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Paul Cobaugh's avatar

Preferably a team of anti MAGA psychiatrists

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Dr. Gary W. Buffington's avatar

Paul, This article sounds like you are hyperventilating, my friend. Breathing into a brown paper bag often helps with this affliction.. On a different note, I saw the comment by our mutual friend, Giles, that you have been tossed off LI again. Do you know when LI's Liberal gatekeepers will let you come out and play again?

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Paul Cobaugh's avatar

My friend,

Nope, no "hyperventilating", just telling the truth but thanks for the advice. Yes, telling the truth on LinkedIn can be dangerous to truth tellers. In this case, attribution for my troubles comes from a couple of related sources that are directly and indirectly related, according to the data.

It would seem that these TAT essays, sourced meticulously are offensive to Putin, Iran, GOP/ MAGA operatives, especially supporting the TX GOP. I have some extraordinary CYBER connections that put the pieces of attribution together for me on a regular basis. Oh, and this may be of great professional interest; One of the attributable sources of my nearly decade long issue with LinkedIn's poor cybersecurity, is Mr. Modi's cyber thugs. It would appear that this "suspension" is most likely permanent, although I suspect that they may be more reasonable, post election.

Cheers

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Dr. Gary W. Buffington's avatar

Paul, Thank you for the clarification on your issues with LI. I always find it darkly amusing that Progressives and Liberals, who loudly proclaim from the rooftops that they are "defending democracy," are the first to censor and cancel any voices they disagree with. You may want to consider expanding your online footprint to include more centrist and conservative social media sites, Conservatives, you will find, are always more open than Liberals to the free exchange of information and ideas; adhering as they do to Voltaire's dicta: “Liberty of thought is the life of the soul” and "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." By contrast, the cancel culture Liberals want to keep us wrapped in the chains of censorship. Makes one wonder what they are afraid of.

Cheers, mt friend, and don't forget to vote.

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Paul Cobaugh's avatar

Well, at least you gave me something ridiculously funny to read.

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Dr. Gary W. Buffington's avatar

While I am always happy to oblige with humor as the occasion requires, I am curious, though, as to what you find funny about this arbitrary censorship of your free speech rights by such defenders of democracy as LI. As an innocent victim of their heavy-handed, jack booted efforts to silence your research and analysis one would have thought you of all people would have found nothing at all funny about this situation. As a self-proclaimed defender of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I am bemused that you so meekly acquiesce to being cancelled by the LI thought police. 'Tis a curious thing, indeed.

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Paul Cobaugh's avatar

Please, spare us the sanctimony. Your perpetual attempts and perpetually without evidence to label all things that are not MAGA views as so-called, "liberal" is laughable at best, willfully dishonest at worst. I was not removed from LinkedIn by any such "liberal" efforts, as you claimed, but by MAGA CYBER thugs working for, Brad Parscale, Greg Abbott, the National GOP, Ted Cruz and their collaborative efforts. This is all verified in the data collected and analyzed by cyber experts from the national security community. This has been the case since 2015.

In 2017, Jeff Stein, then of Newsweek Magazine wrote an entire deep-dive expose' in Newsweek about such efforts. As you know, I have extremely deep experience in the world of influence, from a national security perspective. This threat to democracy doesn't fall onto my account alone. Thousands of truth tellers about Russia and the right-wing extremist MAGA party, have been banned and silenced on LinkedIn. That anyone trusts this disgraceful platform still, is beyond me.

Were it not one of the battlefields to protect our nation from evil aggression from the likes of Putin, Xi, the Ayatollah and that little pipsqueak in N. Korea, I would not have remained on LinkedIn for so long. Someone (s) must defend our nation from aggression and it sure as hell won't be today's MAGA GOP, who have long sided with Putin. For the record, siding with Putin is tantamount to siding with Iran, China and N. Korea too. They are collectively, the modern version of the Axis of Evil. Every honest intelligence expert will tell you the same as I have represented in these few paragraphs.

The only thing honest in your commentary is that such efforts are not only disgraceful, but illegal and anti-American. No, my friend, I am not at all amused by MAGA's efforts with help from their Russian collaborators to silence voters and national security experts. As you recall from the 2015 - 2017 era, even a colleague of mine and former CIA Station Chief in Moscow was removed for the same reason along with others with national security expertise.

Please, I write exclusively to inform others of deep national security threats. Please, if you must comment on these threats, would you mind adding credible sources in the future for your comments instead of wielding your political identity as a tool of MAGA propaganda?

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