{"id":46928,"date":"2021-01-11T06:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46928"},"modified":"2021-01-11T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:04:19","slug":"alt-media-patriots-beware-the-night-of-the-big-tech-long-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46928","title":{"rendered":"Alt Media<\/i> Patriots Beware: The Night of the Big Tech Long Knives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Night of the Tech Long Knives<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Clarice Feldman
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n

In 1934 Hitler executed members of his paramilitary organization (the SA \u2013 Sturmabteilung<\/em> or Storm Troopers) to consolidate his power, claiming it was to prevent a planned coup. In like fashion, using the incursion into the Capitol building, the Lords of Silicon Valley\u00a0used this is a cover to muzzle those whose views with which they disagree.<\/p>\n

Roger L. Simon details the events<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not only has Donald Trump — still the president of the United States — been permanently banned from\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, its rapidly growing, open-to-all substitute Parler has almost simultaneously been\u00a0de-platformed by Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get their app for Android anymore.<\/p>\n

Apple threatens to be next, demanding Parler kowtow (by Saturday!) to Cupertino\u2019s vision of what the world should be.<\/p>\n

I suppose that\u2019s a social-justicey-politically-correct totalitarianism led by left-leaning\u2026 or so they want us to believe\u2026 tech billionaires. [snip]<\/p>\n

Josh Hawley\u2019s forthcoming book\u2026 on Big Tech, no less\u2026 is \u201ccanceled\u201d by Simon & Schuster. Senator Hawley had been among the most outspoken about investigating the possibility of election fraud.<\/p>\n

Twitter permanently blocks General Flynn. I guess they don\u2019t think he has had enough already.<\/p>\n

Twitter permanently blocks Lin Wood, the well-known attorney working to unmask possible fraud. Ditto for the courageous Sidney Powell.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0blocks President Trump\u2019s account. (Not sure who was first — Facebook or Twitter — not that it matters.)<\/p>\n

More insidiously, Facebook starts to delete groups or forums of people who\u00a0publicly stepped away from the Democratic Party because of its scandals.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

(Elsewhere it\u2019s revealed that\u00a0Facebook banned accounts at the behest of Hunter Biden<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

YouTube announces it will no longer distribute videos investigating election fraud and that producers of such videos will be punished if they do.<\/p>\n

All this in a couple of days, the excuse being, in almost all cases, that the conservatives involved were instigating violence, the \u201coutrage\u201d that occurred at the Capitol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One observer, noting that Twitter still allows the Ayatollah to post his anti-American screeds there suggests a way out for him:<\/p>\n

Trump Sneaks Back On Twitter By Disguising Self As PR Rep For Chinese Communist Party<\/a><\/p>\n

The purge took place after Michelle Obama chimed in for them<\/a> to do just that:<\/p>\n

Jeremy Carl<\/p>\n

@jeremycarl4<\/p>\n

If you call yourself conservative you’d better decide quickly whether you side with Michelle Obama or @realDonaldTrump.<\/p>\n

NBC News @NBCNews<\/p>\n

JUST IN: Former first lady Michelle Obama calls on tech companies to permanently ban President Trump from their platforms and put policies in place \u201cto prevent their technology from being used by the nation\u2019s leaders to fuel insurrection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People are abandoning Twitter in\u00a0droves. By\u00a0Friday night Twitter stock dropped 4% in after-hour trading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Speech They Claim Caused an Insurrection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President, before\u00a0a group described as mostly law-abiding people from all over the country with no plan or desire to cause damage, reiterated his belief<\/a> that the election was tampered with, and said:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us. If he doesn\u2019t, that will be a sad day for our country because you\u2019re sworn to uphold our Constitution. Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we\u2019re going to walk down and I\u2019ll be there with you. We\u2019re going to walk down. We\u2019re going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here. We\u2019re going walk down to the Capitol, and we\u2019re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We\u2019re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you\u2019ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.<\/p>\n

We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard<\/em>. Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time, far longer than this four-year period. We\u2019ve set it on a much straighter course…. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His detractors characterize this as a reflection of his narcissism. My friend Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist who knows a bit about such things, has a different view \u201cI don\u2019t think we know to what extent it is personal pride and to what extent principle based on background information that most of us lack. His detractors of course are incapable of thinking his actions anything but base.\u201d And in support of this view, I note the long-delayed and underreported Ratcliffe assessment of foreign influence<\/a> on the election was tardy because of members of the intelligence community feared it would assist the President:<\/p>\n

