Alex Berenson

2022-03-02 19:17:00 No, no one has knocked on my door or threatened to arrest me.

But that does mean the government is not targeting me - along with other prominent Covid and vaccine skeptics. Per the bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security in 2021 expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its efforts to assess and prevent acts of violence.

The government has other tools against people it classifies as terrorists too, including plenty of secret ones.

And remember, to be a terrorist under these terms, your speech simply has to “potentially inspire acts of violence.”

Potentially.

If this isn’t a government effort to discourage lawful speech, I don’t know what is. The question is whether it is so broad and dangerous that I can prove it will have a chilling and unconstitutional effect on me (and other people) even if I do not know I am being targeted. It feels like a form of prior restraint, all the worse for being so broad.

Will courts agree? There may be only one way to find out.

And quickly, if I do it. The Rocket Docket in the Eastern District of Virginia feels like the place. Open / Comment

2022-03-02 19:16:10 Berenson v. Biden?

I am starting to think I need to file a First Amendment lawsuit over that insane bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 7.

In case you’ve forgotten, that report - a public declaration of the federal government’s official view of terrorism - called the top terrorist threat to the United States:

false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.

Their words, not mine.

Trying to “undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions” is now a terrorist act?

Then I’m a terrorist.

Especially since the bulletin specifically mentions COVID-19: there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.

There’s that word “misleading” again. As this White House has made clear, “misleading” facts are those that lead people to opinions of conclusions it doesn’t like. Open / Comment

2022-03-02 17:02:35 I’m old enough to remember when he encouraged social media platforms to censor me in July.

Or when his Department of Homeland Security called me a terrorist threat three weeks ago.

I’m old enough to remember how the Democrats closed schools and businesses and tried to make me wear a mask and get vaccinated.

And then lied about all of it.

Now the walls are coming down and they’re begging us to forget what they’ve done. To reset.

Here’s my State of the Union, Joe:

Not a snowball’s chance in hell. Open / Comment

2022-03-02 17:02:20 And September:

And December:

And January: Open / Comment

2022-03-02 17:02:01 Spoken like a man with an approval rating around 38 percent.

I’m old enough to remember what he said in July: Open / Comment

2022-03-02 17:01:06 Kiss my unvaccinated ass, Brandon

So tonight Uncle Joe said we shouldn’t politicize Covid: Open / Comment

2022-03-02 02:05:28 What if it’s a coup in slow motion?

Work with me here.

The Old Man is losing it. Age hasn’t been kind to him and Covid knocked him sideways. He used to be paranoid in a good way, the way you’re paranoid. Now he’s practically psychotic. He sees conspiracies everywhere and he can’t stop talking about restoring the glory of the Motherland and how the ghost of Stalin whispers to him every night.

The Old Man has got to go.

You know it. And you think the others know it too. But you can’t be sure. One or two might have gone down the rabbit hole with. One or two more might be loyal, truly loyal, hard as that is to imagine. And the rest? The Old Man has something on all of you. He knows every bank account and every kickback. He knows how you honeymoon in Sochi with a new 10-year-old girl every year.

You will only get one chance at the Old Man. And you need to know who is with you.

Which was impossible.

But now you have a chance.

He’s allowed his fantasies to get the best of him. He’s authorized this insane invasion.

You can’t say no. But you and the others can throw sand in the gears. Send the wrong units forward first. Make sure they are undersupplied. Tell him that the nuclear threat will scare the West.

What should have been easy becomes difficult. If the world catches on at all, it thinks you’re exposing the Old Man for who he is, what he’s become.

But that’s not the reason you’re doing it. Every failed move is part of the conversation you and the others are having, a murmuring only you can hear. Are you with us? Are you ready?

You won’t be able to wait much longer. The Old Man is angry now, and not just at those who are fighting him. How long? Days, maybe, and then you will have to choose: move ahead with the attack in force, no more half-measures - or tell the Old Man the show’s over. No exile for him, either. No soft landing.

It’s time to decide, friends.

Who’s in? Open / Comment

2022-03-01 21:33:09 Those don’t even have subject lines, which makes the guessing even more fun!

How about these? Someone forgot to redact this one completely. See that tiny lil bargraph on the right? What’s it mean? Your guess is as good as mine!

Hey, at least FDA responded. Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control haven’t bothered.

I’m sure they’re not hiding anything.

Except they’re literally hiding something. Open / Comment

2022-03-01 21:32:56 Here’s the first email!

Looks like we’re off to a good start. The subject line is “Re: Twitter” - about three weeks after Twitter banned me.

I can’t wait to read it!

Yeah, about that:

I’m sure whatever they were talking about was really interesting.

But wait, there’s more: Open / Comment

2022-03-01 21:32:28 Speaking of censorship

The Food and Drug Administration just answered my Freedom of Information Act request for its discussions with Big Tech companies on Covid "misinformation." You'll never BELIEVE what happened next.

Dear Requester,

Please find attached the response to your request for:

Email or other communications between Brad Kimberly, the FDA's director of social media, to executives, managers, or other employees at Twitter and/or Facebook and/or its subsidiary Instagram and/or Google and/or subsidiary YouTube regarding COVID and and/or Sars-Cov-2 etc

Certain information has been redacted under Exemption 6 of the FOIA. We have also located records from CDC and HHS. We will refer those records to CDC and HHS, and they will respond to you directly. Open / Comment