The Official Blog of Anthony Gallon

So, a friend recommended to me that I should “totally” buy this domain name – that was years ago… like, 1-2-3-…..let’s see, it was exactly nineteen years ago!

Yeah, actually, it would even be around the same time of the year too, and yes I also remember exactly the room and location when it happened 🙂

But I didn’t buy it. And I forgot about it for years, and I bought other domains and I let other domains lapse… and then last year I thought anxiously “doh! someone else probably already has it!” (because I’m not the only person with parents who though my name would be a good one to have). So, I bought it, and yeah, I sat on it. .. I didn’t particularly know what to do with it because I’m not the sort of person that likes to blow my own trumpet (unless I’m trying to make a joke or something 😉 )

So you could be wondering how I came about to start this blog today, and what’s it going to be like?, am I going to just be rambling about pointless stuff like this? look how easily it flows right from my first ever blog post! … “what a terrific blogger!” you might say “such a natural”… well, no, see I really have never had any ambition to start blogging, and I’ve never followed any bloggers before, but I’m just telling you how this came about that’s all. It was last night, as I wasn’t able to fall asleep because I’d drank coffee too late in the day, and my mind was going “man I should get up and write a blog post about that Twitter announcement when they banned Pres. Donald J Trump” (yes, that’s oooold news, and again, you’ll see I haven’t ever been a follower of Twitter, and it’s just that when I saw the news that famed entrepreneur and influencer Elon Musk declined to join the Board of Directors after having become the biggest single shareholder in the company – that’s when I went looking to find out what was going on there. Turns out that Mr. Musk had been secretly dreaming of bringing liberation from the oppressive censorship regime that has captivated a many number of fearful minds in recent times:

… which, in true form to its nature, had delivered swift news of its desire to sink its teeth into him as well:

That’s when I thought “hmmm, now I remember watching some of President Trump on that day, I wonder… how exactly did Twitter spin that into a ban?…

Well,

When I found the Official Statement from Twitter, I began to read with interest:

…. well, ok! That all sounds fair enough, doesn’t it?

So, I thought “what on earth has the President said that has violated the rules of Twitter?”. Surely they can’t be saying that “peacefully and patriotically making your voice heard” is against the rules of Twitter…

So, I kept reading:

Now, I suppose that at first glance you probably can’t see how these statements are inciting violence. Am I right?

🙂 … ok, no shame in that, just, it might pay to read a bit more carefully.

Are you seeing it yet?

…. ok, then,… maybe you should switch off the tele, or, in fact – it could pay to go to the quietest place you know of just where you can’t possibly be interrupted, put your phone down for a bit so you spend a moment with me, and try and get your mind to focus on this, because, see, I’m actually very good at explaining things and I’m happy to help but the thing is you really are going to have to focus on this. I mean you need to focus on following where I’m leading you here if you want to see it, otherwise you might only be able to hear what Pres. Trump is trying to say and that’s obviously not what matters. At all. Yes and there’s no secret about that. Twitter’s language is very clear in fact to make a point of that: it isn’t what Pres. Trump has said, but what some crazy person might do if they find out that he isn’t going to be at the inauguration on the day.

– oh, hang on, no wait I might be getting confused here… if that’s all it was then it would amount to Twitter saying that they are banning the President for saying that he would not be attending the inauguration, and they couldn’t very well do that… so hang on, I might have to re-adjust my perspective again, hmmm, let’s see how I can do this,…

hmmm…..

OHHHH! …. YES! …

(can you see how much I have had to work on this for your sake? You’re welcome 🙂 )

…. so, hang on yes that was right actually, I was right: that’s actually all it comes down to, yep, and Twitter’s idea is that because they have some belief that there might be terrorists that want to attack the inauguration ceremony, they think that President Trump has a social duty to attend the ceremony in order that the terrorists’ love for him would prevent them from setting off bombs or something. The President owes his life to the supporters of the next administration, as a “Human Shield”.

