THE WESTERN WAR ON FREE SPEECH

A war is in progress, and shows every sign of being escalated.

One side in this war believes that it is too important for their side to be believed for others to be allowed to speak against it.

This war on speech is the natural consequence of a greater war between disparate visions, policies and systems.

On top of this and predicated by it is the war mode engaged in which affects both wars stated above. That war mode has infected every level of western elite society.

The effect has been so great that it verges on the kind of systems we associate with the west’s earlier enemy, The Soviet Union.

There is a growing trend toward what I have called ‘Liberal Totalitarianism’. We don’t have far to look into the past to get a flavor of what this liberal totalitarianism will look and feel like. If you are old enough simply think back to the days, weeks and indeed years immediately after the events of September 11th 2001.

In the time period just after 9/11 almost everyone agreed on the narratives which arose from western elites concerning those vile events, their meaning and a general feeling regarding what should be done. These narratives were not wholly agreed with, not 100% but near enough. One or two voices of caution were raised, voices too expressing the need to look at why a group had felt justified in such acts and whether there was not something in previous U.S. foreign policy which had at least in part contributed to them. These lone voices were quickly howled down as insensitive, damaging and outrageous. I also recall reading that a sizeable number of the bereaved families had issued a statement saying that they were devastated by the loss of their loved ones and that the one thing they hoped for above all now was that America wouldn’t act in such a way that other innocent lives would be lost. Sadly I never read or heard another word concerning their heartfelt request and of course, as we know, it was totally ignored.

You will surely recall the atmosphere of that time if you are old enough. It was not a time when rational debate seemed appropriate. The atmosphere insisted on strong action, people were incensed, determined to smite their enemies in almost Biblical fury because of this heinous act which had been committed on their nation. And this was most certainly mirrored in the administration in Washington at the time.

We saw then that the determination to attack, attack and only attack generated more than the repeated reports on the fact of the outrage. It also generated much that we now know was false. People were believed and their statements conveyed worldwide whose interest was not in the conveying of facts but in the instigation of war. We now know people like the infamous ‘Curveball’ were telling whatever lies seemed credible that would reinforce the need for verbal ammunition to attack the countries already listed by the White House and State Department for undermining, chaos, destruction and possible invasion.

We are in just such a situation now.

The enemies are no longer al-Qaeda, not ISIS or even international terrorism. We are told that Russia and perhaps China are the West’s primary enemies. Al-Qaeda and ISIS have even been used by all accounts against Syria in aid of U.S. ambitions for regime change there.

The war being fought now is no longer George W. Bush’s ‘War on Terror’. It is a war that is difficult to define but rests on the following criteria:

1. After 9/11 it was decided that it was imperative for the USA and the West in general not only to retain their ability to manipulate world events, it was utterly vital that they should expand these to the furthest possible point that they named ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’.

2. The West is now losing this long-standing ability to manipulate world events, almost by the hour to China and those allied with her.

It is largely the obvious and total conflict between these two conditions that plays the major part in the war we have seen being waged for at least the last fifteen years.

But the devil as usual is in the detail regarding the factors above, aspects that lend ever greater urgency to them and which motivate western elites powers to significantly curtail freedom of speech to the point of totalitarianism.

The first thing to grasp is the reality that western elites are in war mode and have been for over a decade and a half.

In war mode you tolerate no questioning of your motives or actions. You demand a unified front against your perceived enemies and you feel justified in being as hard as can against those who do not obey your insistence on a single unified narrative that acts as an arrow aimed at the heart of the enemy. Any doubts, quibbles or criticisms are mercilessly treated as traitorous acts which will blunt that arrow. For you this is anathema, intolerable, unpatriotic in the extreme, the acts of abominable traitors. You feel fully justified in destroying the reputations of such people as a patriotic act, you can treat them as fair game, lie about them, call them names, spread unwarranted accusations about them, set them up in sting operations... whatever. They are ‘fair game’, public enemies for the CIA and others to deal with and deal with without any recourse to normal standards of morality or ethical behavior. All usual norms are suspended in wartime and in wartime the war mode IS the norm... until the day your enemy is totally defeated.

‘All’s Fair in Love and War.’

So no one should be surprised when eminent voices such as that of the late Stephen F. Cohen are impugned, when such people are called names such as ‘Apologist for the Soviet Union’, ‘Putin’s Puppet’ or worse. No one should be surprised when entire careers are ruined and lives wrecked with seeming merciless cynicism and with no reference to just behavior or true justice in general.

And in this way no one should be surprised by Russiagate, by the use by the CIA and all America’s intelligence agencies of generalized and unverified claims of ‘Russian Interference’ or ‘Russian Disinformation’. You may have once or twice laughed at the number of things the Russians are supposed to have done. It became ridiculous on its face and it continues to be so. But the people behind these campaigns have nowhere else to go with their agenda. Though China has begun to enter the picture more and more as the next candidate for the believable lie machine that is the western intelligence community.

With a Biden presidency we will see this totally institutionalized as solid fact. Russia will be denounced openly and frequently as the greatest threat to America there has ever been. (Notwithstanding that she has an economy about the size of South Korea’s.) Why Russia has been picked as the main whipping boy for western elites is open to debate. I suspect, as in the past, the U.S. has picked what it perceives as the weaker target available. China also will emerge in clear focus with the gun sights of those dedicated, within their war mode to achieve point 1. above and to the death if necessary. But for now it’s Russia that is still the primary target. Perhaps because they thought they had dealt with Russia at the end of the Eighties and can’t stand the thought that she slipped from their grasp again and into the hands of someone who so expertly relates the many negatives involved in living on a planet where a single nation or group of nations holds the reigns of power over all others, the unipolar world that comes as a natural consequence of the West achieving their goal in point 1.

And, I predict, we will see a libertarian totalitarianism that outdoes even the months and years after 9/11 with every liberal MSM institution fully on board ready to castigate anyone who says anything contrary to the official “truth” from the Democrat dictatorship above. For that is what I believe the Democratic Party is leaning heavily toward becoming, the only party of truth, the true guardians who no others can match, the natural government of the USA and that only traitors, useful idiots, enemies of freedom and criminally evil foreign agents would ever wish to deny this fact.

Be careful what you wish for America. The America you love due to your right to free speech is under a very real threat. This is not hyperbole, the signs are already clearly there to be seen. The Democratic Party has transformed in recent years and though you may think it is your savior from Trump it may well be your nemesis regarding your most inalienable right of all, to speak your mind.