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September 25, 2024<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton Returns to Muzzle Everyone \u00a0<\/a><\/h1>\n

James Bovard<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Why should Americans trust anyone who believes Orwell\u2019s 1984 was an ode to servility<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou could drop Hillary <\/a>\u00a0into any trouble spot, come back in a month and\u2026 she will have made it better,\u201d former president Bill Clinton declared in a 2016 speech championing his wife\u2019s presidential candidacy.\u00a0 But Hillary\u2019s entry into the brawls surrounding the 2024 presidential election will leave many Americans wishing to drop her elsewhere.<\/p>\n

As the race enters the home stretch, Hillary Clinton is riding in like Joan of Arc \u00a0to rescue truth \u2013 or at least to call for hammering government critics.\u00a0 But Hillary has been a triple threat to American democracy for 15 years.<\/p>\n

Last week, Hillary declared on Rachel Maddow\u2019s MSNBC talk show that the federal government should criminally prosecute Americans who share \u201cpropaganda<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 which she made no effort to define.<\/p>\n

Hillary has long been one of America\u2019s foremost censorship advocates.\u00a0 In 2021, she announced that there must be \u201ca global reckoning with the disinformation<\/a>, with the monopolistic power and control, with the lack of accountability that the [social media] platforms currently enjoy.\u201d\u00a0 Hillary made her utterance at a time when freedom in much of the world had been obliterated by governments responding to a pandemic that occurred as a result of U.S. government funding reckless experiments in Chinese government labs.\u00a0 The U.S. denial of its role in financing coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of the biggest deceits of the decade. But Hillary never kvetched about that scam regarding a debacle that \u00a0contributed to millions of deaths.\u00a0 The Obama administration sought to prohibit U.S. government funding for such wildly risky research but Fauci and other officials evaded the restrictions.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Hillary wailed that \u201ctech platforms have amplified<\/a> disinformation and extremism with no accountability\u201d and endorsed European Union legislation to obliterate free speech. But \u201cdisinformation\u201d is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.<\/p>\n

That awkward fact didn\u2019t deter Democratic Vice President nominee Tim Walz from declaring last month: \u201cThere\u2019s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech<\/a>, and especially around our democracy.\u201d Who knew the Minnesota version of the First Amendment has a loophole bigger than Duluth?<\/p>\n

After the New York Post shot down Biden\u2019s Disinformation Governance Board in 2022, Biden appointed Vice President Kamala<\/a> Harris as chief of a White House disinformation task force to find ways to protect women and LGBTQI+ politicians and journalists from vigorous criticism on the Internet (\u201conline harassment and abuse\u201d).\u00a0 Harris declared that such criticism could \u201cpreclude women from political decision-making about their own lives and communities, undermine the functioning of democracy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0But when did criticism of female politicians become irreconcilable with democracy?\u00a0 Most politicians deserve all the grief they get.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years ago, at a NAACP Detroit \u201cFreedom Fund\u201d dinner, Harris proclaimed, \u201cWe will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating<\/a> their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.\u201d\u00a0 She did not specify the precise degree of alleged rancor required to nullify a speaker\u2019s constitutional rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden administration censorship schemes have been denounced by federal courts and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), chair of the House Cybersecurity Subcommittee, sent the White House a letter last week noting that the Biden administration always \u201cadvertised its willingness to manipulate the content of social media<\/a> sites\u201d and called for a cessation of all federal censorship tainting the 2024 election.\u00a0 Mace requested copies of all official \u201ccommunications with social media companies\u2026\u00a0 concerning the concealment or suppression of information on their sites.\u201d\u00a0 At last report, nobody on Capitol Hill is sitting on the edge of their chair awaiting an informative White House response. .<\/p>\n

Hillary\u2019s own career exemplifies a political elitist righteously blindfolding all other Americans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When she was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013,\u00a0Clinton exempted herself from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), setting up a private server<\/a> in her New York mansion to handle her official email.\u00a0The State Department\u00a0ignored 17 FOIA requests<\/a>\u00a0for her emails and said it\u00a0needed 75 years<\/a>\u00a0to comply with a FOIA request for Hillary\u2019s aides\u2019 emails.\u00a0The Federal Bureau of\u00a0Investigation shrugged off<\/a>\u00a0Hillary\u2019s aides using a program called\u00a0BleachBit\u00a0to destroy 30,000 of her emails<\/a> under subpoena by a congressional committee.\u00a0Federal judge\u00a0Royce Lamberth\u00a0labeled<\/a>\u00a0the Clinton email coverup \u201cone of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.\u201d\u00a0 An Inspector General report slammed FBI investigators for relying on \u201crapport building\u201d with Team Hillary instead of using subpoenas to compel the discovery of key evidence. The IG report<\/a> \u201cquestioned whether the use of a subpoena or search warrant might have encouraged Clinton, her lawyers \u2026 or others to search harder for the missing devices (containing email), or ensured that they were being honest that they could not find them.\u201d The FBI\u2019s treatment of Hillary Clinton vivified how far federal law enforcement will twist the law to absolve the nation\u2019s political elite, or at least those tied to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

