Why did we lock down to begin with?

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Originally Posted by mfblume

From a Canadian up here who is sick of this socialism in my country, is it true that during Obama's admin that a law was passed allowing media to do whatever to allegedly protect patriotism, and that's when TWISTED news started out on steroids?

Our government was prohibited from running propaganda within the US directed at US citizens until the National Defense Authorization Act of I believe 2013 eliminated most of those protections. However, the government was running propaganda inside the US long before that. This even came up during Bush Jr's presidency at a press conference when he was questioned about.

It's not to "protect patriotism", it's to manage the population in the direction the government wants. The scope was laid out in Colonel Michael Aquino's paper titled "Mindwar" which presented a proposed new form and strategy for military propaganda. This was back in the 80s or early 90s I believe. The paper can be found on the internet, by the way. Under various NDAA's and executive orders and laws the continental US was declared part of the operational battlespace of the Global War On Terror. This created US Northern Command (NORTHCOM). Military doctrine requires the use of propaganda in the battlespace, so it naturally follows that such operations would be legalized (they obviously were).