Conspiracy Theory

It's about power. It keeps happening. But I can't prove it. And no one will say. The perfect ingredients for a conspiracy theory.

This will be the third time, that I know of, that this has happened with Mormon material on Google. It started last year.

Someone I know sent a Letter to the Editor to the Wall Street Journal. A real letter. (In the U.S. Mail.) There had been a puff piece Op-Ed about Mitt Romney, and this guy wanted to explain the other side.

To establish some credibility about being knowledgeable about Mormonism, he included a screen shot from Google. At the time, if you did an image search for "Anti-Mormon," his photo was close to the top. ["Anti-Mormon" is the derogatory, bigoted term the Mormon church use to describe Evangelical Christians. It's a typical cult trick. It poisons the well. It sends a clear message to Mormons. "Don't be talking with those Christians." But if they have the truth, what do they have to fear?]

A couple months after sending the Letter to the Editor, the photo was gone from Google, nowhere to be found!

Then, later, out of the blue, someone forwarded me an email wondering if Mormons owned Google. He noticed that this message "The sect broke away from the Mormon church more than a century ago and has been disavowed by the Mormons. ..." appeared on any article about  polygamy or the FLDS or Warren Jeffs. (This was when the Colorado City Mormon polygamists were big news.)

Poof!

And now this. Just last month, I tooted my own trumpet when I was surprised to find my parody of Hugh Hewitt's book was number one in a Google image search.

I would check occasionally after that post, just to see how it was doing.

When I checked today, after Mitt Romney's faith speech - Poof! It's gone.

I can't find it even if I get very specific in the search. My other graphics pop up. But not the Mittmoud Romnidinejad parody. Not even in its various permutations. (There were some small "ad type" versions, poking fun that Mr. Hewitt's book was being given away. That's one way to increase "sales.")

Third time isn't very charming

So that's three. It's just too coincidental. I can't prove it, but I think there's some Mormon insider at Google, doing the "work of their lord." Of course, no Mormon would admit to that. Even if true.

Control Google and you control the world?

Really, this isn't so far out. Google is becoming so large, who ever controls it has the power of virtual life or death over your Internet existence.  [I can see government regulation coming. That would be even worse than partisan private individuals. Google might now be like the Liberal MSM, censoring Conservatives, but under government regulation, it would become worse. Like NPR.]

If you can't beat 'em, silence 'em.

Like all good conspiracy theories, that a Mormon inside Google would suppress speech is not without merit. I've written before about how the Mormon church routinely seeks to silence it's critics. The Mormon church bought up a public Main Street (literally) to stop Evangelical Christians from speaking to Mormons about religion. Wow, just like that Scientology cult! Scientologist founder, seer and revelator, L. Ron Hubbard said, "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage, rather than win." (Even the ACLU in Utah came to the aid of Christians on the Main Street Plaza case. That ought to tell you something.)

The battle is the Lord's

Naturally I'm disappointed when people pull tricks like this. But it's to be expected. People have been silencing prophets since the Cain first slew Abel. And of course, the Jews had Jesus executed because they didn't like what He said. So I suppose I should be encouraged instead of disappointed.

But I won't be fooled twice. I'll not trumpet again any success the Lord grants me with this blog.

God works in mysterious ways. Through you?

I don't like "quoting" that, because it's not in the Bible. (I thought it was from a Disney movie, but can't prove it.) But it makes a catchy subhead.

Maybe you can help me outsmart Google. If you think the photo is funny, poignant and deserves to be seen, please copy the original from here. Save it to your own photo host service and post it on your website or blog with the text "A Mormon in the White House" near by. Maybe a short sentence telling how the photo was pulled from the search engines if you want. But don't mention this blog by name "romneyforpresident" or they might filter it from you too.

Is this Mitt Romney's America?

The takeaway from this is: Is this the America YOU want? Just now, a lady caller on Rush Limbaugh called it right. After Rush's glowing commendation of  Mitt Romney's faith speech, the lady said she thought Mitt Romney was using his Mormonism as a defense. That whenever she asked an innocent question about how Mormonism might affect a Mormon President, she was instantly labeled a "bigot." (Just like Hugh Hewitt does!)

Good for her. She sees the same thing the Salt Lake Weekly sees about Mormons. They have the typical cult persecution complex.

But go ahead. Put a Mormon in the White House. Elect Mitt Romney for President. And then, if your comments mysteriously vanish, you can join me in my conspiracy theory.

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Like Mormonism, the blog isn't what it seems.

(Funny photos too.)