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2022-10-24 Government Corruption

Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-24 05:08|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

Didn't need to read 800 pages of Tim Weiner to figure it out, but he provided a quite excellent deep dive. We do in fact, live in interesting times.

Page 598 - "What is the greatest threat facing us now? Colin Powell asked recently. "People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can that really destroy us? No. We can only change ourselves....The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn't do it to ourselves, and we shouldn't use fear for political purposes -- scaring people to death so they will vote for us, or scaring people to death to create a terror-industrial complex."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-24 05:27|| 2022-10-24 05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 No house of cards can stand indefinitely...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-24 05:31|| 2022-10-24 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3
...and the Truth shall set you free. Likely Not.

OK, say they are found guilty of what we know has and is still happening. Seriously, does anyone think the actual driving forces, other than a few later well rewarded fall guys / minions, will see a day in jail, or be hit with a Civil Award?

They'll likely just regroup and look for another way to do the same thing. Say like passing legislation using a misleading names like:

"The Free Speech Protection Act"

that Congressman Steve Cohen (D) Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, submitted Oct, 7th 2022

That gives hidden allowances / immunity to Fed Actors the next time

Posted by NN2N1 2022-10-24 07:09|| 2022-10-24 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 'Astonishing Evidence': Lawsuit Reveals Vast 'Censorship Enterprise' Between Biden Administration and Big Tech

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-24 09:04|| 2022-10-24 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 The best coverage on this lawsuit is from two attorneys: Jeff Childers, a Florida litigator who has specialised in exposing tge lies and bullshit surrounding COVID, and William Jacobson, the right-leaning Cornell U. law professor.

Here is Jeff Childers, at his Substack blog, coffeeandcovid.com, writing about how Fauci will be forced by the State of Missouri to sit for a deposition as to how he suppressed the truth about his corrupt gene-therapy experiment:

More than a year ago, I told Dr. Jay Bhattacharya that I thought there was enough evidence already in public record to sue that rat weasel Fauci for civil rights violations under the First Amendment, for the campaign that Fauci and the despicable Collins undertook in 2020 to destroy Jay and the other authors of the Great Barrington Declaration by branding them as “fringe scientists.”

Well.

In the best news of 2022, and I’m not exaggerating, yesterday a federal court in Louisiana overruled the federal government’s objections, ordered Dr. Fauci and other government officials to sit for depositions under oath, and said “The Court sees the importance of having Dr. Fauci make statements under oath as it relates to the issues of this matter.”

Finally! That little weasel is going to have to answer some hard questions!

The lawsuit, filed by the State of Missouri, alleges that Fauci and other government officials engaged in a corrupt scheme to deploy the full might of the U.S. government to illegally suppress Americans’ free speech during the pandemic.

Examples cited in the Court’s order include:

1) the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election;
2) speech about the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origin;
3) speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns;
4) speech about election integrity and the security of voting by mail;
5) censorship and suppression of speech by Plaintiffs Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration;
6) censorship and suppression of Jim Hoft, owner of The Gateway Pundit, on social-media platforms; and
7) censorship and suppression of Jill Hines, co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana and Reopen Louisiana on social-media platforms.

In support of its pending motion for a preliminary injunction, Missouri wants to take the expedited depositions of Tony Fauci (NIH), Rob Flaherty (White House), Andy Slavitt (White House), Jen Psaki (White House), Elvis Chan (FBI), Jen Easterly (CISA), Lauren Protenis (CISA), Vivek Murthy (Surgeon General), Carol Crawford (CDC), and Daniel Kimmage (State Dept.).

Posted by Nate B Forrest 2022-10-24 10:20|| 2022-10-24 10:20|| Front Page Top

#6 William Jacobson publishes detailed outtakes from the Court’s ruling — basically, the Court said that Fauci’s denials are not to be taken at face value. IOW, he has no credibility and needs to be deposed and otherwise submit to the normal process of discovery.

Key excerpts, plus Jacobsen’s comments:

Plaintiffs argue that Dr. Fauci’s credibility has been in question on matters related to supposed COVID-19 “misinformation” since 2020. Specifically, Plaintiffs state that Dr. Fauci has made public statements on the efficacy of masks, the percentage of the population needed for herd immunity, NIAID’s funding of “gain-of-function” virus research in Wuhan, the lab-leak theory, and more. Plaintiffs urge that his comments on these important issues are relevant to the matter at hand and are further reasons why Dr. Fauci should be deposed. Plaintiffs assert that they should not be required to simply accept Dr. Fauci’s “self-serving blanket denials” that were issued from someone other than himself at face value. The Court agrees.

(William Jacobson): The Court concluded as to Fauci that his word was not good enough given other evidence in the record (emphasis added):

After reviewing the Plaintiffs and the Defendants’ arguments, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have proven that Dr. Fauci has personal knowledge about the issue concerning censorship across social media as it related to COVID-19 and ancillary issues of COVID-19.

Posted by Nate B Forrest 2022-10-24 10:26|| 2022-10-24 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Fauci was, and possibly remains an intelligence community money laundering agent and conduit.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-24 10:41|| 2022-10-24 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Strictly hypothetical, but imagine Fauxi was kidnapped and tortured into taping a confession that COVID was all a gummint plot from the beginning. It would be fun watching all the IT agencies that were involved in black site operations rush to the lamestream media to announce that "torture doesn't work, nothing to see here..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-24 10:48|| 2022-10-24 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 While you weren’t looking…

TRUDEAU: "From today forward, it is no longer legal to buy, sell, or transfer a handgun in Canada."

Posted by Billy B 2022-10-24 11:29|| 2022-10-24 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 imagine Fauxi was kidnapped and tortured into taping a confession that COVID was all a gummint plot from the beginning.

Wouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Operation Sea-Spray:

Between 1949 and 1969, the U.S. Army conducted 239 secret bacterial warfare tests in various cities across the country. While this seems like another one of those crazy conspiracies, it's true.

It wasn't until the trial in 1977, that the Army admitted to staging many mock biological attacks on, and unbeknownst to, American citizens. Some of these experiments used live bacteria assumed to be harmless, including Serratia marcescens and anthrax simulants. The purported aim of these staged events was to assess the U.S. population's vulnerability to similar biological attacks from foreign enemies.

… or Operation LAC, in which “Bacillus globigii was used to simulate biological warfare agents (such as anthrax), because it was then considered a contaminant with little health consequence to humans; however, BG is now considered a human pathogen”

Posted by Tarzan Snearong4236 2022-10-24 11:35|| 2022-10-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 State AGs say Fauci, Zuckerberg 'colluded' to kill COVID lab leak theory

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-24 22:50|| 2022-10-24 22:50|| Front Page Top

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