Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed
for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they
are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli
intelligence.
As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher
Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be
trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great
fear.”
Though numerous examples in the post-World War II era have
proven Russell’s point, perhaps one of the best examples was the U.S. public’s
willingness to swallow lie after lie about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq due to the
climate of fear that followed the September 11 attacks. Those lies, propagated
by dubious intelligence, government officials and a compliant media, resulted
in catastrophes – large and small, both abroad and at home.
Today, an analogous narrative is being crafted by many of the
same players – both in media and government – yet it has avoided scrutiny, even
from independent media.
Over the past several months and with a renewed zeal in just the
last few weeks, anonymous intelligence officials, dubious “experts” and
establishment media outlets have crafted a narrative about the coming “chaos”
of the 2020 election, months before it takes place. Per that narrative, certain
state actors will use specific technologies to target the “American mind” in
order to undermine the coming presidential election. The narrative holds that
those efforts will be so successful that the U.S. will never recover as a
democracy.
Though these anonymous government sources and their
stenographers have already named the countries who will be responsible and the
technologies they will use, they also admit that no evidence yet exists to back
up these claims, meaning they are — at best — pure speculation.
Headlines such as “Hackers Are Coming for the 2020
Election — And We’re Not Ready,” “Basically Every US National
Security Leader Is Warning About Foreign Interference In The 2020 Election,”
and “U.S. intel agencies: Russia and
China plotting to interfere in 2020 election” have become
increasingly common, despite no available evidence, as have warnings that the
American public is defenseless against the old scourge of “fake news” and the
new scourge of “deep fakes.” Some media reports have gone so far to say that actual foreign meddling isn’t even necessary
as merely the fear of foreign meddling could be enough to
upend the American political system beyond repair.
Historically,
the goal of such fear-inducing narratives has been the trading of civil
liberties for increased security, or rather, the appearance of increased security. Yet, when the
need for security is felt due to a fear that is based on government-driven
speculation and not on evidence, the goal of that narrative is not about
protecting the public from a real, tangible threat but instead about the
consolidation of power by the very groups responsible for crafting it — in this
case, the intelligence community and other key players in the national security
state.
However, what is particularly odd about
this narrative surrounding imminent “chaos” and meddling in the upcoming 2020
election is the fact that, not only have the instruments of said meddling been
named and described in detail, but their use in the election was recently
simulated by a company with deep ties to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence.
That simulation, organized and run by the Israeli-American company
Cybereason, ended with scores of Americans dead, the cancellation of
the 2020 election, the imposition of martial law and a spike in fear among the
American populace……………………
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…………The keyword that has been used to describe the end result of
both Cybereason’s simulation and the prevailing media narrative regarding the
2020 election is “chaos,” chaos so imminent, widespread and unruly that it will
shake American democracy to its core.
What has been left unsaid, however, is that a government’s solution to
“chaos” is always the imposition of “order.” This means that — whatever “chaos”
ultimately ensues prior to or on election day — will result in a government
response that will do much more to crush freedom and undermine democracy than
any act of foreign meddling has, be it real or imagined.
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She
has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research,
EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has
made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the
Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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