Biden Administration a Threat to First Amendment
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By Larry Bell
Monday, 02 May 2022 09:21 AM
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It will be a huge mistake to dismiss news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seriously plans to establish a “Disinformation Governance Board” as merely a preposterously far-fetched comparison with the “Ministry of Truth” in George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian 1984 novel.
Orwell’s Ministry of Truth (or “Minitrue”) was a misnomer because it served the opposite purpose, a responsibility to shape the "truth" to ensure that “Big Brother” and his government's policies and actions were always seen to be correct and in the best public interest.
Minitrue’s primary influence targets and collaborators involved the news media, entertainment, and educational book publishers who cooperated in disseminating propaganda through a new language called “newspeak” which allowed unauthorized facts to be changed as special situations warranted through a process of "doublethink."
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