This is what happens to anyone who happens to report the types of things that America\u2019s billionaires want to be hidden from the public.<\/p>\n
To understand how it happened to me (and has happened to lots of others), an introduction is needed, first, about the American Government:<\/p>\n
America\u2019s First Amendment to its Constitution is this sentence: \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\u201d<\/p>\n
The best summary-description of what that means (as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court) is by the American Library Association, and includes the following crucial statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThe First Amendment only prevents government restrictions on speech. It does not prevent restrictions on speech imposed by private individuals or businesses. Facebook and other social media can regulate or restrict speech hosted on their platforms because they are private entities.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n So long as a \u201cprivate\u201d entity censors public debate, the nation\u2019s laws cannot get involved in that \u2014 that censorship cannot be outlawed<\/i>. If public debate can be squelched by private entities, that\u2019s okay, in America\u2019s system of Government.<\/p>\n The false assumption<\/i> of this system is that allowing private entities to squelch \u201cthe press\u201d or \u201cthe news media,\u201d is okay because different private entities will squelch different truths from being presented to the public; and, so, each citizen will select which types of truths not to know, and which types of lies to believe instead \u2014 and that\u2019s \u2018democracy\u2019 in America. Having different private entities black-out different truths and filter-in different lies instead, will give each citizen whatever he or she wants to believe. The individual will select on the basis of one\u2019s own prejudices. That\u2019s the individual\u2019s \u2018freedom\u2019. The consumer will choose which type of fool<\/i> to be (such as a fool of Democratic Party billionaires, or a fool of Republican Party billionaires), and will buy (believe) whatever lies he or she wants. But is that \u2014 belief in the political falsehoods that the individual prefers \u2014 really<\/i> democracy? Won\u2019t the result be instead to cement-in whatever myths that are setting different groups in the society against each other<\/i> \u2014 instead of<\/i> going against whatever is actually wrong <\/i>with the Government? How will whatever is wrong with the Government get fixed<\/i>, that way? Is it even possible<\/i>?<\/p>\n Scientific empirical studies that<\/a> compare what the American public want to become laws in America and of what they don\u2019t want to become laws, versus what actually does<\/i> become law and what does not, have shown that only<\/i> the preferences of the very wealthiest Americans affect and shape the nation\u2019s laws. This is a one-dollar-one-vote country, not a one-person-one-vote country. (This is an empirical fact, not a theory.) America\u2019s Government is an aristocracy, not a democracy. It\u2019s controlled by counting the wealth, not really by counting the persons. Furthermore, 57.16% of the money that is donated to political campaigns in the U.S. comes from the richest one-ten-thousandth (top 0.01% wealthiest) of the American people (the \u201coriginal donors\u201d<\/a> \u2014 the actual individuals who donated it); so, the individuals who own the controlling interests in the corporations, think tanks, foundations, and media that shape<\/i> public opinion in America and who thus determine who becomes elected and who does not, are only<\/i> the very richest few, America\u2019s actual aristocrats, the people who control the public<\/i>. The public thus vote the way that the super-rich of both<\/i> Parties want<\/i> them to vote. There is a technology of \u201cmanufactured \u2018public\u2019 consent,\u201d and it\u2019s controlled by the billionaires \u2014 NOT by the public. And whereas Democratic Party billionaires determine who get nominated by their Party, and Republican billionaires determine who get nominated by their Party, virtually no one gets elected who wasn\u2019t first <\/i>selected and backed by that Party\u2019s billionaires.<\/p>\n Since those few individuals control the media, they ALSO are the ULTIMATE employers of the various censors<\/i> \u2014 both on the Republican side and on the Democratic side.