Misinformation is warfare because it kills people. 2081 part 5

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested arming teachers and reducing the number of exits a school can have, two days after the Santa Fe, Texas, shooting that led to the deaths of ten persons, where early survivor reports said, "we couldn't get out the doors."
A lot of the misinformation pouring into USA now will result in more Americans getting killed, and U.S. Republicans repeat the misinformation, with patriotic fervor, working for a coup attacking the USA without even seeming to know it. The year 2018 can be seen as 2081, much like George Orwell saw 1948 as he wrote "1984" in isolation in Scotland.*** 

Misinformation is called warfare because it kills people.

After the Parkland Florida school shooting, the response from Republicans was to arm the teachers.  Inexplicable, illogical as it was, that sound bite that came from the NRA was repeated over and over until no real discussion on a solution could even begin after Parkland. Persons of reason found themselves arguing against an idea so absurd it's hard to come up with an argument against it, it's so obviously absurd.  Yeah sure add more guns into the mix especially when trained police officers often shoot the wrong person- see what I mean, I'm wasting my time now bringing up obvious arguments against arming teachers.

Arming teachers would result in more people getting killed.

After the Santa Fe Texas shooting Republicans repeated the next sound bite to come from the NRA: Our schools have too many doors.  Too many entrances means shooters have too many ways to enter schools, the sound bite appeared, and so instead of logic and concern, our news media put Republicans on air and in their print columns stating that a a solution to the school shooting epidemic is lock the exit and entrance doors.

Barricade the doors.  

In other words keep the students from being able to get out next time.  Several first hand accounts of life inside the art room closet in the Santa Fe shooting described not being able to get out of the room.  So yes, Republicans, lock more doors, add that to your crazy sound bite about arming students.

The end result of both ideas would be more Americans getting killed.

Some things the Republicans say, I hear clearly the underlying message.  And it's sinister.

In my imagination I see Putin and a few oligarch pals in a room somewhere, coming up with these ideas, and laughing at how easy it is to manipulate Americans.  Especially with the foundation they built by paying to get Fox News and its anti-American messaging on every cable lineup in the USA in the 1990s when no one was paying attention.

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Someone is manipulating the message in a sinister way, that will result in more Americans being killed.  That's why it's called information warfare
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Posted by Kay Ebeling
Producer of City of Angels Blog
not just L.A., the city of angels is everywhere

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Part One of this story is here

Part Two of this story is here

Part Three of this story is here 

Part Four of this story is here