Robert Conquest on the Media/Obama Dictatorship’s Culture of Denunciation

By Nicholas Stix

I was telling my chief of research tonight about how during the mid-to-late 2000s, the late David Mills would go around writing poison pen letters to editors, in order to silence the last few professional writers doing honest work on race. He cost Lawrence Auster his last paid gig at Frontpagemag.com with David Horowitz that way, and tried to do the same with me at several non-paying gigs I had, and succeeded with Eric Olson at Blogcritics, and apparently elsewhere, as well.

However, in my case, Mills let me know what he was doing. Although I had long before become radioactive, and thus unemployable, based on my words alone, that wasn’t enough for Mills. He threatened on a discussion thread at Intellectual Conservative to write unflattering things about my non-writing life that he would have had to fabricate. Since his comments clearly proved malice, I told him that I would sue him for defamation, and he backed down, and even apologized.

Today, things are much easier. All you have to do is find something politically incorrect that a normal white said in an e-mail, or on social media.

It used to be that being a public employee protected one’s job, but public agencies now routinely violate normal white employees’ First Amendment rights, especially policemen and firemen, in their zeal to racially purge America. They are aided greatly by a misbegotten, 1990s U.S. Supreme Court decision that said that public service employees could be terminated for things they said or wrote, if their statements were harmful to workplace morale.

Robert Conquest, now 97, wrote the following over 30 years ago, about the coming Communist dictatorship. He thought it would come from without. My chief of research is a big fan of Conquest’s.
 

Poison Pen

You will have splendid opportunities to ruin your neighbors, colleagues, and friends by writing anonymous denunciations which have always been much valued in Communist circles, to the secret police. The facts you retail need not in any way be truthful, but it will be nonetheless advantageous to be able to include genuine remarks made by your victims in which they express dissatisfaction with some aspect of the Occupation. If you want to cause even more harm, you can offer your services to the secret police as a “Seksot” or a regular paid informer and collaborator. (Well-organized networks of these “Seksoti” will be set up, covering every area of the United States.)