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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 10:20 PM
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"Brainwashing the hero-worshipping society" by Peter Chamberlain 8-20-2007
from Online Journal

"According to the US State Department, anyone who believes that 'vast, powerful, evil forces are secretly manipulating events,' is a conspiracy theorist."
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2318.shtml

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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 10:48 PM
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1. That's a really thought provoking read.
Its true. You've got a 9/11 truth movement and so forth that's grown large enough to undermine war efforts. All they want for a crackdown is to be able to attach the "radicalization" label used in the report from the NYPD to the truth movement, so they can be approached as terrorists spreading enemy propaganda designed to "destroy America". And all it takes for them to do this is an attack from these said "conspiracy theorists".

I have a very very strong sense that somebody would LOVE an attack, or terrorists focused on bringing down the fiat currency system or global finance. And they would love to frame the 9/11 attacks as such. I think this because I have heard it now so many times, and because such a thing would allow for essentially the biggest protection racket in human history via the new intelligence/security world on the absolutely richest organizations in the world. But then again, it could just be that there's some truth to it...
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 10:58 PM
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2. I have personal criticisms of it, yet several of the main points are spot on.
With all the extra-legal "legalisms" of an administration that lost the election of 2000 yet was installed by a SCOTUS "decision" involving the State of Florida governed by John Ellis Bush, well we have gone beyond The Weimar Republic in the sense of being manipulated by "vast, powerful,evil forces.." haven't we?

That's the BFEE. The BFEE isn't tinfoil, nor Alcoa aluminum wrap, for those of us that know them.
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 11:11 PM
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3. No kidding. I have problems with the article as well.
Edited on Mon Aug-20-07 11:12 PM by lvx35
Namely, the anti-religious and paranoid anti-zionist bits. I mean, suppose religion IS just a mass method of mind control. Then aren't they underestimating it a bit by saying its just about magical treats in the afterlife? Might there be more to this "mind control system" that has ensnared the vast majory of humanity for the last 4000 years? Might it be offering people something more than meets the eye? I'm spiritual, and I don't mind the critiques of religion as it is, what I can't stand is the critiques of religion for what it isn't.

And yes, the anti-zionist nuggets, to add that subtle aftertaste of nazism. Luckily I'm so used to be subjected to forms of information warfare from people like fox news that I don't fall for old tricks like trying to discredit a good idea by having it come from the same source as a bad idea, so these bits don't distract me from the good idea in the article whether the author is actually behind it or not.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 12:11 AM
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4. Being aware of information warfare and publicly acknowledging that fact
could be another "crime" against the BFEE lvx35. Especially when recognizing full spectrum dominance tactics and techniques in the context of asymmetry-if you catch my drift.
:)
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 02:05 AM
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5. Then damn, it feels good to be a gansta! nt
:)
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