But while we shake our heads at UK authorities jailing people for their social media posts this past week, we should not kid ourselves. The answer is that silencing dissent can happen here and it is happening here.
Here are just three recent examples of how the “deep state” or the permanent government is conspiring to restrict political dialogue in the United States.
First is the revelation that former US Representative and former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has been placed under the bizarrely named “Quiet Skies” program. As reported by journalist Matt Taibbi based on revelations by TSA whistleblowers, this July Gabbard was flagged as a terror threat, and every time she travels her boarding pass is marked so that she is pulled aside for extensive screening. According to the whistleblowers, “Gabbard is unaware she has two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one Transportation Security Specialist (explosives), one plainclothes TSA Supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards.”
As Gabbard herself revealed recently on the Laura Ingraham show, “A few weeks ago, I had the audacity to tell the truth: that Kamala Harris would essentially be a mouthpiece and puppet of the Military Industrial Complex and National Security State. The next day, July 23, they retaliated. Sadly this is what we can expect from the ‘Harris Administration.’”
Next we have the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump. It seems every day brings a new revelation that calls into question whether the massive failure to protect the Republican presidential candidate was just an “honest mistake.” We know from 1963 what can happen to presidents who cross the “deep state” and we know from Trump’s four years in office how “former” deep state officials can conspire to undermine the presidency with lies like “Russiagate.”
Finally we have the case of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Up until the Trump assassination attempt, the Biden/Harris Administration refused to provide the independent presidential candidate with Secret Service protection. RFK, Jr. has consistently and effectively criticized not only the current administration but the “deep state” itself while out on the campaign trail. Even though there were credible threats against him on the campaign trail the Biden/Harris administration refused to budge for months. Why? Did they want to silence him?
The US government learned an important – and dangerous – lesson from Covid: all you have to do to crush political dissent is to use the weight of the government to force the “private” sector to do the censoring for you. It is only a half-step away from forbidding us from expressing our thoughts on a virus to sending us to prison for expressing other thoughts the government does not like. And maybe worse.
There will be a reaction in the UK to the brutality of the Starmer regime. We can only hope for their – and our – sake that the reaction will be a newfound determination by the people that no government should have the authority to shut them up or jail them for their political views. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “free speech, if you can keep it.”
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. — Groucho Marx
Marionette Theater: BoJo Resigns, as U.K. Searches for Next Globalist PuppetA once promising nationalist leader ends tenure as WEF-approved, ESG-compliant marionette.I can’t think of a single world leader who has done more damage to humanity, since 2019, than Boris Johnson. And yet, his reign of terror over a once great empire was not enough for the proponents of The Great Reset and Build Back Better agenda.
Johnson generated more COVID hysteria than any other world leader.
He pursued two full years of authoritarian rule, pursuing ruthless lockdowns, implementing vaccine passports, installing a surveillance state, and making a mockery of the unalienable rights of U.K. citizens.
He catered to every slogan and policy initiative of the World Economic Forum globalist mafia.
And still, the U.K. Prime Minister has been quickly relinquished of his marionette duties for not moving the levers of his country fast enough in the direction of global tyranny.
Having secured the prime minister role thanks to his Brexit leadership, Johnson quickly pivoted away from any semblance of a nationalist leader interested in protecting the rights of the British people. His tenure quickly became a relentless policy pursuit of selling out his own countrymen to a one-world, ESG-compliant, WEF-approved agenda.
Boris Johnson war eine der herbsten Enttäuschungen für alle, die glaubten, hinter seinem Engagement für den Brexit wäre ehrliche Überzeugung gestanden, und nicht nur Karriereabsicht. Kaum hatte er die »Macht« (d.h.: die ihm von den globalistischen Seilschaften konzedierten Korruptionsmöglichkeiten) erlangt, fiel die Larve des die Interessen der Mitbürger gegen Brüssel verteidigenden Nonkonformisten, und der postengeile 08/15-Politiker kam zum Vorschein.
Mit Ausnahme des unbehaglichen Gefühls, dass Boris Johnson vermutlich kein Besserer nachfolgen wird, gibt es keinen Grund, ihm eine Träne nachzuweinen! Die Freiheitsbeschränkungen, die er unter dem Vorwand der »Pandemiebekämpfung« den Bürgern zumutete und die Pläne, die Ausübung von Grund-rechten nach rot-chinesischem Vorbild an das »Wohlverhalten« zu knüpfen, entsprechen den totalitären Vorstellungen der Globalisten.
Wenn bei den nächsten Wahlen nicht ein einzigartiges Wunder geschieht und die Wähler es (gegen alle Wahrscheinlichkeit!) schaffen, halbwegs anständige Politiker statt irgendwelcher globalistischer Mario-netten zu wählen, werden die Briten trotz der mutigen Brexit-Entscheidung nur das Design der Hundeleine, an der sie geführt werden, gewechselt haben ...
