The Evil Spawn of Mikhail Bakunin

 It will be unnecessary to defund the police or order them to stand down.  They will stand down on their own because of government policies.  This will have disastrous results.

19th Century Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, “The brigand is the true and only revolutionary in Russia.”

Throughout the Trump Administration whenever the President was contradicted by a member of the bureaucracy it was remarked that "a member of his own Justice Department" or "a member of his own intelligence community" disagreed with him.  These government agencies were never part of "his" administration.  They were controlled by the Deep State and for some strange reason he often appointed members of the Deep State to run these agencies.  U.S. presidents depend upon approximately 2 million federal employees to carry out the agenda voters elected them to implement. Donald Trump was frequently criticized for having more faith in Vladimir Putin than his own intelligence community.  Yes, that intelligence community that was attempting to have him impeached.

One of the most powerful branches of government is the Department of Justice.  This department is largely composed of "progressives."  This is revealed by the fact that its employees donate overwhelmingly to progressive organizations.  One of President Trump's greatest accomplishments was his nominating a large number of judges to the federal judiciary.  He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court. Recently we have witnessed how ineffective that has been.  The judiciary both federal and state has been compromised and this will have disastrous results. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in crime and this is only the beginning.  Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, N.Y., Alice Vachss, commented on this problem in the justice system in the early 1990s: "There is a large, more or less hidden population of what I later came to call collaborators within the criminal justice system."

There are two aspects of judicial system corruption: a sympathy for criminals and a hostility toward conservative groups.  David Horowitz describes the former in his book, Radical Son: "The prison movement that Fay (Stender) founded was built on the common radical premise that outlaws were rebels, that there are no criminals, only political prisoners."  That latter can be described as the Cardinal Richelieu technique:  Richelieu asserted, "If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men I will find something in them with which to hang him."  Every attorney who defended Donald Trump, every individual who signed an affidavit on voter fraud and the President himself will be prosecuted.   Innocence is no defense as Senator Ted Stevens, General Michael Flynn and many others have learned.  Many of the innocent will confess to various crimes as Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev did during the Stalinist show trials.

The situation in the state and local level is possibly worse.  San Francisco's District Attorney Chesa Boudin is the son of members of the domestic-terror group Weather Underground.  He has adopted rules making it harder to prosecute suspects.  He allowed a repeat offender on parole which resulted in the death of two women. Last August five District Attorneys published an op-ed in Politico.  They proclaimed, “Our criminal legal system was constructed to control Black people and people of color. Its injustices are not new but are deeply rooted in our country’s shameful history of slavery and legacy of racial violence. The system is acting exactly as it was intended to, and that is the problem. We should know: We’re Black, we’re female, and we’re prosecutors. We work as the gatekeepers in this flawed system. And we have some ideas for how to fix it.”  Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey sees riots in a positive light: "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow."  She blames "institutionalized racism" for the violence.  Multnomah County's District Attorney Mike Schmidtdropped charges against hundreds of people arrested for offenses like interfering with cops, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and rioting.  Philadelphia's Assistant District Attorney Isabella Aguilar believes, "Two party systems are for maintaining a white supremacist patriarchal colonial state" and Mitch McConnell has spent his "entire career blocking process and marginalizing oppressed communities. F**K YOU."

Deep State DAs view looting as a free speech issue.  Looting is actually a very constructive activity.  Vicky Osterweil, the author of “In Defense Of Looting,” argues that “looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society” and is a way to undermine the “white supremacy.”  Osterweil claims looting is a tool for justice that doesn’t really harm anyone.  Looting allows rioters to “demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.”  Progressive DAs appear to share this sympathetic view of looters.  Seattle's city attorney Peter Holmes claims, "No city prosecutor is interested in sending an impoverished new parent to jail for stealing baby food."  Holmes appears to be mimicking Maxine Waters who said after the Los Angeles 1992 riots, “There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn’t have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks.”  Prosecutors must now consider looters’ “needs” when weighing criminal charges.

The compassion expresses for looters does not extend to the general public.  Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón had to apologize for telling the mother of a murder victim “It’s unfortunate that we have people who do not have enough education so they can keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk.”  DAs can be determined to get a conviction depending on the crime or the obvious innocence of the target.  The case of Mark and Patricia McCloskey is illustrative.  The lead St. Louis police detective investigating McCloskey refused to sign two versions of a court documents prosecutors had drafted.  His investigation revealed that the mob threaten the McCloskeys, was armed, and broke the gate to get onto their private property. 

