Fmr. CIA analyst on Elon restoring banned Twitter accounts: ”Putin is going to be all over Twitter if there’s no regulations on this, fake accounts, spoofed accounts … And so when he’s talking about the popular voice, Musk, he’s really talking about Russian intelligence.“ pic.twitter.com/2V546kBIZI
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 26, 2022
Bob Baer, cont’d: “It’s not right. And you know, this freedom of speech is just nonsense because you can’t go into a movie theater and yell ‘fire.’ It’s against the law. What Putin is going to do & the Russians is they’re going to use this as a vehicle to save himself in Ukraine” pic.twitter.com/3FnuOZDiSd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 26, 2022
Robert Baer was talking about Elon Musk restoring the freedom of speech on Twitter, but he unwittingly enunciated the view of the Washington elites: the freedom of speech is just nonsense. Allowing dissidents from the dominant Left’s agenda to speak their views is tantamount to causing a panic that could get people killed. Thus the dissent must be forcibly suppressed. People such as Robert Baer know very well that the freedom of speech is a people’s primary defense against tyranny. That’s why they oppose it.
