style92 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} style92) wrote,@ 2007-10-15 23:34:00 |
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WTF!?
I think I'm gonna have an aneurysm. I mean, just how stupid can some people get?
I was working at walmart, and an elderly gentlemen gives me a card pamphlet and mentions something about a Superhighway going all the way through Mexico, the US, and Canada, and the North American Union(?). I open the card. it features a flag that's a composite of the US, Mexico, and Canada flags and warns of the same North American Union and prints some immigration statistics to prove some sort point. (According to the card, it appears Illegal immigration didn't exist until the 1960's!) The whole thing was laughable and inane, and links to a website:
http://www.jbs.org/nau
Go. Laugh. And then be afraid. Not of the so called North American Union, but of really stupid people buying into this crap, and this John Birch Society that's organizing it. Also note that they're trying to get you to take action at every turn but being very vague about the specifics of their BS conspiracy theory.
I mean, I hope the rank-and-file swing-voting American has enough common sense to see through this very inane scare attempt, but I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that I haven't heard the last of this completely fictional North American Union and it will be some sort of hot-button issue next year.
And for some more fun from stupid people, I'm linking to an article at Snopes, (A VERY good website for debunking BS you hear on the internet) discussing the Right Wing's fear of the "Amero," The fictional currency for the fiction "North American Union."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/busi
I think I'm gonna have an aneurysm. I mean, just how stupid can some people get?
I was working at walmart, and an elderly gentlemen gives me a card pamphlet and mentions something about a Superhighway going all the way through Mexico, the US, and Canada, and the North American Union(?). I open the card. it features a flag that's a composite of the US, Mexico, and Canada flags and warns of the same North American Union and prints some immigration statistics to prove some sort point. (According to the card, it appears Illegal immigration didn't exist until the 1960's!) The whole thing was laughable and inane, and links to a website:
http://www.jbs.org/nau
Go. Laugh. And then be afraid. Not of the so called North American Union, but of really stupid people buying into this crap, and this John Birch Society that's organizing it. Also note that they're trying to get you to take action at every turn but being very vague about the specifics of their BS conspiracy theory.
I mean, I hope the rank-and-file swing-voting American has enough common sense to see through this very inane scare attempt, but I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that I haven't heard the last of this completely fictional North American Union and it will be some sort of hot-button issue next year.
And for some more fun from stupid people, I'm linking to an article at Snopes, (A VERY good website for debunking BS you hear on the internet) discussing the Right Wing's fear of the "Amero," The fictional currency for the fiction "North American Union."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/busi
