[Mishmash] "misinformation" policing

[Fred Atkinson]

Hugh,

    Touche'.




Fred

> I actually have read the bill . . . it is nothing more than another "lets
> take money for those who earned it and give it to those who didn't" deal.
>
> BTW the "tell us what you neighbor is saying" thing is exactly like
Germany
> in the 1920s.
>
> Hugh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net]
> On Behalf Of Richard Barth
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:30 PM
> To: Mishmash
> Subject: Re: [Mishmash] "misinformation" policing
>
>
> Another example of "misinformation" policing...
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080603
> 854.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
>
>
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