Posted on 12/04/2023 9:35:14 AM PST by John Semmens
This week, in testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government, journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed that "US And UK military contractors worked to both censor and use sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics developed abroad against the American people. The Supreme Court ruled that the government may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what the government is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish. Yet, there was a regular organized stream of communication between the FBI, DHS, and the largest tech companies to flag content in enormous numbers involving spreadsheets of accounts that ran into the hundreds of thousands of pages."
"Now, Jack Smith, the Department of Justice attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for allegedly inciting the January 6 'insurrection' is also targeting everyone who likes or forwards his tweets on social media," Shellenberger added. "The scope, power, and law-breaking of the surveillance and censorship for the purpose of election interference are worse than ever."
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas called these intrusions "necessary to defend our democracy from the MAGA terrorists who are abusing freedom of speech to manipulate voters into rejecting the heroic efforts of President Biden and the Democratic Party to save the country from the counterrevolution against progressive policies that former President Trump is trying to force on America. Impeding the spread of wrong ideas is a vital component for achieving the kind of cognitive security that President Biden says is essential for unifying the people behind the common good."
Interestingly, the most frequently censored presidential candidate this year has been Robert Kennedy, jr. Mayorkas cited this interference as "proof that our efforts are non-partisan. It isn't only the right-wing extremists of the MAGA Republicans that threaten our democracy. Mr. Kennedy's rabid opposition to the President's successful measures against the covid pandemic undermine the public's confidence in the President's efforts to encourage the frequent vaccine boosters needed to protect their health."
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As a former federal employee, it is my civic duty to maintain a contrary belief that the federal government acts on behalf f John Q and Jane Q Public!!
It does not.
As another, I concluded that most of the drones at the worker level have no idea of the larger picture. The middle managers drool over promotions and know little or nothing of those under their supervision, and the branch managers stay way too long at their positions.
The tyranny of do-gooder tyrants is identical to the tyranny of hateful ones, except the do-gooders nearly break their arms patting themselves on the back.
I can agree, from my imes as Census2000 Ffice Super, and Program Clerk in the pre2005 New Orleans VA -Katrina ripped open all the ostrich holes.
As a QA at a aircraft manufacturer ...all bets were off, and then when conracts ended and theompany shutting down it was hell.
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