1984: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 13:02:43 PST 2022


> @caitoz Proposal: Just Run All Western News Media Directly Out Of CIA

Assault by power against freedom and human voluntary association
self determination etc continues...


The war on wrongthink is not about left or right. It’s about who
rules: a sovereign people or the elites who deign to lord over us.



America's Ruling Regime Doesn't Fear Disinformation... It Fears Truth

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/america-ruling-regime-disinformation-truth/
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1492150917478633473

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-musicians-threaten-remove-music-spotify/
https://www.newsweek.com/2021-year-ruling-class-crackdown-dissent-opinion-1664757
https://twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1481818151683829763
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-domestic-terror-strategy-codifies-woke-war-wrongthink-opinion-1605341
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/homeland-security-terrorist-disagree-government-policy/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ivermectin-beats-meds-treating-omicron/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-robert-malone-interview-covid-vaccine/
https://deadline.com/2022/01/joe-biden-covid-omicron-variant-media-1234911903/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/psaki-big-tech-should-censor-more-misinformation-but-we-believe-in-freedom-of-speech
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-surgeon-general-joe-rogan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/public-health-establishments-covid-flip-flops-should-immunize-against-its-politicization_4218286.html
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/06/democrats-cling-to-j6-mania-because-they-cant-appeal-to-facts-or-their-failed-policies/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/11/biden-administration-parents-who-oppose-racism-are-domestic-terrorists/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-mandates-an-erosion-of-civil-rights-chd-e-book-available-now/
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022
https://www.cisa.gov/mdm


Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most
powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of
the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or
protecting the truth — it’s about intimidating democratic opposition
into silence and submission to an official narrative.

In Joe Biden’s America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is just
counter-terror policy.

This is because our ruling class — in the name of “defending
democracy” — classifies those who question the regime on any matter of
consequence as a threat to the homeland, and pledges to pursue them
accordingly.

Our ruling elites have engaged in an overt war on wrongthink
masquerading as a domestic counter-terror mission since at least Jan.
6, 2021.

As part of this effort, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
recently issued a speech-chilling National Terrorism Advisory System
Bulletin.

It claims the U.S. is in a “heightened threat environment fueled by
several factors, including an online environment filled with false or
misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis-
dis- and mal-information.”

    Here's concerning new language in Department of Homeland Security
bulletin about domestic terrorism that could have potential
ramifications for anyone questioning government
institutions.https://t.co/JcJrfgUbn2
    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 11, 2022

Among the greatest contributors to the current “threat environment,”
according to the bulletin, is the “widespread online proliferation of
false or misleading narratives regarding … COVD-19.”

It would appear the Biden administration considers the
ivermectin-hocking, tequila-swigging, Bernie Sanders-supporting Rogan
to be public enemy number one on this issue.

Shortly after hosting dissenters from COVID orthodoxy including Drs.
Peter McCullough and the then-recently deplatformed Robert Malone on
his podcast, Rogan found himself the subject of a cancel campaign
contrived by washed-up musicians, non-medical doctors and corporate
media whose ratings he has crushed.

But it wasn’t just these parties out for blood.

No less than the president of the U.S, his press secretary and surgeon
general contributed to the anti-Rogan jihad, calling for war on COVID
“misinformation and disinformation.”

This effort was, to put it mildly, disingenuous. We know how seriously
to take the administration’s views on COVID “misinformation and
disinformation” because by its own standards the White House, and its
media mouthpieces, have been the most powerful and prolific purveyors
of “misinformation.”

The administration has flip-flopped on virtually every aspect of the
coronavirus to positions that its social media adjuncts used to ban
people over. It did so not because “the science” has changed, but
because the politics have changed.

Biden’s White House says its critics are dangerous — not to the
public, but to its rule, as if that rule is equivalent to America or
democracy itself, as Dr. Anthony Fauci is to science.

As the DHS bulletin notes, the first key driver of the “heightened
threat environment” is the “proliferation of false or misleading
narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S.
government institutions.”

Never mind what those government institutions themselves have done to
sow discord or undermine public trust, like, say, calling for Twitter
and Facebook to censor people.

It’s the critics, the dissenters — those with no monopoly on force or
multi-trillion-dollar budgets — who are the real scourge.

The bulletin lists as another potential threat “false or misleading
narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” —
perpetuating the narrative of “insurrection” so central to the effort
to persecute wrongthinkers, while eliding that Democrats‘ own election
integrity-eroding measures destroyed confidence in the system.

Previous Biden-era bulletins similarly focused on COVID-19 and
election integrity, but the latest one — in a new twist — also claims
that calls for violence have been tied to anger over “the evacuation
and resettlement of Afghan nationals following the U.S. military
withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

So it’s not just questioning the merits of mask and vaccine mandates,
or skepticism over the security of mass mail-in elections, but doubts
about the wisdom of dropping unvetted refugees from a terror-dominated
backwater into the middle of your town that could get you in trouble
with the security state.

This threat bulletin, like its no less disturbing predecessors, flows
naturally from the Biden administration’s first-of-its-kind National
Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.

That strategy calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic
terrorism, including:

    “… enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme
polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation
… We will work toward finding ways to counter the influence and impact
of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to
terrorist violence.”

Linking speech that does not comport with regime orthodoxy to terror,
and using that pretext to police thought — with an armed “Ministry of
Truth” operating out of our national security and law enforcement
apparatus — therefore manifestly is “counter-terror” policy

Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most
powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of
the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or
protecting the truth, but intimidating democratic opposition into
silence and submission to an official narrative.

The regime evidently believes it must maintain a monopoly over the
American mind to maintain a monopoly on power.

Joe Rogan threatened that power, and therefore constituted a danger.
The threat was that he elicited insights from guests who challenged
the regime’s credibility on all manner of issues related to COVID, and
millions of people heard it.

Trump and his allies likewise threatened that power, and therefore
constituted a danger. They were — and continue to be — pursued like
terrorists, as the House January 6 Committee wields the full force of
the federal government to investigate them, surveil their
communications and audit their dealings.

Why? Trump and his allies called the regime a failure, stated
undeniable truths that resonated with Americans to justify that view
and supported policies aimed at rectifying said failures that would
disempower the ruling elites.

The most meek and unthreatening of January 6 defendants now face
extreme, hyper-political prosecutions. They are being made an example
of not because they ever posed a credible threat to the regime’s
power, but as a signal to the millions of peaceful, patriotic
Americans who might — through their collective speech, advocacy and
voting.

The same goes for the parents outraged over anti-scientific and
detrimental COVID-19 policies, and overcritical race theory
indoctrination in schools. The Department of Justice threatened to
pursue them like jihadists — not because they are jihadists, but
because parents awakened to the regime’s corrupt monopoly on the
all-important institution of education could break that monopoly and
end the careers of the politicians who support it. They must therefore
be chilled.

The war on wrongthink is not about left or right. It’s about who
rules: a sovereign people or the elites who deign to lord over us.

The ruling class — the “defenders of democracy” — sees citizens on the
left and right opposed to its agenda and refuses to address their
concerns peaceably. Instead, it calls them terror threats and pursues
them using the full power of the public and like-minded private
sectors.

The ruling class does not fear misinformation and disinformation. It
fears truth, particularly the truth about its own rot, corruption and
incompetence, which calls into question its authority.

This leaves us with a question: when everyone, from unorthodox
presidents to curious podcasters to caring parents are deemed
existential threats to the regime, how strong is the regime?


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