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Wheeler at FDL ..

Apparently the team members of Themis – several of whom, as veterans, would have sworn an oath to our Constitution – accepted the premise that union members and poorly financed liberals opposing the wholesale sellout of our politics to private corporations constituted “extortion” and “slander.” These firms, two of which deny any ill will, were willing to describe political speech–the opposition of working people to the Chamber’s hijacking of our politics–as “extortion” and “slander.” More shocking to me, though, is where the proposal uses a Special Operations model to describe what Themis planned to do for H&W. Themis – led by Berico Technologies in this case – decided to brand [their Chamber proposal] as a JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) product, applying an American unconventional warfare model to targeting political opponents engaging in free speech

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