Department of Defense thought control — keeping military minds vacuous

© 2018 Peter Free

 

07 August 2018

 

 

This societally indicative gem comes — courtesy of TomDispatch

 

TomDispatch is a sanity-preserving contrarian website that predominantly attacks the United States' perpetually strategy-lacking wars.

 

It is the kind of Internet address that thoughtful militarists would want to read, so as to recognize possible weaknesses in their strategic thinking. As well to examine implemented strategy's questionable relationship to the United States' (at least pretended) principles.

 

But instead of encouraging such valuable personal and institutional self-reflection, the Department of Defense has reportedly blocked its computers from visiting Tom:

 

 

It looks like TomDispatch may have a few less readers from now on.

 

Some members of the U.S. military . . . did read TomDispatch. No longer, it seems, if their computers are operating via Department of Defense (DoD) networks.

 

The DoD, I’ve heard, has blocked the site. You now get this message . . .

 

“You have attempted to access a blocked website. Access to this website has been blocked for operational reasons by the DOD Enterprise-Level Protection System.”

 

[T]he category that accounts for it being blocked?

 

“Hate and racism.”

 

Mind you, you can evidently still read both Breitbart and Infowars in a beautifully unblocked state via the same networks.

 

© 2018 Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Grim Inheritance, TomsDispatch (05 August 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

Lying through their pearly whites

 

I've been reading Tom's for years.

 

There is never a speck of racism or hate on it.

 

So, yes, our government is lying.

 

Gosh, what a surprise.

 

 

Highlighting the fascistic slant of American institutions today . . .

 

. . . is the DoD's reported decision to let its computers continue to link to BreitbartNews and InfoWars.

 

Both of which blatantly, happily, and successfully promote humanity-hating lunacy.

 

 

The moral? — Your tax dollars go to support our violently world-dominating Cretin-o-Cracy

 

Whose goal is to keep everyone it controls from thinking. The result of this enforced vacuity is, in large part, the state of the world that you see around you.

 

Do have a nice day. And don't read anything that might lead you to question the Military Industrial Complex's finely tuned wisdom.

 

The Department of Defense is on your side, little sheep brothers and sisters.