No, … hang on, I’m not so sure that they’d quite want to put it like that either….

(sigh)

Do you see what I mean? It’s not that easy. To come around to their way of thinking is going to take a lot of work, so I really don’t blame Mr. Musk at all if that’s why he decided to put his time toward more worthy ventures…

Here now, if you’re ready then let’s just go through the analysis point by point and by the end you will know for sure whether you are going to be able to understand what Twitter’s problem is:

Ok. Now, keep in mind that it doesn’t actually matter at all whether Pres. Trump has any right to not attend the inauguration of the next Administration.

With that established, even if he did hypothetically have some kind of right to not attend, Twitter is saying that by telling people that he is intending to not attend, it will be further proof for those people who believe that the election was stolen, that indeed, that is what happened.

Let’s consider on the other hand: if Pres. Trump did attend the inauguration, then he would obviously have to forfeit every case he might bring to the courts if at some time in the coming days, he had found compelling evidence of election fraud. He couldn’t very well request a Court’s Order for a recount if he had already attended the inauguration, could he? No. Of course he couldn’t. What kind of court would ever consider such a thing? Certainly not a court that is competent for deciding whether election fraud has been committed!

Clearly, as Twitter will tell you, the only court that is competent for such a decision is one that decides the legitimacy of an election on the question of whether or not one President, at the end of a term, has decided to personally see to the inauguration of the next.

Therefore, evidence of election fraud has nothing to do with it.

Evidence actually doesn’t matter one iota, and Twitter knows that. The only thing that matters is what a person believes, because people act on what they think. Incidentally, evidence only works when people are willing to accept it.

That’s all it comes down to.

(As a side note: just think – if Twitter had known how to access my skill of articulation for the Comprehensive Analysis, we could have successfully argued the decision on this single point alone!)

To summarise, Twitter is saying that President Trump’s statement is dangerous because people who believe the election was stolen would not be able to hold that belief if he had decided to attend the inauguration ceremony.

Now, this one is much easier to explain in light of what we have established: obviously it is “out of order”, or “disorderly” that President Trump would dare force the courts to concede that the election was stolen! Such brazen disrespect for authority is downright arrogant. It’s as simple as that.

Twitter is sending a clear signal to the world that its platform (and specifically the people who are charged with such a heavy responsibility in the forming of social character by it), must not be placed over and above the courts of law in the exercise of justice.

Ok, let’s move on. I’m getting weary of explaining this stuff. I hope you’re hanging in there, and I hope you’re finding this helpful! 🙂

Look at what’s going on here: could anyone ever so graciously flaunt such an ego? Obviously Twitter has some inside knowledge of plots and stirrings, the desires of terrorists to do violent acts to make a point at the inaugural ceremony – and of course, the only person who could stop such a plot is President Trump himself!

Personally, after getting my head around this, I think it’s a clear-cut open and closed case on this point alone. President Trump is an outright terrorist because of the violence that only dares to come when he’s not there. I’m wondering why he wasn’t charged blatantly for threatening this violence, since that’s what it boils down to. There’s no way he could possibly explain such dangerous speech in light of the violence that is likely by virtue of his absence.

Also,

Tsk.

Such gall. 😡

Ummm, … may I please have permission to not discuss just this one little point? … I just ask because it’s a bit of a tricky one to be honest. It isn’t exactly clear as to who is doing the interpreting – whether Twitter is interpreting “American Patriots” as being the violent insurrectionists that Pres. Trump had afterward condemned, or whether Twitter has received complaints from other people who are themselves making that interpretation. Either way it’s clear that it isn’t what President Trump meant, and in addition to that, Twitter seems to be saying that although Pres. Trump did describe some of his supporters as “American Patriots”, they are also making a clear distinction by acknowledging that those supporters are not the same people as those who committed the violent acts at the US Capitol, and then we would need to explain why it is that Pres. Trump is being blamed for inspiring some violent lunatics when it is clear that he is neither addressing them nor intending to impart the crazy ideas that seem to be coming from the mysterious dark depths of their unbridled imaginations…

(I just concede that this point is literally too questionable, IMO, and we have a far better chance of sympathising with Twitter’s view if we can pretend that they didn’t say it).

