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If Americans have not noticed the generations-long march from the Constitution’s “limited” federal jurisdiction to handle extradition and crimes committed across state borders, into the feds creating and expanding a giant web of armed agents working for a perpetual police state, this latest development might set off an important alarm.

Speaking before The House Appropriations Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Subcommittee on Wednesday, April 27, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the evidently uninformed politicians that the DHS has created a new tax-funded arm to police “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Shouldn’t members of Congress already know the operations of the Teutonic organization they created in 2002 by melding 22 existing federal agencies to seep even further into state, local, and private affairs?

As FoxNews reports:

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley referred to the board as a ‘disgrace’ and wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers as to how the board will operate.

Shouldn’t he have been aware of it in the first place, or is this a case of Dr. Frankenstein (as embodied by the legislative branch) being unaware that his monster has been plucking daisies by the water’s edge? Come to think of it, that’s disparaging to the monster, who was a sympathetic creature. This revelation makes one wonder how many OTHER things the DHS is doing without Congress (or us) knowing…

’Is there anything more dystopian than a Disinformation Governance Board run by the federal government?’ Florida Republican Congressional Candidate Dr. Willie J. Montague tweeted, adding in a later tweet that the board is ‘Orwellian.’

This comes after years of slippery propaganda and billions in eaten tax cash, seeing the DHS engage in some of the most repulsive and anti-freedom straw-man creations in the history of this eroded “Constitutional Republic.” As James Bovard wrote, last year, for American Conservative:

Shortly after its creation in 2002, DHS warned local law enforcement agencies to keep an eye on anyone who ‘expressed dislike of attitudes and decisions of the U.S. government’ as potential terrorists. DHS-funded Fusion Centers have attached the ‘extremist’ tag to gun-rights activists, anti-immigration zealots, and individuals and groups ‘rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority’—even though many of the Founding Fathers shared the same creed. The Pentagon taught soldiers and bureaucrats that people who attend public protests are guilty of ‘low-level terrorism.’

And this new DHS arm will officially pump out more of the same.

Hitting a resonant frequency with the ridiculous 2021 Justice Department narrative that concerned parents attending local school meetings could be “domestic terror threats” (which it evidently fabricated through coordination with figures in the National School Boards Association), Mayorkas made the revelation while claiming DHS was ensuring “election security” and thwarting the exhausted bogeyman of Russian “election interference” they keep trying to prop up through echo-chamber rhetoric that lacks evidence of any massive interference.

But the false narrative has proven useful, not only in fraudulently turning focus away from the content of leaked Democrat National Committee emails, likely leaked Hillary Clinton emails, and hacked emails from Clinton cohort and former Obama employee John Podesta, but also in pushing the larger parlor trick of using the term “fake news” to claim that dissent is, somehow, a threat to the American governing system.

That’s a system the “group-power” left almost uniformly calls “democracy”, and which long ago lost any claim it might have had to being remotely close to the US Constitution.

The narrative also has helped leftist Dems and RINOs like Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rob Portman (R-OH) reestablish the literal “state-funded press” legislation that they had waiting in the wings in March of 2016.

Called the “Portman-Murphy Countering Foreign Propaganda Act,” that legislation was folded into the final National Defense Authorization Act Obama signed in December of 2016, fed $150 million to favored press outlets (we may never know all of them), through an office in the Pentagon (but, remember, always believe the government’s tales about foreign wars), lasted two years, died under Trump, then was revived by Congress and Biden last year.

And who will head this new, separate, but quite symbiotic, DHS “Disinfo Police” agency? A leftist Wilson Center darling named Nina Jankowicz, the infamous left-feminist who has pushed the “disinformation” narrative so hard that, while live-Tweeting a Biden-Trump debate she seemed to gush about the idea that the revelations of Hunter Biden’s laptop were all part of a Russian plot.

Indeed, as Zachary Evans reports for National Review:

Jankowicz has previously appeared to suggest that the Hunter Biden email story was part of a disinformation campaign. An Associated Press article released one day after the Post‘s report stated that “disinformation experts say there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about [the emails’] authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden, said Nina Jankowicz… ‘We should view it as a Trump campaign product,’ Jankowicz told the AP regarding the Post report.

Shortly thereafter, writes Evans, Jankowicz “shared a Time report that she wrote cast ‘yet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story.’”

And, about Jankowicz’s live-Tweeting on the debate Evans notes:

Jankowicz on Wednesday defended a separate tweet from October 22, 2020, in which she wrote on a debate between then-President Trump and candidate Joe Biden.
‘Back on the laptop from hell, apparently-- Biden notes 50 former natsec officials and 5 former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op,’ Jankowicz wrote at the time. ‘Trump says Russia, Russia, Russia.” The former intelligence officials conceded in the letter that they had no evidence that the emails were the product of Russian disinformation.

Which most of us already knew, just like we knew about the bogus narratives circling the DNC emails, Hillary’s emails, the Podesta emails, the claims of “Russian election meddling” and “collusion,” and the mendacious insanity of calling concerned parents at school meetings “domestic terror threats.”

But this isn’t merely about the woman who will head the new “disinformation” wing of the DHS. It’s not about a woman who has already shown her keen alacrity for spreading disinformation so much that one can understand her antipathy for freedom of speech.

Sure, she’s the hack who, as Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently Tweeted, once wrote:

Last week, I told @NPRMichel: I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms what that would look like for the already marginalized communities… which are already shouldering… disproportionate amounts of this abuse.

Sure, she has it completely flipped. The vast majority of people shut down at Twitter and FB, and blacklisted at Google/YouTube have been conservatives, libertarians, vax-skeptics, scientific debate-promoters, and anti-war activists who just want to be left alone. And, yes Hawley responded well:

The Biden Administration’s new anti-speech czar is apparently no fan of the
@elonmusk Twitter acquisition. This is the person Joe Biden just put in charge of policing Americans’ speech. Using the power of the government.

But the point is not about the person in charge. As Hawley intimates, the DHS is part of a vast array of beyond-the-Constitution “police” agencies that have usurped our rights for years. The personality and political posturing of the woman in charge of another illegitimate branch of that larger illegitimate network are just minor characteristics that should wake up Americans to look at the larger problem.

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