My team just interviewed author Ian Lucas, who wrote Digital Gangsters: The Inside Story of How Greed, Lies, and Big Tech Broke Democracy. Lucas is a former member of UK Parliament who left his post after 18 years so he could tell that story. Ep64 of RadPod drops with his interview tomorrow night, and like all our interviews, it’s important. Lucas famously challenged a Facebook executive, who admitted that we have no protections against foreign influence in our elections. That was five years ago, and we have done nothing to patch our vulnerabilities.
His interview got me thinking about how we - us - all of us - are the ones tasked with saving democracy. We who have cognitive thinking skills, who know that the Russian Federation and Fifth Column traitors in the West are actively trying to sabotage liberal democracies - we have to be the thinkers who force the action for our own salvation.
We have a to-do list. RadPod and others in this fight have exposed a network of rot on the ‘conservative’ side - predatory behavior that’s sociopathic - that is influencing our entire country and bleeding out into the world. That some so-called leftists are also allied with these predators reveals its not ideological. It’s cover for corruption - fossil-fueled power and greed.
I felt an urgency to create a priority list - some sort of framework - as a starter kit of what needs to happen to prevent the further deepening of authoritarian capture in the West. If you find this useful, please share. And please support this work with a subscription if you can.
Democracy’s To-Do List - Priorities
Putin goes to The Hague - ICC arrest warrant served, Putin prosecuted and convicted for child trafficking, war crimes, etc. He should consider surrendering rather than facing an imminent Ceausescu ending
Russian Federation oligarchs stripped of their ill-gotten gains, and the money is used to rebuild Ukraine
Russian Federation placed under guardianship until no longer genocidal maniacs
Christopher Wray replaced by a competent public servant - FBI enjoys its first woman leader
Remove any and all NatSec rot top down
Create anti-fascist governmental organization to ensure law enforcement establishments aren’t being infiltrated and weaponized against democracy
Western leaders declare being target nations of cognitive warfare and destabilization events and deploy resources to fight back - America backdates the war to 2016, and Trump is stripped of presidency status and prosecuted for attempted overthrow of the government
Replace all Trump appointees on Supreme Court
Eradicate private military mercenary companies
Russian Federation collaborators in media, politics, academia, and tech removed from power and prosecuted for treason
Tech regulated like a public utility
Clamp down on disinformation and malinformation - with criminal prosecutions for domestic online terror squads
Comprehensive data privacy laws with criminal liability built in top down
Fox News shutdown, and any/all Kremlin propaganda outlets
January 6 financiers exposed and prosecuted
Congressional insurrectionists removed, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for participating in attempted overthrow of our government
Constitution upgrade, patch vulnerabilities
Enshrine human rights’ laws in upgraded Constitution
History taught and freedoms no longer exploitable to destroy democracy and citizens
Overturn Citizens United
Arrest and prosecute Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Erik Prince, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk for crimes against the United States of America, specifically aiding our enemies and engaging in cognitive warfare against the American people
That’s a pretty good starter kit.
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