Daily Broadside | Big Brother is Carefully Circling the Wagons … Around You

Daily Verse | Leviticus 25:4
But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the Lord.

Friday’s Reading: Numbers 1-4
Saturday’s Reading: Numbers 5-8

It’s Friday and the end of another week in the catastrophic hijacking of the American experiment in self-governance as the Brandon junta makes Wrongthink a crime. And not just a crime, mind you, but a specific kind of crime known as “domestic terrorism.”

MDM isn’t the latest flavor of fentanyl, produced by the Communist Chinese regime for sale to Mexican drug cartels, and now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 to 45. No, MDM stands for mis- dis- and mal-information, the latest government acronym from which you must be protected.

DHS’ latest “Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” released Monday, has much to say about the dangers of American minds being polluted with MDM, and curiously little to say about actual terror threats.

MDM is a term developed by the DHS Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to replace the old-fashioned phrase “foreign influence.” Now let us caveat that the U.S. government does indeed have a responsibility to monitor and to identify foreign influence operations. This was the remit of the Reagan-era Active Measures Working Group, which worked tirelessly to identify Soviet lies being spread to undermine the United States’ global standing in the world, and then countered them with the truth.

But under the latest iteration, DHS is no longer concerned solely with enemy lies spread abroad, but increasingly with information spread by “domestic threat actors” (read: American citizens). And no longer are they merely concerned with disinformation, false material spread to manipulate an opponent, but with misinformation, which DHS considers information that is false but not intended to cause harm, and “mal-information,” which means information which is true but the government considers harmful anyway.

This raises the question of who put a government intelligence and law enforcement agency in the position of declaring not only what is true or false but also determining whether information is good or harmful for consumption by free citizens. Of course, no law prohibits American citizens of spreading information of any kind, whether true or false.

Speaking of terrorism—this is truly a terrifying step in the morphing gelatinous mass known as the bureaucratic state, which is embedded in unaccountable agencies created by acts of Congress and completely detached from our political system of checks and balances.

This strikes at the very heart of a free and autonomous people, especially in terms of our First Amendment rights to free speech or to peaceably assemble or to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

But think about what has recently taken place. We had thousands of people “peaceably assemble” in Washington last January to protest the 2020 election results and “petition the Government for redress of grievances.” A smaller number of those people foolishly entered the capitol building and did some damage to it; others went in and walked through like tourists; and still others tried to break into areas that were off limits.

None had weapons and the only citizens killed that day were two unarmed women who were part of the crowd.

For that the protestors who breached the capitol were accused of participating in a violent insurrection and were hunted down, arrested, kept in solitary confinement without being charged, and were abused by their jailkeepers. Hundreds still languish in their cells for doing nothing more than walking through the halls of congress.

In the wake of that incident, lying anti-American mouthpiece and former CIA director John Brennan crowed that,

“… members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion, to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists — so authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians.”

That was only one of several claims that the most dangerous threat we face is from political extremism and White supremacy.

Then, the Justice Department (recently) announced that it was “establishing its own domestic terrorism unit to thwart the rise of home-grown extremism. But national security experts and advocates say it’s still unclear whether this unit will make Americans safer.”

And let’s not forget that Barack Hussein Obama fired and then replaced hundreds of senior military leaders with the likes of General Milli-Vanilli whose greatest concern is “white rage” and outfitting his military with skirts and heels.

Do you see how all the pieces are being put into place? We are facing an unprecedented assault on our freedoms and the government, which is completely out of control and setting itself up for tyrannical rule, is being led by anti-American Marxists who are on the verge of not governing, but ruling, our country.

In the DHS bulletin, it says that,

… the country is described as being in a “heightened threat environment” due to factors such as online content featuring “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.”

The “threat actors” are accused of seeking to “exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest,” which could potentially lead to acts of violence.

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The bulletin also designates individuals and small cells “motivated by a range of foreign and/or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content” as the “primary terrorism-related threat” to the country.

“The convergence of violent extremist ideologies, false or misleading narratives, and conspiracy theories have and will continue to contribute to a heightened threat of violence in the United States,” it states.

Both “unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” and the coronavirus are listed as examples of subjects in which “false or misleading narratives” are being proliferated online.

“Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021,” it claims.

COVID measures such as vaccine and mask mandates are stated to “have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020” and can potentially continue to inspire them “to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures.”

We are being encircled by our government, which is setting up the mechanics of a system that could be used to arrest anyone who voices dissent against the ruling policies or official narratives under the pretext of inciting violence.

Unfortunately, while we may take back the White House and the Congress in the next two years, a lot of damage is being done in these four years that will be tough to undo.

All I can say is arm yourself and buy lots of ammo.

Have a good weekend.