Whew, I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who is getting tired from trying to turn this stuff into sense!

Now, if I may just suggest to ignore the idea that Twitter is personally offended by Pres. Trump’s claim that his supporters will have a giant voice long into the future, and that they will not be disrespected or treated unfairly. Obviously that’s the first thing that comes to mind and if you get stuck on that idea, you’re definitely not going to take sides with Twitter. So, best if you can just remember that Twitter doesn’t care in the slightest whether Trump supporters are treated fairly or with respect, or whether their voice is heard in a big way into the future – because that clearly isn’t what they’re interested in. In fact, it doesn’t even make up half of the total paragraph! So let’s look at the rest of the paragraph to see what their reasons are:

1. It proves that Pres. Trump is intending to obstruct an orderly transition:

The fact that Pres. Trump’s supporters will have a giant voice into the future and they will not be disrespected is clearly incompatible with the idea that the next administration can take office in an orderly manner. Full stop. If you can’t understand why, then that is exactly why the policies exist and it is exactly why they have to be enforced pre-emptively at times like these. They are actually doing it because of people like you! Since they are the only ones who can see how respecting Pres. Trump’s supporters and giving them a giant voice into the future is going to prevent an orderly transition of the Presidential Office, then clearly they owe it to everyone to do whatever they can to ensure that such things will not be allowed to happen on their platform.

The orderly transition of the Presidential Office will be put at risk if Pres. Trump is allowed to use Twitter. And obviously that means forever.

2. President Trump intends to support, empower and shield those who believe he won the election:

Putting aside the little logical problem we have with the aforementioned point, being that since Pres. Trump is proving that the election was a fraud by refusing to attend the inauguration ceremony, obviously there is a conflict of interests and something that we haven’t seen before: the fact that Twitter does not want its platform to be used by a person to support, empower and shield those who believe the election was stolen.

Now, there’s been a slight change of tone in my speech, and that’s because this is actually quite serious, and again it comes down to the fact that evidence really doesn’t matter these days (even though old-fashioned people have traditionally required evidence to substantiate proof). It’s now 2022 so it’s been happening for a couple of years already, but if you remember what was happening in those days, there were complaints from witnesses alleging that they had seen votes being counted over and over again, suitcases of voting papers from under the tables being processed after everyone went home, truckloads of counterfeit votes and things such as that. Now, in the weeks following the election, and even for months after inauguration, courts of law did in fact work through such complaints and they found cause to order recounts in some cases, but Twitter is acting proactively here and saying that because no such orders had yet been made, and indeed many cases had already been dismissed by the courts of law, then there simply was no proof of election fraud.

In order to lessen the risk that the next administration might be challenged by such things, it is imperative for Twitter to act so that those who do hold the belief that the election was stolen should not be supported, they should not be empowered and they should not be shielded.

The most important thing, remember, is that the Presidential Administration that is not President Trump is able to displace President Trump, because we all know that President Trump should not have won the previous election anyway.

You do know that, don’t you?

If you didn’t know that then you’d better go do some research! 🙂 There wasn’t a single day in the four years of President Trump’s office, that was without trouble from the likes of those who never expected him to win the election in the first place. For people such as the ones leading Twitter’s policy decisions, it is simply impossible to believe that the majority of American people could possibly have voted for Donald Trump to be the President of the USA. So, now if Twitter has any hand to play then you can be sure that it takes very seriously its responsibility to the pursuit of justice that has been so elusive, despite every best attempt, so that finally after every trumped-up attempt to legally depose him has failed, it is imperative that there shall be nobody to support, empower and shield the ones who believe that the 2020 election was stolen!

