03.30
Before I begin, FTS does not condone any violence towards elected officials.
Ok that being said, lets talk about media bias and all the idiots making death threats and vandalizing offices and what not. If you are one of the idiots sending death threats or participating in illegal acts towards elected officials, YOU ARE NOT HELPING, IDIOTS! Truthfully, I wouldnt doubt it if it was SEIU members out there secretly throwing bricks at Dems offices just to give the liberal media more ammunition. I’m still waiting for MSNBC to tie the Hutaree Militie wackos and the Teaparty together (they probably have and I just missed it).
Now why am I talking about this? I heard an interesting story on the radio today so I googled around and found some stories. Basically this church took issue with a play at the local college and the pastor passed out email addresses and phone numbers for local college officials to his congregation, sort of like what we do with politics. The college canceled the play and said it felt threatened. Later on they published the emails they received, none of which had threats of violence, they were just “angry”.
Now at FTS we dont get into religion or social issues, but I want you to take note of how CBS played the story out:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/29/national/main6343852.shtml
You have to dig deeper to read the actual emails the school provided:
http://static.cbslocal.com/station/ktvt/docs/2010/march/VileMessages.pdf
Pretty threatening huh? So this got me to thinking, what if the church congregation had published copies of their own emails? They probably could have shot down the “violent” labels pretty quickly.
So my CYA recommendation to you is to create a folder and save a copy of any email you send to elected officials. In this digital age, you never know when something could come back around.
