The U.S. Department of Homeland Security led by Alejandro Mayorkas (left) says Americans who spread “misinformation” online are domestic threat actors.
By Guy Page
In the last 10 days, three events have taken place that make me fear the possible imminent loss of Americans’ freedom of speech and assembly.
I do not make this statement lightly. I say it now while there is still time.
Event I: February 7 – the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issues a “Summary of the Terrorism Threat to the United States.” This remarkable, terrifying document gets right to the point in the first sentence: “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”
Speech is the threat. Not bad people actively planning to kill Americans with guns, knives or truck bombs. The Department of Homeland Security led by Alejandro Mayorkas (more on him later) says “these threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.”
Get that? Mayorkas is all for free speech, but not this particular speech, which he says undermines public trust in government institutions. Such speech could inspire violence. It must be stopped.
Are you critical of Covid-19 government policy? Concerned about election fraud? Well, if you’ve said so online, then you, sir or madam, fall into Alejandro Mayorkas’ description of a “domestic threat actor.” That’s the plain reading of this bulletin.
And don’t get Mayorkas started on critics of 5G technology: “Domestic violent extremists have also viewed attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals, and have recently aspired to disrupt U.S. electric and communications critical infrastructure, including by spreading false or misleading narratives about 5G cellular technology.
Kapish? “Our” government thinks social media users saying 5G causes cancer (a not-implausible public health position) have “aspired to disrupt critical infrastructure.”
What’s even scarier than this statement is that almost no one in Congress, Montpelier or the state and national media has rebuked Mayorkas.
Under the header “How We Are Responding,” DHS describes how it is working with every level of government to combat the scourge of Free Speech:
“DHS is working with public and private sector partners, as well as foreign counterparts, to identify and evaluate MDM, including false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories spread on social media and other online platforms that endorse or could inspire violence.”
Presumably the State of Vermont is among the “public partners.” It’s time to ask Gov. Phil Scott and Public Safety Commissioner Michael Schirling what they’re hearing from DHS about free speech domestic threat actors in Vermont. And whether they will be complicit in suppressing online free speech.
DHS has opened a new Office of Intelligence and Analysis to probe domestic online communications. Is there a Vermont counterpart?
And here’s where it really gets local. DHS is dispensing federal grants hand over fist to state and local partners to help them eradicate MDM. No less than three separate grant programs have been created.
It’s time to ask every Vermont legislator and selectboard member if they have heard about these grants, and if they plan to take the federal money and do their bidding.
It’s time to ask Sen. Patrick Leahy (202) 224-4242, Sen. Bernie Sanders 202-224-5141, and Rep. Peter Welch 1-888-605-7270 if they plan to protest DHS suppression of free speech. Might be a good question to ask of our candidates for state and federal office, too.
And finally, it might be a good time to take a public stand. While you still can, legally. Vermonters supporting Canadian freedom will wave signs and flags tomorrow and Saturday. North of the border, Canadians find themselves under the freedom-restricting Emergencies Act.
Mayorkas figures into this story, too.
Event II: Thursday February 10. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Mayorkas speak with their Canadian counterparts about the truck convoy crisis, “urging them to use Federal powers to resolve this situation at our joint border and offering the full support of our Homeland Security and Transportation departments,” CNN reports that day.
Event III: Monday, February 14. Trudeau invokes the Emergencies Act. Here’s what it will mean in the short-term, according to the Feb. 14 Toronto Globe and Mail:
“These tools include strengthening the ability to impose fines or imprisonment, and allow the government to secure and protect critical infrastructure, including border crossings and airports. The act enables the RCMP (federal police) to enforce provincial bylaws.
“The new emergency measures also give expanded powers to Canada’s banks and the federal financial intelligence agency to monitor and stem the flow of funds to protesters blockading key corridors across Canada. Under the act, banks will be able to freeze accounts without obtaining a court order, and without fear of being sued for doing so.”
The Canadian government is freezing bank accounts right now. The Act also gives the government the power of “summary conviction” and subsequent fine or imprisonment “for contravention of any order or regulation made under this section.” Summary conviction is defined as the conviction of a person… before a magistrate or court, without the intervention of a jury.”
If summary conviction happens in real time – goodbye, due process.
