Pull up a comfy seat, cradle a cup of hot tea, and brace yourself, because I'm venting and won’t be pulling any punches.
Here we go.
"IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT"
WHAT HAPPENED
Medium, the platform I've been writing non-fiction articles and essays on since 2018 (where I’ve had my work appear in several different publications), has removed one of my articles from the Liberation Day publication. No, not the article where I brought attention to the fact that Medium is rife with Marxists, and how I deal with them. So, what got me censored? My latest article asking the question, Are We Being Lied to About Ukraine?
You know, nothing different than countless others have pointed out, like USA Today, The National Pulse, Daily Truth Report, The Gateway Pundit and Tucker Carlson for example.
But hold on a second. Let me make this clear right up front: this is not a Left or Right issue. This is not about blue state or red state, or anyone's favorite or least favorite presidential puppet. This is about truth in a world where people are being systematically censored and "cancelled" for having unapproved opinions, and where such hyper-intolerance historically leads us.
But I digress.
MEDIUM’S CENSORSHIP
Here's what you now see when you attempt to read my article at Medium:
Obviously this must have been quite an influential piece of writing that had far-reaching impact, evidenced by the fact I made a whopping $1.17 from it at the time of its removal.
But, at the risk of corrupting you with my deplorable musings, I'm happy to report the scandalous article in question is still available here on Substack. But you may want to hurry, before the blue-haired, brown shirt, heresy hunting tech overlords find it and burn it at the stake in their relentless effort to pave the way for a world where the only ideas, words, and thoughts that are permitted are those ideas, words, and thoughts which are approved by the almighty State. A hellish dystopia (if you have even a modicum of historical knowledge) that eventually leads to the violent persecution of the bourgeois. That’s you and me, folks.
Again, I digress.
MEDIUM’S EMAIL NOTICE
Here is the email I received from Medium notifying me of my egregious thought crime:
Get a load of that totally Orwellian signature. Holy smokes! The only thing missing that would make that signature more Orwellian is:
The Ministry of Trust & Safety
I could go on Medium right now and find you hundreds of articles bashing white people (but no other race), bashing Christians (but no other religion), and promoting the genocidal philosophies of Marxism. I could even find you article after article encouraging the severe mental health issues that drive people to mutilate their own genitalia, but my article citing actual examples of verifiable, documented misinformation about Russia/Ukraine has to be censored.
Let's be honest. We all know the real reason. Because “Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies” (Ron Paul) and nothing can go against—or even question—the current state approved narrative for whatever we're programmed to be scared of or offended by this month.
Seriously, aren't you tired of running from one fear-mongering narrative to another? Isn't it exhausting being perpetually afraid of everything? And isn't it suspicious that the only solution provided for every fear the media promotes is more government control, and never more individual liberty?
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” - George Bernard Shaw
Remember the global cooling propaganda of the 1970s? The agenda changed so the "science" changed (like how it's currently an election year so the Covid "science" has changed). Now it's global warming you’re supposed to fear, even though the jet-setting preachers of the global warming narrative continue to flaunt their hypocrisy by purchasing beachfront homes, like Barack Obama's two mansions—including his new one in Hawaii. And let’s not lose sight of the fact that insurance companies, who don’t like to take risks, keep insuring those multi-million dollar beachfront homes. (But you’re not supposed to notice that.)
Then there’s Covid with it’s 99% survival rate being used by governments around the world to facilitate unprecedented wealth transfer, the destruction of the middle class, and implementing straight up tyranny, including violating the Nuremberg Code with forced medical experiments on the historically illiterate, ever-acquiescing populace. This was followed up with the censoring of any information about the untold thousands of people injured and killed from said medical experiments, as well as the fact that the vaccinated are still catching Covid and spreading it, and even dying from Covid at a far greater rate than the unvaccinated. (But whatever you do, do not—I repeat—do not turn off your TV, or go to this website and read the endless accounts of victims.)
“Machiavelli offered that men obey better when they fear you than when they love you. Sadly, he was right, and the government in America knows this.” - Andrew P. Napolitano
So now we're all supposed to collectively hate Putin because he's invading a neighboring country (for reasons we are still unclear about since we can’t get any honest information out of our media), yet why do we not care about all the other wars around the world where similar (or even worse) situations are happening? And where was America's outrage when our own country invaded Afghanistan and Iraq? Those invasions were justified (by the same media) as a retaliation for 9/11, even though the “official” 9/11 narrative alleges the hijackers were Saudis. But we don‘t ask those questions because we’re not supposed to.
Would American's be more angry with Putin (than they're already told to be) if his reason for invading Ukraine was because he said they had weapons of mass destruction, only to find out later he was totally lying about it?
