Posted on 04/09/2018 8:50:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
[DHS] wants to track the comings and goings of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a database.
The DHS’s “Media Monitoring” plan, which was first reported by FedBizOpps.gov, would give the contracting company “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.” in order to “identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Unsettling indeed.
Post a critical article on Friday, find yourself on the do-not-fly list on Monday.
“overview of search results in terms of online articles and social media conversations,” in several different languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
The request comes amid concerns regarding accuracy in media and the potential for U.S. elections and policy to be influenced via “fake news.”
Frankly I think DHS is right to do this. Maybe in the interest of the general welfare? They ought to track what the liars are saying so that there can be a CORRECTION of the LIES.
Additionally, the info may help figure out the source of ILLEGAL LEAKS.
“overview of search results in terms of online articles and social media conversations,” in several different languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
The request comes amid concerns regarding accuracy in media and the potential for U.S. elections and policy to be influenced via “fake news.”
Frankly I think DHS is right to do this. Maybe in the interest of the general welfare? They ought to track what the liars are saying so that there can be a CORRECTION of the LIES.
Additionally, the info may help figure out the source of ILLEGAL LEAKS.
Gun owners have to be finger printed, background checked, registered AND pay a fee to exercise their NON-infringable 2nd Amendment rights!
By the same token, journalists and those wishing to exercise their 1st Amendment rights should be required to pass a much tougher test for identification, competency and past/current political/criminal involvement.
Long overdue!
Yeah, I know, but this smells funny.
To be openly announcing about a LIST (that good guys already have as well as the bad guys) doesn’t sound right to anybody, it may be a false flag that’s getting registered to cause a flurry of activity, by the well connected and the Deep State Media Complex, in order to start them closing doors, locking or burning black books, etc., and thereby to generally, *make a mistake* in so doing.
Otherwise, nobody likes the sound of anybody going on any guvmint “List”. (Or, we didn’t used to, anyway.)
“General welfare” is not an enumerated power the Constitution delegated to the feds ( it is a preface to the purpose of the Constitution, not an enumerated power).
And what happens when a Dem wins the White House again? It’s bound to happen. Thanks to W, Obama got all sorts of power that he wouldn’t have had prior.
The First Amendment is fine - we should try it some time. The problem we have with “the media” is that journalists - in particular, journalists working for the Associated Press or for member press organizations belonging to the Associated Press - distort the meaning of the First Amendment beyond all recognition. Journalists pretend that the First Amendment overrodeand
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States
. . . and made
- Article 1 Section 10:
- No state shall . . . grant any title of nobility.
“working for the Associated Press or for a newspaper which is a member thereof” a title of nobility placing them above criticism. In fact we the people have the freedom, and the responsibility to ourselves, to heed the warning of Adam Smith:
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.IMHO the worst "stories which "The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to” and should be "both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing” is the claim that journalists are objective. The evidence to support that wildly unlikely claim is simply nonexistent. The Smith's "The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires” is, by itself, a strong argument for that claim.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Anyone who’s said that we should beat the liberals at their own game shouldn’t be upset about this...
...according to journ-o-lists and media influencers.
CIA and CFR (the House of Rothschild cartel system) always controlled the major journalists along with our economy since 1913 when they put in their System and that evil, bribed (controlled) Pres. Wilson. (The system of Marxist Income Tax Act and Federal Reserve which is neither).
The cartel created magazines, controlling major editors and “journalists” like Walter Duranty—to control perceptions of the masses and flip 2000 years of ethics back to serfdom and slavery. Magazines, like MS, National Geographic, Washington Post, Times, “Newsweek” were created to control the ideology and emotions of the masses, to force Darwinism, Satanism, paganism, materialism and hedonism (all anti-Christian worldviews) and create little non-thinking programmed socialists with lies and misinformation to form warped desires, like a Bernie Sanders, who was probably masturbating in his mother’s basement until age 40, and then went to Moscow to kneel to communism, the ideology which killed, tortured and raped over a hundred million men, women and children.
