{"id":6882,"date":"2023-02-12T06:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2023-02-12T06:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:06:53","slug":"the-civil-rights-of-americans-have-been-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/2023\/02\/12\/the-civil-rights-of-americans-have-been-violated\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civil Rights of Americans Have Been Violated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Below is a story about it, if you haven’t been following. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our businesses have been suppressed, and our social media accounts have likely been blacklisted (shadowbanned, or deboosted, as Twitter CEO Elon Musk refers to the rampant censorship on his ‘social’ media site). We aren’t even a ‘conservative news source’, but our multiple businesses have certainly been unduly punished by the ridiculous and unacceptable policies of criminal corporate activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corporations should have the integrity to resist intervention which destroys their business models Instead they’ve caved and they absolutely deserve to continue self destructing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Censorship Operations: Covid, War, and More<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0WILLIAM SPRUANCE<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0FEBRUARY 10, 2023\u00a0\u00a0LAW<\/a>,\u00a0MEDIA<\/a>\u00a0\u00a04 MINUTE READ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, Congress held a hearing on Twitter\u2019s censorship of The New York Post <\/em>and its coverage of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. While House Republicans focused on issues like shadowbanning and government collusion with Big Tech, Rep. Jamie Raskin and other Democrats advocated for increased censorship from Silicon Valley companies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raskin argued<\/a> that the committee would be better served focusing on \u201cthe real threats of massive Russian disinformation and white nationalist violent incitement on social media.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Biden Administration\u2019s usurpation of the First Amendment<\/a>, Raskin\u2019s cohort\u2019s goal is censorship and the accompanying augmentation of state power, not challenging the veracity of opponents\u2019 arguments or claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cShouting Covid in a Crowded Theater,\u201d<\/a> I discuss how officials in the Biden Administration use wartime rhetorical strategies to slander dissidents. In doing so, they conflate dissent with threats to public safety to censor critics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When discussing public health, the regime consistently uses labels of \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d But the more we learn about government operations, the more it appears that these labels are references to inconvenience, not falsity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This strategy extends beyond the country\u2019s COVID response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday morning, Seymour Hersh published<\/a> \u201cHow America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 Pipelines exploded in September 2022. The Nord Stream 1 has delivered natural gas from Russia to Europe for over a decade, and Russia was developing the Nord Stream 2 at the time. Outlets like The New York Times<\/em><\/a> called the explosions \u201ca mystery.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sabotage presented a major energy crisis for the United States\u2019 European allies. Europe imports<\/a> nearly 40% of its gas from Russia, and the Nord Stream 1 was responsible for delivering approximately one third of that supply<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Hersh reports that \u201cthe United States executed a covert sea operation\u201d with Navy divers to sabotage Russia\u2019s pipelines with explosives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a less obsequious press corps, this should have been an easy story to crack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weeks leading up to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, President Biden announced his intention to act against the pipelines in the event of war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Russia invades\u2026 there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2,\u201d he told reporters<\/a>. \u201cWe will bring an end to it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow will you do that exactly?\u201d a reporter asked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI promise you we will be able to do it,\u201d President Biden said with a slight smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland was equally as explicit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to be very clear to you today,\u201d she told reporters<\/a> in January 2022. \u201cIf Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed<\/a> \u201cAnglo-Saxons\u201d in the West for \u201cterror attacks\u201d on the pipelines. \u201cThose who profit from it have done it,\u201d Putin told the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden chastised Putin\u2019s accusation for \u201cpumping out disinformation and lies.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust don\u2019t listen to what Putin\u2019s saying,\u201d Biden added. \u201cWhat he\u2019s saying we know is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House National Security spokeswoman Adrienne Watson backed up Biden\u2019s claim, referring to Putin\u2019s accusation as \u201cRussia\u2019s disinformation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s U.N. ambassador also implied that the United States had been involved in the sabotage. Richard Mills, U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N., responded by calling the claims \u201cconspiracy theories and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the Commander and Chief\u2019s explicit announcement that he would take action against the Nord Stream pipeline, a credulous press corps has dutifully parotted government talking points that accusations of western involvement in the sabotage are \u201cbaseless\u201d<\/a> \u201cmisinformation,\u201d<\/a> \u201cdisinformation,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all follows a similar pattern to the informational warfare of the Covid era: an inconvenient narrative arises, the government and lemmings in the media slander it as false and dangerous, and, months later, the dispute in question turns out to be true (or at least highly plausible). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arguments over natural immunity, vaccine efficacy, masks, the lab leak hypothesis, school shutdowns, lockdowns, and the scientific basis of social distancing are just a few examples that followed this cycle of reporting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the same pattern as The New York Post\u2019s <\/em>coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. Now, at hearings to investigate corruption that implicated Big Tech<\/a>, intelligence officials<\/a>, and the federal government<\/a>, Raskin and his cohorts return to their familiar censorship ploys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For censors, augmentation of power, not truth, remains the chief objective. To achieve this goal, they conflate dissent with domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s \u201cNational Terrorism Advisory Service\u201d listed<\/a> misinformation and disinformation as terrorism threats in February 2022. The memo identified these threats as efforts to \u201cundermine public trust in government.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding both Covid and Ukraine, the most powerful forces in the country have repeatedly lied<\/a> and misled<\/a> the American public. They censor critics to protect their delicate narratives of fiction, and they attack others for the public\u2019s waning trust<\/a> in government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hersh\u2019s article pierces through the hegemonic narrative; hopefully, exposing their lies and warmongering will disrupt their ploys for censorship and power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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