Posted on 06/08/2023 4:11:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Warfare requires deception. The federal government habitually lies to the American people. Consider that an admission that it sees itself at war with those it claims to serve.
You might have noticed that the word "propaganda" has been somewhat retired from polite conversation. Occasionally, some State-allied news corporation will apply the term to a public statement coming from inside Russia, but otherwise, the idea that governments promote falsehoods cloaked as official truths has quietly disappeared.
Instead, ordinary information enjoyed and shared among regular people is now targeted for classification. An alliance of national governments, international institutions, and propaganda engines disguised as disinterested nonprofits has sprung up to toss "unacceptable" thoughts into garbage piles for "mis-," "mal-," and "dis-" information trash bins. As with everything else in modern society, the cult of expertise has even given us "disinformation experts" to decide what knowledge belongs where.
The small coterie of "disinformation experts" recognized and promoted by governments then monitor what the common people are saying among themselves, cast their nets around anything "unacceptable," and stigmatize those words and thoughts as deserving of censorship. Perhaps one day soon there will be academic degrees in "disinformation" or special licenses distinguishing State-approved professionals as qualified to tell the rest of us what is real. As a rule of thumb, if you want to know what kinds of knowledge governments fear their citizens possessing, look to the subjects that require numerous layers of authority validation before access is granted or titles are conferred. Now the knowledge that governments fear their citizens possessing is simply information outside their control.
In this way, officials have flipped the script on propaganda. Rather than the people calling out governments for their lies, governments pre-emptively defame their citizens as liars. How do governments know when their citizens are "lying"? Easy.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The communists always do this.
The Government has classified over 1 BILLION documents.
95% are classified to keep the American people from seeing them.
My Navy has a saying: "If you ain't cheatin'; you ain't winning"
One also notices that the words, "traitor" and "treason," don't appear in columnists' conversations as fitting descriptions of Demonicrats and their actions that give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Our government has been taken over by deep state forces in a new kind of warfare. Our government, businesses, leaders, media and even gangs have been taken over. These people make Al Capone look like an amateur.
The progressives have weaponized the government and the law.
In so doing they have forfeited their right to exist, to breathe. They must be destroyed. There is no other permanent course of action
Look at how much Americans put up with and accepted during the "COVID" fraud, and for how long they did so. Americans, the bulk of them anyway, will silently consent to just about anything, evidently. And those weak-minded, spineless, selfish morons will drag all of us to the gulags with them.
It’s TIME.
This is a very well written article explaining our current state of affairs. Thanks for posting it.
You are welcome. J.B. Shurk is a very good writer and I always watch for his articles.
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