Posted on 12/06/2023 6:05:40 PM PST by bitt
Do you want your government, under the guise of managing foreign affairs, to divert its anti-terror technology and resources to censor a segment of the American domestic press? Do you expect your tax dollars to fund and promote a scheme of media blacklists, designed to drive advertising dollars away from disfavored media outlets to bankrupt and thereby silence them? Does this sound like an Orwellian governmental curating of “all the news we deem fit for you to hear”? Welcome to the world of the U.S. Department of State.
Among the many nasty shocks delivered by the Twitter Files, discovery in Murthy v. Missouri, and recent congressional oversight investigations, came the revelation that the State Department has diverted government grants, technical resources, and the time and efforts of salaried federal employees into a sprawling, whole-of-government effort to silence a segment of the American press – those news organizations that disagree with the preferred views of those holding the reins of government power.
Launched in the Obama administration, this lawless juggernaut powered undisturbed through the Trump administration, blossoming into full flower during the Biden presidency. In 2016, the State Department, whose only lawful charge is guiding foreign affairs, rebranded its Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications as the “Global Engagement Center.” Soon this arm of the State Department transitioned from countering the message of violent extremism of terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, to supposedly “Countering Propaganda and Disinformation.”
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Tyranny continues to progress!!! Why? Because no one in D.C. is actively opposing its growth. Matt Gaetz engineered the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and raved and raved at his success. Now we are coming to realize that new Speaker Mike Johnson is just a clone of the former Speaker. The first knock down betrayal was linking Israeli aid to more $billions for Ukraine (and Sec Def Lloyd Austin apparently just said that if the Congress does not appropriate the $$$ he may well send in American troops to Ukraine -- determined to start WWIII!)
Now this headline Mike Johnson Backtracks, CAVES TO DEEP STATE, Democrats on Slipping FBI Spy Power Reauthorization into Defense Bill
Sadly I have to say that I am giving up on the GOP. They are nothing but two faced snakes who talk and talk but repeatedly betray us. I just can't take it anymore. Already (it is reported) that Republicans are raising over $100 million to block their overwhelmingly popular candidate, Donald Trump, from getting their presidential nomination at their convention next summer. Nikki Haley? ...the globalist? NO! The outlaw Jersey Whale, Chris Christie? Yikes! All Whigs!
Even though the MAGA Party does not yet exist, I am supporting that!
Not surprised. The State Department has been run by fascists and communists since the FDR presidency. An incestuous pit of Ivy League fascist and communist elitists.
Read all that, bitt, and tell me what is going to stop this horror of an assassination of our Constitutional Republic? ...and it better be SOON!
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