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Libertarian Institute, April 3, 2023\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Biden\u2019s Sham Summit Won\u2019t Save World Democracy<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span>
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President Joe Biden triumphantly saved world democracy last week (at least according to the White House scorecard). Biden co-hosted another Summit for Democracy, a repeat performance after the December 2021 test run. Biden sounded like a Quaalude Savior as he recycled his \u201cinflection point<\/span><\/a> of history\u201d clich\u00e9. But the summit proved again that politicians are perils to freedom regardless of their prattle.<\/p>\n

Biden promised that \u201cwe are seeing real indications that we are turning the tide<\/span>\u201d in favor of democracy around the globe. Practically no one who\u2019s not on Biden\u2019s payroll agrees. The president\u2019s boast was like taking a victory lap around the deck of the Titanic.<\/p>\n

Last year democracy \u201cdeclined around the world for the 17th consecutive year,\u201d according to Freedom House. Twice as many nations are veering \u201ctoward authoritarianism<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d as towards democracy, <\/span>according to The Economist<\/em>. Most shocking: the United States is now categorized as a less free<\/span><\/a> nation than Mongolia, Mauritius, and 56 other nations says Freedom House (funded by the U.S. government<\/span><\/a>, so they must be trustworthy).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Team Biden believes a big problem with democracy is that politicians don\u2019t have enough power:<\/strong> \u201cWeak state capacity<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u201d In reality, elected rulers around the globe are turning themselves into dictators who increasingly repress their citizens. Rather than representative governments, elected regimes have turned into Leviathan Democracies far superior to the citizenry.<\/p>\n

Consider Biden\u2019s record in the Oval Office. Federal judges and\/or the Supreme Court have struck down Biden\u2019s eviction moratorium for deadbeat renters, his $400 billion cancellation of federal student debt, his \u201cclimate change\u201d decree shutting down power plants, his mask mandate for airline passengers, and his edict compelling all employees of large companies and all federal employees to get COVID vaccine injections. But all of Biden\u2019s decrees are supposedly \u201cpro-democracy\u201d because he won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy delivers\u201d was a key talking point for Team Biden at the summit. Presumably, a<\/span>ny increase in government handouts automatically increased government legitimacy. Unfortunately, \u201cleashing politicians\u201d is not on the Biden Bingo Card for Saving Democracy™<\/b>. The American Bar Association recently warned that \u201cthe Rule of Law is in Decline Globally\u201d but it is \u201cnot a central focus<\/span><\/a> of the U.S. Government\u2019s approach\u201d on democracy. A top ABA official warned, \u201cDiscussing sustainable development in the absence of rule of law\u2026is at best delusional and at worst dishonest.\u201d Three-quarters of nations representing almost 85% of the world\u2019s population recently \u201cexperienced declines in rule of law,\u201d according to the World Justice Project. In lieu of \u201cgovernment under the law,\u201d Team Biden offers \u201cthe People Centered Justice<\/span><\/a> Multistakeholder Cohort\u2019s Declaration and Call to Action.\u201d Sloshing out more government handouts to activist groups who score media headlines was \u201cclose enough for government work\u201d to the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Rather than a system of informed consent, democracy is degenerating into regimes which blindfold citizens and demand unlimited submission. At the summit, government officials made it clear that freedom of speech is a luxury that democracy can no longer afford. Secretary of Anthony State Blinken declared, \u201cThe misuse of technology and the spread of digital authoritarianism<\/span><\/a> must end. We must stand for an affirmative, values-driven, and rights-respecting vision of democracy in the digital era.\u201d \u201cAffirmative\u201d and \u201cvalues-driven\u201d become code words to legitimize pervasive government censorship. Blinken \u201cproposed a \u2018delicate balance\u2019 between \u2018openness and security,\u2019 \u2018protecting speech and preventing incitement<\/span><\/a>,\u2019 and \u2018fostering innovation and limiting the power of Big Tech,\u2019\u201d as Tom Parker observed for Reclaim the Net.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sermonized on a \u201cCountering the Rise of Digital Authoritarianism\u201d panel. He was joined by YouTube CEO Neil Mohan, who could have boasted of how Washington censors his<\/span><\/a> channel. An internal DHS document reveals plans to crack down on \u201cinaccurate\u201d information<\/span><\/a> on \u201cthe efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.\u201d Any facts which embarrass Team Biden are automatically \u201cinaccurate\u2019 and ripe for suppression. Federally-funded entities spearheaded the censorship of true<\/span><\/a> information on COVID vaccine side effects to bolster Biden\u2019s effort to inject every American.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eight governments, including Ukraine and Poland, issued a call for more censorship on the first day of the summit. They called for tech companies to take action \u201cagainst disinformation<\/span><\/a> that undermines our peace and stability\u201d and to suppress posts that \u201cweaken our support to Ukraine amid Russia\u2019s war of aggression.\u201d The letter asserted that \u201chostile foreign powers are using [social media] to spread false narratives that contradict reporting from fact-based news outlets,\u201d especially the endless reports on the glorious victories of the Ukrainian army. Facebook responded by promising to ramp up its censorship, including relying on \u201ca third-party fact-checking service to determine if posts contain false claims.\u201d Some \u201cthird-party fact checking services\u201d have been government fronts. As journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 scoffed, \u201cWe are fueling a proxy war in Ukraine in order to defend freedom, such as the freedom to censor dissenting views<\/span><\/a> on our proxy war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Is the \u201cwill of the people\u201d so fragile that it can no longer survive exposure to any thoughts that officialdom disapproves? Does winning an election automatically convert tinhorn politicians into minor deities entitled to control the thoughts of any voter? Nullifying freedom of speech converts citizens into vassals that politicians can use and abuse as they please.<\/strong> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the summit proceedings, piety was thicker than hog slop at an Iowa slaughterhouse. Secretary Blinken declared on March 28, \u201cNo woman or girl should face harassment and abuse in-person or online.\u201d The State Department\u2019s effort on this score was propelled by its Global Engagement Center, which previously pressured Twitter to cancel hundreds of thousands<\/span><\/a> of accounts, including vast numbers of hapless Americans. That Center is leading the fight against \u201c<\/span>g<\/span>endered disinformation\u201d and whooped up a report on \u201cthe need for more research to tackle this scourge.\u201d According to the United Nations, a prime example of this \u201cscourge\u201d is \u201cZ<\/span>oom Bombing<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u201d That atrocity occurs when uninvited people crash a Zoom meeting and make rude comments. Is it an international human rights crisis because boneheaded Zoom organizers fail to require pass codes to attend a meeting? <\/b><\/p>\n

