(October 31, 2022)—As most readers of this blog are by  now are well aware, the global online audience viewing New York Senate candidate Diane Sare and her supporters’  numerous historic interventions to stop the NATO-captivated U.S. drive for nuclear war with Russia have far surpassed any of the MSM’s “coverage” of the so-called election for US Senate in New York State. This past Sunday evening, Sare conducted the actual debate concerning the issues of this election in front of Union College in Schenectady, New York precisely at the time that a sham one was occurring in some secluded location inside the college at which no public audience (including any of Union College’s students!!) was allowed to attend. That “official” debate was so irrelevant that virtually no major newspaper in the state has yet to even report it having occurred. Yet, Sare’s debate and her continued interventions will, again, most assuredly far surpass viewership and popularity.

That said, in a recent blog former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter put a sharp point on this yet-another-example of political censorship in the so-called “democratic” United States:

“The suppression of free speech is inherently detrimental to American democracy. The tools of suppression come in many forms, including malign manipulation of so-called ‘rules.’ Case in point—Diane Sare. Despite qualifying to be on the ballot as a candidate for Senator for the State of New York, she is being excluded from participating in the only debate being conducted by the candidates for that seat. The reasoning behind this exclusion—that Diane failed to qualify for the debate because she did not garner at least 15% support in the three polls used by the organizers as a litmus test for participation—is mooted by the fact that none of the cited polls had listed her as an option.

“Diane was put in ‘debate jail,’ where she waited to see if public pressure to include her could somehow succeed in placing her on the debate stage. To date, it has not. And while Diane will protest this effort to silence her voice by holding a rally on the campus of Union College, at the intersection of Terrace and Nott Streets in Schenectady, NY, at 6.30 PM on Sunday, October 30, the fact is her voice will not be heard on the same stage as the other two candidates for US Senate. This is an insult to the citizens of New York, who will be denied the opportunity of listening to Diane Sare on the same stage as Chuck Schumer and [Joe Pinion], the Democratic and Republican party candidates, respectively, even though 66,000 of them signed the petition qualifying her name to be placed on the ballot.

“Sunday night is the decisive moment in the race for this critical Senate seat—New Yorkers are going to be able to compare the performances of two of the three qualified candidates for Senate. One cannot speak of genuine representative government if qualified candidates are deliberately excluded from participating in the sole venue where voters get to make side by side comparisons of how the candidates comport themselves under pressure. By excluding Diane from the debate, Spectrum News is all but killing her candidacy. That is not democracy, nor is it free speech.

“This is the kind of behavior one would expect from a third world dictatorship, and yet it is happening right here in the US, right now. The damage done to New York democracy by keeping Diane off the debate stage is impossible to quantify.”

True enough, and yet the damage to human civilization by suppressing dissenting voices like Diane Sare in a world nuclear superpower hell-bent on war is almost unfathomable.