomas,

American Thinker, August 23, 2009

The left is already telegraphing its strategy to discredit the town hall movement. Conservatives must wise up and use a little jiujitsu of our own.

It is important to note from the start that the struggle between liberty and socialism will never end, at least not in our lifetimes.  If by chance it does, it will be because evil has triumphed.  As long as people are free to make their own choices, some of those choices will always be for self-destruction or slavery (moral masochism).  That is just the nature of human beings.  However, once the slavery of socialism is self-imposed through trickery or stealth, there are no more choices.  That is the weakness of a free people.  The weakness of socialism is that it cannot be revealed for what it truly is until it is too late to stop it.  Like all things evil, it cannot stand the light of day.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/beware_the_counterrevolution.html

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