Event IV? An American truck convoy reportedly is in the works. According to those pesky social media reports, it will leave the West Coast in March and head toward Washington, D.C. If that happens for real, what will Mayorkas do? Wring his hands and twiddle his thumbs? I don’t think so. The Cuban refugee who as Obama’s DHS chief wouldn’t let refugees from Communist Fidel Castro’s regime into the United States will almost certainly not “allow” truckers to clog the streets of Washington D.C. And us folks talking about the truck convoy / 5G / Covid restrictions / election fraud / discontent with the government social media? “Domestic Threat Actors spreading MDM.”
MDM sounds a lot like WMD – the “weapons of mass destruction” from which DHS was created to keep us safe. But the weapons capable of destroying America can take many forms – including a government so self-obsessed that it fears the criticism of free Americans.
Categories: Letter from the Publisher
Tell me you’re a communist without telling me you’re a communist.
Mayorkas is a Dummycrat puppet, no more, no less. The only question is who has their hand up his butt ?
It has just been reported that the Biden administration is going to pursue annual Covid vaccinations, liking them to the annual flu shots. Beware: This and the like are Trojan Horses. The end game is to establish a kind of individual tracking system, probably digital, in order to then establish a means of personal control over such things as personal finance, medical, transportation, etc. This system will be set up under the guise of needing to track the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. It truly is a unprecedented move into the kind of totalitarian society they crave for.
Well I never get flu shots any ways.
Me neither. They are fixing to make BOTH shots mandatory.
DRAG THESE FOOLS OUT OF THE STATEHOUSE
Kinda like all the gun purchase data that the ATF now admits to illegally retaining.
Guy, The idea that the Homeland Security leader is considering limiting ‘unapproved free speech’ is of great concern. I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist or paranoid, but it’s very odd that after the Covid lockdowns and the ‘temporary suspension’ of the First Amendment (no church services allowed, but bars are OK to open, anyone saying out loud something that goes against the official government position is misinformation, and very dangerous, I could go on) it ‘s starting to seem to me that this was all a dry tune for what’s coming next. The article urged us to contact our senators and representative, but IMHO, they are either in on this power grab, or at least OK with it. What’s an average citizen to do in response to these troubling developments, or am I suffering from irrational fears?
certainly not irrational
There is nothing irrational about what you are saying. This is the new reality of the media and the governnent being out if touch with the people that voted them in and in touch with the political elite. There has been soooo many treasonous actions taken, half of washington would be in jail if they were held accountable. Just praying for people to stand up and be heard.
Many towns in Vermont are hosting “Meet The Candidates” forums. Questions about if Vermont is going to be accepting these grants need to be asked at these meetings.
Saint Johnsbury Welcome Center is hosting a ‘Meet the Candidates Forum” on 2/26/22 at 6pm in the Welcome Center of STJ.
You can attend remotely or by phone. Here’s the links:
phone call: 1(646) 558-8656
online:
Meeting ID: 830 6948 2435
Passcode: 306274
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83069482435…
No you are exactly right.
As soon as S265 passes the Vermont legislature and is signed into law by Gov. Scott, when Mr. Mayorkas and President Biden next set foot in Vermont, we’ll have them arrested and thrown in jail for two years for threatening and intimidating behavior.
S.265 and S.30 are but two pieces of tyrannical legislation that further the goal of socialist absolute power in Vermont. Add the push for rank-choice voting and the deal is sealed, as Scott will not survive IRV. What is happening in Canada now will be attempted in the US, possibly before the mid-terms. I see pelosi and schumer quietly working to pass legislation for firearm confiscation and cryptocurrency seizure. A staged mass shooting, a few red-herrings and permanent power is established by the liberal majority. Keep your eyes looking toward DC and Ottawa.
Rank choice voting is illegal and unconstitutional. PERIOD!
tHANK YOU GUY PAGE…This is so very REAL folks..pass it on, contact your reps and up …aclu, anyone else interested in a free American existance …..I am scared to death….
This is the meeting of the senate where I asked one question, “Who Decides If Something Is A Threat” and they turned off their comments completely and haven’t turned them on since
Do not fear……all we have to do is unite and all of us vote EVERY INCUMBENT LEGISLATOR
AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER ………OUT OF OFFICE this year. JUST THROW THEM ALL OUT
AND START OVER WITH ALL FRESH FACES. Maybe that will awaken some of the self-important snots to reality.
Exactly “What election are you talking about?” Do you really think “They” will tolerate having another election? The whole world knows about “2020”…
Give an inch, take a mile. The government figured out they can control people by fearmongering. Thank the Lord people are starting to wake up. I am retired Navy, and i took the same oath of office as the President. I will defend my rights to the death if neccessary. I just hope poepke wake up before it’s too late. Great writing, Guy
I just read that Amazon has suspended blm from their charity program. How much linger before this marxist symbol of hate is removed from the flagpoles of Our Public Schools in Vermont? Teaching should involve truth and open dialogue, school boards have refused to acknowledge either.
That’s really funny….I JUST emailed my local school admins that story. They fly the flag of a criminal organization. Of course most of us on this board have known this for the past two years.
Mayokas should talk. He is the ad hoc border czar and one of his ‘domestic threat actors’ are seen clearly every time he looks in the mirror. We have a full scale invasion on the Southwest border that goes unabated, largely because of him. (Not to mention the real czar, Harris is permanently AWOL). Look at the people, all non-vettted, most unvaccinated, that come across out borders daily. Drugs, gang members, and sex offenders are practically invited. All because of Mayorkas.
Sounds like A.M. has an evil spirit influencing his ability to do his job.
Did you see the demon manifest in that woman that ICE was trying to get into the van? (Donald Trump Jr posted it on his FB page – not good on the southern border)
The next two national elections are going to tell us what we’re made of – sheep to be lead or citizens who believe in liberty, self-determination, and personal responsibility.
Sheep to be led or LIONS to be feared –are our options
ALL the polls will have to be monitored by anti-criminal mentally ill Creepy Joe people to ensure bundled votes aren’t thrown in at the last moment. Crooked Hillary actually lost by many more votes in 2016. She is/was mad because she thought she had enough fixes in.
There needs to be elections. Free and fair, observable by all. No IRV, no drop boxes, no ballot by mail.No voting machines, no Dominion software. All of the above are planned or currently legal here in Vermont, assuring that the party in power stays in power. Whether elections happen in November 2022 is something the DC elite is working on, right now. Defeating the progressive party and democrat party lies for free stuff and claiming to make the rich pay their fair share is tough to campaign against, as you well know Steve. The corruption in Vermont is as prevalent as any other majority democrat state.
FYI – my son, who hasn’t lived here in VT for more than ten years, received an invitation, sent by mail to my home, to request a mail-in ballot to vote in an upcoming March VT school district election – in a school district neither of us has ever lived in – as the address on the invitation clearly indicates.
If this exemplifies the competence of Vermont election officials, we’re not going to see anything resembling ‘fair and reasonable’ in Vermont’s election circumstances.
At this point, how do we know that the annual flu/Covid vaccine will not become mandatory in order to participate in everyday activities?
Can you guess what “They” will put in “The Jab” of those who cross DHS (AKA: The Southern Border Fiasco Organizers)
Enforcement is the next question, presumably.
With Vermont prisoners awaiting trial often trucked out of State to MD, PA, and CONN because we don’t have the holding capacity here in State, I wonder where the thousands of violators here in Vermont will be housed? Just doing due diligence.
Are the barracks in Williston/Colchester ready and waiting?
Why did Condos step down at just this time when both voting election integrity, and now, free speech, are hot button items? What does his mini-me, ASOS Winters, have in mind for us?
They MUST have a plan if they are implementing this.
DHS basically owns Vermont.
There’s a reason comment sections are so locked down and monitored even in so called inde newspapers link TNR. DHS said so.
Nope, it has been growing in the deep state for over 40 years. Freedom failed to negotiate the curve and has been declared a total wreck. Cause of the accident has been determined to be, drug related. Too much weed and too much greed.
Event V- biden has notified pelosi of his intent to extend Proclamation 9994, keeping the “National Emergency Declaration” of March 13 2020
In effect. Seems while SARS-CoV-2 is becoming endemic, the pandemic must continue.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/18/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-and-president-of-the-senate-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-concerning-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/
So if we contact our legislators about our concerns regarding this topic, then are we in essence giving them a ‘Heads Up’ that we are the ones they need to target?
Actually, Vermont has become a petri dish for the World Trade Organization/World Economic Forum, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Keep in mind that former Governor Madeline Kunin, born in Switzerland, and former U.S. Ambassador to same, opened the doors to these folks.
The WTO/WEF’s notorious leaders include the likes of Henry Kissinger, George Soros, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab (of course), Prince Andrew (who just bought off his Jeffrey Epstein victim), Carlos Ghosn, Borge Brende, and roughly 3000 other major international players, almost 700 of whom are from the U.S.
Warren Buffett, curiously, is a holdout who disagrees with the WTO/WEF social tenants. And, of course, Donald Trump is the primary fly in the WTO/WEF ointment as well. Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney (representing her father’s interests), and the other RINOs are bit players in the WTO/WEF. Not to mention puppets Obama, Clinton, and Biden.
Make no mistake – this is the most powerful conglomerate the world has ever known, much more powerful than Russia (the former Soviet Union) ever could become. And since China was admitted into the group in 2001, the totalitarian writing has been on the world’s wall, so to speak, for everyone to see.
Everything we see in a global context is managed by the WTO/WEF. And the only thing standing in front of their totalitarian scheme is a shrinking group of individualists located primarily in the U.S. and Canada, where, as you can see, they/we are being systematically vilified, attacked, and disenfranchised by our corrupt socio-economic institutions – not the least of which being our public education monopoly.
The November mid-term elections could be the last stand for our ‘American Dream’. If the mid-term elections aren’t won in the so-called ‘red wave’, it’s over for us. And even if the mid-terms let us live to fight another day, a continued fight is inevitable.
The current Canadian assertion of martial law (the invocation of the Emergencies Act) is an interesting precursor to what I expect will be similar actions occurring throughout the world in the near future. Canada’s parliamentary governance enables this kind of tyranny and makes it sustainable because the Canadian people have nowhere near the constitutional protections we have in the U.S. Parliamentary elections in Canada, for example, occur only at the whim of the Governor General, who represents the authority of the British Crown (Queen Elizabeth).
But make no mistake. A tyranny of the majority can easily be initiated here in the U.S. too. And Vermont’s ‘criminal threatening’ bill, S265, is an example of how this kind of tyranny can supersede our individual constitutional Bill of Rights… at least temporarily. Which may be just long enough for the State to fulfill its nefarious intentions.
We already know the IRS can attach our wages and bank accounts. And if a U.S. citizen is deemed to have broken a law (for example in the commission of selling illegal drugs), law enforcement has the authority to impound all of the assets owned by the perpetrator. Their car, their home, etc. And we also now know that constitutional due process can be circumvented… as witnessed by the incarceration of many January 6th ‘insurrectionists’ in Washington D.C. jails.
I had always thought I needed to be prepared to protect myself from social anarchy – the collapse of governmental authority. But it’s now becoming more evident that Reagan was right – only in a different way than even he anticipated. Our government (especially our Vermont government) can’t protect us from tyranny. Our government is on the verge of embodying that tyranny. And as long as we have two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch, some of us are going to be on the menu, if for no other reason than that we may voice disagreement with our public officials. According to S265, even this missive can be deemed to be illegal.
Praemonitus praemunitus.
While all of this is concerning,, in the end, we have nothing but our own apathy to blame. Year after year many candidates run unopposed or virtually unopposed because no one is willing to step forward. Town Committees go begging for members. In some towns no committee exists at all. Voter turnout is shameful. 2020 saw the highest turnout in 120 years. Even then, only two thirds of eligible voters participated. Very few people ever contact their legislators state or federal regarding issues important to them, and virtually no one attends board meetings.
I speak from the “inside.” I hold two elected and one appointed position at the town level. I have never been opposed. I am also a member of my party’s town, country and state committees. I never seen public at a meeting unless they had business there. They’re all announced, they have to be by law. If we don’t show up and participate, then we hand our government to those who oppose our values.
In the words of Walt Kelly’s Pogo; “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I too have done my time, Kevin. School Board, Planning Commission, more roundtable discussions than I care to count. And I’ve contacted current local officials, not only to express my opinions but to merely learn their points of view as they run for election/re-election.
The problem, as I’ve recounted here and on TNR several times, is with our dysfunctional voting majority. Consider that 40% of Vermont’s workforce is employed by the significantly tax subsidized government, healthcare, and education sectors of our economy. Add to that the social services sector that circles the watering hole of our public education monopoly for its sustenance. Then consider their family members. It’s a majority voting block that can’t be shaken… at least not until it goes bankrupt and collapses on itself… which it is in the process of doing.
My question for you, one I’ve tried to answer for the 45 years I’ve lived in Vermont, is how do you propose to convince this voting block to listen to you? I have ongoing queries out to folks like Sen. Joe Benning and two local school board candidates. So far, it’s the sound of crickets.
What can you say to these people to get them to listen, let alone convince them that they are on a path of social and economic destruction?
