The left in the US outsourced speech suppression efforts to Big Tech

 Red States:

“No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.” So reads the subhead of veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald’s latest article, titled The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming.

In the two-and-a-half months since the presidential election, events have seemingly moved at warp speed. Supporters of then-President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in protest of the election results, the Left has moved in blatant fashion to crack down on the rights of conservatives, including Twitter’s permanent suspension of Donald Trump’s account and more than 70 others, and Amazon has de-platformed the right-leaning website, Parler.

As Greenwald sees it, we conservatives ain’t seen nothin’, yet.

“The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago.

“This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying.

Greenwald then ticked through some of the specifics behind his belief that the war on conservatism is only going to worsen.

“We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” “treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens.

“This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of “incitement to violence.” It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.”

And then, the chilling reality we’re already seeing; if we dare to question the Left’s crackdown on conservatives and conservative thought, it is us who are guilty, us who are to be punished or silenced for questioning the Left’s moral responsibility to do whatever the hell it wants to do — no questions allowed.

“Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology.

“Liberals have spent so many years now in a tight alliance with neocons and the CIA that they are making the 2002 version of John Ashcroft [former senator and attorney general under George H.W. Bush] look like the President of the (old-school) ACLU.

Greenwald cited comments by retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal — for years, head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and the commander of the war in Afghanistan — who explicitly compared that coming war on domestic terrorism to real war on terrorism.

“I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence.

“This is now happening in America. […] I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize.”

As conservatives, we grouse about the suspension of Trump’s Twitter account; we wring our hands over the de-platforming of Parler — but we pretty much go about our normal lives, most of us doing little more than arguing with liberals and others on Facebook or Twitter.

“Anyone who, despite all this, still harbors lingering doubts that the Capitol riot is and will be the neoliberal 9/11, and that a new War on Terror is being implemented in its name,” wrote Greenwald, “need only watch the two short video clips below, which will clear their doubts for good.”

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There is much more.

You may think it is paranoid thinking but the left is out to suppress conservative speech because it is incapable of debating the issues.  They are into totalitarian speech control and their motto to conservatives is "shut up." 

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