There’s a lot of censorship of information about the corruption of America’s political system. The point is our system of government has been corrupted. If this assertion is true, we need to do something about it and do it now.
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Last week Laura Demlo, FBI Section Chief of the Foreign Information Taskforce, testified before Congress. She said the FBI knew in 2019 the Hunter Biden laptop was real. Even though the FBI knew it was real, the FBI advised social media companies it might be Russian disinformation.
You should care about this because polling done after the election shows a significant number of voters, enough voters to have reversed the results of the presidential election, would have changed their vote if they knew this or if they believed it was true… which it was. That makes what the FBI did both consequential and premeditated election interference.
October 14, 2020, was less than a month before the general election day, but we did not have an election day; we had a voting season. So a lot of people voted without the opportunity to have the information from the New York Post story. Worse, there was no way to change their vote.
On that day the FBI held an emergency meeting with Twitter to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop. It was an emergency because the New York Post released the Hunter Biden Laptop story earlier in the day. The story was before the public though not yet widely disseminated and accepted.
The New York Post story asserted: The Post had verified the laptop. And its contents were real, which was blockbuster information in and of itself. The story went on to say the device held evidence of a host of crimes including then-candidate Biden taking money from the governments of China, Ukraine, and Romania.
With the Post having broken the story, how would the rest of the media respond? We now know the FBI held a series of meetings with media outlets. It was a coordinated political damage control effort.
In the Twitter meeting, a Twitter manager asked the FBI directly, “Is the laptop real?” The FBI agents in the meeting initially said yes. Later, as the meeting progressed, another FBI member said, “No, we’ll offer no comment.”
From that point forward, the official FBI response became either “No, we offer no comment.” or “The laptop could be Russian disinformation; we aren’t sure so we are not going to comment.” But the FBI did know for sure. They knew the device was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI knew the contents had not been altered.
The position of no comment, or we’re not sure, was used as justification to ban all mention of the laptop and its being real. That’s what the media did. They suppressed the story and censored the information. They were complicit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in the FBI’s election interference.
Then on October 19, 2020, Politico ran a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that said the Hunter Biden laptop had all the classic earmarks of a classic Russian information operation. One might ask how such a letter sprang forth.
Perhaps we should ask Anthony Blinken. Perhaps he could help us understand how this letter originated. Perhaps he could help us understand how it got circulated for signature and then got disseminated to the media.
It turns out that the letter, the Politico story was false. It was generated by the Biden campaign. Have we ever had any other Democrat Presidential Candidate who made claims of Russian disinformation? How many repetitions, over how much time does it take to see a pattern? The idea of Russian disinformation regarding the laptop became “settled” proof in the media.
The FBI plus the Intelligence community plus the media, the team moved the ball across the goal line. Joe Biden is president as a direct result. Maybe that’s not stealing an election. Maybe there’s another name for it. But it does not change who the occupant of the Oval Office is, does it?
There was a poll from Harvard Harris in late October 2020 that showed a majority of Americans believed the laptop was Russian disinformation. It wasn’t. This is an American example of the “The Big Lie.” The FBI knew the truth. The FBI said nothing.
A separate poll from Tip Insights showed 60% of Americans were not going to follow the story of the Hunter Biden laptop; logically, why would they? It was fake news. In the Tip Insight poll was another conclusion: If the voters had known the laptop was real, and the information on it was unaltered, a majority of people would have voted differently. But people did not know, and the rest… is history.
The facts now show the 2020 election was not free and fair. Say what you will about voting irregularities, but the voters were knowingly manipulated by a government agency with the help of the press. That happened. We had a Presidential candidate engaged in corruption with our enemy China.
There is a long history of bias in the media. The media is slanted to the Left. They spread false information and suppress facts when they don’t like where they think it might take us. We can understand that. We all have a right to listen to the sources we put our trust in.
But why did the FBI do this? What exactly are we paying the FBI to do? They are a law enforcement agency. They are supposed to be apolitical. That’s what we pay them to be. But today, that’s not true. So what should we do about that?
Do you remember back in 2019 when the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (IG) came in with a report on the FBI? Well, he told us as a result of his investigation FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information to the press.
Comey leaked to damage then-President Trump. Did Comey get indicted for leaking classified information? The IG found The FBI director broke the law because he wished to harm Trump; he did not like Trump for personal political reasons. That’s from the IG report.
The IG also said in the report findings, “Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 FBI employees.” The danger is that those employees watched their director engage in personal partisan politics and get away with it.
This makes them think, if he can do it, why can’t I? Do we want our FBI employees spending their time picking political winners and losers? That’s not what we hired them for… not why we pay them. What’s the purpose of the Hatch Act?
The problem is: When we have the federal government and executive branch employees engaged in such political activity, our republic is over. At that point, we live in tyranny. The deep state has taken control.
We the people, no longer matter. So the IG was correct. This is important. And it isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. This is about our freedom, our lives and yes, even our ability to pursue happiness as we understand it.
Isn’t what we are seeing now exactly what the IG pointed out as dangerous? There are credible allegations of Joe Biden and his family engaging in corruption. How can we have confidence in Biden’s decision-making? Is he acting in your best interest or is he working as directed by foreign actors?
The FBI leaders and employees chose to bury the information along with their media partners. We, as voters, were not allowed to give our informed consent in the 2020 election with respect to the choice for President. That’s tyranny.
The FBI changed the result of the election and maybe the fate of the country. The FBI decided for you who would occupy the oval office. This story is important; it is ongoing. The same players are still in place, in the same offices, at the same agency today. If anything, their arrogance has grown, and the threat has expanded.
It is vital that we fix this problem. The weaponization of our federal bureaucracy against us is exactly what caused those extremist founders to separate their colonies from the King of England to form our nation. We have to agree on whether or not we can govern ourselves.
Do we want the responsibility that comes with citizenship? If not, get out of the shackles and try to find some that you find comfortable. Once you are in them, getting out requires all your blood, your treasure, and your sacred honor. So, which side are you on?