I have been watching with great interest as millions of Americans through social media have become involved with and brainwashed by the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories. From Democrats doing mass molestations and killings of babies, to all sorts of bizarre fantasies, these people who believe this false fantasy crap, seem to be and truly are out of their minds.

Any sane educated person or so I thought, could see right through the BS. It is kind of like the flat Earthers, most sane adults know full well the earth is not flat, yet there are people out there that believe it is flat, even when presented with all the evidence in the world that the earth is round.

Most sane adults in the United States thought at first that these people were just joking around and that they cannot be serious. After the recent attack on the United States Capitol, and after hearing all the wacko doodles being interviewed outside of the riots, we have now all come to realize in horror that there are millions of Americans that have been brainwashed into believing fantasy propaganda and are seriously out of their friggen minds.

Now this is an opinion editorial so I may be a little loose with my language on this one because when writing about millions of Americans who believe basically something analogous to the boogie man is hiding under your bed or that Santa Claus is real, how do you comprehend that millions of supposedly publicly or otherwise educated adults in this country are out of their minds?

I have contemplated this as a layman. I believe what has happened is someone comes up with a fantasy premise on social media or through other types of media, they spread the fantasy or propaganda, and either people who are lonely and are seeking to belong in the group, or are weak minded people for whatever reason, whether it be for entertainment or other Interest, start to give approval to the fantasy so that they can fit into the group, and eventually the fantasy becomes reality to these people in masse.

I would like to believe that some people in the group know that what they are discussing is not real and that they are simply just trying to be part of the group for whatever reason, but it is becoming very apparent that the majority of these people actually start to believe that the fantasy is real. Then as with other cults what happens is members of the cult or persons who adhere to the fantasy beliefs, start to add more and more fantasy stories onto it so that it becomes like a time bomb. If a member tries to tell other members that something is not real, they are attacked by other members. It is a self fulfilling quagmire. Eventually many will leave the cult and find some other group to belong in, who knows.

There is no difference between QAnon or the Salem witch hunt where a bunch of young girls driving off each other made up fantasy stories which ended up causing multiple women to be hanged as witches. Recently a couple of girls made up a fantasy about Slender Man, a fictional character off of the internet, and driving off of each other believing ultimately, he was real, sought to kill one of their girlfriends to please the fictional Slender Man.

There are other cults like the Branch Davidians, the People’s Temple with Jim Jones, and another group in San Diego who all members collectively killed themselves for their fantasy belief that was perpetrated by the group.

QAnon is much more dangerous because they are using the First Amendment right to free speech to spread their fantasy propaganda, and millions of Americans now believe the fantasy BS that they are spreading is real. As a collective group with their numbers, they are a danger to our nation.

Some of these people invaded the capital building with the intent to take down the United States government.

In my opinion the United States government has to treat these QAnon cult members as dangerous domestic terrorists, as well as far-right wing white supremacist extremist terrorists, as enemies of the state no different than ISIS or Al Qaeda. We can no longer just ignore them like they are some kind of curiosity. Unlike ISIS or Al Qaeda, these whack jobs live amongst us, there are here.

We need to take serious action against these people, attempt to cut off their ability to communicate using private mainstream social media vehicles, and prosecute them when possible and necessary.

This is way beyond First Amendment freedom of speech. These people are trying to take down the United States government. They are spreading lies and disinformation to do so. We should maybe look at some of the European models, and even Australian models, and limit certain speech by these people that is aimed to take down our government.

By Norman Gregory

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At the time we called this a bloodless coup d’état or insurrection, but in fact blood was spilled.

As United States Air Force veteran who used to salute the Star-Spangled Banner every day, and who has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution twice in my life the last time being in 1997 up to the present, I was appalled. I am sure most Americans who observed what was going on were also appalled.

Since the attempted coup d’état and insurrection of Trump supporters, I have been watching the news constantly as are many of you as well.

I am not a psychiatrist nor am I some kind of left-wing radical, I am a middle road of the road type a guy, and it is not hard to see that Trump supporters and many on the right have become radicalized by constant seven day a week 24-hour right-wing propaganda of the type that Goebbels used when he served Adolf Hitler, to radicalize the Germans to start World War II, and to murder 6 million Jews.

