AMAC Exclusive – By Tammy Bruce
That guy you hear yelling “I warned you!” is George Orwell from the beyond. This as the Biden administration announced the establishment of a “Disinformation Board,” which is nothing less than a “Ministry of Truth,” a concept featured in Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
For the Democrats, it seems they consider Orwell’s masterpiece not as the warning against fascism as he meant it but as a template for what’s to become.
His novel’s “Ministry of Truth” was charged in part with making sure public discussion conformed with party narrative. We’re now told Biden’s new “Disinformation Board,” a unit within the massive national security apparatus of the Department of Homeland Security, is to combat “misinformation” and “disinformation.” In other words, opinions, facts, investigations, and journalism threatening the Marxist and woke Democratic Party agenda.
Orwell regularly warned the world about the real nature of fascism as it began to consume Europe in the early and mid-20th century. In “1984” he wrote:
“In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?”
So far, the Democrats have given us “anti-racist” racists, “anti-fascist” fascists, and “anti-misinformation” propagandists. Of course, they couldn’t resist becoming the “anti-lying” liars.
For Orwell, the mottos displayed on the “1984” ministries building were “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. And IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” Perhaps DHS Secretary Mayorkas will be tempted to make “TRUTH IS DISINFORMATION” the new DHS motto.
After all, he keeps telling us, “The southern border is closed,” despite every fact, including our own eyes, confirming the opposite. Biden keeps telling us that the economy is strong, crime is down, and everything in China is fine, just fine.
The first of many reasons why this remarkable announcement especially matters is it is clearly a reaction to Elon Musk buying Twitter.
No doubt the Democrats took for granted that they would be in perpetual and total control of social media’s power as Town Square. They were likely thrilled with the impact of Twitter management interference with the 2020 election and expected to be able to continue to control the conversation and, in large part, the future of this country by suppressing information.
This new board confirms exactly how much they relied on Twitter and the platform’s willingness to smash and silence anyone who dared to challenge the status quo. No doubt, they now hope that using federal law enforcement will be the new mechanism with which they can intimidate the media to comply with the suppression of information they decide is threatening to their stranglehold on power.
There’s been much discussion about the woman already appointed to head this monstrosity. But think about: What kind of person would be willing to lead a commission meant to control speech by punishing and silencing offenders? Of course, she’s a menace, anyone leading it would be. What our focus must be on is rejecting the premise itself as inherently un-American and wholly unconstitutional.
These are the same people who told us the Hunter Biden laptop was a fraud and product of Russian disinformation. We now know that was a lie. They tell us there are 57 genders, and if you contradict that, you will be canceled from society. They used social media and Big Tech to insist that the COVID-19 vaccine would “stop the virus,“ which was false. Those who challenged the notion that cloth masks could “stop the virus,” now acknowledged as not true, were censored, smeared, and cancelled. They still insist the southern border is closed, and the economy is just fine.
This is not entirely surprising considering the open and well-known collusion between the Democrats, the Biden administration, and social media to suppress a whole variety of discussions, people, and issues both prior to and during the 2020 presidential election.
After enjoying big tech and Twitter doing the government’s bidding by censoring and silencing anyone who challenged the orthodoxy, the Democrats realized that the jig was up.
The Democrat political machine that is obsessed with making it too dangerous to speak about scientific and factual truths has decided to federalize the Old Twitter strategy of thought policing the nation. Clearly this cannot stand.
The Democrats do not mean well. What they are doing is not constitutional, and the “disinformation board” is a serious attempt to eventually criminalize vocal opposition. It must be fought immediately as the threat to national security and our constitutional order that it truly is.