by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
Time is running out on truth, the telling of which is being criminalized.
In his Introduction to the 1946 edition of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley noted that the greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by dong something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr. Churchill calls an ‘iron curtain’ between the masses and such facts or arguments as the political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists influence thought more effectively than by lying.
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Churchill was speaking of the Iron Curtain being lowered over the Soviet Empire by Stalin. Today the Iron Curtin is being lowered over the “free” Western peoples by their “democratic” governments, their “democratic” media, and their “democratic” universities and school systems. If you are not permitted to know the truth, you cannot speak it.
Elon Musk spent a large part of his fortune to free Twitter from censorship only to find that the EU will ban Twitter from EU member states unless Musk accepts EU censorship of truths unwelcome to the EU’s agendas.
The EU’s French censor, euphemistically titled “French Digital Transition and Telecommunications Ministry,” stated that “disinformation,” the ministry’s main function, “is one of the gravest threats weighing on our democracies.” If Musk doesn’t accept the EU’s censorship, Twitter “will be banned from the EU.” https://www.rt.com/news/577112-eu-threatens-twitter-ban/
To be clear, the Western values of free speech and open discussion have been redefined as “fonts of misinformation” and “threats to democracy.” But of course, they are the basis of democracy. When free speech is suppressed, we have not democracy but tyranny.
Getting at the truth is difficult and always has been. Truth can upset and make angry as many or more people as it enlightens. An existing belief is tenacious. Most people want their beliefs confirmed, not challenged. This makes indoctrinated beliefs stable. Historians cover up truth for career reasons, as do politicians. Prosecutors cover up truth in order to obtain convictions. Media cover up truth for advertising revenues and in exchange for “sourced” leaks from CIA, FBI, politicians, and prosecutors that establish official narratives that serve the various agendas.
I have spent my life in service to the truth. This is not a claim that I always get it right, but that my agenda is truth whether I get there or not. Occasionally I receive recognition for my service to truth (see, for example, https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/rescue-from-the-matrix/ and https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/05/26/this-is-my-best-or-one-of-my-best-interviews-i-recommend-it-to-you/).
Generally speaking, favorable comments about me and my writings immediately bring out trolls to demonize and libel me with the goal of scaring readers away from my website. The ruling establishment works hard to boost the reputations of those who repeat official narratives as truth, even giving them Pulitzer Prizes, and to destroy the reputations of those who speak the truth. The attacks on truth tellers are helping the ruling establishment criminalize truth. Truth tellers are being turned into criminals on an ex post facto basis. Exercising free speech is being associated with harming official explanations with truth, and is in the process of becoming a criminal act. Fox News, in settling gratuitously a civil law suit from Dominion voting machines, paid close to $1 billion to create the precedent that reporting news that is harmful to any party is libel even if the reported news is true and had no malicious intent.
In other words, Fox News just paid almost one billion dollars to establish that reporting the truth is libel. That is the end of free speech and accountability.
It is the truth-teller, not the liar, who gets into trouble. Killing the messenger has always been the practice. Today despite whistleblower protection laws, whistleblowers always suffer. The government refuses to enforce the laws that protect whistleblowers for telling the truth. Julian Assange has been imprisoned for over a decade without due process of law for simply reporting leaked documents revealing US war crimes and intentional deception of US allies. Edward Snowden had to give up his US citizenship for Russian citizenship simply because he gave us proof that the NSA was, and is, illegally spying on us without cause or warrants. In the past few days we have witnessed the FBI escape accountability for high treason in an overthrow attempt against a sitting President of the United States by the whore media’s disappearing the FBI plot against President Trump into “procedural mistakes” regarding surveillance and the opening of investigations. High treason against President Trump is approved by the Democrats, the FBI, CIA, military/security complex, and the presstitutes, because the ruling establishment wants Trump gone. Trump doesn’t serve their agendas. Getting rid of Trump is more important to them than truth.
The only indications I have whether the risks I take as a truth-teller, risks that have materialized in dangerous and expensive harassments of more visible truth-tellers, such as Julian Assange, Ed Snowden, Matt Taibbi, Kash Patel, and Peter Brimelow, are readers financial and vocal support. If this support is not forthcoming, it tells me I am taking risks for nothing and am bringing difficulties to myself by attempting to inform those who are neither interested nor committed to their independence as free people.
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