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The White House on Conspiracy Theorists
Consider this my 9/11 memorial piece:
Pulled from the RigInt forums by my good friend JK, comes the super-fun National Security Commission document, published on the White House website: “Strategy for Winning the War on Terror, Long-term approach: Advancing effective democracy.” In it, they cunningly accuse conspiracy theorists of essentially being recruiters for terrorism. They suggest that:
The terrorism we confront today springs from:
Political alienation. Transnational terrorists are recruited from populations with no voice in their own government and see no legitimate way to promote change in their own country. Without a stake in the existing order, they are vulnerable to manipulation by those who advocate a perverse political vision based on violence and destruction. Grievances that can be blamed on others. The failures the terrorists feel and see are blamed both on others and on perceived injustices from the recent or sometimes distant past. The terrorists’ rhetoric keeps wounds associated with this past fresh and raw, a potent motivation for revenge and terror. Subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda. An ideology that justifies murder. Terrorism ultimately depends upon the appeal of an ideology that excuses or even glorifies the deliberate killing of innocents. Islam has been twisted and made to serve an evil end, as in other times and places other religions have been similarly abused.
What this tells me is that they are paying attention and they know what they are doing. And as badly as some will react to this, I think they are right. Not only are they right, but I believe (cause I am an avowed conspiracy theorist) they are actively cultivating each of these four principles within the population of the United States. The policy is being rolled out little by little - see Newt Gingrich’s recent suggestion of there being an “insurgency” in Connecticut if you’d like further proof.
Mark my words: they are hoping to goad us into a position of greater and greater alienation, confusion and anger. And from what I have seen in my years surfing these conspiracy and “alternative” communities, they are doing a damned good job. Alienation is at an all-time high. Conspiracy theorists’ whole game is blaming shit on other people. Hacking away at the truth day after day makes you realize that maybe nothing’s true and everything’s permitted. This in turn erodes your morality little by little (as does creating apocalypse after apocalypse inside of you). The only thing they are really waiting on is for those groups (ie, us) to catch fire and to finally bridge the gap into making up moral justifications for murder. And I believe that there are numerous groups who could quite easily be groomed of goaded into taking on that role. We are being managed. We are being manipulated. What is it they want us to do? What options do they hope to leave us?
My prediction: the next major terrorist attack to happen on U.S. soil will be carried out by a blogger.
“I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane!”
Happy 9/11!
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September 11th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Dear Jesus,
I am interested in why conservative rhetoric is so extreme? My conservative uncle gets a weird glow in his eyes when he starts ranting about the evils of liberalism.I think he might be brainwashed by sinister forces. He calls me a ‘liberal commie’… Of course my Uncle follows the word of Rush and Coulter as the word of God….I end up telling him to wipe Rush’s dripping cum off his lips.
Newt Gingrich is considering a run for President- so he knows such comments will go over well with the foaming folks… You have people on the right who believe Bill Clinton is responsible for 9/11, that Saddam flew his WMD to Syria before the invasion, and that war protesters are actively supporting terrorists.
The greatest amount of alienation and anger seems to be coming from the right more than anywhere else. And considering how pathologically unhealthy they are with their love of state violence, I think a blogger commiting an act of violence is likely.
Consider this-Denny K of The Flying Monkey-Right Blog
That is fooking messed up. Look at conservative sites and their humor consists of making death threats…In conclusion, conservatives bloggers are more scary than a haunted house filled with fantastical horrors. They really are.
Yours truly,
Gnomely
September 11th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Wow, do you have a link of where that person said that?
September 12th, 2006 at 1:43 am
wow… the dots connect for me like this… Ned Lamont (re: “insurgency in CT”) is an anti-war candidate, who, if I remember correctly, won against Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary for Senate, thereby forcing Lieberman to go into an independent category. I see Newt as somewhat tipping his hand in that the “big boys” (read: the White House) enjoy some protection from the media and hearing what they want to hear from MSM, and he is out of the process and somewhat jealous, I would say “playing catchup” or pandering to the rabid right to such a degree that a democratic election for Senator from CT for chrissakes is
“insurgency”… Much less an American democratic primary… This is blowing my fucking mind. Now this is disturbing in a myriad of ways. Firstly it sucks or is good depending on your perspective that the gloves have come off, clearly if you don’t support the white house party line, you’re a target. And since we seem to have pissed off half the world already, we’re a target, so you can’t win. If you can’t see that you are disenfranchised, you are a fuckin’ retard. (yeah you too you rich fuck reading this thing…. all those zeros at the end of your bank statement aren’t going to do shit when the lights go out, there’s no gasoline, and the shit hits the fan)…
This whole thing about disinformation and lies is cute, Clinton’s reaction to Sandy Berger’s comment to somebody about not being authorized to take out bin Laden at the time for the new tv 9/11 miniseries or whatever (I seem to remember Cnn.com’s headline for the last couple days being a variant of “clinton to 9/11 film crew: get it right!).
It’s time to park this horse at the trough, have a couple drinks and figure out which way this bitch is going, there is no time to fuck up again, you have unresolved wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now apparently Iran and No. Korea are on the short list, it’s just a matter of time till someone pops a nuke.
Anybody from the white house reading this should really not feed their own ego and think nobody sees what the fuck is going on.
Just don’t threaten to kill us or imprison us in gitmo because we have the balls to talk about it…
“Blogs are not ‘dirty bombs’.”
-tc
syseng@msn.com
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September 12th, 2006 at 8:17 am
But…in order to believe the White House’s “official” version of events, wouldn’t one have to be *gasp* a conspiracy theorist?
September 12th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Yes! Right on, J! It’s still a duality…THOSE conspiracy theorists are just, you know, the practical, smart patriotic guys…therefore, they’re not paranoid, conspiracy-noids, just on the side of Truth(TM)! THESE OTHER conspiracy theorists, though, are bonkers– traiterous, terrorist-abetting degenerates! And yet, they’re ALL fellow travelers! But then again, I just see in-fights going on everywhere in the political picture show…(Anti-NWO, crypto-christian identity patriots/neo-nazis vs. Pro-Imperial, neo-con fascists, etc.)
September 12th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Found out about it from
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/200...rvative-pundits-reveal-murderous.html
(my ignorance is quite profound, I don’t know how to reduce such a long link)
The site doesn’t exist anymore but there is a jpg- http://agonist.org/files/active/0/ashamed.jpg
Lastly, I must say I simply love the word ‘wow’ and palindromes in general.
September 12th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
er….this makes me really nervous. i was in an airport today, and noticed signs the airport had placed with a picture of the twin towers imploding with “we will not forget” next to the area with the long line of people waiting to have checked luggage scanned…and remembered all the rumors i’d heard about people collaborating to airbrush the towers out of the skylines of NYC to ‘help people heal’….
isn’t this what our governement is doing though? i mean, really….at the risk of sounding completely naive, i must observe here that it seems the biggest problem they have is acknowledging the fact that they’re perpetuating this….
hrm.
September 12th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Oh they know they’re perpetuating it and it isnt a problem to them!