The Underground

Column 479      November 1, 2024

It’s mostly liberals who aren’t listening, watching, and reading the modern day underground. Not everyone remembers of course, but when the Germans occupied France an underground communications industry sprung up overnight. It was dominated by the French rebels who fought to free France.

Being a participant was a perilous endeavor. Being caught quite often meant jail or death. The Nazi Germans stripped the French of many basic rights—with freedoms of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to bear arms at the top of the list. Printing, distributing, and reading the underground publications was prohibited. Secret meetings were prohibited. Listening to underground radio was prohibited. This was all intended to stop “misinformation” and “the motivations and nature of the Resistance struggle, and why it was necessary.”¹

The most famous underground radio (Radio Londres) was quickly created in 1940 by the BBC when it opened its studio to the first members of the Resistance who fled Occupied France. That radio’s goal was generally similar to the underground press. “It served not only to counter the propaganda broadcasts of German-controlled Radio Paris and the Vichy government's Radiodiffusion Nationale, but also to appeal to the French to rise up, as well as used to send coded messages to the French Resistance.”²

The underground publications consisting of leaflets, broadsheets, brochures, posters, and clandestine newspapers were quite diverse in their sabotaging goals. Some advised doctors, some advised farmers, some railroad workers, most printed stories of German defeats on the eastern front, and some were also active in printing illegal books and works of literature. “Témoignage Chrétien” became famous for its spiritual resistance against Hitlerism.

Of course the Germans and Russians competed with similar “clandestine” publications and radio broadcasts of their own. The Germans worked at counter-propaganda where the Russians focused on anti-Nazi propaganda. Of course both promoted themselves by misreporting events, especially the Russians who glorified and enlarged the Allied victories. The reporting in these newspapers was often aimed to capture and shape public opinion rather than accurately represent events.

Our modern day underground is the Internet because most of our legacy media is supportive of the far left radical socialists. The radio, television, magazine, newspaper, and entertainment mediums that were around 50 years ago have been taken over by woke socialists. In addition, the staffs at most of our nation’s colleges and universities are dominated by woke liberals.

Amazingly, for years the Democrats have been saying that Trump is an evil Nazi that wants to destroy democracy and our nation’s Constitution. Yet it has been the leftists in our government’s deep state and the elected Democrats who have been striving to censor the Internet and end democracy by taking power from the people. Many senior Democrats have actually called for the elimination of disinformation. Of course, disinformation is anything they disagree with.

Democrats have also sidestepped the democratic means of selecting a candidate for the office of president by merely appointing Kamala as candidate. Yet in their primaries she had never received so much as one vote. The Democratic party did everything in their power to keep Roberts F. Kennedy, Jr. off the ballot during their primaries and they were successful. The Democrats even tried to get Trump’s name taken off the ballots in many states prior to the election! (They also used lawfare as a way to stop Trump.)

Typical of the modern day Democrats, being hypocritical is their modus operandi. What they blame Republicans, and especially Trump, for they are actually doing themselves! It’s the Democrats that want total power coupled with the same goals and policies that Adolf Hitler used. They want Americans to be their puppets! They want open borders. They want the power of the purse to build a larger government. They want to follow their Green agenda’s list of mandates. They want anyone to vote.

The internet is the conduit for the modern day underground. The number of news-oriented and commentary podcasts is staggering. Many podcasts have more dedicated viewers than the major MSM newscasts. Many of them had to fight to stay in the game as woke government watchdogs from various agencies tried to shut them down or get them cancelled.

This brings me to the image of Mike Lindell and Linda. Mike is one of the underground survivors fighting for all Americans so they can have honest elections. For him it has been a battle royal because the government claims everything he does is misinformation. Yet he has persevered at great financial cost. His Lindell Offense Fund can be found at https://lindelloffensefund.org/

The Mike and Linda picture was taken at the Phyllis Schlafly conference that Linda and I attended this past summer at Trump’s New Bedford, NJ golf course. There were quite a few underground patriots there for sure. Mike Lindell was a featured speaker and he spoke about his insane battle that he has been fighting to establish an honest voting system for Americans. Primarily he wants real-time election monitoring, voter ID, no machines, paper ballots, in-person voting, only citizens can vote, clean voter roles, and other practical measures one would assume everyone would want. But the Democrats are dead set against all of his goals!³

The picture was an interesting experience. The conference had just ended and everyone was outside at the edge of parking lot in order to quickly make room for Trump’s press conference. So here we were standing with attendees and speakers waiting for our cars. Lo and behold, Linda noticed we were standing right next to Mike who was busy talking to someone. So she asked me if I could take a picture of her at least standing in close proximity to Mike. As I raised my camera Mike finished his conversation and quickly stepped forward and stood next to a very surprised Linda. The camera clicked and then he was off with his phone in hand.

To your health.

Ted Slanker

Ted Slanker has been reporting on the fundamentals of nutritional research in publications, television and radio appearances, and at conferences since 1999. He condenses complex studies into the basics required for health and well-being. His eBook, The Real Diet of Man, is available online.

For additional reading:

1. Underground Media in German-Occupied France from Wikipedi

2. Radio Londres from Wikipedia

3. THE PLAN: The Anti-Steal Dossier presented by Mike Lindell