Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
The term color revolution came into general usage in the early 2000s during a series of protests in the post-Soviet states.
The purported aim of these revolutions was to rid the countries of corruption and to establish Western-style democracy.
The revolutions were triggered by what the West viewed as falsified election results, and were highlighted by use of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the protests.
Critics say that color revolutions constitute unlawful interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
A non-governmental organization is an organization that generally is formed independent from government; however, a search of their funding will almost always reveal government funding from some source. For example, a Ukrainian NGO, the Data Journalism Agency, is U.S. funded through a subgrant with the National Democratic Institute (NDI). This NGO is also a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
As a thought experiment, suppose there was a close election due in a month or so. Further suppose that a major story concerning one candidate’s son and his involvement in the use of drugs, pornography and prostitutes was published in a major newspaper.
Hard evidence for the authenticity for the story was available on a laptop computer that belonged to the son. You don’t have to suppose any of this, you are aware that it actually happened.
The story was published in October 2020 and fearing the results of the up-coming election, a non-governmental organization in the form of a major political party sprang into action. This NGO organized 51 current or former intelligence officers to sign a letter that stated, “The arrival on the U.S. political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The letter went on to say that while the signers of the letter had no evidence of Russian involvement, “our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”
The letter never claimed the laptop story was false. It just had those “classic earmarks.”
The story was true. I don’t know what “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” are, but my research into this narrative leads me to believe it has all the classic earmarks of an NGO intelligence operation. Maybe a color revolution?
Rube Render is a former Clovis city commissioner and former chair of the Curry County Republican Party. Contact him:
