— by Polydamas
If Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United States on November 8, 2016 — or is selected into office by election fraud through a stealthy electronic hack of the vote tabulating computers — we can well expect that The Cassandra Times will be no more. Alternative media will be no more.
Six months from now, the American people will no longer be able to access this website or any other alternative news and analysis websites like WikiLeaks.com or InfoWars.com. The Cassandra Times will, most likely, not be around in six months if, like Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Hillary Clinton is successful in her quest to regain her one ring — the White House — to bind all Americans in darkness.
There is no way on earth that Hillary Clinton and her administration will allow alternative media or radio talk shows to continue to exist. They will not be allowed to offer the American people any alternative viewpoints that diverge from the mainstream info-tainment media’s “echo chamber” that parrots the propaganda that was handed to them by the White House press secretary.
As Hillary Clinton is known to be much enamored with China and its ability to control its populace, perhaps, in six months, like the Chinese people, the American people will be placed securely behind America’s own version of the Great Firewall of China. The Chinese people and people living in autocratic countries are severely restricted in their use of the internet and they are allowed to only peruse websites that are approved by their repressive governments and that preach their official propaganda. All other websites, knowledge, and information from the outside world are blocked by a restrictive firewall. So, too, will be Americans.
In the United States, courtesy of the Clinton administration’s collaboration with progressive Silicon Valley behemoths Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and other leftist internet and technology companies, the American people will erect a firewall that will create for all Americans university-like, internet “safe spaces” that will filter out all of the “micro aggressions” and “macro aggressions” that are otherwise known as free speech. The Great Firewall of America will ensure that no leftist’s dainty little feelings will ever be assaulted by reason, logic, rationality, liberty, and libertarian tenets or anything that could compete with the mainstream media’s narrative.
The American people will be herded into insulated internet gulags through portals like Facebook and Yahoo that will feature carefully curated news items and information that reflect only what the Second Clinton administration wants its subjects to know. The algorithms of search engines like Google will no longer be allowed to direct readers to governmentally-unapproved sources of information. All alternative media organs that could possibly compete for the minds of the people with the officially approved mainstream media will be eliminated from the “marketplace of ideas.” The Second Clinton administration will easily place the American people behind a veil of ignorance and throw all dissenting views down George Orwell’s 1984‘s memory hole.
In the near future, all journalists will be required to receive advance White House approval of the contents of their pieces before publication. It will not be only the list of select lapdog mainstream journalists which WikiLeaks revealed to be wholly owned and operated appendages of the Clinton campaign. Every journalist will be issued an invisible uniform with Hillary Clinton’s slogan “I’m With Her” emblazoned on it.
Like George Orwell’s 1984‘s Big Brother or Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron‘s Handicapper General, America’s Big Grandmother Hillary and her administration will vigorously police the internet and the airwaves to disarm them of anything that might be considered by anyone to be racist, sexist, nationalistic, xenophobic, homophobic, ageist, ableist, eco-unfriendly or momentarily offensive in any way to any of the Democratic Party’s macro- and micro-constituencies.
The Second Clinton administration will surely follow up with action on its stated opposition to the United States Supreme Court’s case of Citizens United. Big Grandmother Hillary will not abide by any political speech, paid or unpaid, that will contradict the mainstream media which she owns. She will successfully appoint four new justices to the Supreme Court who will swiftly reinstate the McCain-Feingold campaign financing laws and the “Fairness Doctrine”. Thus, she and her administration will make sure that the Republican and Libertarian Parties remained minority parties forever by eliminating their sources of funding political speech and reaching the public outside the confines of the mainstream media.
The Federal Election Commission, the Federal Communication Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service will be sure to regulate the internet for the benefit of Big Grandmother Hillary. Consider this, if a website like The Cassandra Times were to criticize President Hillary Clinton or her policies in any way, the Federal Election Commission could legally deem us to have made a contribution in kind to the enemy, the Republican Party. One need only shudder at the invasive proctological exam that will be administered by these government agencies that have had 15 years to learn from the Transportation Security Administration.
The Second Clinton administration’s Federal Communication Commission would be ecstatic to issue The Cassandra Times an internet publishing license in return for several million dollars per year, which we do not have. Moreover, the Commission would be delighted to impose upon us a requirement of internet publisher liability insurance just in case especially sensitive and university-coddled men-children or women-children wanted to sue us for speech that offended their fine sensibilities by violently stepping on their vulnerable auras or astral bodies.
Under the Second Clinton administration, the internet will be essentially nationalized just like the (un)Affordable Care Act virtually nationalized healthcare. The Internal Revenue Service, headed by Lois Lerner or someone like her, would be more than eager to impute income to The Cassandra Times for every visitor to this website — despite The Cassandra Times being a labor of love and patriotism without any remuneration through advertisements or tracking cookies — and then tax it out of existence.
The underlying reason for severe internet censorship will be that Hillary Clinton would never allow the alternative media to exist will be pure and simple retribution for nearly derailing her coronation or providing the public with information that could limit her hegemonic power. WikiLeaks will be no more. If its founder Julian Assange does not manage to escape death by Predator drones armed with Hillary’s Hellfire missiles, Hillary Clinton will cheerfully laugh about his untimely demise “we came, we saw, he died” just as she did with Libya’s strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
However, should Mr. Assange be so lucky as to escape death by drone, he will be treated to his own up close and personal CIA rendition and will be thrown down the memory hole of a CIA black site never to be seen or heard from again. If former CIA contractor and whistle blower Edward Snowden and The Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald should also escape death by a Hillary Hellfire drone, Mr. Assange will have two roommates to keep him company until death does them part in the bowels of the deepest black site gulag.
In summary, any person, who truly cares about the First Amendment, the internet, the public’s right to know, freedom of conscience, and about holding accountable those public servants who believe themselves to be public masters and above the law, has a clear choice. Although we are certainly partial to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and his libertarian philosophies, an ideologically pure vote for the greater good that is Gary Johnson will only split the votes of conscientious voters and serve to benefit Hillary Clinton. It is really the quixotic equivalent of hiring a pacifist Amish bodyguard to serve as the United States Constitution’s champion. Any vote for Gary Johnson in effect denies a crucial vote for Donald Trump that would be desperately needed to defeat Hillary Clinton.
The only rational course of action in these irrational times is to vote against the greater evil that is Hillary Clinton by voting for the lesser evil (and not the unviable greater good) who is the candidate with the most realistic chance to defeat her — Donald Trump.