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First they came for WikiLeaks…then they came for the truckers
Glenn Greenwald explains the progression, starting more than ten years ago under the Obama administration, through the war against Parler, to the war on the truckers. It’s a way of using extra-legal, extra-judicial means to crush political dissent.
Banishment from the Financial System: the War on Dissent
The above link is to Greenwald’s 38-minute video on Rumble. There is also a YouTube version, and (we are told) a substack version. I may link to those if I find them before anyone else does.
This would be a good time for the usual suspects to repeat the refrain, “I don’t feel sorry for anything that happens to [odious person or organization]”
Published in General
I presume this is the same thing that you can find on Rumble (linked in the OP):
And this is the Substack article on the same topic:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-neoliberal-war-on-dissent-in
Sure does inspire me to keep questioning the election.
But, it seems for many on the right no big deal. They had it coming crowd. Strange.
It is almost like a version of Samizdat is emerging to oppose the monoculture of the media-government alliance. Kevin Roche (Healthy-Skeptic.com) and a handful of others produced more accurate commentary and links to real COVID data than the entirety of our state and federal health agencies. Glenn Greenwald, John Solomon, and only a few others can be counted on to provide reporting contrary to the Narrative about the behavior of top echelons of government. Bjorn Lomborg and Roy Spencer offer substantive alternatives to the avalanche of fear-mongering climate porn.
Increasingly, the best sources of information and analysis are not in the larger or official channels. Most but not all are conservatives. What they have in common is a professional dedication to the truth in their area of expertise or focus in lieu of waving pom-poms for a partisan purpose. And the system is hostile to that.
One of the bright spots in the Canadian crisis is that polling data shows that young people disapproved of Trudeau’s heavy-handedness by larger margins than older people. We can hope that the tiresome tyranny of wokeness and the new authoritarianism will make them learn to respect and cherish independent thought.
It is not to be lamented that the American people are losing trust in their institutions.
It’s to be lamented that American institutions are untrustworthy.
Outstanding Video. GG is a treasure. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing the YouTube version. It was very enlightening, including the background on the descent of the ADL into just another democrat political organization. Greenwald could also have included the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its undeserved power in determining what’s a hate group and what is not. Amazon and others have relied on the SPLC to decide who gets to be a receiving charity on Amazon Smile – based solely on the SPLC’s biased opinion rather than any legal due process.
As far as protecting access to funds for political movements, peaceful protests, etc., a traditional hawala system may be useful (if there isn’t one already going that I don’t know about).