There are extremist terrorist murders - There are extremist con-men - There’s not much in between.

With the exception of extremists who kill with bullets and bombs, extremist are in it for the money.

People like the Boston Marathon bombers and the Oklahoma City bomber kill and are willing to die killing for their extremist beliefs. 

No the CSA is not Confederate States of America, It’s the Christian Seniors Association.

Monty Python could not do better. 

The roll on the floor laughing punch line comes at the end of this SPLC HATEWATCH blog post.

The extremists that I know like Pat Sellers, probably do believe what the say, but they make money off their beliefs. 

They run cons to fire up believers into contributing or buying some product they sell. They are political consultants. And they sometimes run for office and win to make even more money. 

The CSA has been sucking money out of gullible seniors for several years.  The Christian Seniors Association's latest con is outstanding in its irony. You can't make this stuff up.

“The Christian Seniors Association, a project of the anti-LGBT hate group Traditional Values Coalition, is at it again... 

In its latest letter, the CSA makes the case that the Affordable Care Act is how President Obama is going to “institutionalize ObamaCare so that we can never get rid of it.” He’s determined to do this, the CSA continues, “because nationalized health care is the link that connects his promise to ‘fundamentally transform’ America and his drive to turn America into a Socialist state.” 

In 2006, the CSA mailed letters with bogus “U.S. Taxpayer Census” forms as part of a packet that included a survey about Social Security and warnings about politicians raiding the program for personal gain. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the mailing did not explicitly point out that money donated to CSA would go directly to TVC. 

Right Wing Watch also pointed out that CSA/TVC mailed its “Taxpayer Census Forms” out again in 2008, which garnered concerns from some senior citizens who had received them. And in 2010, CSA sent out more packets, attempting to fundraise in order to lobby against President Obama and AARP for their “socialist agenda.” 

But this current letter plays on historic memes, including the famous right-wing fabrication of “death panels” – the right wing worry that government-sponsored “panels” will determine which individuals are “worthy” of healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. The claim derives from a provision in the ACA in which Medicare would reimburse doctors who discuss end-of-life wishes with patients and ensure those preferences are followed. To right wing media, however, it was “evidence” that doctors would somehow talk their elderly patients into “euthanasia.” 

Nonetheless, the CSA states that, “For us, ObamaCare means more than the end of freedom and the advent of socialism. For us, ObamaCare means the institution of DEATH PANELS that will decide what health care we can receive,” putting “death panels” in caps throughout the letter, to ensure you see the term... 

So how can you help the CSA in its war against Obama, socialism, LGBT people, death panels, and AARP? Send money. Lots. The CSA requests just over $5 million to “deliver a series of fatal blows to ObamaCare.”

But before you deliver those fatal blows, go over to the CSA website for your daily dose of irony, where you can sign up for the CSA Insurance Exchange/Marketplace. Billed as a private health insurance exchange, the CSA marketplace explains how the Affordable Care Act provides a public exchange funded by the federal government that ensures all Americans access to quality, affordable healthcare. If that’s not your bag, the page explains how private exchanges offer alternatives to people who don't qualify for a government subsidy. 

And then you can speak to a licensed agent. One wonders if that agent will bring up DEATH PANELS, socialism or the war on Christians. Somehow, we doubt it.

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Christian Seniors Association Drags Out Healthcare Falsehoods, Warns of ‘Death Panels’

By Evelyn Schlatter on November 10, 2014 - 4:02 pm, Posted in Anti-LGBT