Politicization problems exist in U.S. spy agency assessments on\u00a0foreign influence in the 2020 U.S. election<\/a>, including analysts who appeared to hold back information on Chinese meddling efforts because they disagreed with the Trump administration’s policies, according to an intelligence community inspector.<\/p>\n

Barry Zulauf, an analytic ombudsman and longtime intelligence official, issued a 14-page report obtained by the Washington Examiner to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, revealing his investigation was \u201cconducted in response to IC complaints regarding the election threat issue.” In addition, he lamented the \u201cpolarized atmosphere has threatened to undermine the foundations of our Republic, penetrating even into the Intelligence Community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The intelligence community\u2019s classified assessment on foreign influence in the 2020 election, which will not focus on claims of mail-in fraud or unfounded allegations of voting machines flipping millions of votes, was also submitted to Congress on Thursday. Expected in December, the assessment was delayed as senior intelligence officials clashed over the\u00a0role played by China,<\/a>\u00a0and as director of national intelligence,\u00a0John Ratcliffe<\/a>\u00a0sought to include more viewpoints in the final analysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. The analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tend to disagree with the administration\u2019s policies, saying in effect, I don\u2019t want our intelligence used to support those policies,\u201d Zulauf concluded, saying this behavior violated analytic standards requiring independence from political considerations. [emphasis added]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The objections to the electoral votes are hardly uncommon either.\u00a0As Congressman Matt Gaetz noted, its\u00a0aptness is contemplated in the Constitution and \u201cNot since 1985 has a Republican president been sworn in\u00a0absent some Democrat effort to object to the electors, but when we do it, it\u2019s the new violation of all norms. When those things are said people get angry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attacks on the President\u2019s speech to the crowd are of a piece with the descriptions of the events which followed.<\/p>\n

Is the Capitol Building Always Sacred Ground?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just two years ago, during the hearings on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the media and left thought otherwise as his detractors swarmed the halls and sought to deny him confirmation.<\/p>\n

Women’s March<\/p>\n

@womensmarch<\/p>\n

Oct 4, 2018<\/p>\n

We were planning to shut down the Capitol Building but the authorities were so scared of this\u00a0#WomensWave<\/a>\u00a0that they shut it down for us.<\/p>\n

1000 —\u00a0women, survivors, and allies have gathered in the Hart Senate Building.<\/p>\n

Every hallway. Every floor.<\/p>\n

#CancelKanavaugh<\/a>\u00a0#BelieveSurvivors<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(That was when \u201cbelieve all women\u201d was the demand, a demand\u00a0which seems to appear and disappear like the Cheshire Cat at the\u00a0convenience of the media and Democratic women depending on who the accused is.)<\/p>\n

\"\"In any event the Capitol has been the scene of worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was set afire by the British in 1812. In 1915 a Harvard professor planted dynamite near the Senate Reception Room which went off\u00a0 as \u201can exclamation point in my appeal for peace.\u201d In March 1954 four Puerto Rican nationalists in the visitors\u2019 galley shot and wounded five members of Congress. President Carter later pardoned\u00a0them. In\u00a0March of 1971 the Weather Underground set off a bomb in the Senate side of the Capitol causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. (Bill Ayers was the leader of the group. He was a Chicago colleague of Barack Obama and is widely believed to have ghostwritten Dreams of My Father<\/em>, improbably attributed to Barack. Ayers’s wife Bernardine Dohrn, also a member of the group, is a retired professor of law at Northwestern University. The son of two other members of the group whom they raised while his mother was in prison, Chesa Boudin, is a George Soros-funded\u00a0district attorney of San Francisco, where he\u2019s been successful in adopting policies causing significant increases in crime.) Twelve years after the Weather Underground bombing, a leftist group set off a bomb which blew off the door of Senator Byrd\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

In contrast to those events, videos show the Capitol police removing the barriers to the building and ushering through the mostly obedient and respectful crowd. (A crowd which in such a multitude usually includes a number of attention seekers and ne\u2019er-do-wells like this nonaffiliated man photographed with Pelosi\u2019s lectern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Capitol demonstration was far more peaceful than the ones outside the White House last summer, when Secret Service men were injured protecting the White House<\/a> during the BLM\/leftist rioting:<\/p>\n

The attacks near the White House were more violent than the one at the Capitol, which did not involve most of the forms of assault described above. Yet, media and Democrat outrage over these attacks was muted at best. At worst, it was directed at those like William Barr who tried to ensure the safety of the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Crowds often attract outliers who use them as a cover for theft and mayhem, the reason I avoid large groups even at things like Black Friday at Walmart.<\/p>\n

