Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Nov 8, 2020
The media have called the election for Biden, but the counting goes on and there is a legal case in the offing. But whoever emerges from this deluge of sludge, fraud and propaganda to become president of the United States, there has undoubtedly already been one big loser – freedom of speech.
Late on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump – the elected President of the United States – emerged from the White House to make a speech.
He accused the Democratic party, the political establishment, the media and tech giants/social media companies of working together to steal the election and put Biden in the Whitehouse.
You likely didn’t see all of it, because most of the mainstream news channels simply refused to broadcast it. Watch this clip:
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That same night, MSNBC had cut away from another of Trump’s speeches, with anchor Shepard Smith claiming that what the president was saying “was in large part absolutely untrue”.
Social media companies were doing the same thing. Within hours of it being set up Facebook deleted a group protesting the election result, while twitter reduced the President’s timeline to this:
This isn’t about defending Donald Trump, or even agreeing that the election was rigged (although there is plenty of evidence to suspect as much). This is about a principle. Donald Trump is the elected head of state, and he is being denied a platform to address the people he represents by the faceless servants of corporate media oligarchs.
This is a terrible, terrifyingly awful precedent to set.
The owners of Comcast or Warner Bros or Disney or Facebook or Twitter are not elected officials. They have no legal authority, and thus no accountability. Yet they are claiming the right to determine what elected officials can and cannot say to the people who elected them.
There is a strain of thought that this kind of censorship is justified. “Spreading disinformation puts lives at risk”, they say. “If the media stopped people lying we wouldn’t be in this mess” or “the news should only broadcast the truth!”.
The argument goes that “allowing Donald Trump to “publicly undermine our democratic institutions will erode the public trust and could lead to violence.”
But I would argue that empowering billionaires to hold a monopoly on “the truth” is far more dangerous to democracy than anything Trump could ever say.
To people inclined to disagree, I leave these five questions. Answer them, if you can:
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Who made the decision to censor the elected President of the United States?
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Who granted them this power?
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Whose interests do they serve?
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To whom are they accountable?
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In the future, who gets to decide “the truth”?
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“Could lead to violence”–something we have never, ever heard of for hundreds of years, especially in America where there are no murders and any fisticuffs makes the national news.
The thing is, people aren’t interested. They couldn’t care less about msm censoring, because most not only don’t know about it, but also most are heavily indoctrinated by the msm, as that’s the only source of news they know. What the msm tells them, they believe, that is if they can be bothered to pull themselves from their soaps, their sports, their movies, their video games and everything other than actually finding out what’s really going on.
Take the election results and the clear mail fraud (many states have more votes than voters)? Now someone with average intelligence would instantly see that there was something wrong. But the people? Nope. Take the fact that the USA, during this covid crisis, are still sending billions to Israel. Do people care? Nope. Well some do, but the overwhelming majority don’t know I should imagine.
The bottom line is they’re just ignorant to what’s going on. They have lost all critical thinking ability and unable of skepticism. Life, to most is just one of the pursuit of materialism and fun. That’s it. They’re consumers. They don’t think. They can’t think. They’re pod people, with an IQ slightly above that of a turnip. All the third world immigration and dumbing down of education has turned the west into a third world country.
“Muricans are simply too dumb to realize that, if it is heard on mainstream media, it can not
be true. The days of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Tim Russert are long gone………. Today, we have only news from the Khazar Satanists, and that is ALL LIES!
If you are still on “social media”, you are brain dead.
@ White Elephant
I will add that it is not just the low I.Q people, there are plenty of intelligent high I.Q. people who have embraced the lies and fooled themselves. I personally now some of them ! Ignorance has no bounds as can be witnessed on this forum from time to time !
Unbelievable. They cut him off, talked over him, pushed him off of the stage, as if not only the President but the facts had to be completely subject to their authority, their fiat, and permission to be aired, despite any facts or reasons to the contrary. Of course, Trump was being political but they can always give equal time to an opposition point of view. But no, they can’t do that. He may be convincing to all of their zombies out there in TV land and wake some more of them up.
