Posted on 12/10/2016 8:08:24 AM PST by EBH
On January 2, 2013 President Barack Obama signed and enacted into “law” HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, more commonly known as the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, was first introduced as the Bloom Bill in December 1945 in the 79th Congress and subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948. It prohibited the Voice Of America (VOA), and all other organizations of diplomacy, from disseminating public diplomacy information programs and materials within the US intended for foreign audiences, and other purposes. The US Congress had critical concerns about a deep-pocket government engaging domestic audiences. It is also said Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 due to a mistrust of the State Department, and a motivation to keep the US government from propagandizing the American People.
HR 4310 in the 2013 NDAA now allows much of what the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 restricted.
From SEC. 501. (a) of HR 4310 The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication
Section 208 states no funding is authorized to influence American public opinion. However, with funds appropriated or otherwise made available to disseminate propaganda to foreigners in the USA via press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication, how can the American Citizen not be influenced?
HR 4310 SEC. 208. CLARIFICATION ON DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION OF PROGRAM MATERIAL. (a) IN GENERAL —No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States.
It is obvious and inevitable that Americans will be soiled by the propaganda machine. HR 4310 touches on this fact when it states the Department of State or Broadcasting Board of Governors are not prohibited from propagandizing US media, in any medium or form of communication, due to to potential that US Citizens may or may not be exposed to such program material. As long as the propaganda is disseminated after the effective date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION —Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated, when appropriate, pursuant to sections 502 and 1005 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1462 and 1437), except that nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to disseminate within the United States any program material prepared for dissemination abroad on or before the effective date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” ― Adolf Hitler
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” ― Adolf Hitler
Linking the 2012 NDAA changes with the renewing NDAA changes reveals our access to information is about to be severely curtailed under the guise of propaganda.
Senate Passes Major Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill as Part of NDAA
PROPAGANDA = FAKE NEWS
only formalizing the fake news they have fed us for decades.
Who decides what is Russian Propaganda and what isn’t?
As long as the government doesn’t tell us what to say or where to say it— I don’t care what they do to non citizens . ANY attempt to control our free speech is Patently unconstitutional and will be bitch slapped to the ground.
Does government propaganda on its own citizens affect freedom of speech?
Does limiting access to other sources besides government approved sources affect freedom of speech?
Say what you want...you have freedom of speech, but the government is about to control what you know, how you think, and what you have access too by controlling the press.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press
...No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States...
Is this were the PBS propaganda machine gets their taxpayer funding?
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