Labeling and its consequences

In the press, intelligentsia, and on the left, Donald Trump and his supporters have been consistently referred to as terrorists, Klansmen, and Nazis.  

Arizona's Secretary of State Katie Hobbs labeled Trump supporters “his neo-Nazi base” in a tweet she posted in August 2017.  This tweet was left up for three years and two months.  Hobbs is the chief election officer of the state. She is in charge of the vote “counting” in Arizona.  She has also accused President Trump of attempting to “sabotage” the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to influence the election.  Can she be trusted to be impartial?

CNN’s plummily titled Chief International Anchor, Christiane Amanpour, recalled Kristallnacht, the infamous anti-Jewish pogrom carried out in Nazi Germany in 1938, by noting that President Donald Trump’s presidency has similarly been a “modern day assault” attacking “those same values.”  She claimed, "That tower of burning books . . . led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth,” and: "After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden/Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.”  The Trump administration's Kristallnacht and book burning were never covered by the press. 

 Beto O'Rourke compared Trump's rally in Greenville, North Carolina to Nazi Germany: "That's Nuremberg to me."

He wasn't the only one. Joe Scarborough discussing a Trump rally in North Carolina, “That’s the president, actually, from his Nuremberg rally from last night.”  It was another obvious reference to the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg.  

The Nazi talk went beyond that: Former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden compared President Trump’s immigration policies to that of Nazi Germany, too. “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” Hayden wrote next to a black-and-white photo of Auschwitz.  

Others dished out references to the Klan. Democratic congressional candidate from North Carolina, Moe Davis, stated “When @NCGOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.”  Davis compared Trump rallies to “Klan rallies” and “make American great again” hats to “new KKK hoods.”  For some reason voters in his district decided not to elect him.

CNN contributor and liberal "intellectual" Reza Aslan called for the “eradication” of Trump supporters. Aslan remarked that President Donald Trump "is a white nationalist terror leader. His supporters – ALL OF THEM – are by definition white nationalist terror supporters. The MAGA hat is a KKK hood. And his evil, racist scourge must be eradicated from society.”  The characterization of Trump supporters as an “evil, racist scourge” is reminiscent of the Holocaust.  In references to the genocide, identical language is used by historians, journalists, and human rights organizations.  Aslan also called for violence against the Covington Catholic High School boys.  He asked in a tweet,  “Honest question. Have you seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?”  Patrick Buchanan asserted, "To true believers in the revolution, the Right is not just wrong; the Right is evil."

"Historian" Jon Meacham claimed, "Donald Trump is a product of the white man’s, the anguished, nervous, white guys lizard brain."

"Comedian" Bill Maher made a joke about Trump’s mom having sex with an orangutan.  “To determine whether he is in fact the love child of a human woman and an orangutan from the Brooklyn zoo,” Maher said. “Look, I’m not saying your mother was repeatedly ****ing an orangutan back in the 1940s, I don’t know if that’s true I hope it’s not true.  But given your face, your physique and your intelligence level and of course your hair, the American people deserve some real proof that your mother did not spend most nights in 1945 covering her body in banana oil sneaking into the monkey cage and compulsively humping an orange orangutan.”

All of these pundits have remained employed and have been lauded for their courage for speaking truth to power.  Are their more egregious comments that would require someone to be fired.  Apparently, the answer is 'yes.'  Radio personality Grant Napear was fired by his radio station and resigned as the Sacramento Kings TV play-by-play announcer after his tweet that said “All Lives Matter” became public.  The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Singing Nuns, a traditional Catholic sisters organization, a hate group.  The Little Sisters of the Poor are also under investigation.

There is a danger in labeling.  A 2007 Clark University study of hate speech claimed, “Dehumanization is a frequent element of hate speech, and is used to vilify the target. It also has the effect of disinhibiting violence. Thus, dehumanizing descriptions of individuals and groups are an alarming signal of hate speech and the danger of future violence.”  After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing the late Washington Post columnist, David Broder wrote: “The bombing shows how dangerous it really is to inflame twisted minds with statements that suggest political opponents are enemies."  Floyd Corkins, a LGBT volunteer shot up the conservative Family Research Council headquarters in August 2012.  Corkins admitted he got his information from the Southern Poverty Law Center website.

