For a long time I’ve been warning about the slippery slope of censorship by Big Tech. Yesterday I saw the very sad news that one of my favorite journalists, Glenn Greenwald resigned from a paper he co-founded.
His mission statement when he created “The Intercept” was this:
“Our longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues, from secrecy, criminal and civil justice abuses and civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality and all forms of financial and political corruption. The editorial independence of our journalists will be guaranteed, and they will be encouraged to pursue their journalistic passion, areas of interest, and unique voices.
We believe the prime value of journalism is that it imposes transparency, and thus accountability, on those who wield the greatest governmental and corporate power. Our journalists will be not only permitted, but encouraged, to pursue stories without regard to whom they might alienate.”
Glenn Greenwald is a gay man, married, with a beautiful family of children, dogs, cats, and a parrot I believe also makes his “nest” within the Greenwald family portrait.
He was the first person trusted by the likes of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, William Binney and others who spoke out with tremendous courage, against the powers that lurk unseen in our midst.
Some would say that these whistleblowers were the courageous ones and I will give them a partial credit for that label. However, the person with the most to fear, most to lose, was Glenn Greenwald.
For those of you who have to have a label on someone before you will accept them as being slightly human, Mr. Greenwald is very Liberal. True Liberalism USED to be a warrior for civil liberties, and the hallmark of liberals was freedom of speech no matter what or whom it upset.
Comedy is comedy, art is art, and literature is literature and it is the thing that separates humans from our animal friends. (Though they inspire a great deal of our laughter and poetry)
For those of you who claim to be liberal and do nothing but cancel anything that you disagree with but refuse to research with the spirit of curiosity and discernment, you are the antithesis of what liberal means.
Liberalism doesn’t change vocabulary to appease the fragile minded ignorant people who have coddled themselves into a false sense of reality.
Liberalism once stood up to the corrupt power and overreach of corporate factions and global networks that spy, deceive, and create violent divisions in society both here and abroad. Liberalism wouldn’t be told by anyone to stay at home, speak softly, wear masks or be judged in the public square as a danger to society. Liberalism in the true sense of what it once was, would question those orders on the grounds of civil liberty of the individual’s sovereignty over him/herself.
Liberalism would not burn cities to the ground or steal from their local retail stores. Liberalism would fight with intellectual swords and not throw bricks at passers by because of skin color.
Liberalism would say that the Christian has as much to say as the atheist and would stand for their right to speak freely as much as the Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or Hillbilly.
Liberalism never feared the truth of things even if their icons were cast in a dark shadow following the light of that truth.
Those of you who have run into the arms of global powers, trusted the trillion dollar corporate interests who claim to know what is “good for you,” when they have a history of testing biological weapons in the form of “voluntary vaccines” that result in things like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Ebola and others, are not liberal.
Liberalism fought against socialism through literature, art, music and self expression because it honors the individual spirit of individual truth and THAT being the unifying ideal thru-line for all of humanity.
Liberalism doesn’t say “(name that race) Matters” it says “Liberty over Tyranny For All Humanity.”
Intelligent discourse over censorship and subversion is the rally cry of true Liberalism.
So why am I saying this?
You and I have been idle in defending the meaning of true liberalism. We’ve allowed the tyrannical ideology of collectivism to dominate academia, the media, hospitals, comedy, literature, music, movies, and even our own speech to our “neighbor.”
You have run into the arms of this Orwellian nightmare because “they” echo what you want to hear about the current President and many in the administration who have been placed in the “boo box” and belong on the island of misfit toys. You have not bothered to ask yourself why you find yourself in agreement with the biggest power players in the world all of a sudden?
You falsely believe you are in a revolution where you are the underdog when in fact you have corporate sponsorship?
Glenn Greenwald was one of the last true beacons of journalistic integrity. If he was censored because he dared to face the harsh reality of something that flies in the face of his political beliefs, he is a true liberal thinking person. He has never been asked to censor anything he’s investigated or published, and the very foundation of his publication (The Intercept) states that censorship in any form of a “free” press is the enemy of the people. If they lock up Assange, force out Greenwald from his own publication he co-founded, if the oldest newspaper in the United States gets “cancelled” from publishing a story that could raise some suspicions of corruption on a massive level against the democratic nominee, but wild accusations can fly without any proof and in the very real face of provable documents regarding the current President of the United States... Do you not think they are coming for you too?
