Twitter permanently banned U.S. President Donald Trump‘s account on the 8th, after which Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitch followed suit. Pictured is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey). (Reuters, Oct. 28, 2020)
Tucker Carlson, a prominent Fox TV host, said in an opinion piece on Tuesday (Jan. 12) that the Democratic left has fully aligned itself with big business and big tech companies to suppress dissent. He said that people are mistaken if they think that once the election is over, things will also calm down again. “Because their coalition has nothing in common and needs an enemy to unite them.”
Carlson’s article is translated below.
Within hours of the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week, we condemned the violence in the clearest terms possible. We did so for one reason: we are totally opposed to political violence and have said so almost every night for the last six months since the riots began on Memorial Day. That was our position then, and that’s our position now.
This past Wednesday, everyone who broke the law should have been prosecuted. If you destroy a building, if you hurt a police officer, you should go to jail. That’s our position, and it always has been. This program is about law and order. Many of those currently in power are not, and they are selective in their enforcement.
The repression we have seen in the last five days is collective punishment. People who had nothing to do with the violence in the U.S. Capitol are being punished for that violence in a way that is repugnant, immoral and anti-American. This shocks us, and it shocks Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, who was apparently poisoned by Putin’s government last year. Watching the repressive actions of Biden’s allies in big business and big tech against this country is increasingly worrying and frightening to him.
Even in Russia, they know what is happening in the United States is dangerous and wrong, because it is. Again, you can object to what’s happening in the Capitol, but the state of affairs is frighteningly crazy.
But no one objected. Instead, America’s largest corporations, the ones that control your checking account and your health care, have decided to radically expand the definition of what is now illegal.
A total of 139 Republicans in the House opposed certifying Biden’s victory. Several Republicans in the Senate joined them in calling for an audit of the election results. They did not encourage anyone to commit violence. They did not support the people who attacked the Capitol. For our part, we did not campaign for them on Tucker Carlson Tonight. On the other hand, we didn’t condemn them as insurgents, because they weren’t and aren’t.
But now these are: Blue Cross Blue Shield, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott Hotels, Citigroup, commercial banks (all not small companies) cut off donations to Republicans who opposed the election results in any way. Companies such as Dow, AT&T and Morgan Stanley have also announced they will follow suit. Explaining its move, Citi’s head of global affairs said, “We want you to be assured that we will not support candidates who do not respect the rule of law.”
Now, this sounds like a brand new standard, and it certainly is. And by the way, it doesn’t apply to any Democrats, for example, all those who openly support illegal sanctuary cities across the country.
Meanwhile, Forbes magazine wants all the people working in the Trump administration to be out of a job.
Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane declared, “The business world needs to know it and hire any Trump pundit …… Forbes will assume everything your company talks about is a lie.” In other words, dare to hire anyone from the Trump administration (there are thousands of them) and we will destroy your business. If you want your country to completely disintegrate, go ahead and do something as crazy as a fascist, because it will.
Exposing all this false hypocrisy has become boring, but we still can’t resist. in May 2017, six months after Trump’s election victory, Pelosi sent out a tweet, “Our election has been hijacked. There’s no question that Congress has a responsibility to defend our democracy and get the facts straight.”
A month later, a Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) supporter tried to murder congressional Republicans at baseball practice with a rifle in Arlington, Va. He almost succeeded. But none of these “ethically conscious” companies have suspended their donations to Sanders or Pelosi. Nor should they, because Pelosi and Sanders didn’t pull the trigger. But they didn’t even consider it, nor did they make statements about respecting the rule of law, nor did they threaten Pelosi’s “experts” that they would never get another job in America.
These American companies did keep quiet throughout last summer after the Black Lives Matter (BLM) violently set fire to the ancient Episcopal Church in front of the White House and forced the president of the United States into an underground bunker. When rioters trashed downtown Minneapolis, or surrounded a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, or set up their own state and shot a man in downtown Seattle, they said nothing.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. They did comment on it in some way: they agreed with it. Citi created a $1 billion racial equity fund. Some progressives have created a fund called the Minnesota Freedom Foundation, which has raised tens of millions of dollars to help free thugs. Large technology companies and Democratic politicians, including He Jingli, have backed the foundation. They supported violence then and are totally against it now.
