MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS

Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for allegedly interfering in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections and creating an overall sense of discord with information warfare that is similar to controlled opposition.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a press conference Friday that the Russians undefinedallegedly conducted what they called undefinedinformation warfareundefined against the United States,undefined with the goal of undefinedspreading distrust against candidates and the political system in general.undefined

Rosenstein said his team has not had communication with Russia about the indictments and would go through normal channels for the extradition of those indicted. However, the U.S. government has no extradition treaty with Russia. In the past, Russia has not cooperated with these requests.

This of course strikes me as being nothing more than a distraction to cover up the FBI’s inability to protect people from terrorist attacks and school shootings.

I wonder if any of the faceless Russians being indicted will ever see a trial or jail cell in the United States.

It was reported that some of the defendants communicated with undefinedunwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.undefined

undefinedThere is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity,undefined Rosenstein said, adding there undefinedthere is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.undefined

Those charged used and transferred the social security numbers and birth dates of unknowing Americans, according to the indictment. They then used those identifications to open PayPal accounts, create fake driverundefineds licenses and post on social media account using the victimsundefined identities.

In fact, it was learned that the alleged Russian influence was there to breed division among the American people as these groups staged political rallies inside the United States, posing as Americans and U.S. grassroots groups. The defendants allegedly staged rallies both in support of then-president-elect Trump and also staged protests against him in New York on the same day.

The company which organized all of the disruption was a company called The Internet Research Agency.

The IRA which registered with the Russian government as a Russian corporate entity in July 2013 obscured its conduct by operating through a number of other Russian entities. It employed hundreds of individuals, including those who created fictitious personas. More than 80 people were involved in what was at times referred to as the “translator project,” which focused on the U.S. population. The organization’s strategy by May 2014 was to interfere with the 2016 presidential election with the goal of “spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.”

The meddling was nothing more than counter propaganda in an information war.

There was no talk of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia, but of course this will not settle the issue and it certainly will not put the FBI or the deep state under the microscope for yet ignoring another attempt to bring down our constitutional republic.

This is all showboating – and the Kremlin will not hand over any of the accused.

What is being created is what can be called a trust gap between the citizens of this country, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and the media which now relies on direct information from spokespersons who are either active or inactive.

In order to understand the mountain of news that was dumped on the public I have often remarked that perhaps we should turn back time just for a minute to see exactly the progression of issues that land us in the situations that we face.

We all know that the intelligence agencies said in the beginning that there was a so called cyber attack and that is documented. The Department of Homeland Security rebuffed the embellishments of the intelligence groups and said while there was evidence of a minor attack – there was no proof that it had any effect on the election outcome.

However, from the time that we first heard of Russian meddling and or their tinkering with our elections, it was not made clear as to how any of this was taking place.

Once again most Americans fell victim to mysterious science arguments, where technocrats and the media were able to turn the fabric of diplomacy into a conspiracy theory that it was the President’s Camp that directed the hacks, it was in that brief moment we forgot about Russia and started talking about treason and collusion without a thread of evidence to support those claims.

The collusion argument was simply a way to delegitimize the Presidency and to call into question the loyalty of President Trump.

Whether the investigation involved a potential Logan Act violation, or election fraud, or whatever, the CIA, FBI, and NSA had the ability to act both before and after Donald Trump was elected. But they didn’t, and we know why, first there was no evidence and again the FBI is notorious for allowing things to fester and become catastrophic for the country.

The greatest example that has now been clouded by the 13 indictments is how the FBI has dropped the ball on many criminal cases with the latest being the school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people and injured 40 others.

After it was reported that Nicholas Cruz had posted on Instagram and You tube about his intentions to be a school shooter, after the FBI claimed it was just an isolated case of someone falling through the cracks – it was reported that the bureau admitted to receiving a call on January 5 from a person close to Cruz who contacted the FBI through its Public Access Line (PAL) tip line to express concerns about his erratic behavior and disturbing social media posts.

