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free software should not be used for political purposes

Um. Did you read anything I wrote at all?

Or maybe Freedom 0, as defined by the Free Software Foundation:

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.

The act of writing Free Software is a political act. By definition.

Governments absolutely can use Free Software (per Freedom 0). And they absolutely should, because they should be transparent to their citizenry, which means the software they write and use should be available to the public to help verify that they're not doing anything nefarious. Stallman writes at length in his book that government has an obligation to use Free Software on ethical grounds.

I genuinely have no idea what you're even talking about, but it's not Free Software.