<\/p>\n All of the media that are NOT controlled by the super-rich are small (none of them are large, or even medium-sized), and one of those is \u201cMs. Cat\u2019s Chronicles\u201d<\/a>. On January 3rd, they headlined linking through to one of the 5 (out of the 200+ that I submitted it to) sites that had published my December 30th article, \u201cCensorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading\u00a0Lies\u201d<\/a>, and they gave an excerpt from the full article, and they noted \u201cRelated: Eric Zuesse\u2019s Now-Deleted Profile at Modern Diplomacy<\/a>\u201d but here is what became of that profile<\/a>. It\u2019s gone. All of my hundreds of articles which had been published at Modern Diplomacy are gone. I am now a non-person there (which had<\/i> been one of the few remaining sites that the billionaires hadn\u2019t yet<\/i> gotten under their control). And here is the full article that was linked-through to, by \u201cMs. Cat\u201d: it was published at Oriental Review, \u201cCensorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading Lies\u201d<\/a>, and it explains, and fully documents, how the owner of Modern Diplomacy was forced, by \u2018NewsGuard\u2019 in Washington DC, to remove<\/i> me \u2014 the author there that had drawn more page-views than any other author<\/i> there. And yet, all of those articles now are gone. And you can see described there how it was done, and you can also see that truthfulness had nothing whatsoever to do with my being removed, but that my reporting the \u2018wrong\u2019<\/i> truths had everything<\/i> to do with it. A censoring organization that had been funded by some billionaires\u2019 agents, and called itself a \u201cnews guard\u201d for the general public, did it. I report truths that all<\/i> American billionaires (the people who actually control<\/i> the U.S. Government) want Americans NOT to know. And now, the billionaires are going after EVEN the few (all of them very small) remaining sites, that publish SOME articles that the billionaires want the public NOT to see.<\/p>\n There is no way to solve this, other than by outlawing ALL censorship, and allowing the public to see everything<\/i> \u2014 regardless<\/i> of whether or not some \u2018news\u2019-media owner, or billionaire-funded \u2018NewsGuard\u2019 service, doesn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n Censorship that\u2019s done by the agents of the billionaires who control a Government is just as vile as is censorship that\u2019s done DIRECTLY BY that Government. ALL censorship should be outlawed, regardless of who<\/i> does that censorship. Otherwise, how is an authentic<\/i> democracy even possible<\/i>?<\/p>\n This problem can exist ONLY in a country that has enormous wealth-inequality (such as the U.S. does) and that allows by law (such as the U.S. does) agents of its very wealthiest few to coerce all but a few of the smallest news media to eliminate \u2014 not to publish \u2014 whatever those super-wealthy individuals want to be blacklisted (not<\/i> published). The reality in the U.S. today is a \u2018democracy\u2019 of, by, and for, only its super-rich, none<\/i> of whom want the public to know this fact. One way or another, a country that has enormous wealth-inequality will be a dictatorship; and no dictatorship can exist and be perpetuated without censorship. Censorship is the cardinal mark of any<\/i> dictatorship. Only without censorship can democracy exist, at all. To censor is to mentally control another person \u2014 not to inform that person. It is mentally to enslave, not to free, that person. It is not to educate but to miseducate and manipulate that person. Any authentic democracy will do everything possible to prevent censorship.<\/p>\n Julian Assange has been imprisoned by the UK on the demand by the U.S. for over a decade now, though never convicted of anything, but ONLY because he was the world\u2019s most effective champion against censorship and for<\/i> international democracy and personal accountability. To call either of these countries a democracy is to lie, and to insult the very term \u201cdemocracy.\u201d What Governments deserve to be overthrown and replaced more than those two do? However, any such revolution must be against censorship, and must itself be overthrown and replaced if it entails any<\/i> censorship. To replace one dictatorship by another is no path toward freedom.<\/p>The post The U.S. Regime Made me a Non-Person<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is what happens to anyone who happens to report the types of things that America\u2019s billionaires want to be hidden from the public. To understand how it happened to me (and has happened to lots of others), an introduction is needed, first, about the American Government: America\u2019s First Amendment to its Constitution is this [\u2026]<\/p>\n The post The U.S. Regime Made me a Non-Person<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,469,432,3027,117,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950540,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950533\/revisions\/950540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}