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** Putting the Pieces Together
-- from Robert Anderson
8/18/02
USArmy War College Expert: America Being Brainwashed by BushMob
** As in--RIGHT NOW!!
** Welcome to Hell on Earth
Hello, hello! Wake up -- that's the smell of YOUR brain being
relentlessly brainwashed 365/24/7 by the bloodthirsty hype-meisters of
the out-of-control BushMob, with the generous help of their vast stable
of toadlike, slavish, cloned, dog-on-a-leash, BigOil-soaked, mass-media
whores. AND, that's also the smell of YOUR Constitution going up in
flames, Mr. and Mrs. America.
THIS guy, a highly credentialed (militarily and academically) PROFESSOR
and major expert on psychological warfare techniques and all kinds of
related subjects, OBVIOUSLY knows what he's talking about!
** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm
http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm
THE BUSH GANG IS BRAINWASHING AMERICA
By Norman D. Livergood, Ph.D.
The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to
change the very way Americans think and feel.
This is the psychological dimension of the "High Cabal's" general
onslaught against American workers, just as the "war on terrorism" is
the military dimension and corporate crime and tax cuts for the rich
comprise the economic dimension.
We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in
precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.
As in the case of Nazi Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainswashing)
is a vital part of the Bush regime's strategy.
New propaganda slogans are being overtly and subliminally implanted by
Bush and his gang through their speeches and actions:
** dissent is treason
** Constitutional liberties are less important than security
** the "war on terrorism" excuses any attack on civil liberties
** the Bush administration has the right and the duty to bring about
"regime change" in any nation it chooses
** the economy is basically sound
** only a few bad apples are found in the corporate barrel, which requires
no new oversight laws
** if Bush and Cheney say they're not guilty of corporate crimes, then
believe it and shut up
Propaganda American Style
Some of these mind programming tactics are so subtle that they can be
overlooked in the hubbub of everyday life. For example, have you been
aware that the very way in which the "public discourse" is being carried
on is a subtle brainwashing strategy? In 2002, the Congress, the media,
the man and woman on the street are encouraged to ask only this
question: How should the U.S. conduct its war against Iraq?
What about the questions:
** Should the U.S. start a second war with Iraq?
** Does an unelected American president have the right to force a "regime
change" on another nation?
** Why aren't Americans up in arms about Bush starting a second battle in
his "war against terrorism?"
** Why should American military personnel die merely for Bush's insane
quest for world domination and oil?
The Bush puppet regime is engaging in other rather subtle brainwashing tactics:
** an elaborate ruse as to who was to blame for 9/11
** psychic and political numbing in preparation for war
Insanity as Normalcy
The way in which the Bush junta is conducting itself is an interesting
brainwashing technique in itself: Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and
the others continually commit OUTRAGES but don't excuse them, explain
them, or invite reflection on these affronts to morality and sanity. In
fact, when some timid media voice criticizes the Bush junta, the person
is demonized as questioning behavior which is beyond reproach.
Americans are being brainwashed to ask only the questions the Bushites
allow and they are programmed to see everything the Bush junta does as
unquestionably correct.
Personality Profiling and Simulation
In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality
profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial
Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I
conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and
brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems,
an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling,
political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:
** unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and
emotional patterns
** these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems
** these profiling systems can be used to program and control people
Personality simulation systems are being used to create political
campaigns which apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior.
TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile
viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And
sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by
the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.
Programming Americans to Accept New Views of War and the Military
My time of service at the Army War College also gave me the opportunity
to study:
** the varied mind-sets in the military
** the dynamic relationship involved in the civilian control of the military
** brainwashing in the military
When our nation was created, its founders understood that all facets of
the government, including the military, are created to serve the needs
of the people. The American colonists had fought against a British army
which did whatever its corrupt civilian monarch and other leaders told
it to do. This is why Samual Adams made the important distinction
between the need for and the danger of a standing army.
"A Standing Army," Adams asserted, "however necessary it may be at some
times, is always dangerous to the Liberties of the People."