Despite all of the mainstream media having about 90% of the attention of the largely zombified American public for the past 4 years in a relentless hate campaign and shameless fake scandals like Russiagate against him, still about half (“HALF”) of the population braved all of the politically-correct pressures and chose him for the President. In such a highly polarized race, despite all of the money spent to defeat him and the constant smearing by the media, still half of the US people voted for him. This tells us that that not everyone is on the side of the media, their masters, and the principal money moguls running things. It tells us something about the arrogance of all those who act as if Trump and his views do not exist, and this also tells us that anyone who holds views the MSM does not like has to be ignored, be treated as if they do not exist, and that if they are politically correct you have perfect right not only to ignore them and their views, but to smear them with any kind of crap you want.
Whether they call themselves “the left”, “liberals”, “neo-liberals”, “Marxists”. “socialists”, or fancy themselves as favored subjects or elites in the corporatocracy (banking cartel, government, major corporations), they all have one thing in common and that is that the truth does not matter except that of which they can control and manipulate to attain their ends. We are living in a very pragmatic age where the ends to anyone with power justifies the means. Why not? Is that in any case how power is attained?
Although, very few of the establishment sheep really understand just what they are doing and to what extent their liberties with the facts destroys social harmony and trust, that is exactly what they are doing. It is as if half of the human race has been nurtured on Nietzsche’s Will to Power, feeling they have an absolute right to march with jackboots over the faces of people they regard as simple or naïve, people who still want all authority to be based on principles of right and wrong, truth, and reason. If we cannot agree on what is right or wrong on major issues affecting all of us, those of us on the other side from these imperious “liberals”, at least half of the population, still tend then to want to demonstrate facts and to use principles of reason to demonstrate the truth of our views to them, which they on the other side behave as if we do not exists. They are really saying that have a right to ignore your facts, your reasons, your views and you. You do not exist. It is only their wants, their plans, their vision, which exist.
You see this process now very clearly in the Covid scam completely supported by MSM and the entire corporatocracy. In fact, during the US election, the same divide was there on both issues. Trump tended to discount the threat and tried to get people back to work. As a sign of his position he avoided wearing a mask whenever he could, as did many of his followers. On the other hand, you have all of the politically-correct, MSM junkies, dutifully wearing their masks, calling for more lockdowns, joining in total subservience to the will of the establishment, and likely voting for Biden.
If you have any friends and relatives, as in places like Canada, who appear to “hate” Trump, everyone of them you will find is a MSM junkie, and they behave as if only a tiny, tiny fraction of the population has any respect for the man. This was clearly the case in 2016 when he was running. There was only about three months of the MSM brainwashing at the time disparaging the man. If you were for him or neutral, and on an elevator with 6 or 7 people, it was totally acceptable to make some negative crack against Trump. Most people would laugh in agreement, and no one would dare say anything to defend him. The hostility only increased since then, with people who did not agree with the remarks being silent. If the only voice of authority is the MSM or that of their peers in the social media being censored, the conditions public will no doubt reflect in their behaviour not only what they are being told in the media but also the deplorable manners of the media in treating those whom they disagree with as if they do not exists. The media does not reflect us, nor does the entertainment industry. They only really reflect the views and values of whose who control it, and then the audiences reflect the same views and values of media in their behaviour.
This arrogant silencing, we see on all controversial issues. You see it with your own “friends” and relatives, who prattle away consciously saying things insulting and against your beliefs and positions on various issues of the say, as if your views did not exist, you were not even there, and as if everyone universally agreed with them. They can only have such an impression from the behaviour of the media which they constantly watch or listen to. If you say to them that they should look at some sites on the internet (which are constantly being snuffed out by the way) they will think of you as a conspiracy nut. The fact is that if they do go to the sites where they can get more reliable facts on what ought to be controversial issues to them, like the implications of trade with China, or the Covid scam, the information simply causes too much mental unrest (aka “cognitive dissonance”) disturbing their comfortable MSM and social media dogma, and their sense of being in that safe and protected, politically-correct, all-pervasive real world. This sense is constantly reinforced in them every day they tune into any channel or station on the MSM. They have one god and there is no other, and if the MSM or the group-think on social media is behaving as if Trump and his views are not news and are irrelevant, then the politically-correct watchers in turn feel they also have some kind of licence to disparage and ignore him and his concerns and treat anyone supporting his vies and going against the PC group think as if they and their views also did not exist.
