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Disinformation Board is “Paused” – But Where Is the Rage?

&NewLine;<p>The Biden Administration has put the disinformation board on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pause”&comma; and looney tunes Nina Jankowicz has resigned&period; Her quote is&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Every characterization of the board that you heard up until now has been incorrect&comma; and frankly&comma; it’s kind of ironic that the board itself was taken over by disinformation when it was meant to fight it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Bulls&Hat;&amp&semi;&percnt;t&excl;&excl;&nbsp&semi; We knew exactly what the disinformation board was for&period; &nbsp&semi;As did she&period; &nbsp&semi;Her job in a nutshell was to investigate and attempt to silence trains of thought that did not agree with her bosses in the Biden Administration&period; Censorship&period; The beginnings of Orwell&&num;8217&semi;s Ministry of Truth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Where is the rage&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Republicans were about to attempt to pass a law defunding this&period;&nbsp&semi; That is fine&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But I expected universal outrage&period; I expected every leader from everywhere to say &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What the Hell&quest;” I expected every pundit to write and comment about this in eloquent ridicule&period; I expected everyone who has ever taken civics class in school to contact their reps&period; I even expected elected Democrats to say &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Come on Joe&comma; you can’t do that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But this was all taken with a kind of relaxed complacency&period; Most people seemed to have missed the point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And the point is this&period; The government is not in charge of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;truth&period;” The government gets its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;truth” from the people&period; Any effort by the government to silence an American citizen who disagrees with the current administration by calling their words &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disinformation” &nbsp&semi;is grossly interfering with the most basic right in our Constitution – freedom of speech&period; And giving the government the power to censor its citizens in this way is too much power for the government to have&period; How do I know that&quest; Because that is what it says in the Constitution&comma; the document we are all a party to as citizens of the United States of America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It doesn’t matter if that citizen is right or wrong&comma; or insensitive&comma; or has an agenda &lpar;Yes&comma; I know the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fire in a crowded theater” exception – if you think that carries weight here&comma; then you need to go back to high school civics class&rpar;&period; It is not the government’s job to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;correct” its citizens by force&period; We are free to correct ourselves&comma; to make mistakes&comma; or more importantly&comma; to just tell the freakin’ government how screwed up it is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And no&comma; it is not required that we trust our government&period;&nbsp&semi; It is ours&period; We can criticize it&comma; protest it&comma; slander it&comma; and occasionally we can throw the bastards out&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Let me continue my rant&comma; go just a bit crazy and ask my audience a question&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>If such a board developed to become the de facto censorship board that we fear it would&comma; would you consider civil war&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When I went to work for the CIA&comma; I swore an oath&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>That oath was to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies&comma; foreign and domestic&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Any questions&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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