Posted on 01/07/2017 9:58:55 PM PST by Bronzewound
Far rightwing figureheads immediately invented an elaborate and racist conspiracy theory that CNN had lightened a photo of alleged Fort Lauderdale airport shooter Esteban Santiago shortly after the Friday attack. In reality, CNN had yet to air a picture of Santiago, let alone lightened a picture of him. The conspiracy also used a picture of an entirely different man named Esteban Santiagonot the alleged shooter. Still, writers at websites like InfoWars and Gateway Pundit tweeted about CNNs nonexistent Photoshop job. Former Republican Florida Congressman Allen West, who represented Fort Lauderdale itself, even tweeted about the conspiracy and linked to an article about it on his own website.
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It seems you did. See your post 35. I said,"Its critical we not do what our enemies do. We have to be beyond reproach."
Your reply was, "Why? Only fools fail to fight just hard and on the same level as our foes. Claiming moral superiority while the left is busy trying to destroy you will just result in our destruction."
During WW2 when the Nazis would murder US troops rather than take them prisoner from time to time, then for weeks allied troops would shoot Germans trying to surrender. Once it became clear that the Germans where playing by the rules again the Allied started taking prisoners again. If one side violates the rules the you have to retaliate. If we're lucky the left will return to playing by the rules but they certainly won't consider doing so without a taste of thier own medicine.
You can call that barbarity but my own reading of history indicates that civilized behavior is only to be extended to people who practice civilized behavior. Since WW2 the left always insists that we extended civilized behavior towards barbarians while the left endlessly uses barbaric proxies to attack us. We've been taking the high road forever and we've just kept losing. To beat them we need proxies of our own to pound the left back and Trump's victory coincides with the development of our own proxy forces.
The thing we're trying to save is our and our children's lives. The left is fully committed to the slow genocide of the west. We either fight back and win or we die.
That is a guy named Esteban Santiago.
But, not the FL shooter.
If/when, God forbid, it comes to a bombs and bullets kind of war then disinformation can be a valuable weapon, as you described so well.
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