More Limbaugh Republican Hate Mail

I've copied an email article below that's being sent around by the right wing anti-immigrant types lately:

Shooting in Butte , Montana

Shotgun preteen vs. illegal alien Home Invaders: Butte, Montana November 5, 2008

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It see ms the two crooks never learned two things: theywere in Montana , and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.

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Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim .. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.

When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news........an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself.....against two A-hole, illegal immigrants.......and she wins, she is still alive.

Now that is Gun Control !

Thought for the day: Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist.'

Charming story, huh.

Naturally, it never happened. The Snopes.com explanation is here.

So far I'm scoring right at 100% in determining that all of this garbage that gets sent out in mass emailings is false. I can always spot them even before I check Snopes.com. There was one that had some truth, but it was so distorted that I considered it false by most anybody's standards.

I think that either the same person writes all this crap, or perhaps lots of people write it and then each one is edited by the same person. The writing style is always the same, and the format is too: A supposed news story, with lots of detail to make it look authentic (like the brand of shotgun), and then the conclusion which always supports the right wing Limbaugh Republican hate agenda.

If you ever read much about the old Soviet disinformation campaigns out of the Cold War era, you'll see the similarities in the right wing techniques. They find some incident that really happened or that could easily have happened, and then they build on that with detail after detail to promote something totally and completely different. For example, in the Snopes.com explanation, if you read far enough, you'll see that in the past there have been a couple of incidents wherein a kid managed to either shoot or scare off a burglar. The real life incident had no relation to any immigrant or gun control or anything else like that, but the expert propagandist heard about it and then concocted his disinformation story around it. Of course, there have been at least two "Home Alone" movies about a kid who fought back against the bad guys. Not illegal immigrants, of course, but that doesn't matter to the disinformation experts.

The Internet makes this kind of thing cheap and easy. In the past, they had to rely on printing and mailing, and that can get expensive. Now they have the Internet, as well as all the right wing talk shows on radio and TV, plus the right wing Christian broadcasts, also on radio and TV. These email campaigns can be very effective to reinforce the hatred, to keep the troops riled up.

Why do they do this? Why pick on some group of people to hate when there are so many problems we are facing as a nation? For the same reason Hitler picked the Jews to hate. Reread Orwell, both "1984" and "Animal Farm," as well as his essays, and you'll get the idea. If you have an outside group to hate, you can keep the masses in line, keep them following the doctrine. Look at how the fundamentalist Christians like to claim they are persecuted, just as in Roman times. By getting their members to believe they are persecuted, they drum up support, and, naturally, money.

Such persecution! It is impossible to be elected to national or state office in this country without proclaiming your Christianity. And that is something you see a lot in right wing rhetoric: they take what they do and flip it over and say that others are doing it to them. Fundamentalist Christians rally against all who are not true believers, but say the world is against them. Limbaugh Republicans hate Mexicans, so they say immigrants are stealing jobs and burglarizing houses. Republicans have destroyed the economy by overspending on their war yet like to say Democrats spend too much. It's classic Orwell. It will only get worse as real journalism breaks down.