Harry Truman was quoted as saying. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a county where everyone lives in fear.”
Recently introduced and passing in a Washington state house committee, House Bill 1333, The Domestic Violent Extremism Commission Bill, now moves on to the Democrat led house floor for debate. Every Democrat in the house committee voted in favor of HB1333, while every Republican voted against the measure. In what seems ominously like Joe Biden’s despotic and now disbanded “Disinformation Board,” the Democrats in Washington are in lockstep for censorship via state sanctioned speech suppression.
Citizens that protest pedophilic teachings in the classroom during school board meetings, will be labeled domestic terrorists. People that criticize government’s handling of vaccines, crime, fentanyl, the border and other social issues will be targeted for annihilation. Washington is the first in the union to traverse down the despotic path of silencing and criminalizing speech through government intervention.
For centuries autocratic rulers have attempted to control the dissemination of information for political gain. “Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favorable to its own side,” Hitler wrote.
The brainchild of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee, both spearheading the idea of the commission and its broad-based charter to criminalize speech meant for the town square. The duties of the Domestic Violence Extremism Commission are to “identify community-led and evidence-based solutions to combat disinformation and misinformation, address early signs of radicalization, and develop public health-style responses.”
Washington residents that dare challenge election outcomes or school curriculum will be classified and tagged as domestic terrorists under Washington law, and the commission new charter. According to Attorney General Bob Ferguson, he wants the group to “implicate speech” that might otherwise be protected by the first amendment.
In the sickest of ironies, Washington’s attorney general and governor, who are leading this charge, are the same elected leaders that stood idly by and allowed Antifa and BLM to seize entire neighborhoods in Seattle, while attempting to burn down a police precinct; and refused to charge and prosecute the perpetrators of these terroristic acts. Using this comparison, it’s easy to see the blatant attempt to target alternative viewpoints in Washington.
According to the proposed text, the attorney general will “administer and provide staff support to the commission, which will include arranging meetings and developing meeting agendas.” They intend on cherry picking members of the community based on skin color, religious ideology and multi-gender viewpoints. Its charter reads like a script from the Marxist manifesto. Mandating certain colors of people and chosen religious entities to provide legislative oversight on the free people of Washington.
These modern-day progressives cannot succeed in debating the issues, so banning and criminalizing them is their logical next step. They are seeking to stop the free flow of information and propose that they, or those appointed by them, become the arbiter of what is fact, and what is fiction. Deciding what the people of Washington can and cannot hear.
Free speech allows ideas to flow freely so that a society can evaluate them on their merits rather than suppress them on grounds such as “disinformation” or “fake news.” In the state’s proposal, they are looking to eliminate what they call “conspiratorial narratives that motivate extremists.” But who are they to decide?
Our great founding fathers knew that if we ever entrusted our liberties to government for the sake of safety and security that we would never get them back, except through prodigious struggle.
- Councilman Vincent Cavaleri
