Posted on 05/15/2024 12:22:30 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Last fall, a congressional report revealed that I was on a secret list of public figures compiled by agencies within the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with Stanford University, that was used to pressure social media companies into suppressing and censoring my public statements.
This was all part of an “Election Integrity Project” that was created in the summer of 2020. Ostensibly, the goal was to prevent the spread of so-called “disinformation,” which the Washington establishment considers a threat to “democracy”—words that in recent years have become political weapons divorced from any meaning. In reality, this project was nothing more than unelected bureaucrats engaging in extreme violations of the First Amendment in order to meddle in an election and oust an incumbent president.
On a personal level, the idea that I was being surveilled and my public statements suppressed is disturbing. But what should be disturbing to all of us is that there are still so many people—even self-professed conservatives—heavily invested in denying that this is happening. This is the core of Schoenfeld’s argument: the laughable assertion that none of the major characteristics social scientists have traditionally used to define a totalitarian regime can be plausibly identified in contemporary America.
As someone who was inspired from an early age by the works of Solzhenitsyn and Havel, I know I have not earned the high honor of being called a dissident. But as one of the only journalists who debunked the Russia collusion lie put forth by Democrats and intelligence operatives, I’ve had some fights with the government I never dreamed possible in America. And as the author of a bestselling book highlighting some of the indefensible corruption of the 2020 election, I obviously haven’t earned any friends in the censorship industrial complex.
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So, where is the lawsuit for civil rights violations?
Where is the ACLU?
The line between Democrat DC and neo-Marxist DC has become increasingly blurred in the last 50 years. George Bush helped put administrative pieces in place, and Barack Obama and his woke/neo-marxist handlers finished the conversion, and gave them specific long-term goals
Trump becoming President merely brought them out into the open.
> Is This the Start of an American Stasi?
No, it’s a continuation.
Started a few years ago.
American Stasi. The Gazpacho (Gestapo).
Capitol Police, other agencies.
If this guy had an editor he could have an impact.
The Stasi existed for 40 years. It compiles between 900 million and a billion pages of information. (some were destroyed)
The archive still exists and is open for searches, so this is not a guess.
Back of the envelope, at a minimum, the NSA/CIA compile that amount every two days on Americans.
The Stasi were complete pikers compared to America’s police state.
This is the most pervasive and intrusive government in all of human history. Not even close. Stalin, Hitler and Kim never dreamed of having this much of a window into people’s lives. It’s beyond what Orwell could even imagine.
Department of Homeland Defense...
And who started that one?
Beelzebub Biden and the communist party is a dire threat to free speech in America. The gag order and ridiculous trials on Trump makes it crystal clear. These people are dangerous.
Already here, just becoming Obvious.
Homeland Security. The agency with the creepy nazi sounding name and the same manpower as the USMC but almost twice the budget.
We’re past lawsuits now.
I remember back in 1968 the conspiracy theorists were warning us of the coming FEDERAL POLICE FORCE! Maybe this is it.
The next election could well be a structural turning point, one way or the other. If Trump wins, the anti-MAGA's will be seriously displeased.
It was that Act that also moved the BATFE from the Treasury Department and over to the DoJ... Which, moves them from a Tax agency to an law Enforcement agency creating a Constitutional crisis that has yet to be resolved.
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July 17, 2008 2:23 PM
Via Hot Air, what is Barack Obama talking about when he says we need a “civilian national security force” that is “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military?
(If he’s talking “Team America,” he’s finally proposed an idea I like.)
Obama referred to it in a speech, but the reference then disappeared from transcripts. Is it just a catch-all term for our current non-military security agencies – FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, DHS, etc.?
Or are we talking about a “Civilian National Security Force”?
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https://www.wnd.com/2008/07/69784/
Obama’s ‘Big Brother’ vanishes from speech
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published July 16, 2008 at 9:37pm
Democrat Sen. Barack Obama’s stunning assertion in a recent speech that the U.S. needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force is not included in published transcripts of his prepared remarks.
In the July 2 speech in Colorado Springs, Obama insisted the U.S. “cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.”
Campaign officials have declined to return any of a series of WND telephone calls over several days requesting comment. Nor have they posted a transcript of the speech on their website.
The lines are not included in a transcript of the prepared remarks published by the Denver Post and Wall Street Journal.
A few conservatives were sounding the alarm with the Patriot Act.
But Neocons (most conservatives were Neocons in the 2000s) denounced them as "Islamo-fascist, terrorist loving, cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
I used to joke about the black helos being outside my home.Now that I have a family member who works in CISA, I wonder...
The two BIGGEST commie blunders GWB made were 1) establishment of the TSA, and 2) creation of DHS.
They were both created out of fear and are perpetuated by pure oppression.
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