The attacks on the U.S. Sept. 11th (in particular the WTC attack) was designed for a similar "PSYWAR" brainwashing effect.
The Sept. 24th issue of "The New Yorker" commented that, according to "defense experts," the Sept. 11th strike "was clearly an example of what military strategists call "psyops"; that is, a brand of warfare, whose aim is not to disable military targets, but to sap the overall will of a nation and its people."
The article goes on to quote from a 1999 paper by military strategist and analyst Joseph Cyrulik of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., "Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to the American Homeland": "By killing and wounding people, damaging and destroying their homes and communities, disrupting their jobs and economic livelihoods, and undermining their confidence and sense of security, an enemy can inflict pain to the point that people demand a change in their government's policies."
"Used at the right time and place ... an attack could destroy the people's faith in their government, their military, and themselves. It could become a decisive attack against the political will of an entire populace."
Cyrulik is part of a network of "thinkers" who seek to change all military doctrine to meet alleged 21st Century threats; in so doing, this network wants to activate psyops, including "covert warfare" such as asassinations. While we can't say that such people are directly responsible for what occurred on Sept. 11th, their assumptions about strategy, tactics, and the elevated value of psychological warfare, as well as the mis-direction involved in their ascribing powers to "terrorist organizations" or rogue states", fit nicely into their overall operation.
There are new methods (unavailable at the time of the Dresden attack) for maximizing the psychological effects of a "TERROR CAMPAIGN" which parallel standard brainwashing techniques. One involves the repetition of terrifying images, the kind that would make a person recoil and then compelling that person to continue viewing them. Such terrifying images weaken the ability of the mind to reason, making it more susceptible to suggestion and manipulation.
In the hours following the attack on the World Trade Center, every television media outlet in the United States broadcast, again and again, the images of the airplanes smashing into the Twin Towers from all conceivable angles and then the shots of the two towers collapsing. It was easily the most terrifying real-life images that most Americans had ever seen.
A population induced into a state of terror and shock was then bombarded with a SUGGESTION: images started to appear, the mugshot-like photos of the alleged perpetrators, and the image of the "evil mastermind" behind the deed, Osama bin Laden.
And you still believe that you weren't brainwashed?
The Movies In Our Heads ---
"God, this is just like a movie," exclaimed CBS anchor Dan Rather, as the first of the World Trade Center towers collapsed. "Only, it's the real thing." Did you have the sense, as you were witnessing the horror of the WTC attack, that you too, had seen this before? You probably had - and that is part of the brainwashing operation.
In the last five years, there have been at least a half-dozen movies, whose plots have centered on a terrorist attack on the United States. Hollywood statisticians have estimated that these have been viewed in movie theaters and through the sale of home videos, by more than 100 million people! And many of these movies have recently portrayed Arabs or Islamic fundamentalists as being directly behind the terrorist assaults.
Each of these films has some "expert" advisor, usually a "former counter- terrorism expert" and in some cases, someone who has worked in the military. While it would be a leap to say that the movie-production companies or the "experts" are necessarily witting accomplices in the current plot, the movies, with their "steered" scripts, helped people believe that "Arab" terrorists might be capable of doing what was done on Sept. 11th.
Long before there was television, images were placed for "playback in America's memory banks" - first by the print media, and then, starting early in the 20th Century with the first of the real mass media, the movies. Hollywood is a component of the Anglo-American media cartel, a point made more obvious by recent creation of "entertainment conglomerates" through mergers and acquisitions. Thus, a mere handful of companies, with interlocking boards, comprised of people within the Anglo-American establishment, control all of what we see in the multiplexes, on television, in the print media, and more recently, what we view on the Internet as well. A powerful example of this cartel is the recent merger of AOL and Time/Warner.
As movies were becoming a truly mass-media phenomenon, the Anglo-American commentator Walter Lippmann described their power, along with the power of the media in general, in shaping "public opinion", or what you and your neighbors think. In his 1921 handbook on the mass manipulation of the public mind, "Public Opinion", Lippmann, who had been trained by Rees, among others, at the British propaganda directorate during World War I, writes in his introductory chapter, "The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads":
"Public opinion deals with indirect, unseen, and puzzling facts, and there is nothing obvious about them ... the pictures inside the heads of these human beings, the pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs, purposes and relationships, are their opinions. Those pictures acted on by groups of people or by individuals acting in the name of groups, are Public Opinion with capital letters ... The picture inside (the head) so often misleads men in their dealings with the world outside."
Somewhere in your memory banks were planted the "pictures in your head" of the WTC attack. New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane writes in the magazine's Sept. 24th issue, "How often have we listened to these words since Sept. 11th?" The statement of fact: "The worst terrorist bombing since Oklahoma City." The promise: "Make no mistake about it - we will hunt down the enemy, we will find the enemy and we will kill the enemy." The caution: "You can't fight a war against an enemy you can't see." And the ominous look ahead: "This is a time of war; the fact that it is inside our borders means that it is a new kind of war." We have learned such sentiments like a script; that we have heard it again and again (especially since Sept. 11th) has not diminished the sternness with which we have given our assent.
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