But from their point of view, violence and insurgency are not necessarily bad; it’s a matter of “situational ethics. Remember the 1960s? When we did it, it was a good thing, because justice was served. But when the other side did it, we had the FBI conducting one of the biggest manhunts in recent history.
But it’s actually worse than that. Something bigger is happening here, something that has never been seen in American history. Now more than ever, powerful corporations are colluding with each other and with the political class to silence any opposition. Not against certain ideals, because they don’t have them, but against their rule.
Do you think that once the election is over, things will also calm down again? Absolutely not. That’s not the campaign promise of those people. Why? Because peace is not their goal. Most ordinary people in this country want a calm political environment, but our overlords don’t benefit from that because their coalition has nothing in common with each other. They need an enemy to unite them. Therefore, they will continue to exert pressure.
How much pressure can our society withstand before it collapses? We may find that people will suffer if this continues. But Pelosi plans to keep it up. She’s not calling for unity; she doesn’t want it. Instead, she is using the attack that could lead to the most divisive of all – a racial attack. She said on Saturday (Jan. 9) that the real problem for Trump voters is the color of their skin.
Pelosi said, “Led by this president, there are people in our country …… who have chosen whiteness over democracy.” If President Trump had said, “Yes, people should go to the Capitol.” We would think that’s reckless, and we say that because we want to be American and take responsibility more than anything else. But Pelosi is just attacking those who oppose her agenda, using the color of their skin as an excuse.
What does that really mean? What good does that do for our country? It sends a very clear message that anyone who disagrees with Biden and Pelosi is a Nazi or a white supremacist, or just white, which is the same thing. They are not Americans. They have no human rights. They have no right to speak, to fly, to use a bank or to have a job.
Where is this going? We’ll tell you: anywhere corporate America wants to go, because they’re actually in control. Large corporations are now fully colluding with one political party. How far apart is the Biden campaign from the world’s most powerful company, Google? Almost zero distance. Publicly traded multinationals like Facebook, Twitter and Google can do whatever they want, and all they want to do is become partisan players. They’ve blocked Trump’s voice. That’s right, if you dare to oppose it, they’ll block you too.
And by the way, that’s absolutely illegal, too. The coordination between these companies violates the most basic principles of antitrust law. It’s very obvious. They’re violating the law, and it doesn’t matter as long as no one in Washington dares to speak out against it. This is real, and this is what they are doing.
Over the weekend, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple set their sights on the social media App Parler and took it down on the Internet. And it wasn’t just them, as Parler CEO John Matze said, “All providers, from messaging services to email providers to our lawyers, abandoned us on the same day.”
What did Paller do wrong? We still don’t know. There is no evidence in the images captured inside the Capitol building of any connection between any law enforcement officer or the media and any of the criminals you’ve now seen over and over again.
No crime was committed by Paller, so why is it missing? That’s because conservatives were talking to each other on Paller and it was dangerous. So the left shut down Paller, which they did in many different ways. But you should think a little deeper.
Amazon is not only the world’s largest retailer, but it also controls the world’s largest collection of servers, called Amazon Web Services. A large portion of the Internet’s data now flows through Amazon servers, from Mozart digital recordings to pornography, from Bible verses to invoices for illegal fentanyl shipments. In fact, almost all of the content is hosted on Amazon’s servers.
So no one thought until this weekend that Jeff Bezos would be able to decide who gets to have a voice on the Internet. That’s a lot of power for one person to have, can we agree?
No one thought Bezos could immediately silence an entire political movement because he thought they were expressing inappropriate views. But that’s exactly what Bezos did, and Paller was paralyzed.
Who’s next? You may soon find out.
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