On February 7, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a ‘Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland’. While most of the document is a boilerplate description of every possible domestic threat that could ever exist, there are some notable clauses that go well beyond hypothetical threats to the nation. Therein is provided the circular road ultimately condemning any that would speak to the error of this present and future terms of governments and assigning them the status of dissidents.
First, the summary statement, quoted from the document:
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‘The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation. While the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year, the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; (2) continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents; and (3) calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events. ‘
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Let’s examine some statements and ask questions:
‘…online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories’
What about broadcast news and commentary, proven to be agenda driven and riddled with massive cultivated and coordinated falsehoods (such as ‘Russiagate’)?
When did ‘online’ media cease to be worthy of journalistic protections?
Who decides what narratives are false and conspiracy theories to be unworthy of further investigation to ascertain factual standing?
‘…undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest’
Doesn’t this assume that government is perpetually and fully trustworthy?
I seem to recall that a great many progressives following the Obama-Clinton-Biden axis during the Trump Presidency acted exactly in the manner described here; so does that mean that those parties should become the focus of prosecution?
Isn’t the essence of democracy to allow the people, the ‘public’, to decide whether the government is trustworthy?
‘…the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions’
Isn’t a failing government [such as the Biden administration] actually the sower of discord and the underminer of public trust?
Isn’t trust earned?
Shouldn’t it go without saying that people of a democratic republic are the nation and the homeland and not the government?
Does this administration understand the meaning of Abraham Lincoln’s statement in the Gettysburg Address: ‘…a government of the people, by the people, for the people…’
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Applying the erroneous and unconstitutional premises laid out by DHS, this blog you are reading right now is ‘terrorism’. The DHS, far from protecting the people of this nation from real terrorist, has declared millions of citizens of the United States to be their enemy. By virtue of identifying individuals and specific components of the government to be corrupt (i.e. the Biden family crime syndicate, the hijacked and politicized DHS, Justice Department, FBI et al), by pointing out gross incompetence (e.g. VP Kamala Harris), the DHS by definition considers me to be an enemy of the state. In the DHS bulletin, there is no mention or accommodation whatsoever of constitutional rights nor the concept of a protest much less the distinction of a peaceful protest. In fact, even virtual, ‘on-line’ protests could be condemned and subject to DHS administrative interdiction. That makes me a dissident.
While the bulk of the DHS bulletin focuses on definitions that have more traditional understandings of lawful action against law-breakers, the inclusion of the highlighted statements in the beginning summary of the document are a screaming aberration from a lawless DHS that is becoming an American ‘Stasi’. Retribution surely IS coming to this administration, but it’s not what they imagine in their fantasies; it’s the wave that will be turning them out of office at the voting booth.