An Oct. 22 WorldNetDaily article by Art Moore promoted a hypothetical letter from a “Christian from 2012” — which predicts that “Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a majority of Democrats in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more” — released by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action.
This is the second report from the future purporting to describe America under a Barack Obama administration that WND has published in the past week. Janet Folger Porter’s Oct. 21 WND column took the same approach.
Moore made no apparent effort to gather reaction from anyone to Dobson’s letter. But as one blogger points out, Dobson’s letter carries the overall structure and tone of “The Turner Diaries,” the far-right novel best known these days as the inspiration for Timothy McVeigh to blow up a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
Instead of publishing fiction about the future, WND might consider reporting on what’s happening now. Heck, it might even want to try doing something totally nutty like — oh, I don’t know — telling the truth about current events.