Īrguing “technology is to blame” for the U.S.’s loss of geopolitical footing, Bishop Garrison makes clear that by “technology,” he means citizens’ right to free speech online, as well as conservative media outlets like the Sinclair Network and Fox News retaining access to cable news audiences: If we allow this digital black plague to spread further, the shining city on the hill will undoubtedly find itself alone in the darkness for years to come. We’re relinquishing the long fought diplomatic collateral that has defined our security and western world stability since World War II. Today, however, America is renouncing its position as world leader. Everything from viral videos to combative cable network panels work to dig us in deeper … In this way, technology operates to exacerbate our already well-entrenched divides, along with underlying issues like partisan political ideologies, race, gender, and income inequality.
While these technological advances work to keep us better informed, holding those with ill intentions accountable for their public actions, they also provide the means by which those who wish to spread disinformation and instability can commit their misdeeds. Never have we had so much information at the speed of light literally in the palm of our hands. Never has the country or the world been so interconnected. This is an actual article, written recently, by the operative the Biden administration has empowered to stamp out errant beliefs from the U.S. In a July 2018 opinion piece, Bishop Garrison called the entire concept of free speech itself in the information age a “ digital black plague ” that will usher in a “ modern day dark age ” if not reigned in by censorship.Īgain, this is not an exaggeration. It’s not just the half of America who voted for Trump in Bishop Garrison’s crosshairs. If you’re in the military, it appears that Bishop Garrison’s CEWG will scour your Internet history, making sure to target “gray areas, such as reading, following and liking extremist material and content in social media forums and platforms.”īut what exactly are “extremist beliefs” and “extremist materials”? The CEWG’s first tasks will be: to change the Pentagon’s definition of “extremism” to stop Pentagon personnel from being recruited by “extremist” groups and to beef up personnel screening to better detect hidden “extremist beliefs.” Granted incredible new powers to designate ordinary political opinions and personal beliefs a national security threat, Bishop Garrison has waltzed from seeming obscurity into one of the most powerful posts in Washington.īishop Garrison will lead the CEWG, which will function as a de facto “Opinion Police” for Pentagon personnel on a permanent, go-forward basis. His name is Bishop Garrison, and he is the head of the Pentagon’s new “Countering Extremism” initiative.
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