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A special contribution by Gateway Pundit David Howell, retired Army National Guard physician assistant and former state surgeon; four combat tours in Desert Storm, Iraq (2) and Afghanistan; Awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal (2), and Army Meritorious Service Medal (3).
In 2002, as the battalion physician assistant for the 160th Military Police Battalion, part of my job was to conduct initial medical examinations of detainees aboard every plane coming directly from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and those who had immediate needs. Had to be treated. Medical attention. Standing beside me at all times were several representatives of the government organizations I refer to as the '3-letter agencies', including agents from the FBI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). Were.
Ten years and three combat deployments later, I found myself in the Hindu Kush mountains of northeastern Afghanistan at a forward operating base near the city of Kunduz with soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment of the Michigan Army National Guard. Supporting us were civilian contractors working for DIA and NSA performing various intelligence and counterintelligence missions and operating a large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) providing much-needed reconnaissance and overhead surveillance. Was providing.
I never dreamed that the leaders of these same agencies, along with elements of the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security, would use their vast resources to neutralize and disrupt and censor a sitting President of the United States. American people.
Tucker Carlson gave an interview several weeks ago Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom OnlineA cybersecurity expert, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department during part of the Trump administration.
Mr. Benz explained that as the Internet began to take hold in the early 1990s, the military developed many of its own capabilities, such as VPNs, encryption, the dark web and search engines like Google, that we take for granted today.
Over the years, the State Department has looked at ways it can be used to positively influence democracy movements and harm our adversaries in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The best example of this would be the Arab Spring of 2011–2012, in which the State Department and the National Security State worked to censor and overthrow authoritarian rulers in Egypt and Tunisia through new democratic movements, while other democracies in Libya, Syria, Helped the movements. Türkiye and Iran have to be captured.
However, things began to change in 2014 when Russian mercenaries invaded eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
When subsequent elections in both of these regions resulted in electoral victories for Ukrainians who favored an alliance with Russia, the State Department knew it had a big problem. In response, the State Department and the National Security State organized the 'Color Revolution', a coup to overthrow Ukraine's elected Russia-leaning President, Viktor Yanukovych, and install a new acting President, Oleksandr Turchynov. Which was more favourable. United States.
Soon after, populist-nationalist political parties in Eastern Europe and the Brexit movement in Great Britain, which were not in favor of globalism and mass migration, began to win elections and take power. Globalist elites in NATO, the EU, and the West saw these developments as a threat to their existence.
In response, all instruments of the national security state turned against populist-nationalist political parties and movements in Europe. However, within a short time, populist-nationalist Donald J. Trump, the Republican Party's leading candidate for President of the United States.
With the support of the mainstream media, all major social media platforms, and elites of both major political parties, the repeal movement was born in 2015 to oppose Trump's candidacy and ultimately the Trump administration. This was revealed by the 'Russia collusion fraud', the Mueller investigation, the illegal FISA warrant, the illegal wiretapping of Trump's private residence in Trump Tower, the illegal release of tapes of conversations between President Trump and various world leaders, two pseudo-whistleblower complaints. Hundreds of anonymous leaks by operatives associated with the National Security Council to members of Congress, two presidential impeachments proceedings, and by members of the national security state to interested allies in the mainstream media.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he took on all major social media platforms to circumvent the First Amendment, withholding information about the origins of COVID-19 and many viable COVID-19 treatment regimens, leading to anti-Semitism on the Internet. Censored political viewpoints. , interfered in the 2022 general election by suppressing defamatory information harmful to Trump's Democratic Party opponent, and silenced the views of critics who oppose mask mandates, Covid-19 vaccine mandates, and the long-term closure of most businesses and all schools. Were opposing. United States.
The most notorious of these were the BLM riots that spread unabated in several major cities across the country for months during the summer of 2021.
Additionally, the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, which turned into a riot in part after federal law enforcement officers and Capitol Police leaders failed to take steps to stop it – and the subsequent killing of thousands of Trump supporters on January 6 Detained and imprisoned. Prosecuted by the FBI, the Department of Justice, and convicted in the United States Federal District Court for the District of Columbia of misdemeanors and felonies related to the unlawful acts and demonstrations that occurred outside and inside the Capitol Building.
Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Benz is fascinating and lasts just over an hour. Once you start watching, it's very difficult to stop. You can watch the entire interview here:
Everything You Need to Know About the Government's Sweeping Censorship Campaign
David Howell at present serves as a volunteer on the Michigan Historical past Museum and cares for rescued horses along with his spouse on a small farm west of Lansing.