the timboucher experience

I was just thinking about back when they invaded Panama and Noriega holed himself up in that building, and the military psyops division came in and set up loudspeakers to endlessly bombard him with Nancy Sinatra’s classic, “These boots are made for walking.” What a weird idea. Effective, though, I imagine. Apparently, they did the same thing to the Branch Davidians in Waco. I’ve also read that with the Davidians, they mixed in other sounds like the chanting of Tibetan monks and the sounds of rabbits screaming while they are being slaughtered. Plus they used huge floodlights to bathe their compound in a constant glow, in order to confuse their bodies’ internal clocks.

An article on the BBC also talks a bit about how the military in Iraq currently uses loudspeakers to play sounds to simulate a variety of attacks to confuse enemy combatants. Things like approaching helicopters, divisions of tanks and the sounds of Marines charging. Apparently, they also really like playing AC/DC in order to both disorient foreigners and pump their troops up. Psyops also operates radio stations in Iraq which flood the airwaves with the likes of Celine Dion.

This site also has some information about different kinds of music you can play to piss off your neighbors, and launch your own sort of psyops campaign against people who piss you off. Of special interest though is the section at the bottom of the page where they give a bunch of examples of different musical psyops moves in the news. Here’s one of my favorites:

In 2003, Miami Beach judge Jeffrey Swartz (who once had P Diddy in his court for a misdemeanor involving a scooter) decides that noise law violators will be punished with either a $500 fine or listening to 2 1/2 hours of the entire opera La Traviata in his chambers. Since then, more than 100 violators decide to take the second option. The judge’s bailiff plays the opera on a boombox for the perpetrators who can only sit and stare back and not look out the window or nap. Between court sessions, Swartz himself will occasionally visit to explain the opera. Interestingly enough, the St. Petersburg Times (Soothing the savage stereos, February 1, 2004) reports that Swartz himself was not a long-time opera fan himself- he was dragged to the opera about six years before that by his former wife and then started enjoying it willfully.

I like that phrase “to enjoy willfully.” Also, here’s a little piece by a Vietnam vet who used to fly around an Army helicopter which played Vietnamese Christmas music, and dropped leaflets urging enemy soldiers to surrender.

And while I’m at it, I may as well go for broke and include this thoroughly outrageous thing I just found which claims that Kurt Cobain was a victim of NSA mind control.

Curt Cobain of the musical group “Nirvana” was another victim of NSA brainwashing and was terminated by NSA. Cobain had started writing clues to the NSA activities into his music to communicate it to his music followers. He referred in music to the NSA as the “Friends inside his head”. Once the NSA puts on the highest level of brainwashing pain, the subject expires quickly. Cobain used heroin to numb and otherwise slow the effect of the brainwashing.

Seriously though, if I was to join the army, I would totally make my way into psyops, because they seem to be involved in all the craziest most weird shit.

• Psyops
• Gathertogetherin/ MAKE LIFE A MUSICAL.
• The Point Puppet Musical @ The H&H Building
• “Ultra-Rovianistic Innoculation”
• The Music in Your Head