It is time to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because it provides no real security and has become a threat to America’s freedom.
Former President George W. Bush may have created the government department with the best of intentions in the wake of 9/11 and the declaration of the war against terror but the agency has become a burdensome mechanism of big government and state control and now ominously threatens your very freedom to speak while doing nothing to close an open southern border that has been facilitating an invasion of the United States by illegal immigrants, terrorists and cartel criminals. It has to stop and the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board only makes matters more ominous and more urgent.
The problem begins of course with the current DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, surely one of the most incompetent people to ever occupy a government office. This man clearly would have been over his head as a junior functionary in any municipality but somehow he has created a border and immigration crisis that is unparalleled and is now proceeding to expand his expertise into censorship with the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board.
The reaction from conservatives and libertarians to this Orwellian concoction was immediate and caustic, as many wondered how the United States Congress could even fund an organization that will decide what is disinformation and what isn’t.
In an interview Sunday on Fox News, Mayorkas had the gall to suggest the Biden administration had not adequately communicated the benefits of the board, although he is the public face of the Biden administration and he was the one announcing the board’s creation last week as he appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee to discuss the fiscal 2023 budget for his bloated and redundant department.
The ever-dazed Mayorkas was handed another set of talking points over the weekend, apparently in an attempt to mollify those paranoid conservatives who thought it was just too much of a coincidence that the disinformation board would be announced just days after Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media giant and potentially unleash it from censorship chains
Mayorkas explained Sunday that the board will only assess “disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland.”
“Disinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels,” he said.
“This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties,” he continued. “It’s not about speech, it’s about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don’t have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that’s where we get involved.”
Do you believe a word of this?
Why should you? This is the same man who has been claiming for more than a year that there is no crisis at the border and just told Congress that the southern border is secure. He said it with a straight, if tortured, face.
He’s also a believer in the white supremacy being the most dangerous threat facing America hoax and has said that repeatedly. Mayorkas has also suggested that he inherited all the problems at the border from the former administration of President Donald Trump. Now that’s rich. We all know that President Joe Biden came into office by opening the southern border and inviting the world to come on over.
The amazing thing is that while Biden has allowed Mayorkas to do nothing at the border, the President continues to ship billions of arms to Ukraine and persists in escalating the potential for war with Russia. He does this with the ease of a man ordering a ham sandwich at a deli. Yet he cannot even complete the building of the wall at the southern border.
So is Mayorkas lying, grossly incompetent, completely delusional or merely following a sinister plan to destroy America? How anyone can sit there and hear the evidence of his failure – the fentanyl killing Americans, the migrants being shipped across the U.S., the terrorists passing through – and remain in complete denial is not just incredible it is deeply disturbing. It is like he is seeing the expected results of his work.
And who has the Biden administration put in charge of this disinformation board? She’s a self-proclaimed disinformation expert who has never had a real job, wrote a few threadbare books that you could struggle to read over an afternoon at the beach and is a hard-care Democratic shill.
Nina Jankowicz dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as disinformation and she could just as easily have said disinformation from Russia and that would have fit into Mayorkas’ guidelines for defining verboten stories.
“I don’t question her objectivity,” Mayorkas said Sunday. “There are people in the department who have a diverse range of views, and they’re incredibly dedicated to the mission. We’re not the opinion police. She has testified before Congress a number of times, she’s recognized as a tremendous authority, and we’re very fortunate to have her.”
Well of course he doesn’t question her objectivity. That would be too obvious. And he’s not the opinion police either, even though that’s exactly what DHS has become.
One conservative pundit pointed out that Democrats should remember that a disinformation board would exist under a Republican administration too and could be used by the GOP to track liberal “disinformation.” But of course that would run contrary to what conservatives want for America. We aren’t comfortable with government agencies deciding what Americans should read and what they should be able to say. They aren’t even happy with guessing who’s going to turn out to be the terrorist based on what they might post on the internet.
