If Twitter was around then, would Murphy have supported it blocking anti-opioid campaigners?

By Rubashov

Twitter was launched in July 2006. But if Twitter had been around a decade before, when the medical establishment was pushing millions of opioid doses on unsuspecting patients and Big Pharma was insisting “all is well” and that “the science” backed them up – would Twitter have blocked Senator Declan O’Scanlon for suggesting caution? The evidence suggests that they would have and, as a result, would have been culpable in a million deaths.

Now go back to late 2002, early 2003, when the Weapons of Mass Destruction debate was going on. If Senator O’Scanlon – or anybody else for that matter – had suggested caution or that the official position of the American security state was mistaken or that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 had got it wrong – would Twitter have blocked them? We are sorry to have to say that the evidence suggests Twitter would have… and so cheered on the start of the Second Gulf War and with it the millions of lives destroyed and trillions of dollars misspent.

As it was, there were very few voices back then arguing that prescription opioids would lead to an epidemic of abuse that is the most lethal drug epidemic in American history. There were only a scattering of voices raised in opposition to the Second Gulf War. But eventually, they got through. Opioids were eventually identified as a problem. The war was revealed to have been predicated on a lie.

It would be so much more difficult today to get through. That’s because guys like Governor Phil Murphy would be siding with Twitter, with statements (and this is a quote from Monday) like: “If they are speaking or allowing information which is absolutely false and at odds with the facts … they are putting people’s lives at risk. There is no other way to put that.”

That’s right. In 1996, Phil Murphy would have been on the side of the medical Establishment and Big Pharma, telling Twitter to shut down those people questioning the wisdom of prescribing millions of pills because it’s “at odds with the facts” as put out by the medical Establishment and Big Pharma and that questioning prescribing opioids might dissuade people from using them and end up “putting people’s lives at risk… there is no other way to put that.”

Yep. And in 2003, Phil Murphy would be telling Twitter to lock down all those anti-war nutjobs who kept falsely claiming there were no weapons of mass destruction when it was obvious there were, because the CIA, NSA, and Colin Powell had said so. Murphy would have screamed at Twitter to “stop allowing information which is absolutely false and at odds with the facts … they are putting people’s lives at risk. There is no other way to put that.”

Murphy told New Jersey Globe that he wants Twitter to be the gatekeeper of the First Amendment or, as he puts it, he wants Big Tech to “calls balls and strikes equally.” This is the same Big Tech that pocketed $9.53 billion in spending on digital advertising by the healthcare and pharma industry in 2020 (expected to grow by 18% this year). If platforms like Twitter are profiting from the medical Establishment and Big Pharma, how can they be expected to “call balls and strikes equally”?

Without the First Amendment, would the whistleblower who disclosed the opioid scam have ever been heard from? If platforms like Twitter – profiting off the medical Establishment and Big Pharma – had been allowed to, would they have blocked this whistleblower too? Ask yourself these questions while watching this shocking report from 60 Minutes...

The First Amendment SAVES LIVES. Phil Murphy favors putting Big Tech in charge of deciding what you hear about their Big Pharma advertising clients.

By any measure, New Jersey’s Governor is the most powerful State Executive in America. In other states, judges and prosecutors are elected. Not in New Jersey, they are all appointed by the Governor. Other states have an elected Attorney General, an elected State Treasurer, an elected Auditor General or Comptroller, and an elected Secretary of State. In New Jersey, all these jobs are appointed by the Governor.

Other states elect an Insurance Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Industries Commissioner, Utilities Commissioner… Massachusetts even has an elected eight-member Governor’s Council to provide advice and consent as an additional check on the power of the Governor. Not in New Jersey. In New Jersey, even the Lt. Governor isn’t chosen directly by the people, but rather selected by the nominee and then locked into an all or nothing ticket with the nominee.

New Jersey is the least democratic state in America.

That’s probably why it is a bad thing to have both the Legislature and Executive controlled by the same party in New Jersey. It cements too much power with one man – and any American worthy of the name knows that spells trouble.

And that’s why it is so important to elect a Governor with the kind of humility that holds back a little, that respects traditions – and things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Because in New Jersey, with its absence of robust checks and balances, it is easiest for a Governor to abuse his power. Easier than anywhere else in America.
 

“If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.”
Krystal Ball