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Twitter Bans Mike Lindell For Life

Mike Lindell

There they go again.  Twitter has followed the fascist playbook and banned My Pillow’s Mike Lindell. For life. His sin? Questioning the election results.

It’s Jack Dorsey as Benito Mussolini, the Italian Fascist leader who came to power in 1919 and ruled Italy with an iron fist until his defeat at the close of World War II in 1945.

One suspects there will be more – not less – heard from Mike Lindell. And good for him.

Not long ago, I was reading up on Mussolini and just how he dealt with dissent in the Italian press. This following Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a commission to decide who in the media is allowed to say what. Over at Newsbusters I wrote up one David D’Amato, an attorney and a policy advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and the Heartland Institute. D’Amato had written an excellent analysis of just what and how Mussolini dealt with dissent in the Italian press after he came to power, the article appearing at the “Libertarianism” site.

Here’s the money quote, with bold print supplied for emphasis:

“A gifted propagandist acutely conscious of the relationship between political power and optics, Mussolini established a High Commission for the press in the spring of 1929. Insisting that the Commission would not interfere with the freedom of the press, Mussolini’s Keeper of the Seals, Alfredo Rocco, nevertheless maintained an exception for ‘any activity contrary to the national interest,’ ‘faithfulness to the Fatherland”’ naturally assuming the position of ultimate importance.

Journalists were, like all other professions, encouraged to see their occupation as one of many forms of service to the nation, to participate actively in the education and inculcation of the Italian people. Recall that Mussolini saw himself as a revolutionary and his government as a living embodiment of transformative new ideas. The transmittal of these ideas and relatedly the cultivation of a soldierly esprit de corps was, to Mussolini’s mind, a primary responsibility of the Italian press. No such idea of adversarial journalism, of subjecting the actions of state to investigation and scrutiny, was to infect the minds of the nation’s newspaper writers and editors. Rather Mussolini contended that “Fascism requires militant journalism,” the country’s newspapers presenting themselves “as a solid bloc,” committed to “the Cause” and obscuring or outrightly burying any fact or story antithetical to it.

Even more than post‐factum censorship, Mussolini favored this kind of proactive steering of the press, hardly subtle and clearly defining his expectations as both military and civilian leader of the people. In Fascist Italy, social and political pressures—and the resultant self-policing by the media—were at least as important as actual legal proscriptions, probably much more important.

Having been a writer and editor himself, Mussolini understood the power of ideas generally and the written word in particular. As early as 1923, his government had proposed comprehensive censorship legislation, and he was particularly intent on prohibiting or otherwise controlling the publications of rival political parties.”

Let’s be clear. Mike Lindell is not a journalist. He’s a businessman and a damn good one. (And full disclosure My Pillow is a sponsor of my podcast, The Word of the Lord.) But whether journalist or businessman, Big Tech, in exactly the style of the fascist Mussolini, is threatening both and oh so much more as Mike and all manner of others – including former President Trump – are finding themselves banned for life from Twitter. Their crime? Having the audacity to disagree with the narrative of the moment on the 2020 election.

Recall D’Amato’s description of how fascist censorship worked:

“A gifted propagandist acutely conscious of the relationship between political power and optics, Mussolini established a High Commission for the press in the spring of 1929. Insisting that the Commission would not interfere with the freedom of the press, Mussolini’s Keeper of the Seals, Alfredo Rocco, nevertheless maintained an exception for ‘any activity contrary to the national interest,’ ‘faithfulness to the Fatherland”’ naturally assuming the position of ultimate importance.”

In today’s Big Tech world companies like Twitter are “High Commissions” all unto themselves. And as Mike Lindell made bluntly clear in an appearance on Rush Limbaugh’s show, with Mark Steyn filling in for Rush, he has been silenced on Twitter because his thoughts on the election are, to borrow from Mussolini’s Keeper of the Seals, an “activity contrary to the national interest” as Twitter gets to determine what that “national interest” is.