I trust your answer would be a resounding yes. So then, where is your equal loathing and condemnation of GW Bush who did exactly that—invading Iraq under the false pretense that they had WMDs, and then callously joked about his WMD lies that caused the deaths of countless innocent men, women, and children? If he was the president of any other country, we'd call him a war criminal, but instead he gets a pass as we sing the Star Spangled Banner a little more loudly to drown out our own hypocrisy.
For those in the back who aren't able to accurately process what I just said: I am not making the case that because Bush did it, it's okay for Putin. What I am doing is pointing out our blatant hypocrisy. We pump our fists in the air like obedient little lemmings at whoever the media declares is our current boogie man, all the while excusing the terror and war crimes we are responsible for. I can think of no greater example of blatant, intellectually dishonest hypocrisy than that.
So, in spite of media deception and manipulation that spans decades upon decades, we are now supposed to believe everything they tell us about what’s going on with Russia and Ukraine. All I’m asking is no matter what the narrative is that you believe, be consistent. If you’ve lost your mind over Putin for this, yet you turn a blind eye to what GW Bush did in Iraq (and the myriad other wars we've been involved in around the world), then you need to ask yourself why. What influence in your life stokes the flames of cognitive dissonance to such a degree that you rage over Putin but shrug your shoulders over Bush? Why do you believe all lives are equal, but some lives are more equal than others?
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” - Howard Zinn
America has a long history of war. In fact, we have been in one conflict or another for over 90% of our country’s existence (take a moment to let that sink in). But here's the rub. When we provoke a war, it’s a good and just war, but when someone we don’t like provokes a war, it’s a bad war.
And we can always count on our Mockingbird media to obediently sell us on the war du jour and do our thinking for us, telling us who the good guys and bad guys are. A real enemy should be obvious, so if the media has to tell us who the bad guys are, then those bad guys probably aren't our enemy. And when the media accepts money from the government in exchange for lying to us, have they not become more of an enemy to America than some foreign despot thousands of miles away?
The only way to break from this insanity is if Americans would stop suckling at the teat of this vast propaganda apparatus (the likes of which would surely have made Joseph Goebbels green with jealousy). But we don't. We still continue to run to proven liars to tell us what to do and what to think about every current event because apparently our Stockholm Syndrome is so debilitating we actually enjoy the gaslighting, manipulation, and abuse.
Pointing out our own collective gullibility and blatant hypocrisy does not mean I support this Russian/Ukrainian war, nor does it make me a “Putin puppet.” It just makes me honest. But isn’t it refreshing to hear honesty every now and then, even if it burns a little going down?
You know what else doesn't make me a “Putin puppet?” Asking what the causation of this invasion is and wanting a truthful answer—not a Fox News or CNN talking point.
Is the invasion for the purpose of ridding Ukraine of its biolabs that the US Embassy just memory-holed from its website (in true Big Brother fashion)? Perhaps this is what the media doesn't want you to know about that’s put Putin on the offensive. Or maybe it's a half dozen other reasons. But we'll never know because our media will never tell us the truth.
For those still capable of critical and independent thought, the fact that the media is trying so hard to convince you to join in the Two Minutes of Hate against Emmanuel Goldstein (Putin)—even resorting to deception to do so—should set off red flags. And wanting to know the real reason why Russia is invading the Ukraine doesn't make me a proponent of the war any more than asking why Hitler invaded Poland makes you a Nazi sympathizer.
For me, the non-aggression principal is one of the strongest pillars that holds up my populist, libertarian worldview (in addition to my consistent pro-life position), thus, I am opposed to all wars except on the occasion when it's absolutely, unequivocally necessary for survival, and that is very, very rare. In fact, the last time America faced that kind of threat was eighty years ago.
For the final time, I digress.
MY REPLY TO MEDIUM
Here was my reply to Medium, after their censorship of my article:
As of today, Medium has not responded to my query for clarification. (My sincere apologies for assuming you were sitting down when I told you that.)
[2024 UPDATE: Two years later, the brown shirts at Medium still haven’t responded to my simple email request.]
I trust there will be some people reading this who may be snickering to themselves, delighted that Medium removed my article. They are living proof that humans are doomed to always repeat history. For even when we smugly repeat slogans like the ever-popular “Never again,” we always seem to find some loophole for its justification this time, proving that for most people such pronouncements are nothing more than vapid, meaningless, self-important, virtue-signaling platitudes. How shameful. How despicable.
So, if you've ever secretly wondered whether or not you would’ve succumbed to the fear and propaganda of the ethos of 1930s Germany by complying with the National Socialist Party, well, after the past two years—and as we continue hurtling forward into this current orchestrated dystopia—some of you now have your answer. And what I find most terrifying, is that you're okay with that answer.
“‘We’ve got to do something about all this disinformation,’ said the empire that is made entirely of disinformation.” - Caitlin Johnstone
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Quest71
The reality of life in all woke, globalist, so called democratic countries today could not be better explain. Is there still a place in this new dystopian world for HONESTY and SANITY?
Tom Caine