Propaganda chain E-mail warning

[Mr_Lefty]

I got a chain e-mail from a guy at work who assumes I'm a Republican because I'm in the Navy Reserve. It had the usual made up story about a woman in restaurant who's husband is deployed in Iraq. She overhears some women in the next booth bashing Bush and calling military people baby killers. She confronts them and everyone in the restaurant applauds her. The funny part of the note was the ending- here it is:

<When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for
our ground, air and navy personnel in every area of the middle east.
There is nothing attached.... This can be very powerful.... Just send this
to all the people in your address book.

Do not stop this prayer chain, please.... Of all the gifts you could
give to anyone in the US Military, be it Air Force, Army, Navy,
Marines or National Guard, Prayer is the very best one.....Amen!

"The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may
contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of,
or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended
recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the
material from all computers.">

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. First thanks for your service

Second, they assume, my husband just retired from the USN... and I have been actively against this from word go... trust me some people have actually applauded that

[Supormom]

2. I received this email months ago.

My husband is in the National Guard and many assume that we are republicans, too. It's rather annoying, isn't it?

[Mr_Lefty]

It is annoying

I usually let them think it- my close friends at work know all too well my political leanings.

[Misunderestimator]

3. HAHAHA... the idiot left his sig line on it

"Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of,
or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended
recipient is prohibited."

[TrogL]

6. He may not have a choice

It's automatically inserted by the Exchange server, not the mail client.

What it really means is that he shouldn't be using his work mail for politics.

[blm]

4. There are a few profs at Bob Jones University who manufacture these myth

emails.

[LynneSin]

5. From Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/speakup.asp

Origins: The piece quoted above was written by Lori Kimble, a 31-year-old California native who is now a teacher in Alabama and the wife of a serviceman. She contributes occasional pieces to The Washington Dispatch, and this item was her contribution for 14 April 2003, published under the title "The Price of Freedom."

As we explained in a previous version of this page, we could verify only that Lori Kimble is a real person, that she is the author of this piece, and that she asserts it is based upon a real incident. The article contains no details by which it can be independently verified, and our attempts to elicit more information from the author about when and where the events described took place received no response. We note now that the publishers have removed the article from the Washington Dispatch's web site because they, too, have been unable to verify its truthfulness and have been unable to obtain more information from its author:

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Other than the fact that the person who wrote the story is real, nothing else has been verified as true. From what I gather this means that no one has stepped to say they bought the meal or they witnessed the meal being bought. And even more importantly, even the restaurant has not verified the claim.

Unfortunately these "heart-wrenching" stories get spread around and like the bible, they get re-edited in order to appeal more to the masses.

Edit Note: I would have gladly boought those 2 "shrill" women from the email a steak dinner any day of the week. Heck I sit in restaurants all the time and have no problems talking about why I'm against the war with my dinnermate(s)

[Mr_Lefty]

7. That's it Lori Kimbal e-mail

[tom_paine]

8. Bushevik Lying Blast e-mails are a Staple of Goebbels v2.0 Propaganda

This, among all the Bushevik Mechanisms of Untruth, is perhasps the most under-the-radar and perhaps pernicious of their stratagems.

Some of Uncle Karls Young Monsters figured out the psychomtery of a "directed I" statement as used in an e-mail.

Ever notice that almost all Bushevik Lying Blast e-mails are in the same tone? This is no coincidence but apparently has been gamed out as the best way the Make People Believe Lies. The substructure of the grammer, etc. must put people in a suggestible mood, and I think there is a natural huiman bias (easily abused on the Internet) that people tend to unquestioningly believe something in writing, especially when structured in the authoritiative "directed I" manner.

Does this mean that Freeper Morons have thought this through in that fashion? No, true to Totalitarian Dogma, only their Party Elite should really be able to understand. All the Freeper has to do is follow the cookie-cutter "directed I" template available from every orifice of Goebbels v2.0 24/7. Then all they have to do is falsely attribute the e-mail, launder it's source and send it out on what are clearly already-set Propaganda channels (i.e. people who are already suggestible and weak-minded and sympathetic to Bushevik Totalitarianism).

Evil brilliance at it's bets. No, not the Freeper Brownshirts. As always, they just parrot what their Bushevik Masters tell them to think. But the PR Men and Psychometrists are the Evil Geniuses. Frank Luntz and his ilk could have easily worked for Eichmann and Goebbels.

Maybe they did, in a previous life.

:evilgrin: