If we are not free to think what we want, we don't have a free society. It really is that simple. Unfortunately, there is now an overwhelming consensus among elitists in the Western world that radical action must be taken to control people's thinking. If you insist on being a rebel, there is a very good chance that you will be punished for your unconventional views. You may not go to jail, but our system has countless other ways to punish you. For example, those who insist on embracing unacceptable ideas will find that their career choices are quite limited, and there are certain tasks they are not allowed to do under any circumstances. Not only that, but if your thoughts are offensive enough, you may find yourself suddenly having to close a financial account or be denied credit for seemingly no reason. This was unheard of a decade ago, but now it happens all the time. Of course, you can forget about any significant presence on social media if your thoughts are not in line with current "social norms". Even "free speech platforms" ban and block countless accounts every single day.

If any of the things I have just described have happened to you, it is probably because you are a "thought criminal".

You must not contradict the conditionality you have received from our education system, our news media, our politicians and our corporate entertainment, which is fed to you for hours every day.

When you deviate from socially acceptable perspectives, you are guilty of a "thought crime". This is how Wikipedia defines thought crime …

Thoughtcrime is a word coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It describes a person's politically unusual ideas , such as beliefs and doubts, which are at odds with the principles of Ingsoc (English socialism), the dominant ideology in Oceania. In the official language of Newspeak, the word criminism describes the intellectual activity of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable ideas; thus the party government controls the speech, actions and thoughts of Oceania's citizens.

Unfortunately, we really have become an "Orwellian society" at this point.

In fact, a woman in the UK was arrested for the very thoughts she was thinking in her own mind…

The leader of the UK March for Life was recently arrested after police found him quietly praying outside an abortion clinic, according to a press release from Alliance Defending Freedom UK.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a charity worker and Christian, approached police outside the BPAS Robert Clinic in Birmingham, England, and asked if she was praying, according to an ADF press release. Vaughan-Spruce told officers that he "might be praying silently" and was later arrested.

"It is terribly wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by the police and accused only of praying for peace of mind," Vaughan-Spruce said in a press release. "No one should be criminalised for thinking and praying in a public space in the UK."

When he was taken to the station, you would think that the people in charge would realise that a huge mistake had just been made.

But instead of being released, he was questioned mercilessly.

Apparently they were absolutely determined to find whatever evil thoughts this cruel thought criminal had been thinking.

And apparently they found something, because now he's charged with four counts…

He claims he is not a criminal.

But he doesn't understand that the world has changed.

Anyone who thinks unauthorised thoughts is now a criminal in this system.

And right now, there are countless intelligence agents all over the West, scouring social media sites for more thought criminals.

Thanks to the release of the Twitter files, we now know that the FBI has spent a huge amount of time, effort and energy searching for unauthorised thoughts on our biggest social media platforms.

When the FBI found unauthorised thoughts on Twitter, certain accounts were asked to be banned. This grossly violated our First Amendment rights, and apparently it happened over and over again.

The FBI faced this, and this is how they responded…

"The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter is just one example of our tradition of longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements involving numerous companies across multiple sectors and industries.

As the correspondence shows, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector to protect themselves and their customers.

The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public.

It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of trying to discredit the agency."

And it has also emerged that the FBI has for some reason paid Twitter and other social media companies millions of dollars …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is refusing to specify which other social media companies the federal agency gave money to after Fox News confirmed it paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million.

FBI officials told Fox News that the nearly $3.5 million payment to Twitter was "compensation" for the "reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to the lawsuit… compliance with legal requests and standard operating procedure."

FBI officials also said that Twitter is not the only social media company the federal agency pays, telling Fox News, "We're not just replacing Twitter."

What was the money for?

We deserve to know.

Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk recently stated that "almost every conspiracy theory people had about Twitter turned out to be true".

Reading it should cool you down to the core.

Of course, many other big tech companies have also worked with the government to stifle free speech, and a recent survey showed that the vast majority of Americans want answers.

According to a recent poll, 63% of Americans want Congress to investigate "whether the FBI was involved in censoring data on social media sites".

The Twitter files show that Twitter not only cooperated with the FBI, but also worked with other government agencies such as the CIA and the Pentagon to suppress information.

Musk said in a post on December 27 that "*every* social media company engages in heavy-handed censorship, with significant government involvement and sometimes explicit direction."

Over time, those who choose not to conform to "social norms" will be pushed further and further to the extremes of society.

If you continue to choose to be an "independent thinker", getting a "good job" will be very difficult.

Just think about it. How many CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are currently "independent thinkers" with invalid belief systems?

If you want to rise in the pyramid structure of our society, you have to believe in what the system tells you to believe.

Of course, if all independent thinking is eliminated, our society will become the dystopian nightmare that writers like George Orwell and myself have been warning about for a very long time.

Although I don't like much of what my American colleagues have to say, I strongly defend the right to say those things.

Freedom of thought and freedom of expression are non-negotiable, and our system of governance simply does not work without them.

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