The masonic “All Seeing Eye of Providence” as seen on the back of the U.S. one dollar bill. This same symbol is found on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. Many of the founding fathers of America, George Washington included, were masons.
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
Conspiracy theorist. Few words in the English language are freighted with more negative baggage than these. To be so labeled is to be verbally ostracized from polite society and to cease to be taken seriously as a thinker or writer.
In recent times, so-called conspiracy theorists have been accused of spreading fake news, denounced as Russian bots, and removed from major social media platforms as punishment for daring to disagree with official narratives.
And this isn’t something that has taken place in Soviet Russia or Communist China either. The silencing of dissenting opinion has taken place right here in the good old US of A, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The most recent push for censorship of dissenting voices can be dated to the fall of 2016. On October 16th, less than four weeks from the presidential election that saw Donald Trump shock the nation’s pundits by defeating favorite Hillary Clinton to win the White House, then President Barak Obama gave a speech in Pittsburgh in which he, “decried America’s ‘wild, wild west’ media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.” Obama went on to say, “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to…There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.”
What’s that again? Did the President of the United States just call for a Ministry of Truth? It certainly appears that he did.
On November 24, 2016, the Washington Post ran what has become a very well-known article among independent journalists titled “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say.” In that article was a link to a report by a shadowy group known as PropOrNot. The report titled Black Friday Report: On Russian Propaganda network Mapping, was supposedly, “a list of over 200 distinct website, YouTube channels and Facebook groups which qualify as Russian propaganda outlets according to our criteria and target audiences in the United States.”
So who’s behind the organization PropOrNot? To this day, no one seems to know for sure. Some think it’s the CIA, which seems a likely suspect to this author for at least four reasons. First, the Washington Post is considered by some credible individuals to be a CIA asset. For example, former Undersecretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, a man who once held a top secret security clearance, wrote in 2018 that when he was working as a Congressional staffer he was told in a briefing that the Washington Post was a CIA asset. Second, the Washington Post article and the PropOrNot report essentially made the case that Donald Trump won the election because the American people were duped into voting for him by websites under Russian influence. Third, Donald Trump was barely sworn into office when the Russia, Russia, Russian drumbeat started, resulting in the Mueller Investigation, which ultimately turned out to be an embarrassment to Mueller and his supporters, but not before it consumed two years of Trump’s first term in office. Fourth, the by now well-established fact that US intelligence was actively working against the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. Much more can be written about the various intelligence agencies and their plots against Trump. Indeed, there is likely a great deal of information that has not yet been made public. But, in the estimation of this author, there is enough evidence of a conspiracy from the highest levels – both to deny Donald Trump the presidency in 2016 and, once that failed, to silence his supporters on the internet and to discredit Trump himself as a Russian agent – that the matter is settled beyond a reasonable doubt.
There was a time when this author would have hesitated to accept that so-called conspiracy theories could be true. Only crazy people believe those things, right? But after watching the 2016 election and its aftermath, in my opinion it is foolish to discount the possibility that events are not necessarily what they seem at first glance. As John Robbins noted, events do not explain themselves but must themselves be explained. And if those who control the explanations – and here I’m referring to those in government, the media and academia – have hidden agendas, then it is hardly surprising that they would make use of what Plato called “the noble lie” to support those agendas.
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