“It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.”
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals”
- Joseph Goebbels, Head of Hitler’s Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Only under the Obama Presidency, in which every appointment, minor or
major, is handed only to the most corrupt, devious crony to be found,
can a man like Cass Sunstein be appointed to serve on the NSA oversight
panel. Cass is a noted propagandist, who has advocated that government
agents should infiltrate groups and discussions that push “conspiracy
theories” (read my article on
how to know if you are a conspiracy theorist) in order to delegitimize them. But don’t take my word for it. The
Washington Post wrote the following a couple of days ago:
The
Obama administration is reportedly proposing Cass Sunstein as a member
of a panel to review the surveillance practices of the National Security
Agency (NSA), among other former White House and intelligence staffers. Sunstein
was the head of the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs until last year, when he returned to teaching at Harvard Law
School.
While at Harvard in 2008, Sunstein co-authored a working paper that suggests
government agents or their allies “cognitively infiltrate” conspiracy
theorist groups by joining ”chat rooms, online social networks or even
real-space groups” and influencing the conversation.
The paper also suggests that the government “formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech.” That sounds an awful lot like the 50 Cent Party of online commentators who are paid per comment by the Chinese communist party to sway public opinion.
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