My Activism
Story
The
Long and Short of It
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2019
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In
the spring of 2006 I sort of stumbled into right wing Christian
activism. People who had made me their reason for waking up in the
morning had inadvertently unleashed me onto the whole of society
after having gotten me kicked off of AOL, where I had from the
fall of 2000 been part of a Christian chat room for five years.
Actually, I was pretty much a main character in that chat room. Some
might even say "The Star of The Show." Sounds odd. But that was the
case. People liked the living soap opera that we had all fallen
into. While I grew
to love many people there, many bad people grew to love causing
me trouble. And after five years it all came to an abrupt end,
which prompted me to write my first article: Click Here
It was actually a long time online friend
who found another AOL article online written by a man who
worked for Alan Keyes and for a website called Renew America. After
reading his article I contacted him and told him a bit about
what had happened to me. He then asked if I would send him an
article about my AOL situation, and I did just that. Renew
America then posted that article of mine on the website and
soon another article and gave me a column there. In the
mean-time, I learned that site's owner was a Book of Mormon pushing
Mormon, and I ended up off of that site quite quickly. The man
who had asked me for my AOL article ended up off of that site soon
after as well. That man and I worked together in activism work for
roughly two years till he had a very serious car accident. We never
worked together again.
Saddened
and in a bit of shock by what had happened with my
activism partner of two years I was basically a sitting duck for
some nuts on another website, a site called Blog Talk Radio. Yes, I
did not seem to learn my lesson and soon found myself thinking that
I had fallen into a place with a lot of great Christians to work
with. I was wrong. For that article, Click Here.
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2025
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That stunt gave me another long-time internet
person in activism who is the one person I do still occasionally
correspond with. Over the years I have spoken with countless people
and got close to some forever special ones. I learned a lot about
people and was able to even help some (here is one story: click here). The best was in the very beginning of my AOL
time when some people came to believe on Jesus Christ for salvation.
My activism included fighting the health care law, Obama Care.
Fighting Obama Care involved speaking at a Tea Party event in
PA and a local town hall style meeting of my own near my home.
During that time, I helped expose the second most powerful woman in
congress, Louise Slaughter for the monster she was and even ended up
on a national news show and a local news show. The local news
station actually had me on for a few other topics as well. Perhaps
the most emotional activism that I worked on was on the 9/11 Flight
93 story. I had met the parents of Tom Burnett Jr. over the phone
and had several phone calls with his mother. For those articles
Click Here.
There's so much more, but I want
to keep this short. --These days I mainly keep to just my
own website with little else. To all who have been with me at
some point in my activism, I wish you all well and joy in our
Lord. I will never forget any of you. Thanks for
everything.
Debra J.M. Smith ©
www.InformingChristians.com