Internet Company Bias

On October 28, 2020 Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google testified before the Senate's Commerce Committee.  Republicans called this hearing to question the CEOs about political bias on the internet.  Senator Ron Johnson asked the three CEOs if their employees lean to the left.  Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai could not answer the question, although Pichai had said in his opening statement, “Let me be clear: We approach our work without political bias, full stop.”  Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his employees do “skew” to the left.  Does this bias influence what is allowed on the internet?

The three CEOs contend that they do not censor information. They do, however, "moderate content."  Facebook has 35,000 content "moderators" and Google has 10,000.  Jack Dorsey has no idea how many “moderators” he employs.  One item “moderated” by Twitter and Facebook was an article in the New York Post about information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.  Senate Wicker stated, "twitter blocked all users including the House Judiciary Committee from sharing the article."  Zuckerberg claimed mention of the article was “moderated” because the FBI had warned Facebook about possible Russian hacks.  The President was also censored.  Senator Blackburn stated that twitter never banned Biden but banned the President 65 times.  Dorsey claimed, “We haven’t censored the U.S. President.”  She replied, “Oh yes you have.”  

Rachel Lerman of the Washington Post reported, “President Trump has repeatedly broken the rules with tweets about the election and the pandemic. Twitter has at times labeled those posts or even shielded them from view with a gray box and prevented them from being retweeted.”  Senator Mike Lee asked each CEO if they could name one prominent individual or institution from a liberal ideology that they had banned.  He did not allow them to avoid the question.  They could not.  Sundar Pichai gave an obscure example.

Does the “moderation” of information have an effect on elections?  Senator Ron Johnson was ridiculed for using a satirical example to illustrate bias in Twitter's policy. The Tweet read, "Senator Ron Johnson is my neighbor and strangled our dog, Buttons, right in front of my 4 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter.  The police refuse to investigate. This is a complete lie but important to retweet and note that there are more lies to come."  Senator Johnson contacted Twitter and requested the Tweet be removed.  They responded, "Thanks for reaching out. We escalated this to our support team for their review and they have determined that this is not a violation of our policies."  Senator Johnson may be overly sensitive about this tweet. It was humorous.  But he has a legitimate complaint.  It quite likely will have a small impact on his reelection.  A critic might respond, "No one is that stupid."  We all remember when Sarah Palin said, “I can see Russia from my house!”  Snopes claims it is "the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin."  Palin never made the remark.  It was made by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.

Senator Cruz asked, "Mr. Dorsey, does Twitter have the ability to influence elections?"  Dorsey responded with a decisive, "No."  Either Dorsey is lying, or he is incredibly dense.  All means of information transmission impact the way people think, and therefore can influence elections. Former publisher of The New York Times Arthur Hays Sulzberger said, "A man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it" Of course all of this “moderation” is designed to protect us.  There is a large amount of hate speech and misinformation on the internet.  So many of us are just not intelligent enough to separate truth from fiction.  They are compelled to help us.  A problem arises with the people selected to provide this help.  Former East German Stasi agent Anetta Kahane is providing guidance on immigration policy.  A Google engineer mentioned by Senator Blackburn, Blake Lemoine, has written, “Some people are toxic and need to be cleared away so that our civilization can function properly.”  These CEOs are soft-spoken.  They give the appearance of trying to be objective, transparent, and reasonable.  Yet the people they hire are working to install the Deep State.  Their tranquil appearance is a technique used most effectively by Dorsey.  The Washington Post was able to report, "Dorsey maintained a calm demeanor as Cruz became increasingly agitated.  Senator Cruz is portrayed as the radical.  

These internet companies are privately owned.  They can censor whatever they want.  They can also broadcast whatever they want.  People should be able to deny the holocaust, claim the earth is flat and say the moon is made of cheese.  It is up to the recipient to determine the validity of the claim.  If a news source makes enough absurd claims it will cease to be listened to.  When a company fails to satisfy its customers in a market economy it encourages competition.  There has been significant growth in alternative internet sites in the last few years.  This is due in large part because these companies are not serving the public.