Leftists have been busy throughout President Donald Trump’s second term crying wolf about how he is a fascist dictator in the making, and the whole thing is an extended exercise in the old tactic of accusing your enemy of what you are guilty of doing. The Biden regime was the most authoritarian government that the nation has ever had to endure, and it would have been much more intolerant of dissent than it actually was if it had been able to get away with doing so.
These facts should be repeated until every American, no matter how politically unaware or indifferent, knows and can easily explain that the Biden regime tried to crush dissent and punish dissidents in a way that trampled upon the First Amendment. If this doesn’t happen, then the next time the Democrats gain the White House, whether in 2028 or sometime after that, the whole thing will happen again, and worse.
Now Joe Rogan, to his everlasting credit, is reminding Americans and the world of one tactic the Biden regime used against those patriots whom it feared and hated the most: treating them like terrorists. American Military News reported Friday that Rogan “issued a scathing criticism on Wednesday against the person responsible for putting Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. congresswoman, on a suspected terrorist watchlist under former President Joe Biden’s administration.” It’s true: the Biden regime listed Gabbard on the watchlist of its Quiet Skies program, which was supposed to keep terrorists from flying.
Rogan said: “She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight f**king years. She served overseas in a medical unit, right? So, she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the f**king war. And you’re labeling her a terrorist? Like whoever did that — like whoever signed off on that — should be in f**king jail. That’s crazy. That’s such an abuse. That’s such an abuse of power. And you want to talk about going after your political enemies in a sick, third-world country way — that’s a great example of that.”
Indeed it is. Back in Aug. 2024, Gabbard revealed that several times when she and her husband were flying somewhere, both of their boarding passes were “SSSS,” which stands for “Secondary Security Screening Selection.” If these four S’s show up on your boarding pass, you’re in for special security searches that can cause you to miss your flight. Gabbard said that “it happened every time I boarded.”
Nor was that all. TSA agents acted as if Gabbard had been apprehended while about to detonate a bomb vest: “I’ve got a couple of blazers in there,” she explained, “and they’re squeezing every inch of the entire collar, every inch of the sleeves, every inch of the edging of the blazers. They’re squeezing or padding down underwear, bras, workout clothes, every inch of every piece of clothing.” Even worse, a whistleblower added that Gabbard had “two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one Transportation Security Specialist (explosives), one plainclothes TSA Supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards.”
The harassment didn’t even end there. Gabbard also recalled: “I use my military ID to get through security sometimes,” but now this no longer worked. One TSA agent was puzzled and asked her, “Why are you Quad-S? You’re in the military?” Gabbard replied: “That’s exactly what I’m wondering. Then I said, ‘The only thing I can think of is, I work in politics.’ And he said, oh.” Oh, indeed.
Rogan was livid, saying: “You put a congresswoman for eight years on the terrorist watchlist — for what? For what reason? None? No reason? There’s not like some crazy tweets where she’s made … She’s not even like [Republican Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gets hog wild sometimes. She’s not like that … Tulsi’s not like that at all, and you put her on a terrorist watchlist? Shame on you. F**king shame on you.” Yes, and even if Gabbard were like Greene, that wouldn’t justify acting as if she were Osama bin Laden.
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Gabbard wasn’t alone. Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) recently revealed that he was also in the Quiet Skies listings. Hamadeh said, “It sadly doesn’t surprise me. At the time, if you remember, I mean banks were shutting down accounts if they promoted conservative viewpoints, if they were selling ammo or guns and the banks were being pressured by the Biden administration. You had social media companies censoring political voices that they didn’t agree with. So it shows you the depths that the federal government, how much sway they have, not just within the bureaucracy of the government, but also with private organizations and private actors as well.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated the obvious: “It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden Administration — weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends.”
If the U.S. is to remain a free society, this must never happen again.
