Check the Source!

Well, watching tv these days just gets me madder and madder. Soon we'll be heading to the polls here in California to vote on the various ballot initiatives and naturally in the meantime we are being bombarded by ads sponsored by self-interest (selfish interest) groups that have oh-so-carefully amputated the truth about these measures before presenting it to us, the television viewers.

In particular, the anti-Proposition 75 and 76 ads have me fuming. I confess I really haven't had a chance to investigate Prop 78 and 79 which are also getting lots of airtime so I have no comment on those. Yet. But as for Prop 75 (see yesterday's posting) and 76, all I can say is the folks sponsoring the "no" ads ought to be ashamed of themselves for being outright liars.

I will write more about 76 as well as all the other propositions in the upcoming days but for now I just would like to say that the best and really only dependable way to learn about each and every proposition is to go to the source. In this case, that would be the official initiative website that belongs to the State of California. There you can read the actual initiatives as well as the arguments for and against each one, without listening to a bunch of subjective and selfish cretins telling you all sorts of lies in an effort to play on your emotions and get you on their side. By reading the actual intitiatives, you will see just how big the lies are in the "no" campaigns, which ought to tell you something about the integrity (or complete absence thereof) of the people sponsoring them.

Of course the sponsors know that most people are too darn lazy to take the time to go to the source and actually have to spend more than 30 seconds trying to digest the meaning of everything so they call your bluff in the ads. Well it is time to call their bluff and actually prove them wrong by going to the source to see for yourselves. You read it, and then see what seems to make the most sense.

There's a passage from the Bible that I feel applies here:

“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.” (Revelations 22:18-19)

The Apostle John was basically saying that the words he set forth in the Book of Revelations were a true account of what had been shown him by God, and that anyone who tried to alter these words would incur God's wrath. Now, whether or not you are a believer, the point of this is that there is a source and one shouldn't try to alter that source. But if you compare what those anti-Prop 75 and 76 ads are telling you versus what the actual intitiative says, you will find little resemblance between them. I do have to give them credit for at least getting the numbers of the propositions correct, however.