[Mishmash] "misinformation" policing

[Richard Barth]

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.

Somebody should send them a pointer to this mailing list.

>"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there,

Amen, brother.

>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.

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

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.

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

Have you?


Richard Barth *** W3HWN(at)ARRL.NET *** Silver Spring, MD