“Disinformation” means incorrect information intended to mislead people – an intentional lie.

This begs the question: Who decides if a claim is disinformation or not, especially when the government censors speech? Can we trust the government’s “Ministry of Truth?” Australia has anti-disinformation legislation pending that says government content can never be questioned. Go straight to jail. Whoa! So the government gets to lie?

In his January 17, 1961, farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against government control of science funding, and his admonition went well beyond the military industrial complex. Not surprisingly, “The Science” has now come to mean government-bought-and-paid-for results, as opposed to the honest application of scientific method in pursuit of objective truth. Let us not forget Anthony Fauci’s lunatic declaration: “I am the science!” Fauci turned out to be absolutely wrong and absolutely corrupt. But curiously Fauci got no jail time, and victims of his disinformation got no justice.

There is no difference between the Soviets’ use of fraudulent “Lysenko Science” and the U.S. government’s current use of “The Science” to push disinformation supporting the government narrative, and using the epithet “denier” to destroy anyone who contradicts “The Science.” Look how this term has been used to destroy climate scientists whose findings contradict “climate catastrophism.” Having ignored President Eisenhower, our government’s take-over of science is openly demonstrated by the Climate-Industrial Complex, the Pharma-Industrial Complex, and other government /industry collusions that censor us and create false narratives to nudge a political issue. One might conclude that our government seeks control of the population through crisis declarations and open intimidation of truth-tellers. Or as Rahm Emanuel famously said on President Obama’s behalf: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

We also have a Censorship-Industrial Complex – a collusion of big corporations and big government to attack any truths that contradict the official narrative of the corporatist state. Consider Zuckerberg’s recent admission of Facebook’s collusion to censor on behalf of the Biden Administration. Do you remember the Twitter Files – censoring on behalf of the Pharma-Industrial Complex? And now, Bill Gates is actively campaigning for full government censorship on vaccine issues. Here we go again. Consider also the “Stanford Internet Observatory”, a CIA operation that actively suppressed information that challenged the Biden/Harris narrative. This program was exposed last year, and was shut down after congressional investigations revealed its presence (House Report 6 Nov 2023). Your tax dollars subsidized the assault on your rights. Nobody went to jail. No justice. Here are some examples of our government’s disinformation machine at work.

Climate Disinformation: Government sources claim that tropical storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes are now more intense and more frequent than ever before because of rising CO2. However, the actual data (IPCC AR6 Working Group 1, Ch.12) shows no increase in intensity or frequency of these in the last 60 years. Our Government also claimed that Arctic sea ice is melting away (Al Gore previously scheduled it to disappear by 2014). Actual data (NOAA) shows that there has been no change in Arctic Sea Ice patterns over the last 20 years. Somebody is lying to you. COVID Disinformation: Our Government knowingly claimed the death rate for COVID was 50 times higher than it really was, thus providing the pretext for draconian lockdowns. They said Ivermectin was dangerous and not helpful. But the grand lie was that the mRNA “vaccines” were both safe and effective, and if you got the jab, you would not get sick (Biden). As it turned out, masking, distancing, and lockdowns were absolutely counterproductive

(compared to countries that did not lock down). Ivermectin was shown to provide safe and effective prophylaxis against COVID, and reduced death rates by 50% (H. Risch / Yale Medical). Hence, hundreds of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily to enrich Big Pharma. But let’s not forget that the jab was neither safe nor effective (see VAERS database), yet Biden still fired thousands of our best military people, and thousands more in defense industries, for opposing the jab. And yet, the Biden Administration’s propaganda machine continues to roll on behalf of Big Pharma’s big profits. Election Interference: Prior to the 2020 election, Government agencies declared that the Hunter Biden Laptop was “Russian Disinformation”, and lined up 51 “intelligence experts” to sign on. After the election, the FBI admitted the Laptop was always known to be real. Oops, sorry! This begs two questions: (1) Why should anybody trust the Government, and (2) Are those 51 “intelligence experts” and the FBI leadership not guilty of election interference as well as fraud against the American people? In addition, the FBI knew the DNC server was never hacked by the Russians (2016), but they knowingly let the “Russia Collusion” conspiracy theory live for 3 years thereafter to unleash lawfare against Trump. No jail time.

No justice. The War Machine: Biden/Harris nixed the April 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal. The Administration told us that Ukraine would rid the world of Putin, so Ukraine must fight on to pursue the Biden/Harris proxy war. Over 500,000 Ukrainians are now dead. But hey, at least the defense contractors friendly to the Biden/Harris war machine got rich. No apologies have ever been made – nor reparations paid – to those who blew the whistle on the Government’s disinformation machine, and were hence labeled “Denier” or “Conspiracy Theorist” or “Friend of Putin”, and had their careers and lives wrecked by the Government disinformation machine. Still no justice. I wonder how much of our $35 Trillion national debt went to pay the Government to lie to us. I also ponder how many Americans actually went along with it, and still do.

Scott Axelson is a Jamestown resident. Michael Dee is a Silver Creek resident.