2023-04-14 13:23:50
https://helenofdestroy.substack.com/p/mccarthys-wet-dream
The J6 blacklist is just the most organized, public version of a phenomenon that has been quietly constructed in the shadows of American commerce for years. Between the sanctions ostensibly leveled against foreign adversaries like Russia and Iran, which have resulted in thousands of Americans losing their jobs because their employer is deemed too cozy with a “bad” country, the FDA’s efforts to shut down alternative medicine practitioners (which reached a fever pitch during the pandemic with “Operation Quack Hack”), the IRS’ longstanding harassment of activists and journalists including this writer, and the coordinated de-banking targeting the firearms industry, conservative political groups, and more recently anyone who dared pledge financial support to the Canadian Freedom Convoy, financial terrorism has become one of the corporate state’s favorite weapons against the loudest voices for sanity, whether they identify on the Right, the Left, or neither. The victims of such attacks are rarely left with the means to expose their plight, and those around them back away so as not to attract the attention of the cruel and capricious corporate state.
Some may protest that they are safe from this kind of McCarthyite fantasy - their ideological bona fides are untouchable, they have tenure, they have friends or relatives in high places. It does not matter. Even the most well-meaning witch hunt eventually runs out of witches, as the anti-extremist crusaders at Google’s Jigsaw learned the hard way when they ended up on the receiving end of the circular firing squad they helped arm. The FBI has declared merely sharing conspiracy theories and memes online or using internet slang like “based” and “red pilled” is a warning sign of violent extremism, meaning that if you are reading this article, you are on a watchlist (and were long before you read this article, so don’t blame me). In the last few years, we have seen such innocuous children’s classics as James and the Giant Peach and grown-up favorites like the James Bond novels butchered in the name of “sensitivity,” while 1984 and Brave New World - long considered the foundational works of the modern dystopia in which we live - are both listed as signs of extremism by the UK’s anti-terrorism boondoggle Prevent. Ideas once merely considered unstylish - not believing in global warming, or opposing mandatory vaccination - have been recast as attacks on the “trustworthiness” of “institutions,” while parents are being deemed terrorists for trying to safeguard their young daughters from male genitalia in the locker room or their sons from pornography in schools which have devolved into a cross between fetish club and supermax prison. The moment the narrative managers’ hyenas have finished tearing out the throats of their latest ideological quarry, it’s onto the next one. After they’ve come for the the health freedom activists, the anti-war protesters, the election integrity campaigners, the climate change skeptics, the anti-Zionist Jews, the de-transitioners, and the free speech absolutists, there will be no one left to speak for you - and you will not deserve anyone. You cannot appease your way out of tyranny. Stop trying.
(the above-linked article is part I of a series, stay tuned for more, and curse this interface for not letting me add a picture)
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