Dakota Beacon

English long ago established itself as a rich, versatile, and descriptive language. I used to tell my granddaughter, “Play with words. But when you are done, clean them off and put them back on the shelf.”

Definition of farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery, horseplay, and typically including crude characterizations and ludicrously improbable situations. Synonyms include parody, mockery, and sham.

Definition of sham: a thing that is not what it purports to be. Synonyms include pretense, false, and phony.

Now, witness the coming together of two recent news events. Then invoke your verbal poison. First consider the piecemeal drip, drip, drip of the Twitter files released by Elon Musk.

The Twitter files story encompasses, and to a large extent connects, every major political scandal of the Trump-Biden era. Put simply, the Twitter files have shown a dangerous alliance between Big Tech and the deep state with the intent to strangle free speech. The objective was to produce an official government narrative through censorship and propaganda.

Briefly, the Twitter files are a set of internal Twitter documents that were made public, starting in December 2022, by Elon Musk, journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, and authors Michael Shellenberger and Alex Berenson. Musk selected them to tell his story soon after acquiring Twitter on October 27, 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated with Musk for the release of the documents as a series of Twitter threads. An outstanding and succinct assessment can be found in the Hillsdale College publication Imprimis of January 2023. An excerpt follows.

“Thus Twitter increasingly allowed the intelligence community, the State Department, and a dizzying array of federal and state agencies to submit content moderation requests through the FBI … These requests would grow and intensify during the Covid pandemic and in the run-up to the 2020 election.

“By 2020, there was a torrent of demands for censorship, sometimes with no explanation -- just an Excel spreadsheet with a list of accounts to be banned. These demands poured in from FBI offices all over the country, overwhelming Twitter staff. Eventually the government would pay Twitter $3.4 million in compensation. It was a pittance considering the work Twitter did at the government’s behest, but the payment illustrated a stark reality: Twitter, a leading gatekeeper of the digital public square and arguably the most powerful social media platform in the world, had become a subcontractor for the U.S. intelligence community.”

Then came a second news event, the release on February 21, 2023 by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) to Fox News, and specifically Tucker Carlson, of the January 6 video footage subsequently aired by Tucker Carlson. Speaker McCarthy granted Fox News access to tens of thousands of hours of closed circuit security camera footage from the January 6, 2021, demonstration at the Capitol Building. Predictably, the release raised a hullabaloo from Democrat lawmakers and their legacy media cohorts.

Approximately 44,000 hours of footage, most of which had never been released, was reviewed by Carlson’s Fox News producers. Carlson said he plans to continue airing footage. “So,… our producers … have been … looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story that we’ve been told for more than two years,” Carlson said.

Carlson presented scenes of election protesters wandering calmly around the Capitol building and in some cases interacting peacefully with police officers. Yes, the protesters were upset because they believed that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted. But, the legacy media’s persistent narrative of “insurrectionist violence” was a lie – a lie used in court to convict and incarcerate citizens in sham trials without the beneficial evidence of the Twitter tapes or videos. Hopefully these people will be exonerated on appeal using this new evidence.

Our legacy media was absolutely outraged, not only because McCarthy gave close-hold video footage exclusively to Fox News, but because it destroyed the media’s narrative about, and support for, the Democrat-controlled January 6 hearings by the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th Attack on the US Capitol.

The message portrayed through the video medium amplifies and corroborates what the Twitter tapes revealed – a hideous farce perpetrated by a bloated federal government against dissenting citizens.

Call it what it is. Our federal government was duplicitous in propagating a farce intended to silence peaceful opposition to a suspiciously tainted election. Information released in both of these incidents goes a long way to discrediting the federal government and its agencies as well as the legacy media serving as the Fed’s propaganda arm.

Sarcastically speaking, if only we had more government control over people’s lives and greater restriction of their dissent we could avoid such a farce.

Definition of sarcasm: ---. Well, you get the point.

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).