{"id":102377,"date":"2018-02-21T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=102377"},"modified":"2018-02-21T00:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T07:52:25","slug":"watching-information-warfare-play-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/02\/watching-information-warfare-play-real-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Watching Information Warfare Play Out in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Whenever there is a mass shooting, the Gun Cult immediately says that critics of our Gun Regime that enables mass shooting must be silent, \u201cout of respect for the victims\u201d.<\/p>\n

Decent people understand respect for victims does not mean \u201cShut up about trying to prevent the last slaughter.\u201d\u00a0 But the Gun Cult has no interest in the victims of this slaughter or the next.\u00a0 Their first, last and only thought is, \u201cScrew you. Don\u2019t touch my gun.\u201d\u00a0 That, not gun ownership, is the mark of a Gun Cultist.\u00a0 Many gun owners actually want gun law reform too.\u00a0 But the Gun Cult cares only about itself and its precious, precious gun.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A: the moment a victim dares to open his mouth and call for reform of our insane gun laws that make this the only country where this regularly happens, that same lying, blood-soaked Gun Cult instantly turns on the victims and accuses them of a host of lies, fraud, conspiracy, and false flag operations.<\/p>\n

They did this to the parents of the children at Sandy Hook, for instance.\u00a0 They actually claimed (with the help of the NRA<\/a>) that the slaughter at Sandy Hook was a hoax.\u00a0 Alex Jones and his legion of mouth-breathers called it a \u201cfalse flag operation<\/a>\u201c.\u00a0 The charge, leveled incessantly at the shattered, crucified parents of the children butchered at Sandy Hook was that a) either nobody died at Sandy Hook and the parents were lying or paid actors, or that b) the parents were such liberal gun-grabbing fanatics that they actually handed their children over for a gruesome human sacrifice coordinated by evil black Muslim atheist gun-grabber Obama.\u00a0 The nuts have kept at these parents for years.\u00a0 It is a second cross they must bear because the Gun Cult is without pity for victims who get in their way.<\/p>\n

Exhibit B: The victims of Vegas who are charged with being government actors<\/a> and who received death threats<\/a> from the heartless, selfish Gun Cult scum while they still lay in the hospital.<\/p>\n

And now, here is Exhibit C: the unspooling Right Wing Gun Cult Lie Machine that seeks to insult and defame the kids of Parkland who have spoken out against the slaughter they witnessed and the accomplices and butchers of the GOP and the NRA who fight to put guns in easy reach of Nikolaus Cruz.<\/p>\n

The good news is the kids themselves.\u00a0 In a sort of miraculous irruption of grace into a country that is radically unworthy of them, the students of Parkland and many other schools around the country have simply said, \u201cEnough!\u201d and begun<\/a> to organize<\/a> protests<\/a>. The Parkland kids are acting like leaders<\/a> while our leaders are acting like kids. (Nota bene: The selfish children at the White House remarked that the slaughter was a \u201creprieve<\/a>\u201d for their Russia investigation woes, and the Pig-in-Chief immediately tried to make the tragedy All About Him, a spectacle that was crushed into the dust by the kids who endured this slaughter):<\/p>\n

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More than this the kids of Parkland have been smart and articulate and have chosen to turn their trauma into action:<\/p>\n