Anonymous Launches Campaign to End Media Blackout of Jill Stein

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By Claire Bernish at theantimedia.org

 

United States — Anonymous has launched a campaign against the veritable media blackout of Green Party candidate, Dr. Jill Stein.

The video can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Szq378Ta14

Though, as the video announcing #OpJillStein notes, the collective comprises such a varied group it could never be unanimous — and would not endorse any political candidate — Anonymous has “always had a mission to create an informed public, to expose corruption, and to circumvent censorship.”

With mainstream, corporate media’s devotion to the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton — anapparent result of coordination with her campaign — many viable third-party candidates, like Stein, have been denied coverage. Bypassing the media that abandoned her, Stein instead launched a successful campaign blitz through social media — but that, alone, cannot possibly match the power of a corporate media blitz.

That’s where Anonymous comes in.

After several #Ops exposing corruption, media blackouts, and scandals surrounding several establishment candidates, the announcement continues:

“Sanders’ supporters have accused us of showing bias by ignoring U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, and we agree. This candidate has not only been censored and ignored by the mainstream media, by Google, and by Twitter, she was even arrested and held in a black site during the 2012 election for trying to attend a debate.

“In the interest of avoiding mainstream media’s bias against third party candidates, we endorse this suggestion for #OpJillStein.”

Anonymous encourages everyone to disseminate as much information as possible about Stein and her policies, and “to insist she has a voice in future debates” and receives proper media coverage.

Support for Stein surged following the absurdly comical crowning of Clinton as the presumptive Democraticnominee by the Associated Press, which had the purportedly desired effect of discouraging voters in California’s primary from turning out for Bernie Sanders — himself the subject of a dearth of media coverage.

Stein capitalized on the burgeoning disgust over establishment politics, denigrating the idea of changing the system by voting for an only partly anti-establishment candidate — subtly pinging Sanders’ supporters for not going far enough in their desire for change — in two tweets, which stated:

 


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5 COMMENTS

  1. What a Fucken joke. Bernie had a lot of supporters but they were too stupid to change their voting preference to democrate from independent, leading to proviaionary ballots that can be tossed. Blame Bernie supporters for all theory and no action.

  2. Australia is currently undergoing an election campaign; but unlike in the USA,
    the Greens are one of the second tier parties, usually accruing 10-15% of the vote, in some electorates even double or triple that figure.

    The MSM in Australia also treats the Greens with contempt,
    ignoring their presence as much as they can, and invoking senseless and inaccurate cliches to dismiss the Greens as fringe lunatics.

    As with US politics, the major parties do their damnedest to participate in the mudslinging and dissemination of bullshit.
    The Labor Party recently brought out a former Prime Minister to declare that the Greens are self-serving Trots; this from a man who lauded General Suharto of Indonesia as a father-figure and mourned Suharto’s loss in an obituary he wrote for the former dictator when he died in 2008.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/25/paul-keating-slams-greens-as-self-serving-opportunists-and-trots

  3. I recently conducted a poll on Twitter. With substantial vote from both independent, Clinton and Trump hashtags. 27% did not like Bernie campaigning for Clinton, 70% said they opposed voting for Clinton and would not and 17% said they knew little about 3rd party candidates. It seems to that Dr. Stein is playing her candidacy but few know how she became the candidate, disliked her choice of VP another unknown to the mass or the platform besides green. If Trump were to win or even Clinton, a strong spokesperson for a valid 3rd party could take the Bernie ashes and in 4 years have a strong 3rd party but it cannot wait for election year 2020

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