Ok, now granted that this fact sits in isolation and doesn’t actually have any direct relationship to the things Pres. Trump has said – still, by now it should be clear that there really is a problem: there are some seriously demented people out there who are capable of taking anything that is said and making it fit the view they want to have – and Twitter appears to have some insider’s knowledge, facts that are only alleged here, that there are terrorist groups discussing the ideas of their fantasy – such things as violent acts and violent demonstrations against a brand of government that they do not particularly appreciate.

So it only makes sense that as long as a champion of the opposition to that brand is given a voice, then they will feel that there is still a reason to have hope. It makes sense therefore, from Twitter’s point of view, to silence that voice of opposition so that the ones who are angry become discouraged and less likely to act out.

I’m not sure if that’s enough to explain it or not – but just think of it this way: that if Twitter was to allow Pres. Trump to keep tweeting, even though he wasn’t clearly inciting violence, those who are considering the doing of violence would continue to plot that violence, and then it would be happening because of the things that President Trump is tweeting about.

Do you understand? It’s not the fact that President Trump is tweeting the things that the violence is happening, it’s only that he is tweeting about things while others are becoming violent about the same things that he is tweeting about! … so by taking away the ability for him to tweet about the things for which the violence is happening, it means that any violence that happens cannot actually be happening because of the things that he is tweeting about! Twitter is doing it to keep everyone safe! 🙂

It might seem like I’m splitting hairs, but that’s why I said you need to read carefully. It’s far too easy to get the wrong idea and then to get stuck with it.

Twitter does not want President Trump to use its platform to tweet about the things that are making people angry and violent.

The bottom line.

President Trump simply should not be allowed to say the things that he is saying because those things are the same sorts of things that people are getting angry and violent about. He should have attended the inauguration to prove that there was no election fraud, and he should be banned from Twitter forever. Twitter never wanted him to be the President in the first place and it is certainly no more open to the idea that he might yet serve another term.

There.

Now, that’s all I wanted to do was provide my insights into that. I had to shake off the idea to get up and do it as I was struggling to get to sleep last night. I knew it was a bit more than a couple of minutes’ work, but I did still want to explain all this because at first glance I thought “man that’s appalling!” … “how can they possibly ban him for having said those things?”. I also felt sick and angry just by how desperate and illogical their attempts are as they twist and distort the facts against Pres. Trump, and how conceited and smug they are to blame him when clearly there’s nothing wrong with the things he’s been saying. I’d seen that same sick desperation all throughout the past four years while he had been in office, where those who had never been able to accept the election results were stuck in the everlasting state of misrepresenting the things he would say, and I recognise full-well the place where it comes from and where it leads its captives.

Well, hopefully now this has helped to shine a new light on things for you 🙂

Hopefully you can see now there is a clear divide between truth and error, and how those who take an erroneous view against someone when they really have no right to do so are just not able to see the truth at all. The harder they press into that view, the more hollow and illogical they become, and the more brutal and unreasoning they get as their patience wears thin toward those who cannot take sides with them, and then become eager to cut off and destroy anyone who does not go with them. That’s the nature of being a slave to sin, and it all begins because they took a position against the truth in order to vilify a person who didn’t deserve it.

Don’t do that with your children. Be honest with them. Keep your soul alive in the truth, trust them enough to apologise when you hurt their feelings and their forgiveness will heal you. That’s the divine knowledge of salvation in Christ:

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

Jesus Christ, Matthew 18:10, BSB

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ, Matthew 18:4, BSB

Or, if you are feeling like you don’t understand it all, then give it time, because the mind does need time to stretch and to learn to think in ways that it didn’t think before.

As for now, I’m feeling tired after typing this. It’s my first ever blog post, my fingers are tired of typing and I’m feeling a bit hungry. I think I’ve done quite well to get this blog up and running, and in future I hope I’ll be able to write just a few things that are interesting and not have to get so bogged down with cross-referencing, screenshots and drawn-out analyses 🙂

– Anthony