They already have.
Thousands of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts were banned overnight for mentioning a military intelligence communication coming from someone with Q level clearance. A brave person(s) who used back channel comms to speak to #WeThePeople regarding disinformation being peddled by radical factions and powerful players in the highest level of the CIA, MI6, DOJ, FBI, and uncovered the puppet masters behind violence taking place in our streets and divisions being molded in our minds. The media claimed it was the usual fiction of “conspiracy theory” and when that didn’t work they called it a “cult of Qanon.” There is no “Qanon.” There is the source of the information called Q, and then there are people all over the world who in the true spirit of liberalism decided to research, learn, and disseminate that information with discernment for over 3.5 years. Much to our dismay, every piece of it was proven correct and almost supernaturally predictive of events that were tagged as being a result of seemingly random acts of violence. With every communication given in this back channel way, there was documented proof of it occurring. The Q communications used the Socratic method in each post. Asking questions in a very calculated way so as to not disrupt the free will of anyone reading it. It honored the hope that people would research and more importantly, learn for themselves what the truth was regarding the world that seemingly looked like it was falling apart. It grew, and like the law of squared, one person turned into two, two into four, and now I’d say that a billion people worldwide have been stealthily educating themselves and researching everything through the very rigid scope of discernment.
Any media, government or corporation who silences the individual’s right to learn and discern for themselves IS an enemy of humanity.
If you are guilty of rejoicing in the takedowns of millions of voices because they could threaten your ideological belief in reality, then you will have the reality you deserve. But you will not be the architect of it. Someone else will be. Someone who may not have your individual liberty as a top priority.
Joe Rogan has one of the most successful podcasts in the country. Hundreds of millions listen to it. He has guests ranging from Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock, Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard to Mike Tyson, Kanye West, Bill Burr, Killer Mike, TI, Candace Owens, and most recently Glenn Greenwald. In the spirit of true intellectual discourse he has friends on every side of the aisle and most recently, he was censored. His contract with Spotify said they would not permit him to speak to certain people. He took that contract much to the dismay of many who warned him of big tech censorship. He thought “that happens to other people but not me, I’m Joe Rogan, I have a billion listeners worldwide?!” It wasn’t a month into his contract that they threatened to cancel him because a few low level employees at Spotify complained that his guest was offensive to them. Joe canceled that guest to appease them. Then they found his next guest needed to be removed from the platform. So he complied and removed that episode.
Eventually that wasn’t enough either. “They” wanted to pick the guests, choose the talking points, and asked him to not speak to anyone who may speak against the Democratic Party.
Needless to say, he finally figured out that nobody is above Big Tech’s reach of forced narrative thru censorship.
What are they covering up for? Do you truly believe they are benevolent and want to make sure your precious eyes and ears don’t get offended by big meany? Or that they are protecting you from the evil words of dissenting opinions?
If you still believe that the problems in our country and abroad are as easily solved as red vs. blue or Trump vs. Biden, you have truly guzzled the Koolaid and it has poisoned your mind with each little sip.
I’m not asking you to agree with me. I’m asking you to pull your head out of your ass and stand for something that isn’t presented to you on a plate, pre-chewed,which has atrophied your ability to speak for yourself.
If you claim to be a liberal, and are enjoying the censorship of anyone trying to question a questionable narrative... you are not liberal. You are what you claim everyone else to be: A Fascist.
I don’t expect a lot of “likes” on this. Not because you don’t like it, but because you are afraid of the very people I’m speaking of. Afraid of being called names, afraid of being canceled, afraid that you’ll be run out on a rail and accused of being intolerant or stupid. Don’t worry. I’ll take the hit. But soon there won’t be many of us around who can say what needs to be said.
Our modern communication tools will not be for us, they’ll be for the collectivism hive mind automatons who seek security over liberty, slavery over freedom, and are given the bare minimum to survive as long as they tow the line.
There won’t be intriguing scripts written, art that inspires, or music that tickles the mind...comedy will be relegated solely to the propaganda machine that discredits those of us who are fighting for civil liberties and the plight of the individual to thrive. This is not even the end of this long dark road of unjustified compromise.
Ask yourself how far it goes? Soon, if not fought for, everyone will be afraid to speak out- even in the privacy of their own mind.
