President Biden Creates the “Disinformation Governance Board”—April 2022. An act that will live on in infamy.
Those in power have always sought to control information and what they call the “truth”— their truth. Controlling information is essential to keep tyrants in power. George Orwell wrote about a fictional “Ministry of Truth” in “1984”. That was a fictional account of tyrannical government. But fiction is just another way to expose reality. In the real world Josep Stalin had a ministry of truth in the USSR, Chairman Mao in Communist China, Adolph Hitler had Goebbels in Nazi Germany, and now Joe Biden has his “Disinformation Governance Board” in the USA. The concept of mind control and control of “disinformation” is not new.
In 1633 the Roman Church and its powerful leaders were confronted with the “dangerous ideas” of scientists Copernicus and Galileo. These two Renaissance intellectuals upended the erroneous concept that the Earth was a stationary body at the exact center of the known universe and all of creation revolved around it. That was a key idea which supported the Church’s anthropocentric philosophy of the time. Copernicus proposed a heliocentric (sun centered) cosmos in 1545 and Galileo provided the proof for this theory in 1610 with observations made using a new instrument—the telescope. It was clear that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Earth was only a minor planet which rotated on a tilted axis and revolved around the Sun. The Sun occupies the “center” and the Earth revolves around it.
The Roman Inquisition (an early “Disinformation Governance Board”) investigated Galileo’s writing and his thoughts and determined that these ideas were dangerous “disinformation”. (The Roman Church was forever after that pilloried and embarrassed for this act of anti-science intellectual tyranny.) The Roman Inquisition investigated Galileo’s writings and found him guilty of “heresy’. He was slated for condemnation and death (his penalty was later commuted to life in prison). The Church prohibited Galileo from speaking about his ideas on astronomy, writing, or publishing what they termed his “lies”, and prevented him from disseminating his dangerous “disinformation”. The Roman Inquisition held him in jail, and later in house arrest until his death.
Until recently the Democrats held tight control of their favored “truth”. They used it, the pandemic and the connivance and cooperation of the legacy press and electronic media to shoehorn their candidate into office in the 2020 election. In recent days an existential fear has gripped the denizens in the bowels of DC’s progressive power centers. The potential loss of media giant “Twitter” appears to be passing from their control. With “Twitter” potentially open to “free unbiased speech for all”, the illusion of an independent, believable “free press” so useful to the Democrats to control the agenda and political narrative will evaporate. To offset that loss, the terribly weakened progressives under Biden have conspired to institute a more blatant, more exposed way to control information . Pushed into the proverbial corner, they have been forced to create a “truth ministry” a “disinformation control board” their last hope to cling tenaciously and precariously to power. Without this desperate act they will be exposed as mendicants, incompetents and tyrants.
The Biden administration now has its own model of a 17th century Roman “Inquisition” and “Index” in its newly created Disinformation Governance Board. What is “disinformation”? What banned ideas, speech, pronouns, dangerous words, and “fearful” information will it decide is dangerous? What are they afraid of? Only political demise.
I suspect the radical elements in Biden’s close circle have never bothered to read the Constitution and its First Amendment on Free Speech.
Take note that the Disinformation Governance Board is a part of the massive, muddled, mendacious government agency, known as the Department of Homeland Security. This bureaucratic behemoth under the control of the now infamous Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has in barely a year and a half treacherously erased the USA border, so there may soon be no “homeland” and it will definitely have no “security”. It is ironic that Secretary Mayorkas should be overseeing a “Disinformation” or “Truth” Board since it is his agency which has so consistently and continuously prevaricated, concealed information, and blatantly lied about its acts, its failures, and its criminal polices regarding illegal immigration on the the southern border.
Finally, it seems all the wobbling wheels, of this administration have fallen off: foreign policy disasters, economic crises, loss of credibility, domestic cultural chaos, crime waves, shortages, unprecedented increases in inflation, decline in the GDP and now a17th century style inquisition to control what people can think and say, so all the corruption and failures of the Biden Administration will be characterized as “disinformation” and never enter into public discourse.
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