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To: FreedomForce
Wow, this hoaxmail is really making the rounds- it's on rense.com and indymedia and all the other marxist, maoist, left-of-far-left sites... but nowhere is it to be found on a legit site. It's even on this piece of crap site:

www.electgore04.com/issues/issues13.htm

I'll give it some credit though, when I searched on the author's name I got some guy who works in purchasing at the univeristy of Florida or some such thing but so far, no mention of Roswell or Area 51...

I notice the author somehow thinks we'll be impressed that he has an unverifiable background in the military (notice he mentioned no rank or time period of service) and is supposedly a Christian who also home schools (these things are important ingredients in every shallow DNC/Green Party effort to undermine the president in the eyes of traditional conservatives, who of course couldn't be expected to heed the words of a draft-dodging atheist member of the communist party, for example.

Of course, all of this "background info" is just there to try to get the foot in the door and is too vague to enable an easy check on the guy's identity- he may as well have listed himself as a Nigerian official in search of people dumb enough to give out their bank account numbers. The guy's resume is info which bears no relevence to the subject the letter claims to be about- it's just volunteered for the purposes of propaganda. Color me unimpressed.

For some reason we are also supposed to be awed and impressed so much by the guy's (if he is a guy and not some 27 year old liberal female permanent student at Berkley) alleged educational and occupational background that we accept his word as gospel. But his background appears unverifiable- conveniently so. There is no mention of the school he attended, nor a mention of where he works except a fuzzy reference to "private practice" and a broad generalization of living in New Orleans. I forget what this propaganda technique is called- an "appeal to caste-level or status," perhaps? Whatever it is called, it is a none-too crafty effort to impress the readers. After all, what does psychiatry have to do with the topic? Why bring it up?

And then he says he had to send for the list via a Freedom of Information Act request- which is BS.

(As is the "no Arab names on the list" thing.)

What a transparent load of crap. I wonder where the letter really originated?

34 posted on 09/11/2003 1:34:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
After all, what does psychiatry have to do with the topic?

Quite a bit, actually...

39 posted on 09/11/2003 2:07:46 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: piasa
"After all, what does psychiatry have to do with the topic?"

He's an inmate that killed one of the docs and assumed his ID to escape.

43 posted on 09/11/2003 2:17:56 PM PDT by spunkets
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