Guest Post by Ron Paul
As we learn more and more from the “Twitter Files,” it is becoming all too obvious that Federal agencies such as the FBI viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance and an impediment. In Friday’s release from the pre-Musk era, journalist Matt Taibbi makes an astute observation: Twitter was essentially an FBI subsidiary.
The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. We learned that agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth some 150 emails between 2020 and 2022. Those emails regularly featured demands from US government officials for the “private” social media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not like.
The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), a US government entity that included the FBI as well as other US intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents engaged regularly in telling Twitter which Tweets to censor and which accounts to ban. The Department of Homeland Security brought in outside government contractors and (government-funded) non-governmental organizations to separately pressure Twitter to suppress speech the US government did not like.
US Federal government agencies literally handed Twitter lists of Americans it wanted to see silenced, and Twitter complied. Let that sink in.
This should be a massive scandal and likely it would have been had it occurred under a Trump Administration. Indeed, Congress would be gearing up for Impeachment 3.0 if Trump-allied officials had engaged in such egregious behavior. But since these US government employees were by-and-large acting to suppress pro-Trump sentiment, all we hear are crickets.
What is interesting about these Twitter revelations is how obsessed the FBI and its government partners were with satire and humor. Even minor Twitter accounts with small numbers of followers were constantly flagged by the Feds for censorship and deletion. But knowledge of history helps us understand this obsession: in Soviet times the population was always engaged in joking about the ineptitude, corruption, and idiocy of the political class. Underground publications known as samizdat were rich with satire, humor, and ridicule.
Tyrants hate humor and cannot withstand satire. That is clearly why the FBI (and CIA) was determined to see a heavy hand raised against any American poking fun at the deep state.
There is good news in all of this, however. As Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend, a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll found that even though the mainstream media has ignored the “Twitter files,” Americans have not. Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that Twitter was involved in politically-motivated censorship in advance of the 2020 election. Some 70 percent of those polled believe Congress must take action against this corporate/state censorship.
As Professor Turley points out, although the First Amendment only applies to the US government, “it does apply to agents or surrogates of the government. Twitter now admits that such a relationship existed between its former officials and the government.”
So now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been acting through “private” social media companies to manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they communicate with each other.
Is there anything more un-American than that? Personally, I find it sickening.
We do not need the FBI and CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our Constitution. End the Fed…and End the Federal Bureau of Investigation!
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The Zionist ’bout to step up their game in the civil war against the Bolshevik wing of Deep Shekels and the offspring of the people who founded and built this Nation no longer even have a dog in the hunt. We are just spectators in the sport of financial predators competing to pick America’s carcass clean.
But, please continue to trust the plan, because Clown World Faggot needs you, too.
Yep.
And remember, Donald Trump would not make a pimple on Ron Paul’s ass.
As 2024 nears it will be interesting should Mr. Trump think he still needs to run as POTUS, his anti gay followers excuse about the Nov. 2021 Mar-a-Lago gay brigade. I suspect like everything else Trump the excuse will be he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Blame it on Melania. Wait, that’s his wife! But there is always someone else to blame especially if such a victim since birth as Donnie.
It’s possible that the FBI is being set up to take the fall, leaving the other surveillance state operators to carry on….
HOW THE CIA UNDERWROTE BIG TECH: A Revealing Interview with A.B. Krongard
In this article, we will show that the investment bank that underwrote Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and other Big Tech behemoths was a CIA front company. Alvin Bernard Krongard (or “Buzzy” Krongard – as he likes to be called) is one of the less known but most influential investment bankers and CIA officers of the last 50 years. As an Alex, Brown & Sons investment banker between 1980 and 1998, he underwrote several of the major Big-Tech US corporations of today, spearheaded the early development of the Israeli Tech industry and helped to fund another CIA offshoot, the major Private Equity Group in the World, the Carlyle Group. As an advisor to the CIA director and CIA executive officer from 1998 to 2004, he implemented, just 3 months before 9/11, one of the major restructurings of the Agency organization since its creation in 1947, created In-Q-Tel, initiated the CIA Rendition and Torture Program and championed the use of privatized armies in the battlefield.
https://kickback.news/2022/05/19/a-buzzy-interview-a-b-krongard-and-the-cia-ipos/
Abolished and prosecuted with fitting punishments for their crimes.
There is a very simple solution to this twitter problem. Stop using it.
Well, wasn’t the FBI created to snoop on those Americans that imported and consume the outlawed Alcohol?
The Agency has never changed it’s Mission.
Abolish the FBI. Right, Like that will ever happen. Why waste time and energy writing about such pipe dreams?
Indeed.
What they term “bravery” I recognize as brazenness. It is so deeply embedded in the culture that you would literally have to kill the sons of bitches to get rid of them. They’d make a good fight of it too.
The camel’s nose is under the tent flap. Will they be able to beat the camel back or will it get in and wreck the whole darn tent?
Facebook et al, Google et al, every significant internet communication platform needs to be examined thoroughly for state interference and subordination. That’ll get the camel’s head and shoulders into the tent for sure.
ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, OAN, all significant visual media ‘news’ content providers next (or at the same time). That’ll get the camel into the tent pretty well.
Print media, while pretty lame, still has some power (NYT, the Atlantic, all these high end leftist rags, I don’t think any are non leftist at this point, so let’s find the connections.
Hollywood and Broadway, the entertainment wings of the visual media providers and NPR (for the love of God) go as well into the investigative pot.
When an investigative and law enforcement arm of the federal government ‘asks’ a large corporation to do a thing the corporation almost certainly will do that thing. Corporations are NOT people, but they are made up of people and they aren’t dumb either. Is there one speck of wrongdoing in a company that employs even a hundred people? One speck the federal government can leverage into the ruin of the company? No, no there is not one such entity in creation.
Trigger warning for some. Excellent summary of 2022 for others.
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-year-of-the-gaslighter