It seems that in today's world of instant news, blogs and Internet social sights if you don't like someone or their view, take the easy way and lie. One of the people I am friends with on face book, has an ongoing hatred of President Obama, liberals, progressives, Democrats and anything to do with the left. I am asked why I continue to see what her and others like her post and the answer is simple. How do you fight against fabrications if you do not know they exist? I have answered her back on face book at various times but now I need to expand the audience to expose how people are duped into moving lies, further along the information highway.
Recently, she posted an article under the heading of, "Bombshell allegation against Obama, murder, addiction and atheism. It was published by Examiner.com and the author was Anthony G. Martin. Mr. Martin states in his bi-line that he was a foot soldier in the election of Ronald Reagan. According to his bio, he was a local community activist only. I will concede that this could be construed as a foot soldier and leave it at that. I went on to read additional information about Martin and his views and research into the above article. It seems Martin also allegedly, writes under the name of Ulsterman and this is the source of his inside information for the trash he writes about our President. That would be the equivalent of me using the name Dublinman and saying my source, Dublinman stated that George Bush had a gay affair, while stealing billions from the Federal Reserve, while killing General George Patton and blowing up a Catholic church. Really, this is the best they can do? Martin has also posted on U-Tube a video of himself stating, how misinformed we are about Joe McCarthy and how misunderstood he was. He seems to push to resurrect the investigation into the , "Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Maoist administration under Barrack Obama." I hope he didn't leave out any "ists" in this list, because I am sure they are also on the inside looking for ways to subvert America.
Pure and simple this guy's views represent the real danger to our country. He is a radical, extremist that will lie to anyone willing to listen to him.
The Webster dictionary definition of a lie is; a statement made by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive. That is what Mr. Martin does, he lies in order to deceive. He preys on the uninformed and depends on them to pass the lies on until people start thinking, it must be true because I have heard this before. A lie is a lie no matter how many times it is repeated. Saying it does NOT make it true and the weak minded people on social networks need to get the facts before they repeat lies. I do not want to hear that you do not have the time to research the facts. I spent less then an hour and was able to ascertain the facts. People repeat lies and re-post lies because they like what they heard or read. What I ask of them to do is think for one minute, how they would feel if someone, made up or repeated lies about them or their friends or family? Just because we disagree politically with someone it does not give us the rights to make up statements and pass it off as the truth.
It is time, and I have written this before, for us to tell the truth in all of our dealings. Our political system is rife with half-truths (I am not sure there is such a thing) and just outright lies. Is this the way to elect our officials or would telling the truth work better? I am asking people to stop re-posting lies. Stop embarrassing yourself. Trust me when I say this, when I see someone that is willing to post this garbage, I certainly question their morals, their integrity and their intelligence.
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