I just attempted to E-mail one of my Senators about the urgency of his "yes" vote for the so-called "Taylor Force Bill". This is the bill that would defund the Palestinian Authority of the $350,000,000.00 in foreign aid we have been giving to them, annually; out of which they have been paying rewards ( or bounties, is perhaps a more accurate term) to the surviving family members of terrorists, who murder Israeli citizens, and sometimes western tourists; like Taylor Force, the American, after whom the bill was named. Since Palestinian families generally live in such poor conditions, this practice essentially encourages poor Palestinian youths to help their families by committing murder, in Israel. If they die in the process, their families receive even more money!
The urgency of this bill's passage is apparently obvious to everyone in America, probably Democrats, and Republicans, alike, except in the halls of Congress, and probably the International Socialists at the State Department, which is probably everyone there!!! We have been hearing about this for some time, so why is it taking Congress so long to make the obvious decision??? I think I smell State Department meddling, here, as those idiots don't seem to care what these "Podunk" countries do with the aid they are given, but cutting it off probably seems to them a way of terminating U.S. influence. Well. so be it!!! What has our influence there gotten us to date. anyway???
As this bill has already passed the House, and the issue is so blatantly "cut, and dry", I suggested that an "up, or down vote" should be called for immediately, without the pomposity of silly debating on the issue. Any Congressman who can not see the urgency here has no right to expect to be re-elected this Fall!
I expressed myself similarly, in my E-mail, but there was certainly no threat expressed, or implied, in my message! Yet, when I hit the "Submit" button, instead of a confirmation that my E-mail had been sent, I received a message saying my E-mail had not bee sent, because "a security threat had been detected"! When I exited the web page, and tried to return, I found that I could not get through! There was not enough time for a human to receive my E-mail, read it, judge it as "threatening", and reject it! Therefor I assume a computer has been programmed to weed out various "threatening" words, and phrases, similar to that which goes on at the National Security Agency, which snoops on International phone calls. The difference there is that the computer merely notes the possible threats for human review, weeding out the millions of non-threatening calls. If the Congressional system does actually reject the "threats" from reaching the Congressman's office, this represents a step forward in censorship, not because of actual threat, but because of computer incompetence. It's hard to believe that any of my words could seem threatening; whomever programmed it must have some very thin skin, emotionally, on their own right, or on behalf of some very sensitive Congressmen!!! But I will find out if this Congressman does not vote for passage of this bill; and I promise I will remember it in November, when it comes time for re-election! And that is not a threat, it's a promise!!!
UPDATE: [2 hours later]:
After reflecting on the above, I realized that I did use a word that a computer program might have associated with a threat. In explaining the seriousness of the "Taylor Force" bill, I mentioned it was named for the American tourist who was murdered while visiting Israel. I now suspect that a program might have selected out any references to the word "murder", in any tense. And, without any human capacity to discern the context, it probably assumed I was making a threat against my Congressman. I later rewrote my E-mail to him, using a substitute word for "murder", and it was received after I submitted it.
The closest I came to threatening him was to promise that I would find out if he voted against the bill, and vote accordingly next November, or whenever he is up next for re-election!
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