By Bela “Bill” Suhayda
Sugar Grove
Totalitarianism, communism, and other assorted dictatorial isms have a set of guideposts by which they maintain control over their populations. In their efforts to create their perfect world, which they want the rest of us to enjoy, they build a controlling framework into which we must fit.
There are three legs to the building of these utopia gardens of Eden. The first deals with the elimination of personal autonomy and privacy. There is no such thing as having a private life under these tyrannical regimes. Surveillance, spying, wiretapping, droning, record-keeping are done in order to create, then maintain, these ideal societies. These governments need to know what subversive elements of their societies are thinking, saying, and doing at all times, or their systems of government collapse. You are never alone in any of these isms, not even when on the toilet. So much for free thought, expression, assembly, or religion. The first leg of the three-legged donkey of totalitarian regimes is the government’s unlimited rights for surveillance over the lives of their citizens. The other two legs deal with a two-tiered justice system laws for thee, but not for me, and the shaping of minds through education, re-education, media propaganda, and censorship.
Big monopolistic techs such as FaceBook, Twitter, TikTok, Google, Amazon, that Americans enjoy today, can and do supply the leftists in U.S. government, with more than a modicum of oversight into the conversations, ideas, thoughts, and even fears we are having about our country, First Amendment be damned. Opinions, facts, research relating to COVID-19, vaccines, and therapeutics, have been stricken, not only from social media, but from the New York Post as well.
The former president of the United States was banned (censored) from Twitter and Facebook. An entire social media site, Parlor, was banned from existence. Conservatives flocked to Parlor to avoid being censored on other social media during the weeks and months after the 2020 election. Parlor was taken down as a result. Apple played a big part in putting Parlor out of existence. January 6, the most egregious, subversive attack ever against the U.S. government, or so say Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party left, was conducted by right wing extremists, white supremacists, and Donald Trump supporters, but I repeat myself. The Democrats and leftist media has compared the January 6 riot on the Capitol to 9/11 and even to the Civil War, as the most violent domestic attacks in American history. One shot was fired by a security guard which killed Ashley Babbitt. The four other deaths were found to be results of natural causes. The coroner called the shooting a homicide.
The modern day Democratic Party, nothing democratic about it, has used this so-called insurrection as justification in calling for the elimination of the civil liberties of persons who hold conservative ideals, especially those who voted for, or worked for, Donald Trump. Those who worked for Trump, especially, have been and are being arrested and tried in the same way those in other countries are tried for political crimes against totalitarian regimes.
National Guardsmen, who were called out after the January 6 riot, have had their social media accounts evaluated and vetted for subversive attitudes and ideas. Twelve guardsmen were dismissed from Inauguration Day security. Rudi Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and personal attorney for Donald Trump, had his law license revoked after speaking with state legislature concerning election laws being ignored during the 2020 election. General Mike Flynn, National Security Advisor, was caught up in a perjury trap and tried for lying to the FBI. President Trump was investigated by special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, and spied upon as president of the United States. The Democrats later impeached the president for a phone call to the Ukraine president for looking into Joe Biden’s dealings with Burisma. Trump was impeached again on the accusation he perpetrated the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
Stalin’s head of Secret Service once said: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”