When the economy is down, unemployment is up, racism is up, sexism is up, conservatism is up, religious activities are up, police brutality is up, and rumors are up; but wisdom and intelligence are down. This is due to the fact that people struggle to maintain their vital necessities, which are usually hard to find. Articles in magazines such as National Lampoon or National Enquirer or People and other tabloids used to be challenged by people who were attacked. As the character of those tabloids was disclosed to everyone, people being slandered decided to just ignore them, without spending their valuable time, in addition to the high cost of fighting them in the court. That is why character defamation is usually left unresponsive. By the advent of the internet, innumerable e-papers were established, which made it even harder to follow them all and find disparaging sites. As a result more outrages articles were invented in order to attract stupid eyes and sell commercials.
The most dishonest organizations, in their actions, their words, and their mission, are anti-abortion organizations. In cahoots with religious organizations and the Right-Wing political parties, they have been able to inhibit many women's rights of choice. With the false claim of "pro-life" of unborn babies, they have killed many people and have damaged the lives of many more. When they called on preventing an abortion clinic doctor, Dr. Tiller, from his practice, they in fact called on a wholly war against the doctor, who survived the first attack by a mindless lunatic and was perished the second time another lunatic opened fire on him. In order to entice the flock of sheep such organizations usually trail, they called him: "Dr. Tiller the baby killer". These organizations are well funded by religious leaders and Right-Wing politicians, and they can spread their venom far, and deep into communities. They have many websites operating under various names and copying each other's lies. One such website is called Life Site News which has posted an article with the picture of a beautiful baby with a button attached to his attire reading "Say No to Pepsi". Right-wing is so negative that every time they are trying to invent a slogan the content turns out to be negative starting with "say no"! Remember presidential election of 2012? Well, this article was posted during that time and in the hype of that election early in the year. The title of this article is: "Obama agency rules Pepsi use of cells derived from aborted fetus 'ordinary business'", That claims "in a decision delivered Feb 28th, President Obama's Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that PepsiCo's use of cells derived from aborted fetal remains in their research and development agreement with Senomyx to produce flavor enhancers falls under 'ordinary business operations'". The article sounds unbelievable and disgusting, and only those with corrupted mind who believed that Chinese people eat baby brain in order to increase their life longevity could believe such nonsense. Sometimes it is hard to believe that someone right a long article fabricating every sentence. Therefore, I continued checking every angle of this story.
After checking Senomyx's website, no relationship was found between this San Diego based company and PepsiCo. There is nothing on PepsiCo site as to what the ingredient to its drinks are, as they have always kept such information confidential. The only way to prove that this article was distributing rumors about Obama was to rely on some fact checking sites: http://www.snopes.com/
The political and economical system in this country (and the rest of the Western world) is broken to the point that the distinction between right and wrong is murky, and requires sophisticated outlets for analyzing issues. rumor spreading outlets are increasing and multiplying and one has to be careful what kind of information one receives, and especially check the source of the information for validity. Of course when it is as absurd as this article, the poisonous venom is clearly seen from the first line! I am just lucky that I don't like Pepsi! However, the Anti-Choice people are progressing in limiting women's choice in some state, they loose in some others due to their hostile approaches:
"Angel Dillard is going to trial after successfully harassing and intimidating a doctor who planned to provide abortion services in Kansas:
"With one move, (Roeder) was able... to accomplish what we had not been able to do," Dillard said. "So he followed his convictions, and I admire that."
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/...
That quote didn't help her case:
"Angel Dillard is going to trial after successfully harassing and intimidating a doctor who planned to provide abortion services in Kansas:
Dillard is a notorious anti-choice radical with ties to Scott Roeder, the confessed murderer of Dr. George Tiller. In 2011, after Tiller’s murder, Dillard sent a letter to Means. At the time Dillard sent the letter, Means was preparing to start offering abortion services at the clinic of the late abortion provider. In the letter to Means, Dillard presented a “vision” of what Means’ life would look like should she start providing abortions in Wichita, Kansas. In that letter, Dillard explained how thousands of people from across the country were already scrutinizing Means’ background. Soon, Dillard promised, they would know “your habits and routines. They know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live,” Dillard wrote. “You will be checking under your car every day—because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.”Dillard somehow successfully argued in 2014 that her letter was free speech. This week the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed:
In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals panel said a jury could reasonably find that the letter conveyed a true threat of violence. “The context in this case includes Wichita’s past history of violence against abortion providers, the culmination of this violence in Dr. Tiller’s murder less than two years before Defendant mailed her letter, Defendant’s publicized friendship with Dr. Tiller’s killer, and her reported admiration of his convictions,” the appeals court wrote in its decision.Angela Dillard was quoted in an Associated Press article saying how much she admired Scott Roeder, the man who shot and killed Dr. George Tiller in his church. Dillard, a Christian songwriter, told the Associated Press in July 2009 that she developed a friendship with Roeder when he was imprisoned awaiting trial.
"With one move, (Roeder) was able... to accomplish what we had not been able to do," Dillard said. "So he followed his convictions, and I admire that."
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/...
That quote didn't help her case:
The appeals court panel wrote that reading the AP story did nothing to allay Dr. Means’ concerns: “She believed that Defendant’s admiration of Mr. Roeder suggested a likelihood that she too would go ‘from protester to murderer,’ and she remained very anxious that Defendant or her associates would indeed place an explosive under her car as suggested by the letter.”Full article can be found at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/30/1407327/-Court-rules-anti-abortion-extremist-who-sent-a-Kansas-doctor-a-threatening-letter-will-stand-trial?detail=email"
