{"id":1185,"date":"2023-10-18T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/dinesh-dsouza-on-our-incipient-police-state\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:34:55","slug":"dinesh-dsouza-on-our-incipient-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/dinesh-dsouza-on-our-incipient-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh D’Souza on our Incipient Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/span><\/a>, with a link to a trailer of his new movie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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'Terrorist' is experiencing semantic spread. <\/span><\/p>\n

It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation '2A' is a "terrorist marker." That came as news to me. (But see here<\/a>.) I have been using '2A' from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of 'Second Amendment.'  The context, of course, is the Bill of Rights which are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have written sentences like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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2A does not confer, but protects, the citizen's right to keep and bear arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My use of the harmless abbreviation makes me a terrorist, a white supremacist, and what all else in the eyes of the regime.  What does it make the regime? A police state.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I suppose it is a good thing that it has been a very long time since I attended a Latin mass. These masses, as is now well-known<\/a>, are notorious gathering points for insurrectionists, militiamen, and other violent extremists out to overthrow 'democracy.'  Much less known, however, is that these masses are conducted, not in old Church Latin, but in coded<\/em> Latin.  Thus hoc est corpus meum<\/em> is code for create mayhem<\/em>. De mortuis resurrexit<\/em> means: he rose up and committed insurrection.  There really are very few threats to the powers that be stronger and more insidious than the Latin mass, which is why Pope Francis, that faithful custodian of the depositum fidei,<\/em> is such a staunch defender of the old mass against the forces of reform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarcasm aside, part of understanding  the destructive Left is understanding their commitment to the hermeneutics of suspicion<\/em>.  You can learn about said hermeneutics, and cognate topics, from my essay From Democrat to Dissident <\/a>section 16.4. It is published in Hillman and Borland, eds., Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy<\/em>, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.  Available via Amazon where you can read some editorial reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (10\/19). Serious punch-back against demento-totalitarian police-state scumbaggery may be coming Spartacus style<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Something intriguing is happening with bitcoin.  What started as a series of perplexing data \u201cinscriptions<\/a>\u201d containing classified files from the U.S. government has now been confirmed<\/a> by Bitcoin Magazine as an ongoing effort to cement information in the public record beyond the reach of government censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n

An anonymous guardian of free speech has begun using bitcoin to republish all of the information originally published by Julian Assange\u2019s WikiLeaks back in 2010.  Codenamed \u201cProject Spartacus<\/a>,\u201d the operation seeks to take advantage of several inherent bitcoin attributes:<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Spartacus is just the beginning.  Imagine new social media networks built from decentralized blockchains of information.  Imagine an entirely new internet operating beyond the reach of corporate search engines, regulated addresses, and government permissions.  With no corporation in control of the networks or in singular possession of communicated data on privately held servers, the problem of State-directed censorship disappears.  No longer could corporate oligarchs operate in concert with government dictators to silence public dissent and magnify government propaganda.  No longer would it matter what the Marxist Globalists at Facebook or Google think is true \u2014 or what they think should be falsely presented as truth<\/em> \u2014 once ordinary people have a dependable workaround technology that allows them to share information free from Big Brother\u2019s menacing intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Discreetly shared samizdat<\/em> has returned.  It will soon run on decentralized blockchain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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