Governance Reform and taxpayer funded censorship
“We’ve seen throughout this country that the DOJ and the FBI are controlled by one faction of our society,” DeSantis said on the call, pointing to how those agencies were “going after pro-life activists,” wrongfully investigating parents at school board meetings “who are concerned about things like critical race theory, and forcing kids to wear masks,” and “colluding with tech companies to censor information such as what they did with the 2020 election.”
There are some functions DeSantis would not allow law enforcement to do at all. For instance, he told advisors that as president, he would “completely put the kibosh on the FBI and DOJ’s nonsense with respect to so-called misinformation.”
There are other things DeSantis would have the Justice Department do much differently. He described the mission of the Civil Rights Division during his presidency as one where the agency “is actually policing discrimination.” That division would be truly colorblind, the governor said, because “discrimination is discrimination,” adding that he didn’t think it was acceptable to discriminate against individuals who “happen to be white or Asian.”
And while much of the DeSantis plan to end “weaponization of federal agencies” involves limiting and focusing the role of the Justice Department, the governor pointed to one area of federal expansion. Pointing to Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, he promised to direct the DOJ to go after and hold “accountable” progressive local prosecutors who “are not prosecuting cases against violent criminals.”
Even at that, reforming justice doesn’t pay as well as disrupting school board meetings. Freedom Inc. paid its co-executive director in 2021, the disputatious M Adams. $545,038! That’s according to the non-profit’s IRS-required 990 form, unearthed by the Werkes’ CPA. Up from $116,115 the prior year on income of $8.3 million.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Irony is Freedom Inc. picketed Mahoney’s residence during the push to expel police from our high schools. Unless one believes local law enforcement is targeting minorities for spitting on the sidewalk, we observe (once again) that correlation is not causation.