From the beginning of the establishment of a standing military, military
personnel have had one of two primary mind-sets:
** 1. I will remain loyal to my sworn pledge to uphold the U.S.
Constitution, no matter what. If I consider a civilian or military order
or operation to be contradictory to the Constitution, I will not follow
the order and will do whatever is in my power to stop the
unconstitutional operation.
This mind-set is represented by such military leaders as (to name just a few):
-- Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty (above)
-- General Frederick Woerner--commander in Panama and replaced by Bush
senior when he wouldn't obey an illegal military order to attack Panama
-- Admiral William Crowe--Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
replaced by Bush senior when he wouldn't obey an illegal military order
to attack Panama
-- the six U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the time frame: 5/25/02 (before
their arms were twisted by Powell and Bush to fall into line)
-- Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane
-- OR --
** 2. I will do whatever my civilian and military commanders tell me to do,
without reflection on whether or not what they are ordering is permitted
by the Constitution (since I want to get ahead in the military). This
mind-set is represented by such people as:
-- Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Bush senior's
presidency (took over when Admiral William Crowe wouldn't agree to Bush
senior's illegal invasion of Panama)
-- General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Gulf War against Iraq
-- General Maxwell Thurman, commander of Operation Just Cause, the military
attack on Panama (took over from General Frederick Woerner, when Woerner
wouldn't agree to Bush senior's illegal invasion of Panama)
-- the six U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the time frame: 8/7/02 (after
they'd been coerced into agreement with Bush and Powell)
-- General Tommy Franks, current U.S. military commander in Afghanistan
Distorted Concepts of War and the Military
Since the Korean War, the "High Cabal" has been brainwashing the
American public into new, distorted concepts of war and the military:
** the military can be used by the president for whatever purposes he chooses:
-- for a police action in Korea that the president makes sure the U.S.
does not win
-- for a police action in Viet Nam that the president makes sure the
U.S. does not win
** for the invasion of Panama to capture Noriega, a criminal that had
been hired by Bush senior as a CIAoperative and now threatened to reveal
Bush's criminal activities in the Iran-Contra and other gun-running,
drug-smuggling operations
** for the invasion of Iraq to make a "regime change"
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be
dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War
is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies,
and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many
under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of
the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors,
and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds,
are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same
malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of
fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of
war...and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
-- James Madison, April 20, 1795
The "High Cabal" Propaganda Machine
A number of rabid right organizations provide the Bush junta propaganda support:
** Project for the New American Century
** Center for Security Policy
** American Enterprise Institute
** Americans for Victory Over Terrorism - empower.org (Bennett, Kemp) World
** Anti-Communist League (Singlaub)
Any informed American is aware that the "High Cabal" carries on its
efforts to turn America into a full-fledged dictatorship through a
number of organizations. A partial list would include:
** Council on Foreign Relations
** Trilateral Commission
** Bilderberg Group
** Carlyle Group
** World Bank and International Monetary Fund
The Council on Foreign Relations is the "High Cabal's" mandarin stable,
where sycophants write articles and chair meetings to discuss what
policies and strategies the current puppet government must follow. A
recent Council On Foreign Relations Task Force report ordered the Bush
Administration to upgrade public diplomacy because too many people in
the world, especially Arabs, don't like Americans.
Yowsuh! the Bush puppet gang replied, and went into immediate action,
creating a new Office of Global Communications (OGC) to coordinate the
administration's foreign policy message and huckster America's image
globally. The OGC supplants a smaller propaganda group set up during the
war in Afghanistan, when the Bush junta feared that the US was losing
the public relations battle even though winning the war.
The U.S. government has had a propaganda arm since 1942, centered in the
US International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). IBB broadcasts in 52
languages around the world and includes:
** the Voice of America
** the Office of Cuba Broadcasting
** the Worldnet Television and Film Service
** and a new service, the Middle East Radio Network (MERN)
Bush's Fake Economic Forum
As this article is being written (August, 2002), Duhbya is trying to
brainwash the American people into thinking that the economy is okay,
that only a few "bad-apple" CEOs of corporations have crossed the line
of criminal behavior, and that no new legislation is necessary to stop
runaway corporate crime that his administration has encouraged.
Fortunately, a considerable number of Americans, including even some of
the usually supine press, are seeing through this propaganda swindle. An
August 13, 2002 MSNBC opinion piece by William Saletan brands the effort
"Bush's Fake Forum."