During Clinton\u2019s tenure, the State Department gave grants to promote investigative journalism in numerous developing nations as part of its \u201cgood governance\u201d programs. But exposing abuses was only a virtue<\/a> outside U.S. territorial limits.\u00a0 Clinton vigorously covered up debacles in the $200 billion in foreign aid she shoveled out. From 2011 onward, AID\u2019s acting inspector general massively deleted information on foreign aid debacles in audit reports, as The Washington Post reported in 2014. Clinton\u2019s machinations helped delude Washington policymakers and Congress about the profound failures of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Pirouetting as a champion of candor is a novel role for the former Secretary of State.\u00a0<\/strong> Shortly before the 2016 election, a Gallup poll found that only 33% of voters<\/a> believed Hillary was honest and trustworthy, and only 35% trusted Donald Trump. The Clinton-Trump tag team made \u201cpost-truth\u201d the Oxford English Dictionary\u2019s 2016 word of the year.<\/p>\n

Hillary believes that the lesson of George Orwell\u2019s 1984 <\/em>is that good citizens should shut up and grovel<\/strong>. In her 2017 memoir, Hillary claimed that 1984 <\/em>revealed the peril of \u00a0critics who \u201csow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders<\/a>, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 Did Hillary think Orwell dedicated the novel to Stalin?\u00a0 Hillary\u2019s book noted that the regime in Orwell\u2019s novel had physically tortured its victims to delude them.\u00a0\u00a0 Hillary is comparatively humane, since she only wants to leave people forever in the dark \u2013 well, except for the scumbags who undermine the official storyline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hillary was a key player in the Obama administration that believed that Americans had no right to learn the facts of the torture committed by the CIA after 9\/11.\u00a0 When she was \u00a0Secretary of State in 2012,\u00a0 she declared, \u201cLack of transparency eats away like a cancer at the trust people should have in their government.\u201d\u00a0 But the more secrets politicians keep, the less trust they deserve.<\/p>\n

To sanctify censorship, Hillary is again invoking the Russian peril. A 316-page report last year by Special Counsel John Durham noted that in mid-2016, after the shellacking she suffered from her email scandal, \u201cClinton allegedly approved a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to tie Trump to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.\u201d President Barack Obama was briefed on the Clinton proposal \u201cto vilify Donald<\/a> Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.\u201d FBI officials relied on the \u201cClinton Plan\u201d to target the Trump campaign even though no FBI personnel apparently took \u201cany action to vet the Clinton Plan intelligence,\u201d the Durham report noted.<\/p>\n

The first three years of Trump\u2019s presidency were haunted by constant accusations that he colluded with Russians to win the 2016 election. In 2019, an Inspector General report confirmed that the FBI made \u201cfundamental errors\u201d and persistently deceived<\/a> the FISA Court to authorize surveilling the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

Hillary\u2019s scams were even too much for federal scorekeepers. The Federal Election Commission in 2022 levied a $113,000 fine on Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign<\/a> and the Democratic National Committee for their deceptive funding to cover up their role in the Steele dossier<\/a>, which spurred the FBI\u2019s illicit surveillance of Trump campaign officials.<\/p>\n

In Hillary\u2019s new improved version of the Constitution, there is no free speech for \u201cdeplorables\u201d \u2013 the vast swath of Americans she openly condemned in 2016<\/strong>.\u00a0 But this is the same mindset being shown by the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.\u00a0 Harris has scorned almost every opportunity to explain how she would use the power she is seeking to capture over American citizens.\u00a0 Instead, she is entitled to the Oval Office by acclimation of the mainstream media and all decent folks \u2013 or at least those who drive electric vehicles and donate to her campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is \u201cdisinformation\u201d becoming simply another stick for rulers to use to flog uppity citizens? Denouncing disinformation sounds better than \u201cshut up, peasants!\u201d\u00a0<\/strong> Will Americans\u2019 rights and liberties be caught in a federal thresher? One blade is the Iron Curtain of secrecy about government policies, including denying almost all the crimes the government commits. The other blade will be vigorous prosecution of anyone who exposes official wrongdoing. \u00a0\u00a0But if politicians have no obligation to disclose how they use their power and can persecute citizen who reveals their abuses, how in Hades can liberty survive?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hillary\u2019s latest victory lap is also a reminder of the profound changes in American politics since her husband took office in 1993.\u00a0 For most of the late twentieth century, liberals championed free speech with few quibbles or asterisks.\u00a0\u00a0 Hillary would not be tub-thumping for censorship unless there had already been a sea change in attitudes among her target audience. Or do Hillary\u2019s supporters retain more devotion to free speech than she presumes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An earlier version of this piece was published by the Libertarian Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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James Bovard<\/em><\/strong> is the author of <\/em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>The Bush Betrayal<\/em><\/a>, and <\/em>Terrorism and Tyranny<\/em><\/a>. His latest book is Last Rights: the Death of American Liberty<\/a>. Bovard is on the USA Today Board of Contributors. He is on Twitter at @jimbovard. His website is at <\/em>www.jimbovard.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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