Along with an election they believe was stolen without an adequate opportunity to prove it, the crowd was also rightly infuriated by our two-tier System of Justice. So far not a single member of the soft coup Russian Collusion plotters has been sentenced, to give but one example.<\/p>\n

Contrast the impassioned but not violence-inducing language of the President with just a few\u00a0examples of these calls for violence by Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n

Just last year Congresswoman Ayanna Presley called for unrest in the streets<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0Maxine Waters regularly does. Indeed, there are 26 times the media and Democrats excused or endorsed violence committed by left-wing activists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only did they endorse and excuse the violence, Democratic supporters and donors paid to bail out\u00a0any who were arrested.<\/p>\n

Mark Steyn details<\/a> the outrageous double legal standards involving protests and protestors. \u00a0He wonders why we should be surprised when a mass protest tactic which proved useful\u00a0for one side is used by the other.<\/p>\n

Other resentments were at the boil as well.<\/p>\n

In the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Edward Luttwak also makes the point<\/a> of the double standard:<\/p>\n

Given all these exclusions, only one description remains: a venting of accumulated resentments. Those who voted for President Trump saw his electoral victory denied in 2016 by numerous loud voices calling for \u201cresistance\u201d as if the president-elect were an invading foreign army. These voices were eagerly relayed and magnified by mass media, emphatically including pro-Trump media.<\/p>\n

Then they saw his victory sullied by constantly repeated accusations of collusion with Russia from chairmen of intelligence committees and ex-intelligence chiefs who habitually accused Mr. Trump of being\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s agent, claiming they had secret information, which, alas, they could not disclose. They deplored Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201csubservience\u201d to Mr. Putin weekly for four years while refusing to entertain the possibility that in a confrontation with China, it might be a good idea to overlook Mr. Putin\u2019s sins, as Nixon embraced Mao to counter the Soviet Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It amused me to see the photograph in the Wall Street Journal\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0James Freeman\u2019s article<\/a> urging the president to attend the inauguration. As you can see Trump is shaking the hand of Biden while the Obamas look on, barely hiding sneers. Both Biden and Obama had just the day before set off the Russian Collusion soft coup to tie up Trump\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n

As the Intelligence Community works to cover for China and the Silicon Billionaires strip dissenting voices from their platforms, leading Democrats join the overreach.\u00a0 Omar tweets she\u2019s drawing up articles of impeachment; Chuck Schumer, our new Senate Majority Leader, tweets \u201cThis president must not hold office one day longer.\u201d Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark says that if the Vice President and Cabinet don\u2019t remove him they will vote to impeach him by the middle of next week. Congresswoman Diana DeGette supports impeachment, tweeting, \u201cHe is a real danger to our country. He must be removed from office immediately and barred from ever holding an elected office again.\u201d (Someone should explain the Bill of Attainder to these people.) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went so far<\/a> as to call the Pentagon Chief of Staff<\/a>, ostensibly worried that he’ll set up a nuclear war\u00a0on his way out. Who\u2019s unhinged?\u00a0 James Freeman continues:<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also ranted and raved at length claiming the election was fraudulent, and for this reason many Americans will be happy to see him depart on Jan. 20. But if the speaker wants to make an incitement case on political grounds and Mr. Trump is permitted to mount a defense, he will likely be able to cite plenty of quotations in which the impeachers made similarly inflammatory remarks.<\/p>\n

If on the other hand Mrs. Pelosi wants to argue the legal merits, just like last time she will have trouble defining how exactly Mr. Trump broke the law. He has First Amendment rights just like everybody else, and no doubt the manner in which he exercises them is a big reason why so many people voted against him in November. But did he meet the legal standard of incitement? UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh\u00a0thinks not<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The very brilliant Daniel Greenfield details <\/a>why this trend of shutting off the views of about half the country is likely to become even more complete and onerous.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m old fashioned. From the days before — to \u00a0paraphrase one wag — the party of JFK became the party of Lee Harvey Oswald. So old fashioned, I think the best way to determine policy and to understand events is open dialogue. Without it, it\u2019s a thugs’ and idiots\u2019 paradise. So I\u2019ll keep writing online until my doubleplusungood thoughts get cancelled. I\u2019m too old to pass the exam for a ham radio license, but I\u2019m sure we’ll figure out something.<\/p>\n

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