I received the following email from a conservative friend I know from church (As an aside there also plenty of non rightwingers in the church. Episcopalians are a diverse lot.)
the email is below the fold
However, as I've been preaching for some time, we absolutely must keep an eye on Obama's Executive Orders. ...
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Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll was shot and killed on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona
He was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Roll who this past Friday issued what is called a "preliminary ruling" in a case titled "United States of America v. $333,520.00 in United States Currency et al" [CaseNumber: 4:2010cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010]
Wherein he stated he was preparing to rule against Obama’s power to seize American citizens money without clear and convincing evidence of a crime being committed.
The case being ruled on by Judge Roll, this report continues, was about bulk cash smuggling into or out of the United States that the Obama administration claimed was their right to seize under what are called Presidential Executive Orders, instead of using existing laws.
The Obama administration used as support for their claim before Judge Roll, the seizing of all American citizens’ gold, in 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 6102, which was ruled at the time to be constitutional.
The most chilling of these powers Obama has asserted for himself, however, are contained in ExecutiveOrder 13528 he signed nearly a year ago (January 10, 2010) creating a Council of Governors he has hand-picked to rule over the United States in place of its elected representatives when their next "disaster" strikes and orders them to begin" synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities".
Going from the chilling to the outright scary, about whatever "disaster" the American regime is preparing their people for, is Obama’s Homeland Security Department, through their Ready.Gov organization, beginning to air this past week a public service television commercial titled"WorldUpside Down" that shows a typical family sitting in their home suddenly losing all of its gravity and warning all who watch it to begin preparing.
This seems really paranoid. I'm not sure any of the information is accurate, but we should at least know what the lies are. It also seems like a knee jerk way of trying to blame Pres. Obama for anything.
I was just wondering how wide spread this kind of lie is.
This is probably making a mountain out of some molehill. But I can't even tell what's right wing paranoia, what's far left wing paranoia and what's totally unconnected paranoia. I don't think Obama is just like Bush, although like many I wish the changes were a little bigger and the pace of change somewhat faster. I don't believe Obama is a socialist or anything of the sort. I do believe we should know what the rightwingers are saying and doing. It seems really farfetched to blame Obama for Tucson, but rhetoric keeps getting crazier.
RFrancisR has an interesting comment
When we see these right wing paranoid rants: We should ask if the person has Jared Loughner on speed dial? This is the kind of right wing paranoia that Loughner was obsessed with
While I don't think my right wing friend would go that far, I've met some of her other friends, one or two of them seemed off the deep end. For instance, one woman she's friends with mentioned "end times" several times in a conversation. I was under the impression the book of Revelation was an allegory, not a literal schedule.