The people who behave in this manner tend to be very liberal with the facts and reluctant or unable to connect dots. If we are all sheeple, their shepherds are mostly in the media, while ours are not. Sheep like to be in flock for mutual support, and the most common view being propagated is what most of them share and feel comfortable with. Yet, the sheep under the guidance of the MSM in the process and due to their captivity, they tend to become like their shepherds, and they have become liberal with every moral principle or rule of reason which stands in the way of what they want. If deceit, deception and cheating are now acceptable as the new-normal to power, it appears to be totally verified by the arrogance of the behaviour that views from outside of the flock do not exist, and despite the fact that there must another flock of equal size out there somewhere, it to them does not exist either. The whole world is simply their flock, and it appears to be no use telling them that their MSM leaders are shepherds in wolfs’ clothing and that it is safer and the grass far more nourishing on the other side of fence.
What a pushover the people of the West are for the Great Reset (UN Agenda 21), all so easily sucked into believing mainly through the MSM such nonsense as the Covid crisis, the CO2 crisis, the terrorist crisis, the debt crisis, all planned and manufactured by the corporatocracy as pretexts to usher in centralized control of every aspect of our lives, with everyone being chipped, registered, monitored and controlled, in a planned future we have not had a say, question if necessary, much less have any kind of right to oppose. Once chipped, you are essentially a number or a code to be controlled, rewarded or punished according to the central command. As your views, beliefs and actions, unless they conform to the centralized command plans, they will be deemed unwanted, they will be chosen in that manner for you, and essentially your views, and you will determine if you are wanted or unwanted. They have already begun this “new-normal” process in the plandemic under all of the corporatocracy fiats in declaring what businesses were “essential” and which ones are not. What they are really saying is that most of small business will have to go by the wayside to fit into their “greener, smarter and fairer” lockstep, “we-know-best”, “you-don’t-exist” planning. Next is you.
If you are not behaving in line with the double-think, lockstep establishment that everything once again has to be shut down because the “killer virus” has returned, or may return, then it is you who are being disrespectful and endangering everyone. Despite the harm “we” must all act in the same way together. There can be no disobedience or going against what the media and our governments are telling us. Your facts do not matter. You do not matter. Already you do not exist.
Brian is looking forward to being in Awe of Biden when he starts bombing some brown people.
Brian wants to see those Beautiful Bombs being lobbed into Brown countries on a daily basis.
It is not that they “disagree with” Trump, it is that they are criminals and cannot exist amidst the truth. Lies are their protector.
Here’s the onion, and this is something absolutely critical for the citizens of the U.S. and UK to understand – the “news” media can legally lie. People in the Jewnited States have tried lawsuits against media corporations and local affiliates for broadcasting stories which had obvious falsehoods and lies. The courts determined that “news” network broadcasts were actually classified as entertainment and, as such, didn’t have to be based in fact. One Judge of an appellate court even stated, “News organizations are under no obligation to tell the truth”. Courts have ruled news organizations could still be held to account for libel or slander, but otherwise were completely free to slant, distort, fabricate, and outright lie. That is huge and most citizens have NO idea that’s the case.
I have been telling people for a long time the only things on the news broadcasts (and this goes for print and digital outlets as well) they should have even a shred of belief in are local stories which they can then go personally verify. I have been there on the ground for events that turned into major news stories and witnessed how facts at the center of the story differed greatly from what was being broadcast. 9/11 is one example of that, where I was at “ground zero”, witnessing the facts on the scene and then seeing how things were being twisted, slanted, and outright fabricated by the corporate media.
All mainstream “news” programs, whether tv or their associated websites, should be forced to show a warning label prior to all “news” programs and after every commercial break. That label should say something like, “WARNING! Anything and everything shown here is for ENTERTAINMENT purposes ONLY. Courts of law have determined “news” to be “entertainment” and this program can legally distort, fabricate, and outright lie, up to and including fabricating entire events, and then present such as fact. What you are about to be subjected to may not actually be true, honest, or based on any facts. WARNING!”.
America has been fixing elections, and forcing ‘regime change’ in other countries for decades. About time they got a taste of it themselves.
Not that I support Pedo Jo, or Trump. I assume this is all part of the plan, start of the civil war.
@ James D
Here is some information that supports your statements that has been ignored for the most part even after being on the best seller list for well over 1 year decades ago.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/confessions_of_an_economic_hitman.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDTRfbs-oM