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   From: hisler@nym.hush.com   
      
   On 5/11/2023 10:12 AM, D. Ray wrote:   
   > For years, the Department of Homeland Security has run a virtually unknown   
   > program gathering domestic intelligence, one of many revelations in a   
   > wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.   
   >   
   > Those documents also reveal that a significant number of employees in DHS’s   
   > intelligence office have raised concerns that the work they are doing could   
   > be illegal.   
      
   A couple of pertinent articles:   
      
   https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/10/theyre-coming-to-take-you-away/   
      
   Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to   
   startle you. And suppose I suggest, by way of demonstration, that two   
   people as loosely connected as the leader of the “COVID Crisis Group”   
   and Joe Biden’s “Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism” –   
   both of whom have recently offered recommendations for improving   
   political life in the United States – are in fact determined to unravel   
   American freedoms.   
      
   Would you be surprised?   
      
   Well, if so, that is exactly the startling fact I am trying to bring to   
   your attention. True, you may not have heard that the 34 COVID-19   
   “experts” headed by one Philip Zelikow (last seen justifying the   
   concealment of information about the 9/11 attacks) and anti-Semitism   
   “ambassador” Deborah Lipstadt – perhaps best known for slandering scads   
   of Jewish survivors of the Nazis as “soft-core” Holocaust deniers   
   because they objected to the massacre of 1,462 of Gaza’s civilians nine   
   years ago – are both out to dismantle the Bill of Rights. But if you   
   haven’t, it isn’t because they’ve been coy about their objectives.   
      
   Take the Zelikow panel. Its new book on “the lessons learned from   
   COVID-19” openly conflates the federal government’s management of a   
   respiratory virus with “wartime” – thus rationalizing the executive   
   branch’s preemption of democratic government. Not only that, Zelikow and   
   his band of “experts” explicitly call for the consolidation of power in   
   the hands of an unelected “health security enterprise” that would   
   control, among other things, a “systematic biomedical surveillance   
   network.” And in case you can’t guess who is likely to benefit from the   
   snooping, the panel goes on to praise the coercive experimental drug   
   program that gave us the COVID-19 “vaccines” – “a bargain at $30   
   billion,” according to the editors of the Washington Post – signaling at   
   one stroke the experts’ contempt for the Nuremberg Code and their   
   subservience to Big Pharma.   
      
   As for Lipstadt, she has launched her attack on the First Amendment by   
   redefining “anti-Semitism” so as to include an extraordinary range of   
   political speech. Her first step in that transformation is the familiar   
   trick of confusing criticism of the Israeli government with anti-Jewish   
   bigotry. But her second step is newer and, arguably, even more   
   disturbing: she tars all denigration of Jews with the hot-button label   
   “conspiracy theory.”   
      
   Let’s be clear: however noble the pretext of opposing Jew-hatred, it   
   should be obvious that once you characterize anti-Semitism as a   
   “conspiracy theory” you have made a case for censorship. As Lipstadt   
   herself explained to Jane Eisner of Columbia University’s Graduate   
   School of Journalism (in an interview printed in the latest AARP   
   Magazine but not available online): “[I]t’s a conspiracy theory that   
   Jews control the media, the banks, the election process, etc. If you   
   believe that there is a group controlling these things, then essentially   
   you’re saying that you don’t believe in democracy.”   
      
   And there’s the trouble. After all, an overt attack on democracy isn’t a   
   viewpoint; it isn’t even an expression of run-of-the-mill bigotry. It’s   
   a threat to the state. And it follows, if you accept Lipstadt’s   
   formulation, that anyone the government can label an “anti-Semite” may   
   now be punished in the same way the Biden administration is already   
   punishing people who protested the presidential election results of   
   November 2020. Note, too, the selective parameters of the offense:   
   blaming Donald Trump’s election on the Russians is presumably   
   “legitimate” speech; but accusing a “group” of controlling “the   
   election   
   process” can land you in jail – that is, when the “group” is not an   
   official enemy but a favored minority, and when that “process” has   
   reached results endorsed by those in power.   
      
   Also read:   
      
   https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/09/disarm-the-irs-de-militarize   
   the-bureaucracy-dismantle-the-standing-army/   
      
      
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     May 9, 2023  46   
   Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, & Dismantle the Standing Army   
   John & Nisha Whitehead   
      
   “There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and   
   which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those   
   governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from   
   keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an   
   instrument is a standing army.”   
   Thomas Jefferson, 1789   
      
   What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more   
   pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with   
   weapons than U.S. Marines?   
      
   Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body   
   armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas   
   cannons are the IRS, Smithsonian, U.S. Mint, Health and Human Services,   
   FDA, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration,   
   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Education Department,   
   Energy Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and an assortment of   
   public universities.   
      
   Add in the Biden Administration’s plans to swell the ranks of the IRS by   
   87,000 new employees (some of whom will be authorized to use deadly   
   force) and grow the nation’s police forces by 100,000 more cops, and   
   you’ve got a nation in the throes of martial law.   
      
   We’re being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun.   
      
   Make that hundreds of thousands of loaded guns.   
      
   According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of federal agents armed   
   with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorized to make   
   arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the   
   past several decades.   
      
      
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