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Gideon Rachman's blog:
I knew that there was something odd going on, when I woke up at 7am on Tuesday and found that over 200 e-mails had arrived in the seven hours that I had been in bed. It turned out that my article on world government had been "Drudged" - ie put on the much-read Drudge Report and this had set off a torrent of e-mail traffic.
The pace of comments - and their vituperative tone - persuaded the blog-masters here to shut down the comments section on that article pretty quickly.
…the whole experience has given me an insight into the mindset of the gun-toting, bible-bashing, nationalistic bit of the United States.
1) There is an unbelievable amount of anger and hatred out there - directed at everything from the United Nations to big business to Barack Obama. These people can read, but they cannot think.
2) The "End of Days" crowd is very strong. I would say that about a third of the e-mails I got referred me to the Book of Revelations - in which, apparently, it is all foretold. In an idle moment, I e-mailed one of my correspondents back and said that I have never read Revelations, since I am an atheist. Big mistake.
3) There are a lot of people who believe not only that global warming is a hoax but that it is actually a conspiracy. The fact that the most influential reports on climate change have been produced by an intergovernmental panel (IPCC) - sponsored by the UN - fuels this theory. The idea is that the UN is perpetuating a climate-change hoax, to provide an excuse to impose a world government on America. I'm all part of it apparently.
4) I can see what Obama means by referring to "bitter" people clinging to guns and religion. And clinging is the word. Several people informed me that I would only remove their guns "from my cold, dead hands".
But something positive has also come out of this experience. If the newspaper industry really goes down the pan …
… I now have a business plan. I will claim to be a former member of the Bilderberg/Illuminati/Council on Foreign Relations/UN/Zionist establishment and write a book revealing the inside story of a plot to form a world government. It will sell millions.