As part of its summit festivities, the Biden administration announced new crackdowns to make it \u201cmore difficult for corrupt actors to conceal their identities, assets, and criminal activities.\u201d Despite reform promises at the first summit, there has been no worldwide<\/span><\/a> progress. <\/span>The U.S. ranks #24 on the international corruption index\u2014even worse than France, according to Transparency International. And that score was calculated before the latest revelations of the Biden family pocketing<\/span><\/a> vast sums from smarmy foreign companies.<\/p>\n

Biden boasted that his administration plans to spend more than $9 billion to support democracy worldwide by the end of next year. But U.S. foreign aid programs obliterate the anti-corruption initiatives of the U.S. government. An American Economic Review analysis<\/span><\/a> concluded that \u201cincreases in [foreign] aid are associated with contemporaneous increases in corruption,\u201d and that \u201ccorruption is positively correlated with aid received from the United States.\u201d As a Brookings Institution analysis observed, \u201cThe history of U.S. assistance is littered<\/span><\/a> with tales of corrupt foreign officials using aid to line their own pockets, support military buildups, and pursue vanity projects.\u201d Torrents of U.S. helped make Afghanistan one of the most corrupt places on Earth. John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), observed, \u201cWe need to understand how<\/span><\/a> U.S. policies and practices unintentionally aided and abetted corruption.\u201d The U.S. has been \u201cfighting corruption\u201d in Ukraine since the end of the Cold War, and in those decades Ukraine became one of the most corrupt nations in Europe. Biden administration officials helped defeat a congressional proposal to create an Inspector General to audit and oversee the $100 billion the U.S. government has pledged to the government of Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n

