[Mishmash] "misinformation" policing

[Fred Atkinson]

> Another example of "misinformation" policing...
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080603854.html
>
> >Apparently the White House wants everyone to report individuals
> >disagreeing with Obama's healthcare  policies to them - reminds me
> >of passages I've read on Hitler's Germany.
>
> Oh please.  Be serious.  White House efforts to get a handle on some
> of the right-wing
> hogwash circulating on the net  reminds you of Hitler's Germany?  You
> must not have done
> much reading about Hitler's Germany.

    Really?  Union thugs beating up a black man that was selling
conservative memorabilia?

    Conservatives being refused access to town hall meetings?

> Somebody should send them a pointer to this mailing list.
>
> >"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out
there,
>
> Amen, brother.

    And most of it is coming from the White House and Congress.

> >This is scary stuff, folks.
>
> No, it's just the usual the usual political BS you find coming out of
> fringe groups on both
> edges of the political spectrum.  If you'd spent as many years as I
> have working in Washington
> you'd recognize it immediately. The right doesn't have a monopoly on
> it, certainly, but they've been producing it in high gear on the
> subject of health care of late.

    I don't agree.

> >What will they do with this information they're collecting?

    More than likely they will create some type of blacklist.

> Probably try to educate the public.  Hard job given all the money the
> health insurance industry,
> the pharmaceutical industry, and the health care industry have been
> spending in order to keep the
> profits rolling in.

    You mean mis-educate the public.

> >Have any of your elected officials actually read that 1100 page bill
> >they're expected to vote on?
>
> Have you?

    It's our representatives responsibility to read it.



                                                                    Fred