The last edition of F on F mentioned the Biden Administration’s establishment of a Disinformation Governance Board under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, and led by Nina Jankowicz.   On April 27, DHS Secretary Mayorkas was asked by a left-wing Congressperson what DHS was doing to combat the targeting of minorities in disinformation campaigns.  Mayorkas announced the Board.  Reportedly, the Board, which immediately brought to mind George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, will focus on “misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.” Translation- we’re going to censor any speech that criticizes our disastrous border policies, and any speech that suggests it was Obama and Hillary Clinton who spied on Trump and not the Russians.  Remember a few weeks ago, when Democrats were saying, “you can’t stop social media platforms from censoring messages, because it’s private, not government action?  Now all pretense is gone, and the Left has gone all out fascist.  Might the fact that Elon Musk just bought Twitter have something to do with it?  What’s amazes me is not that Republicans immediately blasted the Board as a Ministry of Truth, but that they did so for the wrong reasons.  We’ve been hearing that DHS isn’t the right place to put the Board, and that Jankowicz isn’t the right person to run it.  Screw all that!  There is no right place to put it or right person to run it.  It’s God-damned unconstitutional and it’s not even a close call.  Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute, has said, “having a Disinformation Governance Board operating out of the Department of Homeland Security is not exactly a reassuring thought.  How is this even up for debate?  The government should not be involved in deciding what is true and false.”  Bravo, Mr. Hamid, with one correction.  It’s not the government “should not censor the content of speech, it’s “it may not” do so.  The U.S. Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, by prohibiting the government from restricting expression because of its message, ideas, subject matter or content.  Such restrictions are presumed to be invalid, and the burden is on the government to prove their validity. There are very limited exceptions, for speech which constitutes defamation, obscenity, fraud, fighting words, speech which incites or encourages the commission of a crime, true threats, and speech which is integral to criminal conduct.  No law or government agency may censor the content of speech on grounds that it’s “hate speech,” which is a term that has no meaning in the law, or because it’s alleged to be false.  If it could, every political candidate who ever ran for office would be in prison.  Moreover, the notion that any government employee, from any political Party should become the arbiter of truth for the purpose of censoring the content of speech is outrageous.  And that fact that Mistress of Truth Jankowicz works for Mayorkas, who recently was called a pathological liar, and that Mayorkas works for Joe Biden,  another pathological liar, is one of the greatest insults ever inflicted upon an unsuspecting American public.  So just who is High Priestess of Truth Jankowicz?  No one seems entirely sure.  Her boss, Secretary Mayorkas said, he had no idea Jankowicz had suggested Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” was Russian disinformation.  So I guess her evaluation of that “truth” conflicts with the opinion of The New York Times.   Then again, maybe Mayorkas didn’t pick her.  So who did?  Biden Spokes-liar Jen Psaki says she  doesn’t know who Jankowicz is.  “It sounds like the objective of the Board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities,” Psaki said. “I’m not sure who opposes that effort.”  Ooh, ooh!  Pick Me!  Psaki added, the White House supports the Board, citing disinformation that has circulated about COVID-19 and elections.  Curious.  I thought the focus was “irregular migrants” and Russia.  Here’s who Nina Jankowicz is.  She was a “disinformation Fellow” at the Wilson Center, and a former Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.  Isn’t that rich?  Most people study to discover the the true meaning of life.  Jankowicz studied to discover disinformation.  That makes her perfect for the Biden Administration.  The Wilson Center claims it provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policy-making and scholarship to interact.  If so, their hiring of Jankowicz was a failure.  In 2019, she said, “By all means, let’s regulate social media.  But let’s do it with proper thought and consultation, with the nation’s best interests at heart, not with the sweep of a sharpie in response to a specter of ‘political censorship’ that doesn’t exist.”  A year later she orchestrated the political censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter laptop story for partisan purposes.  So I guess she can be trusted to decide when “the nation’s best interests” are at heart.  In May 2020, Jankowicz was horrified at the idea of the Trump Administration having any say in what is true or false.  Now she’s been ordained as the arbiter of truth, so that’s her job.  Jankowicz also suggested that former President Donald Trump incited “homegrown fascism,” and alleged the U.S. is a systemically racist nation.  Strictly nonpartisan, right?    Here she goes again, “one of the key reasons the Board was established, is to maintain the Dept’s commitment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties.”  So we have to censor speech to keep speech free?  Is it any wonder her Board was compared to Orwell’s Ministry of Truth?  The sad thing is these people really believe their own crap.  And the weirdest thing of all was the Tik Tok video of her Holiness Jankowicz, singing about the dangers of “information laundering” to the tune of a familiar Mary Poppins song.  You want to sing Mary Poppins?  Here’s a tune for you

A lie! A spree! It’s very clear to see, that a …
Carload of bullshit keeps the Bidens in Town,
The Bidens in Town-own
Bidens in Town
Just a Carload of bullshit keeps the Bidens in Town,
In the most illegal way

Don’t like that one, how about this –

Let’s go spread a lie
Up to the highest high!
Let’s go spread a lie and send it soaring
Poison the atmosphere
No chance to record clear
Oh, let’s go spread a lie!

One more for the road –

Crim criminal, crim criminal
Crim crim cheree!
Joe Biden is lucky that he hired me
Crim criminal, crim criminal
Crim crim cheroo!
Your speech stands no chance after I censor you!

The Disinformation Governance Board is an unconstitutional insult, and Nina Jankowicz is a sick joke.