But another handout will fix that problem. The Biden administration is bankrolling foreign journalists to fight \u201ckleptocracy\u201d\u2014government of thieves. There is even an aid program entitled \u201cEmpowering the Truth<\/span><\/a> <\/b>Tellers.\u201d (Julian Assange need not apply.) The Biden administration claims to support \u201cindependent media\u201d by effectively putting foreign journalists on the U.S. payroll. Those journalists are \u201cindependent\u201d because the U.S. government says so, and anyone who disagrees will be labeled an enemy of democracy. Besides, the United States is no role model: it ranks a pathetic #42 in the World Press Freedom<\/span><\/a> Index, worse than Moldova and Guyana, according to Reporters Without Borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden is \u201csaving\u201d democracy\u201d with buckets of goofy new acronyms:<\/strong> SHE PERSISTS, one of the rallying cries for Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, now stands for Supporting Her Empowerment: Political Engagement, Rights, Safety, and Inclusion Strategies to Succeed Investing. And then there was SHE WINS (Support Her Empowerment: Women\u2019s Inclusion for New Security). The Agency for International Development is whooping up PxP\u2014<\/b>Powered by the People. Did the White House believe acronyms should look like drug prescriptions? ADD stands for Advancing Digital Democracy but policymakers should have worked in an \u2018H\u2019 to reflect their cluelessness. ACRF stands for the Anti-Corruption Response Fund. They should have tweaked that one to make it ARF-ARF, to symbolize officialdom\u2019s cravenness to the powers that be. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

To safeguard democracy, the Biden administration is creating \u201cthe Global Network for Securing Election Integrity [GNSEI]<\/span>,<\/b> to align on standards and practices for supporting clean elections.\u201d On that score, the Biden administration touts its ballot expanding efforts here at home. The White House \u201cfact sheet\u201d detailing progress on democracy touts the Biden proposal to spent $5 billion on the Postal Service to \u201csupport for vote-by-mail, including making ballots postage-free and reducing the cost of other election-related mail for jurisdictions and voters.\u201d <\/span>Ballot harvesting and unverified absentee ballots will save democracy everywhere! Who knew that the \u201cwill of the people\u201d was so fragile that it could be blighted by requiring citizens to purchase one first-class stamp to send in their ballot?<\/p>\n

Comic relief failed to redeem the summit. The State Department wanted Americans to make short videos with the hashtag #SummitForDemocracy whooping up \u201cWhat has democracy made possible in your own life?\u201d Such as falling living standards, soaring inflation, sporadic financial panic, and a befuddled commander-in-chief who doesn\u2019t know if he is in Canada or China<\/span><\/a>? A search on Twitter indicates that almost all the videos made with #SummitforDemocracy hashtags were done by governments or by government-funded entities. Biden\u2019s democracy spiel can\u2019t compete with cat videos. <\/span><\/p>\n

Revealing all the levels of hypocrisy at the summit would be on par with peeling an onion. Mexico President L\u00f3pez Obrador declared at the gathering, \u201cMany of the great crimes<\/span><\/a> against humanity have been committed in the name of God, or in the name of democracy.\u201d Many of the nations showcased at the summit are dutiful U.S. allies, meaning that Washington ignores their oppression. <\/span><\/p>\n

In his speech last Wednesday, Biden declared that \u201cthe power of these summits\u201d is \u201cnot just to speak high-minded words.\u201d But even U.S. government officials feared the summit would be \u201cinconsequential talk<\/span><\/a><\/span> shop,\u201d according to The Washington Post<\/em>. Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass scoffed, \u201cThe summit for democracy is a bad idea<\/span><\/a> that won\u2019t go away\u2026American democracy is hardly a model for others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Pentagon missed the memo on democracy. Since 2008, foreign soldiers who received training from the U.S. military \u201cattempted at least nine coups<\/span><\/a> (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries,\u201d as journalist Nick Turse reported. The Pentagon denies responsibility for the debacles. But, as Antiwar.com reported, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) declared at a recent congressional hearing, \u201cI think we should at least know how many countries<\/span><\/a> we train the coup plotters.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Biden concluded his spiel to the Summit, \u201cThe great strength of democracy is that it gives us all the tools we need for self-government and self-improvement.\u201d But the tools are controlled by politicians who equate ever greater submission with the triumph of the \u201cwill of the people.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>With politicians openly championing censorship, Leviathan Democracy is dropping its mask and no longer pretending to give a damn about freedom.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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