It is interesting indeed that Mike is able to answer and speak freely by talking to Sean and Rush’s audience.

Over there at Rush Limbaugh’s site is a transcript of Mike’s interview with Mark.  Among other things he said that about 17 days earlier Twitter had suspended his account because of something he re-posted. At the time, while he could see his account, he couldn’t touch it. But then? He said Twitter was re-tweeting stuff under his name that wasn’t from him, acting as though they were Mike. He tried to take the posts down and promptly got a note saying he couldn’t do that.

On January 25th he got his account back. All good. Then, the unforgivable.

Mike Lindell had the nerve – the nerve!- to post a letter written about him by one of his company directors saying what a good guy he was and…..bam. Done. They took his Twitter account down permanently.

As if that weren’t creepy enough, the trolls from the equally fascist Sleeping Giants group, he said, pressured big box stores to drop his My Pillow products. Shamefully, stores like Bed Bath and Beyond and Kohl’s quickly fell in line and said they would pull his products.

And curiously? On a personal note this past weekend I made a point of stopping in at my local Bed Bath and Beyond store where a couple years back I had bought my first two My Pillows. Normally the My Pillow display is down the furthest aisle from the entrance of the store. But not the other day. No indeed, the My Pillow display, replete with Mike’s smiling face, was directly up front, right in front of the check-out cash registers. Will it stay there? No idea. But I do know this area of Pennsylvania voted for President Trump and it is a safe bet that the people who run that particular know that Mike is anything but unpopular around here.

Mike went on to say that in fact, his real customers are rallying to him. They are buying from the My Pillow site or the other box stores that have stuck with him.
He went on to say that he did nothing wrong, he simply wants the facts and truth out there about what happened in the election to make sure that the integrity of the election system is secure for future elections.

He added that when he first met Donald Trump in 2016 and put out a press release saying so he was viciously attacked. In the spring of 2020 he was at the White House and in an event with the press, with the President at his side, he made the thoroughly uncontroversial statement that America needed to get back to its families and spoke about Jesus.

Oh the horror!

He said to Mark Steyn that the attack on him for this was “huge” as if he had committed a crime.

“I’m not going to back down to cancel culture. It’s crazy,” he said.

Mark asked him about the double standard of woke leftists sucking up to dictators or using slave labor in China to make their products. To which Mike replied that the double standard will not survive. He emphasized that when it comes to the attempt to silence him “if it can happen to me, it can happen to you.” Exactly.

Then there was the blockbuster. Mike said that the conduct of Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was “criminal” and they should  be “up for crimes.”  Suffice to say he was livid that Twitter had been “acting like Mike Lindell” and putting things out there under his name that were the essence of being politically correct. “That’s like identity fraud,” he said, adding, “I’m not politically correct, I’m the opposite of that. I speak my mind, no matter what.”

Mark Steyn asked whether he would file lawsuits, and clearly, Mike was already on track with that, saying he had already filed a lawsuit against the UK’s Daily Mail for a fake news hit job that he had an affair with an American actress.

Mike concluded by saying Americans were beginning to stand up and realize that we can’t have this “cancel culture” because the Big Tech bullies and others want to erase free speech. He also made the point, still not understood by many, that when the attacks surge against a vendor for sponsoring My Pillow or any conservative in the media, that the attackers are not real people. They are “bots”, and a trip to their sites reveals they have one friend or two friends. This garbage has been going on for ages, not coincidentally being used in attacks on Rush himself or Sean Hannity etc etc etc.

Interestingly he closed out the interview by revealing that the Better Business Bureau had taken his ratings from an “A+ to an F” – after he endorsed Donald Trump. He called them a “crooked organization” that downgraded him not because of his products but because of his politics.

When the interview was finished, Mark Steyn noted that in the land of free speech Mike Lindell had been banned from Twitter for life.

One suspects there will be more – not less – heard from Mike Lindell. And good for him.

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