But it’s almost as if the Democrats aren’t expecting to ever leave power, that they aren’t worried about their disinformation board passing to the next administration.
Republicans should have been concerned about that happening to the DHS. Bush should not have created another government department to increase government surveillance and control of the population. The United States is top-heavy with police and security organizations and most of them are out of control. The FBI is actively targeting conservatives, The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is poised to seize your assault rifles and cigars. America does not require 13 separate intelligence gathering agencies that all assiduously compete with each other. All of that intelligence capability couldn’t even get it right in Afghanistan and predict the rapid collapse of Kabul to the Taliban.
The GOP must return to a philosophy of “that government is best which governs least” and if the party captures the House in the midterms before the Democrats can declare them null and void, it had better start representing its voters and the grassroots and not aping the liberal policies of the Democratic Party.
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I’ll second that.
All yays—unanimous.
All nays—zero.
CAN ‘EM !!!!!
” the current DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, surely one of the most incompetent people to ever occupy a government office.”
The corrupt puppet president F… Joe Biden is the MOST incompetent people to ever occupy a government office.”
What does this tell you about the credibility of this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party??
There’s days i wonder, WAS Pres Bush, “REALLY having the best of intentions”, when he FORMED this org?
OR WAS it always the commucrats goal, to have it become this BLOATED, overarching intrustive Gestapo like org..
In the early 2000s the country faced agression from the outside with attacks worldwide and from sympathizers from within, those concerns have mostlt disappeared. However, the agency has morphed into a secret police not to catch enemies of the country by look into anyone who dissents from current administration’s policies or conduct, disinformation is in the eyes of those in control! One by one the items labeled disinformation have been proven true. Parents who exercise their rights at school board meetings have been labeled terrorists because they have discovered what is being taught to thier children in patently WRONG. Pilate asked, “What is truth?” We still ask that question, taday we have the official truth and then the real truth. Most of us cal tell the difference without a truth czar.
AND when time after time, after a terrorist attack, or incident, WE KEEP HEARING “This person was known and monitored BY the FBI/DHS”, WHY bother keeping them around, when they are THIS Grossly incompetent?!
When a Federal department that is created to protect homeland security, is socially morphed by social experimenters into a department of social insecurity it is time for that department to be disbanded at the federal level and the power and funds returned locally to the states. We did just fine for years and decades when the FBI looked after things at home and the CIA took care of things over seas and the local police cleaned up the streets at home in town. Combining all these departments has created and made the job more easily corrupted by putting the power of all three groups into the head of one-party power interested democrat party head of a snake, with no other competing departments now acting to check and balance the power of the others who apparently since the Clintons and Obama’s appeared were able to infest with their own special brand of deception, corruption and influence peddling, as you know who got rich in the process of American corruption and influence peddling. No one party should be able to control it all at one time, as Lord action pointed out,,”Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”,,,as the American media o Democrat Party promoted information becomes the American mind manipulative disinformation now disguised as the truth.
Lets just cut to the chase, save time and money, DEFUND the Disinformation board 1000% and impeach or fire this low I-Q DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, today by 5pm .
GET RID of all these three lettered orgs… IMO.
They have all morphed into a fifth column movement to take over and control the government. Yes they need to be put out of action, but especially DHS. Like Hitlers Brown Shirts, there usefulness, if they ever had any, has long passed. Why are they armed to the teeth, with huge stockpiles of ammunition? We actually have the Army, Marine Corps, and the Navy for armed defense from enemy’s abroad. That only leaves citizens, who disagree with a totalitarian government, as the enemy. Well King George, how did this turn out?
AND the DOJ. Can’t ever forget them.
First, Mayorkas isn’t incompetent. He is implementing the Biden policies perfectly. The policy is open the border and lie about it being a problem or if it is a problem it’s Trump’s fault.
The insidious thing about this disinformation board is they will say they are not targeting free speech. That will probably be technical true because they will contact the media and social media companies and coerce them into banning government descent. Although in this day and age most of the media would happily comply.