Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a Government. When
the Government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant, controlled press and a mere token opposition party. This sums up, in totality, the press, the media and either of the political parties here in America.
1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, it's not news, it didn't
happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the "How dare you?" gambit.
3. Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through "rumors." (If they tend to believe
the "rumors" it must be because they are simply "paranoid" or "hysterical.")
4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike. Republicrat's are masters at this.
5. Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist,"
"nutcase," "ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and, of course, "rumor monger." Be sure, too, to use
heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the "more reasonable" government and its defenders. You must then
carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own "skeptics" to shoot down. A classic tactic that has been used in America by both the Government and the press for a number of years now.
6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to
over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
8. Dismiss the charges as "old news."
9. Come half-clean. This is also known as "confession and avoidance" or "taking the limited hangout route." This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless,
less-than-criminal "mistakes." This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With
effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets. In other words, spread "disinformation". Another classic tactic of the Government and ALL
agencies, especially the CIA, NSA, FBI, DOD and so fourth.
10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable. (What?)
11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press.
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely.
13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions. Again, the Republicrat's are masters at this. Just look at how many times "Leaders" bombed and strafed innocent countries simply to distract attention away from the criminal diasters they had created for themselves.
14. Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as "bump and run" reporting.
15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the "facts" furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source. A tactic practiced daily by the various Federal Agencies of
America.
16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges "expose" scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people
for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.
17. Flood the Internet and ALL levels of society and business with agents, precisely as Hitler did in Germany so many years ago. Supposdely, that number (of agents) has reached a minimum of 40,000 - probably a
very low (estimate). This is the answer to the question, "What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending
the government and/or the press and harassing and REPORTING genuine critics?" Don't the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to
print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows, rarely printing the truth in any written document, would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.
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Submitted by truthsupplier on Sun, 2004-09-12 09:54. login or register to post comments | email this forum | 0 points
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#12 is the creepiest one. I've read a lot of conspiracy theories. Most are nuts, but some of the facts are nonetheless eerie. I often wonder if they just refuse to publish any conspiracy theory not containing lizard people or satanic rituals (lizard people still seem more plausible to me than anything Ann Coulter says). But getting to the point, I also study sociology. And since C. Wright Mills, many of us have barked up the tree of the elitists that keep us all under control and we always keep saying that it's a structural thing, not a conspiracy. Rather than an illuminati or even a military industrial complex, we implicate subtle social forces that manipulate people in power to work together. Still, someone has to be feeding this process and knowing it. Reaganomics (which is supported by top-tier Democrats, otherwise known as new democrats) took away from the middle class and gave to the rich. Was this unintentional?
What I'm leading up to is this: Why do we waste all this time worrying whether it's a conspiracy or not? All the most troubling facts about conspiracy theories (other than lizard people) are true. The middle class is disappearing. Both parties, at their highest levels, are controlled by the interests and values of Wall Street. Meanwhile groups of civilians are becoming more and more polarized and the checks and balances are falling out of government. Apathy and consumerism are the biggest shared qualities of Americans and we are generally more concerned with others' lack of morality than our own morality. Does it matter if this is the root of a conspiracy theory or a structural problem? Either way we must work together to stop it or suffer the consequences.
But what do they always say? There is no conspiracy. Ok. But this answer does not dismiss the problem. That seems to be a big thing in politics these days. Use a powerful dismissal that kills the opponent's credibility, then ignore the rest of the problem. If part of it is false, the whole thing must be false. The public buys that logic, but there have to be some who see it is a fallacy.
From:
http://community.freespeech.org/without_justice_there_is_just_usOne thing I might add is:
- Divide any debate into either "Left" or "Right"
If you dare become a skeptic of the official story you are instantly described as being a "Leftwing Loony". On the other hand you might be named a "Rightwing Extremist" for supporting the 4th Ammendment.
Timothy McVeigh was hired to infiltrate the Patriot movement in America and associate their activities with that of the far right.