Frankly, I suspect we are witnessing an episode of mass psychotic denial (i.e., Mass Formation Psychosis – look it up) brought on by the fear of accepting personal responsibility for one’s actions.
Thank you Guy! I too was shocked by this official DHS proclamation. To me, freedom of speech is the bedrock foundation, the cornerstone, the keystone to being an American citizen. Without it, we have nothing that binds us together and little that’s worth fighting for.
If there was a Vermont rally to protest this DHS proclamation, would everyone go? I certainly would!
I give credit where credit is due – and that is to God for revealing the evil among us. Baring witness to the wickedness of man is what we are experiencing. We are at war – a Spiritual global war. The hardships we are about to face pale in comparison to the past two years. After witnessing what is going on in Europe, Austrailia, and now Canada…we are next and this is the true test of American grit and fortitude. Pray and do not fear!
TNR has caved to the cancel:censure:delete comments, I note.
After a comment on this article there, I haven’t been able to comment at all on any articles.
What am I saying that is sooo threatening to the status quo?
Why me, and not some other commentor?
Do I have a corner on the truth?
What is it about the questions I am asking, the observations I am making, and the fun I am poking at this current reality, that needs censorship?
My teacher told me that this man Mayorkas is prejudice if not paranoid for enforcing this legislation. He also told me that 70 years ago people like him would take black people and beat them if they didn’t follow the rules of drinking out of black only water fountains or if they tried to use white only bathrooms. After all the law is the law. He told me that Mr. Mayorkas acts like a white supremist of 70 years ago who would address black people in a derogatory manner calling them nixxers for them daring to talk back to authority. Only now Mr. Mayorkas calls protestors trying to find fairness and truth, terrorists. My teacher said potentially we’re all nixxers now.
THIS IS A GIANT STEP, IN A LONG DETAILED PLAN TO TAKE OVER OUR MINDS,
GUY PAGE: A HUGE THANK YOU HUGE FOR SPOTTING THIS ADMISSION
OF THE DIRECTION
THE INVISIBLE LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY ARE TAKING.
BIDEN IS THE PERFECT PAWN/PUPPET FOR THIS CONSPIRACY TO POWER
TAKE PLACE!
WAKE UP BARRE CITY ! DO NOT VOTE FOR JAKE HEMMERICK FOR MAYOR, SUE HIGBY WARD 1 CITY COUNCIL OR ERICKA REIL WARD 3 CITY COUNCIL. ALL THREE ARE COMMUNISTS. HEMMERICK AND REIL DID NOT WANT OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN FLAG FLOWN FOR EITHER 9/11 OR VETERAN’S DAY. THE ONLY REASON THE BARRE CITY COUNCIL EVENTUALLY VOTED FOR OUR FLAG FOR VETERAN’S DAY WAS BECAUSE OF THE IMMENSE PRESSURE FROM BARRE CITY CITIZENS. BARRE CITY CITIZENS STOOD UP AND BARRE CITY COUNCILOR’S BACKED DOWN ! WE ALSO STOOD UP FOR NO MASK MANDATES. BARRE CITY CITIZENS STOOD UP AND BARRE CITY COUNCIL BACKED DOWN ! ERICKA REIL SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER. BLACK LIVES MATTER IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP AND A HATE GROUP. REMEMBER THESE CHANTS THAT ERICAK REIL SUPPORTS BECAUSE SHE SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER, ” PIGS IN A BLANKET, FRY EM UP LIKE BACON. ” AND ” WHAT DO WE WANT, DEAD COPS, WHEN DO WE WANT THEM, NOW. SUE HIGBY IS A LIAR. SUE HIGBY OWES THE MYSELF AND THE CITY OF BARRE AN APOLOGY FOR LYING TO YOU AND TO ME THAT I HAD NOT DONE MY FINANCIALS FOR MY MARCH 2021 ELECTION. I DID. SUE HIGBY IS A LIAR. SHE LIED TO US ONCE, SHE’LL LIE TO US AGAIN ! STAND UP AGAIN BARRE CITY. SHOW THESE COMMUNISTS THAT WE ARE PATRIOTS AND THAT WE ARE BARRE STRONG ! DO NOT VOTE FOR HEMMERICK, HIGBY OR REIL. GOD BLESS YOU BARRE CITY AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!!!!!
Brian Judd
Ward 2
8 North St. # 1
Barre, VT 05641
802-839-9985
brianjuddward2@gmail.com