By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
One of the most chilling government documents to emerge in U.S. history from the now fully politicized Department of Homeland Security DHS, is its National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin Alert issued February 7, 2022. It began, “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”
Yes, the United States has been taken over by a socialist foreign ideology that has spent a year removing large parts of the Bill of Rights through decrees including mandated masking, immunizations, vaccine passports and lockdowns. The BLM and Antifa took over Seattle and Portland, staging at least 250 riots throughout the country in 2020, hurting, burning and looting, destroying police headquarters, government buildings, stores and even churches. They tore down statues of Founding Fathers and great leaders including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It’s about time government held these domestic terrorists accountable!!!
The alert continued, “These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation.” Amen again, isn’t this precisely what the new government, especially with blue state mayors and governors, have been doing to America with Marxists fifth columns BLM and Antifa?
The Department of Home Land Security identified the enemy as “the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions” principally in the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.” So any message that counters anything said by the government, (currently the marriage between the Democratic Party, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma), is disinformation and the one giving it is a domestic terrorist. This is especially so respecting election fraud and COVID-19. Who decides what is false or misleading? It appears they alone. So speech is criminalized and the First Amendment erased.
Welcome to the new fascist state and the death of every restraint on government. The enemy is not those who seek to burn and destroy America, like Antifa, nor those who wish to bankrupt it with debt, which includes many Republicans, but the Constitution and those who have created the most inclusive, prosperous and free society ever created. To our present fascist government the enemy is us—the people. The enemy is free thought, debate, and expression.
The DHS document identified itself as working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to deal with this new threat and boasted of its having “established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound, timely intelligence needed to counter related threats. The Department expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its efforts to assess and prevent acts of violence.” This is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or (CISA).
NAZI Germany did precisely the same thing with the SS when it also defined its own citizens as the enemy, resulting in millions sent to, and dying from, their concentration camps. The threat alert had a bold subheading Report Potential Threats and advised reporting suspicious activity, “If You See Something, Say Something,” it read. In short, turn in you patriotic neighbor.
None of those who have followed the history of the FBI or the DOJ, especially lately, should be surprised. During the Robert Mueller investigation the FBI continually handed off damaging disinformation leaks to the New York Times. Certainly former FBI director James Comey ran interference preventing prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her over 300 deleted but classified emails. And wasn’t Ray Eps and other feds leading the January 6th “insurrection?”
And just last November didn’t the Justice Department begin targeting parents at school board meetings opposing Critical Race Theory and mandated mask wearing for their children? Resisting parents were defined as domestic terrorists and the DOJ authorized data collection on them. This, because of the collusion of the Biden Administration and the National School Board Association which resulted in the government’s domestic terror letter/memo encouraging such.
Meanwhile a two-week civil war rehearsal training camp exercise took place in North Carolina last month for a newly created domestic terrorist unit. The exercise was to “teach Special Forces how to overthrow an ‘illegitimate government’ [and this] just weeks after DOJ announced [its’] new ‘domestic terrorism’ unit.” It is billed as a “training exercise using unconventional guerrilla warfare to defeat [a] numerically superior enemy.” Critics fear that “the exercises encourages soldiers to target civilians”—our citizens (Ep. 2676B, “All Assets [F] Deployed, Checkmate, When do birds Sing?” X22 Report, Jan. 13, 2022, 34:00).
Why the newly created domestic terror unit and fear of an illegitimate government? Democrats view all who disagree with them as domestic terrorists and likely Donald Trump supporters. They also fear his return to power as “their illegitimate government” thus the guerrilla warfare prep.
With this new DOJ domestic terrorist alert and the former DOJ memo defining parents as domestic terrorists, they will soon be rounding up: physicians, journalists, parents, scholars and undoubtedly ministers. To some religion is disinformation. Censoring failed, now government will descend to a deeper level of tyranny by punishing “disinformation” as domestic terrorism.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.