Posted on 02/12/2024 9:30:14 AM PST by CFW
Under a policy being likened to something out of George Orwell’s iconic novel “1984,” a town in Arizona is paying out more than a million dollars in salaries to employ spies to monitor private social media posts of town employees for anything that aligns with conservative views.
Although the Gilbert Office of Digital Government (ODG) has urged town workers to support LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter (BLM) causes, it reprimanded a local firefighter for posting a picture of himself on Facebook posing with a life-sized cutout of former President Donald Trump.
The department even sent a warning notice to the local fire department after firefighters honked the horn of a town fire engine in support of a local Back The Blue rally.
“We must be careful not to take sides,” a memorandum sent by the ODG to the fire department warned.
The memo was part of dozens of documents the Goldwater Institute obtained through a public records request and shared with The Epoch Times.
Austin VanDerHeyden, municipal affairs liaison with the Arizona-based conservative watchdog group, told The Epoch Times that he has never seen such egregious censorship and deliberate mind control on the part of the government.
[snip]
“When I worked there, they were pushing the chiefs of police and fire to be more liberal. Then there’s those emails about how excited they were about getting the chief to kneel to BLM,” the employee told the organization.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
firefighters honked the horn of a town fire engine in support of a local Back The Blue rally.
“We must be careful not to take sides,”
= = =
Not honking is also taking sides.
Gilbert is the least affordable city in Arizona.
Significant Mormon presence, site of one of their 6 temples in AZ.
Just like supporting the alphabet mafia and the burn loot murder movement.
And used to be a wide spot in the road on the other side of the railroad tracks.
Had nice big jackrabbits though back then.
Californication
Ah, I believe the mayor of Gilbert AZ was born and raised in Massachusetts.
Yeah...you’d think they’d ditch the attitudes that made their former homes unlivable...but no, they gotta screw things up wherever they go
The country, every nook & cranny, is rotting to its core from the infestation of communist tyranny...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.