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Fascism Creep - 04/26


By Rich Trzupek
  I don’t much care for Joe Biden’s America. It looks less like the America I used to know every day.
  Barack Obama’s America was often not to my taste, but it was America. We could still agree to disagree. People weren’t afraid of words, even strong words. Free speech was still an American ideal, not matter how stupid or hateful the speech might be.
  Joe Biden’s America is something else again. I don’t blame Joe Biden specifically. Most politicians are woefully out of touch with everything except poll numbers and staff advisors. Biden seems a bit more out of touch than most, although I’d still bet on Joe if he played in a Jeopardy tournament against John Fetterman and Maxine Waters.
  Freedom isn’t freedom unless it includes the freedom to be wrong. As of last week, the Biden administration was pursuing an indictment against the Uhuru Movement and its leader, Omali Yeshitela. The basis of the charges is essentially that Yeshitela and his movement said stuff that the Biden administration doesn’t like.
  Specifically, the indictment accuses the Uhuru of attempting to “interfere” in US elections by cooperating with and spreading Russian disinformation. Ironic when you consider that most government officials get elected by spreading disinformation. It’s called “running for office.”
  Even more ironic when one digs a little deeper into Uhuru. They are big time into demanding reparations. BIG time. So they’re not an organization no conservative would ever support, nor is their primary goal one that conservatives find legitimate in the least.
  Doesn’t matter though, they get to have their organization and their organization gets to have goals and those goals don’t have to be intelligent or legitimate in my eyes or the eyes of any other American. You’re not free unless you’re free to be an idiot.
  Unfortunately for him, Yeshitela is on record opining that the money and value of the weapons the United States is shoveling into the Ukraine would be better spent on reparations. This led him into offering some interesting, if not very well thought out, theories on geopolitics in Eastern Europe.
  In Yeshitela’s world, Russia is well within its rights by attempting to bring the Ukrainians back under the benevolent rule of Mother Russia. Did the FSB (the Russian intelligence agency that is the successor to the infamous KGB of the communist era) plant this “disinformation” in Yeshitela’s head? I doubt it. It’s hard to imagine any semi-competent intelligence officer using a whack-job like this one as a mouth piece. But even if they did, who cares?
  One of the jobs that every intelligence agency on earth is charged with is influencing political thought in other nations. We do it. Russia does it. The UK does it. I would not be a surprise to find that Vatican City does it. The idea that one nation attempting to sway public opinion within another nation is somehow disreputable or unique is simply ridiculous. It’s kind of like self-gratification: Everybody does it, even if nobody talks about it.
  Theoretically, Yeshitela could face ten years in prison for “spreading disinformation”. Think about that. It wasn’t that long ago that “disinformation” was a word only tyrannical or communist governments used. Americans don’t “spread disinformation,” they have opinions. American politicians don’t “spread disinformation,” they tell lies. They lie about what they did and intend to do, and about what their opponents did and intend to do. That’s business as usual. It’s regrettable, but sorting out the crazy from the deceitful from the praise-worthy as best one can is the job of every American.
  In a free nation, government does not accuse people of having incorrect opinions, because doing so demands that government has the power and the ability to decide what opinions are correct. Once we cross that line Joe Biden’s America, and the Americas to follow, are going to be less and less pleasant places for people to live.
 Email: RichTrzupek@gmail.com




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