What to do when you finally admit your own family has fallen prey to the most vile of brain-washings? Write a diary about it!
This is the email forwarded to me from my cousin, apparently to alert me to the existence of a terrorist (formerly known as Senator Barack Obama):
To all independents, rank and file democrats, liberals, and uberliberals, and to all who simply are uninformed: pay close attention to the following message and keep this in mind 2 years from now when it's time to vote again. It pays to be ultra careful who we elect to high office in this day and age. We can no longer blindly and stupidly afford to elect somebody we don't know simply based on sex, charisma or their "good" looks -- like we did in the '90's.
P.S. FYI: Madame Hillary also announced her candidacy just this morning, too.
Subject: Fw: Barack Hussein Obama...Presidential Candidate? (Thursday, January 11)
Barack Hussein Obama...Presidential Candidate?
Interesting!!!
Barack Hussein Obama - Presidential Candidate?
Barack Hussein Obama is an apostate Muslim. He was educated in madrassas in Hawaii and Indonesia from an early age, up until high school.
More after the fold...
'Scuse me, back from throwing-up.
His natural father and namesake, a Kenyan Muslim, was associated with one of the most corrupt and violent organizations in Africa, the Mau Mau of the Kenyatta regime. He divorced Barack's mother when Barack was two years old, according to Moslem law. Barack's mother remarried, another Musli m and took Barack to Indonesia, the most densely populated Islamic country in the world.
When his mother divorced her second Muslim husband, she and Barack returned to Hawaii where he attended high school.
Let’s see: racism, religious intolerance, fear, hypocrisy. It's not surprising, I’ve used the word "wingnut" many times, just never knew the extent to which I was describing my own family. I had known they were Republicans, but somehow insulated myself from the idea that they were this infected with hate.
They weren’t always like this. When I was 10, my Uncle was indignant that the Governor of our state could legally force him to wear a seat belt. "This country is based on personal freedom!" he would rail. "I’m not letting Big Brother ride next to me, I’m not wearing that seat belt." Safety be damned, that law infringed on his personal freedom and right to privacy. So that’s how I always thought of him. As a kind of harmless if loopy black-knee-sock-and-bermuda-short wearing Libertarian.
The email continues in slightly more formulaic form to vilify Obama as an uberliberal, not just a terrorist:
Later, he attended Columbia University where he majored in political science then worked for Business International for a year and then was a community organizer at a Chicago housing project. It was during his time spent there that Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Obama was a Muslim for over twenty-five years.
In his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Obama admits to usin g marijuana and cocaine. At one time he ran his credit cards up so high that the credit card company denied him access to further use of his card.
He supports homosexual marriage, racial preferences, gun control, socialized medicine and the absolute right to abortion, including partial-birth abortions. He is anti-war, voted against the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act and opposes the death penalty and school vouchers,
He has said he loves Jimmy Carter and is the 18th most liberal member of the Senate, receiving a
100% rating from Americans for Democratic Action, NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Organization for Women, the NAACP and the National Education Association.
America will never elect an uber-liberal, apostate Muslim and self-admitted drug user to the Office of the President of the United States... or will we?
[... believe this may be worthy of passing on...]
It's ugly. And they really believe it. I recently saw a History Channel doc on Jonestown. I was a preteen when the mass-murder/suicide happened and watched the news in scared confusion, but have never seriously thought back on it. Today the term "Kool-aid drinker" has a vivid and deadly serious meaning to me. It's not funny. These people, my family, kids I grew up with and memories I cherish are just... gone. And the ideas and beliefs that inhabit their bodies now are more than ludicrous, they are disastrous.
Of course the truly sensible thing to do is to ban her from my inbox. No, I should reply all and tell them off, set them straight with my indignant rage, or at least inform them that:
Apostacy in Islam (Arabic: ارتداد, irtidād or ridda) is commonly defined as the rejection of Islam in word or deed by a person who has been a Muslim.
since I’m sure none of them actually knows what it means, contradictory as it is to the tone and intent of the message.
But, I’ll do none of that. I’ll let the emails keep coming. I feel like I’m driving by an accident scene, like I can’t take my eyes off the carnage. Grateful everyday that I’m not pinned in the twisted metal with them. Hoping someday the rhetorical civil-war will end and families can reunite, with the common good and decency of being American meaningful again.