Posted on 08/27/2016 8:49:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Perhaps the most interesting development in this most interesting of presidential election seasons has been the convergence of the power of the Freedom of Information Act with the power of the Internet. The impact of these conjoined forces may well determine the political fate of one of our presidential candidates.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law, fittingly, on July 4, 1966. This piece of legislation, which has been amended and strengthened numerous times since its inception, is a testament to that unique "American exceptionalism" of which Barack Obama was so famously dismissive at a NATO summit meeting in February 2009. (Who can forget “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”?) FOIA truly embodies the spirit of Lincoln's immortal description of America representing "government of the people, by the people, for the people." It requires our government to be accountable to its citizens by allowing anyone to demand that the records of its operations be produced to those very citizens.
The Internet -- that other great product of American exceptionalism -- allows for the immediate dissemination of thousands of pages of raw documents to millions of people simultaneously. That immense set of eyes belongs to individuals with expertise in a wide array of fields, like medicine, national security, and forensic accounting (not to mention ethics).
Therein lies a problem for Hillary Clinton.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
...Therein lies a problem for Hillary Clinton...
But, the MSM and her other tail wagging, boot licking lackeys are trying to convince everyone that it isn’t one.
My prediction is that the Hillary/Obama corruption is now, in the face of this, going to enter into a new and even more dangerous realm: the falsification of government records. It’s the next step in covering their tracks, and I have no doubt that their criminality and corruption will not balk at this line of defense.
Use the old clinton fallback:
Deny the truth repeatedly — get media to repeat ad nauseum. Evidence be damned.
Delay by not cooperating with investigations. “What difference at this point does it make?”
Deflect (example: blame a YouTube video, or a “vast right-wing conspiracy”)
Destroy the reputations of her or her husbands accusers (Nuts and Sluts campaign, reduce investigations to “right-wing conspiracy theorists,” continually call the investigation a “witch hunt.”)
It's worked for decades keeping them from prosecution.
JMHO, but I Think Ben Franklin would approve of the interNet.
Hey, wait a minute. Shouldn’t we be discussing more important things The Masses care about like Trump’s racist remarks, or his bullying, or his Jew-hating anti-Semitic campaign manager?
just one problem: US gives up control of internet in a couple months to global interests.
hildabeast is already threatening to “shut down” websites like breitbart.
could get edgie.
just one problem: US gives up control of internet in a couple months to global interests.
hildabeast is already threatening to “shut down” websites like breitbart.
could get edgie.
I hope the SEC is taking a close look at the emails, especially the timing of the letting of DOS contracts, the addressees, and their trading records.
Free Republic...
Aren’t are leaders giving away control of the internet or is that story bull hockey?
She wins,all conservative websites will be gone.Trump wins,he goes to war with everyone trying to take down America.It will be bloody,but our enemies will learn respect.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV)
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
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....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
And ridicule your opponents.
Last night I unfortunately saw Austin Goolsbee the Hillary surrogate on Hannity and wanted to reach out and strangle him - he actually said, “Look Sean, I know you’re SCARED, your side is losing badly,” as if talking to a small child - but all very calculated and sounding deceptively friendly.
When the MSM will not do its job and defend the rights of the people from an overbearing government, then patriots are forced to do it themselves. Now the cost of finding and moving information has dramatically decreased and one man has the power of the printing press. So what will the totalitarians do -— Watch for a severe crackdown on the internet, (they are already demonizing Breitbart because they cannot control it). We are in a scary time where the bill of rights is being threatened by a one-party government. Hillary/Obama have used the police powers of the state to destroy political opponents. They are totalitarians.
When the Party and the Media are of the same ideology, no ownership is needed nor is it desired. Your reprise of Orwell reminds me strikingly of the video cut on the US State Dept.'s record of Fox's James Rosen asking an 'unfortunate' question. Down the memory hole! True, the 'cut' has been discovered BUT not the identity of the ordering official. Also of interest in THIS case, the Winston-like tech who did the actual cut, made no known protest about altering history. Just a good functionary, following orders!
Sure the government lies. And we know the media lie. But in a democracy, they are not the SAME lies.
Projection. Means (for those of you in Rio Lindo) ascribing to your enemies your own vices, shortcomings, lies.
And who as been silent through this whole email/server mess??? John Kerry. Makes one wonder how much he has been cleaning up in his email while we all obsess over Hillary.
You didn’t expect him to say anything did you?
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