"This afternoon at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas,
President Bush and Vice President Cheney sat side by side on the stage
of a packed auditorium for more than an hour. That's the first time
they've been that close together for that long in public since Sept. 11.
Evidently they're no longer afraid of terrorists. What they're afraid of
is Americans."
An August 14, 2003 Washington Post editorial called the "forum" a
confidence game.
"The theme of those reports was that the country needs lower taxes, that
most corporate executives are honest and that the solution to corporate
scandals is less, not more, regulation.
"Recession and the cost of war and the cost of homeland defense have
increased our deficits," Mr. Bush said yesterday. At his forum, there
was no one to remind him that tax cuts are playing their part too. In
the real world, they're part of the arithmetic."
Frank Rich's 8/17/02 Op/Ed, "The Waco Road to Baghdad" caught even more
of the brainwashing aspect of the fake forum.
"Though the president's harshest critics think he's stupid, I've always
maintained that the real problem is that he thinks we are stupid. He
never doubts that his show will distract us from bad news. Waco was
supposed to make us forget the latest round of economic headlines:
stagnant wages, slowed growth, new all-time records in personal
bankruptcies and consumer borrowing."
The fake forum was seen in its true colors when the Bushites had to
admit that the participants were coached in what to say. Their attempt
to call the coaching material "talking points" just didn't cut it.
Paradoxical Psychological Manipulation
A powerful strategy of clandestine brainwashing is to send a
communication with two, paradoxical messages.
For example, the movie series, The Godfather, contained these two
contradictory messages:
** mafia crime families are just like ordinary people
** a mafia criminal will kill his own family if necessary; don't think he
would hesitate to kill you if ordered to
Even intelligent people can be taken in by this brainwashing technology
of paradoxical messaging. An example of this phenomenon is a current
operation by the Advertising Council.
The Ad Council expresses it overall purpose in this way: "We marshall
[sic] the volunteer forces of advertising agencies and media companies
to affect [sic] positive social change." You can, in the example,
interpret "effect positive change" as "brainwash people into fearful submission."
One of the Council's current operations is called the "Campaign for
Freedom." If you believe the Council,
"The initiative is designed to assist Americans during the war on
terrorism through the development and distribution of timely and
relevant public service messages. This first round of PSAs for the
campaign has been created to celebrate our nation's freedom and remind
Americans about the importance of freedom and the need to protect it for
future generations."
"According to research, Americans are looking for messages that will
inform, involve and inspire them during the war on terrorism. This
inspirational campaign is advertising's gift to America on the occasion
of its birthday, Independence Day. All of the ads conclude with the
powerful tagline, "Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it."
The first of six video clip "messages" involves the image of an American
urban block, with the voiceover:
"On September eleventh, terrorists tried to change America forever."
The image changes to the same urban street but this time with American
flags hanging in front of every house.
"Well, they succeeded."
Now, that seems rather prosaic, doesn't it? The message is: "We showed
those terrorists what we're made of!" Nothing to quarrel with, is there?
Well, maybe. Note the critical element of the image/message: EVERY house
has a flag in front of it.
So the paradoxical message is: America is changed forever to a 200
percent patriotism that can see no wrong with whatever the Bush
administration does.
The other one I'll analyze here is one in which a college age kid
goes into a library and hands a a list of books on a request slip to a
female librarian.
The boy says to the librarian, "I can't seem to find these books
anywhere."
The librarian types them into the computer and says, "These books are no
longer available."
He says, "I didn't know."
The librarian says, in an accusatory voice, "May I have your name please?"
"Why?" the boy replies.
As he walks away, he's seized by two men.
"What did I do?" he asks in desperation.
"We just have a couple of questions."
We hear the kid gasping as they roughly drag him off.
The "message" ends, as all six do, with the tag:
"Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it."
Some rather bright people have taken the "message" of this video clip to be:
"Thank God, that can't happen in America." And based on that reading of
the communication, they assume that the showing of the video on national
TV is a positive thing.
You can only believe that "message" if you don't know that the F.B.I. is
already checking libraries to see what people are reading. In other
words, that isn't a scene of a non-reality but of a very present
reality.
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