EXPOSED: Secret Government Effort To Regulate Your Mind

Congress must defund and dismantle the corrupt Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and fire its director, Jen Easterly

One of the big questions that those of us involved in exposing the secret U.S. government censorship effort have been asking ourselves over the last few months is: did the people involved know that they were breaking the law?

That question appears to have been answered with a resounding yes by the House Judiciary Committee. Yesterday it released its report, "The Weaponization of CISA: How a 'Cybersecurity' Agency Colluded with Big Tech and 'Disinformation' Partners to Censor Americans,” on government censorship.

“It’s only a matter of time,” wrote a former assistant general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in an email to a colleague, “before someone realizes we exist and starts asking about our work.”

The “we” in that sentence refers to the network of government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that we and others have dubbed the Censorship Industrial Complex. That Complex includes the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.

Its leader, Kate Starbird, responded to the former CIA official, Susan Spaulding, by saying, "Yes. I agree. We have a couple of pretty obvious vulnerabilities."

But one day later, Starbird dismissed the notion that she and her colleagues were doing anything wrong. The real problem was, she explained, that “current public discourse (in part a result of information operations) seems to accept malinformation as ‘speech’ and within democratic norms” and that CISA may face “bad faith criticism” for its censorship.

What is “malinformation”? It’s accurate information that might lead people to come to the wrong conclusions — or do things that Starbird, Spaulding, and their allies didn’t want them to do, like not getting vaccinated against Covid-19.

In truth, America’s taxpayer-funded censors view themselves not only as the good guys but as superheroes. One of the leaders of the Censorship Industrial Complex, Jen Easterly, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the U.S. government’s Department of Homeland Security, has as her Twitter photo a cartoon image of herself as a superhero complete with a cape.

The harsh reality is that Easterly, Starbird, and Spaulding have more in common with China’s censors than they do with America’s founders.

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Those tactics appear to have been lifted whole cloth from George Orwell’s censors in “1984.” Totalitarianism begins, after all, with the corruption of language.

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[Congress] should demand that Easterly be fired and CISA defunded and dismantled. If CISA is engaged in any worthwhile non-censorship activities, they should be moved to an agency staffed by people who don’t think it’s their business to regulate our “cognitive infrastructure” and imagine themselves to be superheroes.

https://public.substack.com/p/exposed-secret-government-effort

Lawsuit alleges NC House speaker installed spy camera in mistress's home to intimidate her husband

The suit contends that Moore engaged in "an egregious abuse of power" by using his position to entice Mrs. Lassiter to participate in the affair.

The North Carolina Speaker of the House allegedly had an associate plant a camera near the home of a former employee with whom he allegedly had an affair.

A June lawsuit from Scott Lassiter alleges that Speaker Tim Moore engaged in an extramarital affair with his wife, Jamie Lassiter, for more than three years.

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Mrs. Lassiter was an employee of the state government at the time the affair allegedly began. The suit contends that Moore engaged in "an egregious abuse of power" by using his position to entice Mrs. Lassiter to participate in the affair.

"This was more than the ordinary dalliance of an unfaithful spouse and an unscrupulous paramour," the suit adds. Rather, Moore's conduct "revealed a perverse form of symbiosis in which he persuaded her to engage in degrading acts to satisfy his desires," with the understanding that he would support action favoring the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, which Mrs. Lassiter represented.

The Lassiters separated in January of this year as a result of the alleged affair. Mr. Lassiter confronted Moore about the affair in 2022 and the suit contends that Moore admitted to it at the time.

The suit also names a second defendant, whom Mr. Lassiter alleges trespassed upon his property to "place a motion-activated camera" on his property to "capture photos and videos" that Moore could "use to persuade [Mr. Lassiter] not to pursue any of the valid legal claims against him."

That individual remains unidentified, though Mr. Lassiter says he caught him on camera attempting to recover the one he allegedly planted.

"John Doe is currently an unidentified defendant. We would like to identify him as soon as possible so that he can be named and served in Mr. Lassiter's pending civil action," his attorney told the Daily Mail.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/lawsuit-alleges-nc-house-speaker-installed-spy-camera-mistresss-home-intimidate-her

Google drops drag show sponsorship in wake of Christian employee petition

Google is distancing itself from a drag show in San Francisco after hundreds of employees signed a petition calling the performance a “direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians.”

The tech company removed a “Pride and Drag Show” scheduled for Tuesday from its series of LGBTQ Pride events that it sponsored annually after the group of employees took offense with its lead performer, drag artist “Peaches Christ,” according to internal discussions viewed by CNBC.

The petition accused Google of religious discrimination for sponsoring an event and a performer that sexualizes and disrespects the Christian faith.

“Their provocative and inflammatory artistry is considered a direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians,” the petition said of Peaches Christ.

An internal listing for the performance — which Google described as a way to “wrap up this amazing month” — was taken down shortly after the petition began circulating and Christian employees complained to the human resources department.

Google, however, claimed the event was removed from itGoogle is distancing itself from a drag show in San Francisco after hundreds of employees signed a petition calling the performance a “direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians.”

The tech company removed a “Pride and Drag Show” scheduled for Tuesday from its series of LGBTQ Pride events that it sponsored annually after the group of employees took offense with its lead performer, drag artist “Peaches Christ,” according to internal discussions viewed by CNBC.

The petition accused Google of religious discrimination for sponsoring an event and a performer that sexualizes and disrespects the Christian faith.

“Their provocative and inflammatory artistry is considered a direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians,” the petition said of Peaches Christ.

An internal listing for the performance — which Google described as a way to “wrap up this amazing month” — was taken down shortly after the petition began circulating and Christian employees complained to the human resources department.

Google, however, claimed the event was removed from its sponsored series because it was booked before it was fully approved by the company.s sponsored series because it was booked before it was fully approved by the company.

“We’ve long been very proud to celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community. Our Pride celebrations have regularly featured drag artists for many years, including several this year. This particular event was booked by and shared within one team without going through our standard events process,” a spokesperson said in an email.

“While the event organizers have shifted the official team event onsite, the performance will go on at the planned venue – and it’s open to the public, so employees can still attend.”

Google did not respond to The Post’s question as to whether the petition bore any weight in the decision to cut the program.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/27/google-drops-drag-show-sponsorship-after-christian-employee-petition/

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