The FBI concluded that the callerundefineds information was not forwarded to the Miami FBI field office, and that undefinedno further investigation was conducted at the time.

So I have to stop and wonder if the FBI is technically incompetent, are they unable to come to terms with the new world of technology, and take advantage of the many ways in which new technology can aid their investigations in new ways without turning America into a panopticon?

It worries me that man hours spent in revealing what are called trolls using the internet to influence elections is far more important than public safety. The people demand an investigation into collusion and treason only because the seed was planted by a media willing to poison everything over an election result.

It is troubling to realize that after a school shooting where the FBI dropped the ball—they immediately become praised by a well timed announcement about indictments in the Russian meddling case.

We should not let this cloud what is happening with our intelligence agencies.

Core intelligence should be aware of things like organized information wars that are being used to divide the nation politically and there should be an effort by the media to remind the American people that during an investigation of anything like this it would be to our advantage that we realize that we have all been baited into these toxic political arguments for the purpose of a controlled demolition of our way of life.

One thing that I am learning is that what is harming this country is “rapid information operations” where information is absorbed but it is not really analyzed. There should be an effort for people to understand analytical skills as opposed to believing any story based on bias.

There needs to be education curriculum provided for people to develop skills in critical reading analysis.

If anything the organized Russian attacks on the country have shown is that America’s weakness is in their knowledge of civics and political discourse. The trust gap exists because of what is perceived as lies by the media.

Operations such as the IRA have exposed that Americans will always buckle to a well thought out strategy of tension.

Strategies of tension are age-old operative tactics that are used on a large scale in order to control people in the way that the authorities wish them to behave. You may think that your observations of what is happening around you in a crisis are correct, but with the tension strategies provided, you are making all of your decisions on what is happening because you are a casual observer and not a participant in the event.

Every camera angle, every sound bite, every concern, information tidbit and summation of so-called gathered facts are only media driven and public opinion driven for the sole purpose of steering the consensus toward a solution that also is directed and suggested by the controlling authority.

Tension strategies build anxiety and doubt. These anxieties and doubts are immediately tranquilized by the assumed idea that the authorities will take care of it, and whatever they say has to be the truth because we trust that they are always thinking of our best interests rather than self-interests.

Tension strategies have been proven tactics used to divide, manipulate and control people.

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These tactics are meant to create targeted violence that can be labeled as acts of war or terror in order to get the populace to react and become desensitized to the inevitability of police or military force to move in and take control of peaceful societies.

It leads to provocation, violence and intimidation. It also creates a public mistrust of a particular race, religion or social status. It increases the level of tension in a society and makes people suspicious of each other and in return creates the illusion that they have no choice but to place their trust on a centralized power that they encourage to step in and control them.

It also creates a precedent for modern witch hunts, where the public demands that there be no due process of law, no trials and no substantive processes that are given as rights in a constitution. The public rationalizes that if authorities, including the media have decided that a person sought after by authorities is guilty, and engages in defensive behavior, and then they give up their right to a trial by a jury of their peers.

This leads to destabilization of the public order, the public right, and the public sovereignty for the purpose of stabilizing the political tyrannical order.

It becomes quite clear that our citizenry’s interpretation of news events is based on quick glances at a newspaper, magazine or news program that is funded, owned and/or operated by a corporation that has a controlling political interest in what is being reported. This type of journalism is what you would expect in a country where the press is no longer objective. It usually turns up in countries that are highly controlled.

Sometimes we should put things on rewind and review what we are being told.

While trying to keep pace with an ever-changing world there is a point where we have difficulty keeping informed of what dangers are out there that might harm our families and ourselves.

So we develop a need for instant information. A flip of the switch gets us a news report. We listen and watch for certain buzzwords or sound bites. If we do not hear anything that sounds dangerous to us or if it does not affect us directly we tend to overlook it, or ignore it.

There are times where we have neglected information and it comes back and bite us later.

We are now at that point and we will continue to have these experiences as long as we don’t think clearly and allow for a more rounded perspective.