Opinion | Global Elite Wants Control by Cuckolding Democracies, Finishing Free Speech

It is often brushed aside as a conspiracy theory. But call it the Deep State, reincarnated Illuminati, or the New World Order, it is becoming increasingly evident that extremely powerful and invisible networks are trying to influence how global events unfold.

Whether it is a farmers’ protest in India’s Punjab or defending the police and pushing underage gender surgeries in the United States to opposing narcotics control legislation in Uganda, there is always shadowy funding and publicity through NGOs, academia, and chosen media outlets.

The Narendra Modi government has banned more than 20,000 NGOs. These were siphoning off money, dodging foreign currency regulations, and/or spending the money to fuel agitations that stymie India’s progress.

These networks of the globalist elite collaborate with diverse forces from the Church to China, Communists to Islamists, whenever there is convergence of objectives. Many including top Republican leaders like Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy have alleged that Western agencies like the FBI and CIA stand compromised.

“Free speech on the Internet was an instrument of statecraft almost from the outset of the privatisation of the Internet…The fundamental nature of war changed [with Crimea’s annexation]. And NATO, at that point, declared something that they first called the Gerasimov doctrine… All you need to do is control the media and the social media ecosystem, because that’s what controls elections,” says Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online. “NATO was publishing white papers saying that the biggest threat NATO faces is not actually a military invasion from Russia. It’s losing domestic elections across Europe to all these right-wing populist groups.”

Journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with Benz, who had the cyber portfolio in the state department, is both eye-opening and unnerving at the same time.

Mike Benz analyses the transition from the time the internet was a platform for nearly unchecked free speech and a tool for democratisation to the medium for surveillance, control, and censorship it has become today.

“Democracy is getting the NGOs to agree with BlackRock, to agree with the Wall Street Journal, to agree with the community and activist groups who are onboarded with respect to a particular initiative,” he says.

Journals like The Economist have come up with the term ‘flawed democracy’ for nations like India which have refused to kowtow to the globalists’ writ. This full-blown war on free speech is waged under the pretence of ‘fact-checking’, ‘checking hate speech’, and ‘combating misinformation’.

But behind these benign, democratic-sounding catchphrases is the globalist agenda of the likes of George Soros, the Rothschild family, and Klaus Schwab. They want weak and pliable governments worldwide that host parasites. They resent strong, nationalistic governments that seek to preserve sovereignty and cultural identities. The predatory globalist elite want, many say, to move towards one government or force whose writ runs the planet — legitimately or from behind the curtains.

This is why networks like Soros’s or the Deep States attack a democracy’s instinct to safeguard itself. They want the US to defund the police, allow race riots on the streets, cripple the younger generations with gender war. They want Europe to allow demographic shifts through illegal immigration and hijacked institutions. They want Russia and China to be sanctioned into oblivion. They want Africa to be an extremism-torn, famine-ridden treasure trove to be cynically mined by these same, greedy networks.

Then there is India. A rising power and a vibrant democracy under a strong and stable Narendra Modi government, which must be defeated or destabilised. For them, Hindu nationalism, the bulwark of the resurgent civilisation, must be dismantled. Historians to journalists, social activists to senators have been assigned to create the right conditions for anarchy.

As senior journalist Utpal Kumar writes in his book, Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy: “One can cite several Western reports pushing the same vacuous, anti-India narrative: that India is an economic powerhouse, but is being run by Hindu nationalists; that Modi is popular but he is authoritarian; that India is a democracy, but a flawed one where minorities are being targeted and oppressed. The above facts are like Biblical commandments, needing no proof whatsoever. India is condemned without even an iota of evidence supporting that,” writes Utpal. “Ironically, the West’s own record on race and religion has been quite mediocre, if not dubious…when such an incident occurs in the US, it becomes a crime case, but in India, the same is projected as an institutional failure, deterioration of democracy, and targeting of minorities, Dalits, and more.”

He says while the West passes strictures on the state of the refugee/immigrant situation in India, it signs an anti-migration deal like the one the European Union did with Tunisia. While the West lectured India on the violent and irresponsible farmers’ agitation, when similar protests rocked Canada and Europe, the same authorities rushed to clamp down.

The Western media relentlessly peddles a narrative that Modi is shrinking the democratic, secular space for minorities, women, and Dalits.

“Those who paint India’s anti-minority image in the name of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), gloss over the fact that the Modi government has spent Rs 22,000 crore on minority welfare and awarded scholarships to around 3.14 crore minority students, which is 20 lakh more than provided by the UPA-II dispensation. The minorities are also the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) push, as they mostly run or work with small and medium enterprises,” Utpak Kumar writes.

“On the women’s front, this is the first government that has taken up the toilet and swachhata—meaning cleanliness—issues with the urgency they required. When Prime Minister Modi first talked about toilets during his Independence Day speech in August 2014, many eyebrows were raised. Women, especially from villages, are the biggest beneficiaries of this scheme. As for Muslim women, this is the first government to bite the triple talaq bullet. With regard to Dalits, one needs to look at the BJP’s performance among this community in Uttar Pradesh…According to a Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) post-poll study, the BJP’s Jatav base went up from 5 per cent in 2012 to 21 per cent in 2022, and the non-Jatav base grew from 11 per cent in 2012 to forty-one per cent in 2022. How can a party that oppresses the Dalits and discriminates against them get this kind of support?”

So, clearly, the agenda is not to push democracy but exactly its opposite. The chief weapons are words and phrases like ‘secular’, ‘liberal’, ‘combating hate speech and misinformation’, ‘fact-check’, while inverting them to cover just the opposite.

No nation or democracy must give up its self-preservation instincts. Heads of nations heed Don Vito Corleone’s advice to his son Michael in The Godfather, albeit slightly rephrasing it: “Whoever comes to you offering advice on secularism, liberalism, open societies, and democracy is the enemy.”

Abhijit Majumder is a senior journalist. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18’s views.