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The Department of Homeland Security issued a startling terrorism advisory Friday that appears to portray U.S. citizens who disagree with the mainstream narrative on the coronavirus and coronavirus vaccine as potential terrorists.
The first mention of COVID dissenters appears in a paragraph ostensibly about “racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists.”
The department claims these “extremists may seek to exploit the emergence of COVID-19 variants by viewing the potential re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks.”
The advisory seems to suggest that legitimate opposition to draconian, unnecessary and arguably pseudo-scientific COVID restrictions may be linked to terrorist activity.
In fact, that’s exactly how NBC News has portrayed the advisory:
MUST WATCH: Homeland Security hasn’t based the new “Terror Threat Alert” off of actual threats or plots… just “anti-government rhetoric” that includes “opposition to COVID measures” … aka FREE SPEECH.
Protesting your school board’s mask mandates = terror threat. pic.twitter.com/ugmxMT0wBx
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 14, 2021
The second mention again references opposition to COVID restrictions, with the department warning this time that there have been “continued, non-specific calls for violence on multiple online platforms” relating to “anticipated [COVID] restrictions.”
But if these alleged calls to violence have been “non-specific,” then how does DHS know that they’re related to COVID restrictions?
The final mention suggests that anyone who’s disseminated the coronavirus lab leak theory or raised concerns about the coronavirus vaccines is a “nation-state adversar[y]” trying “to sow discord.”
“Nation-state adversaries have increased efforts to sow discord. For example, Russian, Chinese and Iranian government-linked media outlets have repeatedly amplified conspiracy theories concerning the origins of COVID-19 and effectiveness of vaccines; in some cases, amplifying calls for violence targeting persons of Asian descent,” the paragraph reads.
Regarding the lab leak theory, even Josh Rogin, a left-wing media figure who works for The Washington Post and CNN, has admitted that the theory is legitimate:
Most MSM reporters didn’t “ignore” the lab leak theory, they actively crapped all over it for over a year while pretending to be objective out of a toxic mix of confirmation bias, source bias (their scientist sources lied to them), group think, TDS and general incompetence.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 29, 2021
Also, the lab leak theory didn’t change. It didn’t suddenly become credible. It didn’t jump from crazy to reasonable. The theory has always been the same. The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 29, 2021
Also, the lab leak theory didn’t change. It didn’t suddenly become credible. It didn’t jump from crazy to reasonable. The theory has always been the same. The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 29, 2021
The only people who continue to deny the theory’s legitimacy are members of the far-left like the “trans socialist & activist” below:
I’ve been covering the WHO trip to Wuhan since December, when it was first announced, and how the western media has distorted the whole affair for its own anti-China ends. They helped revive the lab leak theory & turn it into something other than a far-right conspiracy theory.
— Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) July 29, 2021
That DHS is now essentially pushing far-left narratives — and, worse, inserting these narratives into its enforcement activities — suggests that Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley isn’t the only top-level official in the administration who’s gone “woke.”
Moreover, the department’s decision to repeatedly mention COVID dissenters in its advisory suggests it “intends to prosecute people as ‘terrorists” for exercising their first amendment rights,” according to award-winning investigative journalist Lara Logan.
She’s not alone in worrying about where this all leads.
This bulletin shows the Admin has weaponized the Dept of Homeland Sec for the purposes of political persecution & intends to prosecute people as ‘terrorists” for exercising their first amendment rights. This is about right & wrong – not left & right. https://t.co/UgiXAwtyZ7
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 14, 2021
So the DHS is now calling opposition to COVID measures a terror threat?
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) August 14, 2021
However, Geoff Pilkington, an apparently well-known” content creator,” believes it’s all a misunderstanding. Responding to these concerns, he claimed that DHS doesn’t care whether people are COVID dissenters.
According to Pilkington, DHS simply believes that COVID restrictions are “a very controversial topic and could lead to people committing acts of violence,” and so the department’s going to simply keep an eye out on dissenters — that’s it.
Look:
The graphic is very misleading.
The bulletin issued by DHS was saying that what’s listed could lead to terror threats.
NOT that the items themselves are the terror threats.
Example: 9/11 celebrations are often a target for terrorists so the the DHS must be on high alert.
— Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) August 14, 2021
DHS is saying they’ll keep an eye on opposition to Covid measures because it’s a very controversial topic and could lead to people committing acts of violence.
— Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) August 14, 2021
You misinterpreted my opinion.
Not opposition to COVID measures. But opposition to them could lead to some committing acts of violence. That’s what the DHS is looking at. They don’t give a flying fuck what your opinion is on COVID measures. Got it?
— Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) August 15, 2021
Every single tweet seen above has been ratioed, suggesting that most people aren’t buying the narrative that he’s trying to sell …
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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