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Anti-Communist Spam

 
 
Tezcatlipoca
15:49 / 29.10.02
Today I got my first ever piece of spam mail into my Postmaster account, which turned out to be more unsettling than it was unwanted. I'll let you judge for yourselves...


"U.S. Under Attack

Dear fellow Americans! A year ago terrorism hit America.
We fought terrorism in Afghanistan, but the main villains are not punished yet. We remember all the victims of terrorism. We should defend this country in the battle with terrorism.

But not only terrorism attacks America. We have got the most dangerous enemy – Communism. 11 years ago we were able to break down its citadel in the Soviet Union. But now Communism appears in the USA.

Communism and terrorism have a mutual aim – America! In fact, the collapse of the Soviet Union was only a grand distracting manoeuvre. We have won the battle, but not the war. The war is still going on. While we are celebrating the victory and getting used to living in a
free world, communism hits us.

The Socialist Evolution goes at full drive in the USA.

It is invisible but certain. Every day, every minute communists step on our rights, debase our values, restrict our freedoms.
You loose your job, your stocks and savings are depreciated, you are not confident in your future. It is not a crisis. It is the result of hard and persistent work of Communism and its agents.

They had 90 years to conquer the USA. While we Americans were sleeping, they had a chance to win. But now we are waking up, and they
haven’t such a chance.

In the new book href="http://www.wakeupusa.org/book.php?v=7">United Socialist States of America: The Communist Takeover Victor Friedman and Gordon Phillips reveal the communistic essence to true patriots of our beloved country.

Each American should read this book to defend this country in the greatest war with communism.

Hurry up! Tomorrow it may be too late!

Buy this book today and you’ll get a $10 discount!

http://www.WakeUpUSA.org/
Your e-mail is taken from open sources and is used for only a single announcement."



My initial reaction was, of course, that this was just one of the many many rather meagre attempts at humour doing the email rounds. Then came the actual point of the mail and I realised that these people actually do seem to believe in the blind patriotism they're selling. A quick visit to the website makes for disturbing reading.

Your views?
 
 
w1rebaby
16:07 / 29.10.02
Someone posted a link to that on Urban75, I was looking at the site earlier.

My first thought was "Sad how some people can't tell the difference between authoritarianism and socialism, because there are some reasonable points there, and..." then I thought "hang about, is this basically anti-authoritarian stuff deliberately packaged as anti-socialism, to make it more palatable?" In the same way that a lot of libertarianism is anarchism in a free-market cloak?

I'm not sure.
 
 
Linus Dunce
16:40 / 29.10.02
Apparently, this book is compiled from hard-core research by two award-winning academics. It's made up of facts. Obviously, they're not going to give away all these facts in the excerpts, but here's one that slipped through:

The USA was created not by using any template, but built on principles and ideas, unknown to any other country in the world!

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Jesus H. Christ.

They slipped up by including the phrase "New World Order" in the marketing blurb. Fridge, I think you're spot on.
 
 
Baz Auckland
19:43 / 29.10.02
I like this bit:

The Office of Homeland Security translated into Russian is literally K.G.B.

Of course, if that's actually true, it may not be 'ha-ha' funny....
 
  
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