Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, June 01, 2009 1:20:31 PM
I have received, on many occasions, an e-mail about Nancy Pelosi wanting to enact a windfall tax on retirement benefits, among other things. Thinking that this was outlandish even for Pelosi, I looked it up and found that it was an internet myth.
I recently received an e-mail telling me that Obama wanted to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to him rather than the Constitution. I received another e-mail, with a forward of an article allegedly written in The National Law Journal by Michele Chang, which said that the oath would be to the office of the President, not Obama directly.
Flabberghasted, I did some more checking. The article is a fake. Apparently, it was a satire. The National Law Journal, whose name and reputation was hijacked, should seek recourse against whoever wrote this.
What was so scary about both of these articles was that people believed them. They believed that Nancy Pelosi wanted to put a 100% windfall profit tax on retirement income. They believed that Obama wanted members of the military to swear their loyalty to him, not the country, not the Constitution. They believed that both of these people were capable of doing what the articles claimed they were doing.
Rather than just dismissing this as the paranoid ramblings of the far right, politicians might just want to take them as the thoughts of the people out there and start paying attention.
Former House Speaker Tom Foley and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle were voted out of office by an unhappy electorate, while they held their positions. "Current Senate leader Harry Reid plans on amassing a $25 million war chest, even though Republicans have yet to even field a candidate. New Jersey Governor John Corzine is running behind both possible Republican challengers.
We the People are an awesome force when we're aroused to action. Hopefully, the tea parties were only the beginning of Americans taking back America from the elitist, condescending blowhards who are destroying it.