Just when you thought the Globalist American Empire couldn't get more Owellian, the Department of Homeland Security is here to make it all worse.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms. Fox News
The timing of the announcement is symbolically fitting, given recent warnings from journalists, NGOs, and prominent Democrat Senators that the prospect of Elon Musk restoring free-speech to twitter constitutes a "danger our democracy." It is only right then that one of our nation's largest national security bureaucracies should set up a special "governance board" to address the threat of so-called disinformation that emerges when speech isn't entirely controlled by the Regime and its proxies.
The DHS has not said much about what the "Disinformation Governance Board" will actually do, but Politico's brief write-up on the announcement offers some clues:
DHS is standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia. Nina Jankowicz will head the board as executive director. She previously was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship and oversaw Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute. Politico
In case you're not up-to-date on Government approved euphemisms, "irregular migration" is the new politically correct term for what used to be called "illegal immigration." We dare the reader to google "irregular migration" and consult what images pop up. Given that the DHS has become a de-facto full service travel agency for illegal aliens pouring over the border, it makes sense that the same agency would want to label any criticism of its policies as dangerous "disinformation." That "Russia" also falls under the DHS' new Ministry of Disinformation's portfolio is arguably even more ridiculous. Didn't we just learn that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which dozens of media outlets and former intelligence officials demanded to censor as "Russian disinformation," turned out to be totally true and legitimate?
The specific choice of the Department of Homeland Security to host this new governance board is telling. In 2020, the Trump DHS released a report claiming that "white supremacy" was the single greatest security threat facing America. Mere months ago, the DHS raised the national threat level on the grounds that "misinformation" about Covid-19 or the 2020 election would drive extremist violence.
Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
- For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021. Malign foreign powers have and continue to amplify these false or misleading narratives in efforts to damage the United States.
In 2002, Congress created the DHS to, among other things, secure America's border from foreign threats. Now, twenty years on, the DHS has repurposed itself to target as domestic terrorists the Americans who complain about what is crossing America's border. No development could better illustrate how, over the past two decades, the American security state apparatus has evolved from a shield that guards the American people into a weapon that targets them.