<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>I know Daniel McAdams a bit. He helped us get Republicans on board with challenging unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen by invoking the War Powers Resolution, among other contributions to peace. I agree that this is sad and annoying - sad that this happened, sad that Twitter management has this kind of unaccountable control over who can participate in what has become a very influential platform for discussing war and peace. I get why some people find the epithet "retarded" very offensive. It was commonplace when I was in high school, and I had to work at removing its use from my active vocabulary. But this kind of ad hoc banning policy is not the right way to deal with this issue - it's a dangerous threat to important free speech, as documented here. <div><br></div><div>===</div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:32 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Caitlin Johnstone <<a href="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com" target="_blank">donotreply@wordpress.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> September 5, 2019 at 6:48:24 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com" target="_blank">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[New post] Meditations On Twitter’s Silencing Of Daniel McAdams</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">by <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(136,136,136)" target="_blank">Caitlin Johnstone</a> </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://ronpaulinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity</a>, was banned from Twitter last week. Officially, it was because he used the word "retarded" to describe the odious establishment propagandist Sean Hannity after <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/0*R1IFxa4o5XdDhjSM.jpg" target="_blank">noting the hilarious fact</a> that the Fox News host had been wearing a CIA lapel pin while "challenging the deep state". Unofficially, it was because McAdams has been operating for years at the apex of one of the most effective antiwar movements in the United States.</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">In reality, McAdams was suspended because there are people on Twitter who, either due to profession or obsession, make it their business to report any effective opponent of western imperialism at every opportunity to Twitter admins, many of whom apparently have a clear pro-establishment bias of their own. It's happened to me on <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/02/how-an-assange-hater-got-my-twitter-privileges-suspended/" target="_blank">more</a> than <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/twitter-has-shut-down-my-account-for-abusing-john-mccain-25e7be909f4d" target="_blank">one occasion</a>, and we may be sure that it happened to Daniel McAdams last week as well.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">Which is annoying. It's annoying to know that at some point I'll probably slip up and say something imperfectly in an increasingly restrictive speech environment which gets me permanently banned from that platform. I like Twitter. I'm good at it. I've recently concluded that it's pretty much useless for dialogue, but it is a great way for one person to get unauthorized ideas seen millions of times per month by people who might not feel like reading an entire article. I'll be very put off when the banhammer finds my pretty face.</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">I'd like to live in a society where promoting mass military slaughter is the thing that gets someone de-platformed and shunned, not using a rude word to insult someone who promotes mass military slaughter.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A society where a US president <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-persistent-myth-that-trump-opposes-war-11c3453d4917" target="_blank">killing mountains of people around the world</a> attracts more media attention than his rude tweets.</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A society where people get their news from reporters who tell the truth about what's happening, not from <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/23/cnn-msnbc-15-spooks-mccabe/" target="_blank">veterans of depraved intelligence agencies</a> whose entire professions have been devoted to deceit and disinformation.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A society so sensitive to the horrors of war and the realities of its power dynamics that black bloc protesters would put more energy into disrupting appearances by people like Henry Kissinger and John Bolton than people like Milo Yiannopoulos.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A society so emotionally awake and empathetic in the way it operates that sociopathy and psychopathy become more of a disabling handicap than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A society so healthy that we no longer spend our creative energy figuring out ways to kill and exploit and manipulate each other and instead spend it figuring out ways to collaborate with each other and with our ecosystem for the benefit of everyone.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">A natural society, the kind we imagined as small children that we would be inheriting, instead of this insane stew of oligarchic psyops and cultural mind viruses which rewards sociopathy and elevates social cannibals.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"> </p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">That society is already here in embryonic form, only hidden beneath a fog of confusion about what we are and where the stable ground of sanity is. Some of that fog was created accidentally, as the result of a species suddenly evolving extra brain matter at an unprecedented speed and stumbling out of the trees into a world of WiFi and processed meats. Most of the fog has been created deliberately, with countless generations of powerful humans inflicting narratives upon their subjects which further advantage the powerful and further disadvantage the powerless.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">But sanity is right there, patiently waiting underneath the insanity. Waiting for us to open our eyelids and part the fog and remember our natural state. It's right here, closer to us than our own breath, so simple and obvious that we can spend our whole lives overlooking it.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">It's that comfy homely chair where you can let your bum nestle into the folds of the earth, the vantage point from which you truly don't mind what happens, you're just curious as to what you'll do next.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">It's that quiet still place from where inspiration bubbles up, just below the babble of the unreliable narrator of our patterned thinking mind.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">It's that place between sleep and at rest, right before the clamor of thoughts bustle in.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">It's where ideas spring from in the middle of the night or in the middle of a shower, from that relaxed, happy state that peeks through when you forget yourself for a moment.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">It's right here, just below the surface of the made-up matrix of mind gunk.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">This is the place from which our sane society will be birthed into the world.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">Sink in and live from here whenever you remember to.</p>
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