In essence not only have many Republicans and Trump supporters become radicalized, but they are brainwashed into a Trump cult. They being the victims of constant propaganda which spews hate and demonization against Democrats and so-called liberals, like drug addicts have no clue that they are in what amounts to a death cult. They do not know they are brainwashed. The parrot the crap they have been fed.

You can see the difference between the way Donald Trump was campaigning, and the way Joe Biden was campaigning. Donald Trump talked about the radical left and how the country would not survive if the Democrats were elected, and that the Democrats were radical, and that the Democrats were communist and socialist, and that there is no way the economy would do good under the Democrats.

Whereas Joe Biden talked about bringing the nation together and representing all Americans.

The hateful and divisive rhetoric not only from Donald Trump, but from his supporters and political party, the Republicans, have never in our history been so insidious and hateful.

For the eight years before Pres. Trump was elected, Barack Obama ran the country just fine and saved it from economic calamity and brought the nation back. If you listened to the rhetoric from Donald Trump and the Republicans, Barack Obama destroyed the nation which in fact was not only not the case, but it was a boldface lie. This is called disinformation.

When you have a political party that is so hell-bent on gaining power or staying in power that they will say and do anything, we are in big trouble. There are feebleminded people amongst us who will believe the false narrative and take action which was seen during the insurrection this week.

What is the scary part of the insurrectionists at the capital were people from all walks of life including lawyers, firefighters, retired military personnel, etc. being a part of it.  In other words, not all of the brainwashed insurrectionists that tried to take down our country were feebleminded, some of them were smart enough to know better.

The people that attacked our capital and our Congress with the intent to overturn the election and therefore our constitutional government, because they did not like the results, are enemies of our nation and our people. They are the enemy within. These are not ordinary people; these are people who are brainwashed and not in their right mind. These are people who have been listening and watching compartmentalized brainwashing propaganda and disinformation from right wing media sources, and these people for the most part do not get news or information from any other sources.

After a while someone who nonstop listens to disinformation and propaganda begin to believe the bull crap that they are being fed which is exactly what is happened to the Republican Party of today.

I am hopeful that the people that are brainwashed by right wing disinformation are too lazy to actually really start a civil war. The fact is we Americans all have more in common than not. You know there is something seriously wrong though with people who know hundreds of thousands of people have died from a coronavirus pandemic but yet they will still walk around without a mask acting like nothing is wrong simply because Donald Trump told them so.

The mob that descended upon Washington was a wake-up call for us all. A motivated force could have easily gotten into the capital and taken out one branch of our government.

If you do not know you should know based upon the insurrection that took place last week, our representative democracy is hanging by a thread. There is a percentage of the population that does not want to abide by the results of election because they lost the election. They are willing to tear down our government because they lost. Democracy requires cooperation from everyone. If your party does not win, you vote when the next election comes along and maybe you will win, maybe you will not.

I like you want those who attacked the United States Capitol to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I want Donald Trump removed from office now. I want Donald Trump prosecuted for inciting an insurrection along with Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump’s sons, and any other party who incited the insurrection.

I want a quick reaction force to be stationed in Washington DC to prevent what happened at the US Capitol building from ever happening again.

I love the United States of America, but there are people that love Donald Trump out there more than they do their own nation. It is time now for we as Americans to call out the constant right-wing propaganda that is creating these monsters that attacked the United States Capitol. It is time for United States businesses who love capitalism, to shut down advertising for media that promotes right wing extremism. As they can see, if allowed to go unchecked, they will soon lose their nation as well.

I am a free-speech guy, but not when that speech incites insurrection against the United States government, that speech should not be protected.

By Norman Gregory

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Thousands of Trump supporters under the guise of a protest of the 2020 election, entered the nation’s capital in Washington DC, and unlawfully invaded the United States Capitol building while Congress was in session debating objections to state electors.

It appears based upon what happened, that this was a planned coup d’état that was encouraged by the outgoing Pres. Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 United States election which he lost, in his favor.

The insurgents and terrorists who entered the state capital building unlawfully fought with police, destructed federal property, and trespassed into congressional offices. VP Pence was evacuated from the building as well as lawmakers.

Donald Trump incited his followers by falsely claiming the election was stolen from him by fraud, to go to Washington DC to get the Congress to change the results of the election.

Donald Trump’s son made a threat to Republicans stating that if they did not support his father, that “they would be coming for them.”

Rudy Giuliani also appeared to threaten violence as well.

The situation is ongoing, and we will be updated as we know more.

By Norman Gregory

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