Socialists all promote slavery of the masses and the State as god. It is anti-freedom, anti-Christian, anti-human, and anti-constitutional. Why we allow socialists to be in control of our “laws” is irrational and evil because they throw out our individual Natural Rights from God which are unalienable—we can’t even give them away!!!!! much less allow “laws” which throw out our Constitution. (All unjust (evil) “law” is “null and void” and must be ejected immediately—Justice Marshall). Unjust laws are antithetical to our Constitution. Any law that infringes on our Natural Rights from God, guaranteed by our Constitution, can NEVER exist in our “Justice” system. We have thousands of judges who need to be removed and put in prison for treason.
Control of our information has been going on for over a hundred years when the ability to effect millions at exactly the same time (with radio) created the ability of Eddy Bernays (Freud’s nephew) to manipulate the emotions and perceptions of the masses by simply marketing the product and embedding emotions like beauty with smoking, particularly by repetition (seeing beautiful, powerful people smoking over and over (to develop particular irrational neuron pathways in the masses which are addictive). Bernays created millions of women committed to smoking cigarettes which prior to the marketing wasn’t happening. Women thought smoking was vulgar and stinky until the mass marketing and controlling the perceptions of children by repetition of images promoting vice.
Vice creates slaves (addicts) for the State slavery. Virtue habituation in children is needed for freedom. Socrates knew that!!! Public schools intentionally destroy virtue now, and embed dependency and “group-non-think” and vice. The artificial system of mass indoctrination destroys creativity and identity, individualism and agency—for dependency and warped desires/addictive irrational behaviors removed from Reality and Truth (God).
The System needs slaves to feed it and believe in it to sustain it. Truth (Christianity) will set us Free—but we allowed the Marxists to “kill God” in minds of our children with Hollywood and public skools. The Wisdom of the Ages (Classical Christian curricula) was ejected by the communist, satanist John Dewey, so they could flip Good and Evil in our children with weaponized curricula, just mind-control our children, so that they “think” Good is Evil, Boys are Girls and Up is Down-—completely removing reason and logic to reduce our children into cattle-—non-thinking animals, so irrational and removed from Reality and Truth (God). They are committing suicide in record numbers and are addicts (drugged slaves) and haters (slaves) for life.
Truth (God) will set us free....and the Marxists are killing God—that Christian concept which created free will/indivdiualism and agency and the Age of Reason, Common Law, Common Sense, Natural Law Theory is being erased for total irrationality (transhumanism—total dehumanization which is removal of Reason from mankind which creates only cattle for the elites to control, herd and kill).
The WHOLE SYSTEM is rotten. Until we get rid of the Federal Reserve and the Marxist Income Tax and the unconstitutional government (most federal agencies/bureaucracies). We need to control of the minds of our children and break up the Hollywood/Google/Facebook monopolies to restore our Christian culture which gave us the Constitution and individualism—the most perfect, most just, most free, most rational “Justice” system in the history of mankind. We need parents to take back shaping and forming the worldview of their own children so agency and virtue formation can once again be the norm—not brainwashed, controlled “bots” like Hogg, the irrational, dehumanized Marxist: totally removed from Truth (God), Reality, Natural Law (common sense), and science/facts.
So all of our media is now State Controlled? This is how free speech ends...
“By the same token, journalists and those wishing to exercise their 1st Amendment rights should be required to pass a much tougher test for identification, competency and past/current political/criminal involvement.”
And a 10 day waiting period before publication so that government fact checkers can research it.
“By the same token, journalists and those wishing to exercise their 1st Amendment rights should be required to pass a much tougher test for identification, competency and past/current political/criminal involvement.”
And a 10 day waiting period before publication so that government fact checkers can research it.
Will this list be the CIA’s new hit list?
“Sauce for the goose!”
Not a police state. Keeping track of media lies and where they are getting their information is perfectly legal.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is being done to suggest the freedom to PUBLISH speech is being infringed.
The real danger to 1A came when BO’s DOJ spied on James Rosen and Sheryl Attkisson. Real violations of the Constitution were happening. Sheryl is still fighting those legal battles.
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