Hang ’em high; Obama’s “red line”

I write about “thought control” here now and then, but the concept has no penetrating power. Humans are self-contained self-validation machines, so that any suggestion that the mind is thinking thoughts supplied by others is immediately rejected. That’s actually why it works.

So it might be useful now to witness an real-time example. The supposed Boston Marathon bombers have been mauled, one is dead and the other fired on without being given opportunity to surrender. Since he survived, the executive promptly announced that he has no rights, so would never be heard from again unless via the executive.*

An objective observer might look at that and say that it is wrong, illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral. Everyone deserves a day in court, and no matter how difficult, should be treated as innocent until otherwise proven guilty in a court of law by use of evidence, argument, and while defended by equally able attorneys.

And most people agree with those sentiments in principle. However, almost all of us get our opinions from our media, even as we imagine the different outlets present differing attitudes. But it is uniform across the board there – the Tsarnaev brothers are guilty. There is no examination of conscience anywhere, and no questioning their guilt. They are even referred to as the “Boston Marathon bombers” without use of the word “accused.” Since all powerful authority figures have pronounced them guilty, public opinion on the matter is set in stone too.

That’s thought control. Often, as with the supposed spontaneous eruption of the “Tea Party,” it is done by suggestion. In this case, there is no suggestion that they might not be guilty.

The objection to the notion of thought control is that for it to be going on, there has to be some intelligent force at work behind the scenes actively guiding and implanting our thoughts. It would be difficult in an environment where we had many independent sources of information. But anyone who scans the dial, from ABC to the other end (ZABC?) knows that all media outlets speak with one voice.

The most impressive accomplishment has been to contain the Internet as well. People are now going to a wide range of sources there for news, but it is SSDD. Huffington, Drudge, Kos and the usual suspects are not breaking any molds. You might find thoughtful discussions about who is to blame, Obama? Is he too lenient? Do we need more surveillance? But all such debate is encased in the D vs R framework, itself is a thought control device. There are no permissible thoughts on media outside those that are voiced by either of our “two” parties. They argue vehemently about the most mundane matters, but agree on the most important ones.

No one questions the guilt of the Tsarnaev brothers. That’s thought control.
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In other news, President Obama announced some time back that use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a “red line,” meaning that they were waiting for the right time to announce that Syria had used chemical weapons. The Assad regime would be guilty without trial, Tsarnaev-style.

At Voltaire Network I learned that a British defense contractor, BRITAM, had its server hacked, and found there was on odd email where there was apparent US approval for a false-flag chemical attack in Syria, the object to place blame the Assad regime and to justify yet another (once back in time illegal) preventive war. The email read as follows:

Phil

We’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.

We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have.

They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.

Frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?

Kind regards David

“Phil” and “Dave” are Britam Defence’s Business Development Director David Goulding and Dynamic Director of the firm Phillip Doughty. The issue never got on the radar screen, as the same media that has convicted the Tsarnaev brothers and is all over that … is not all over this.

Now we learn that

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the claim Thursday while speaking in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, adding that the American intelligence community has determined “with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small-scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin.”

Note the cloudy wording, the plausible deniability built in to that statement. Apparently he wants to travel abroad after leaving office without fear of arrest. In the post-Colin Powell era, Hagel is circumscribed. He’s not sure, just suspicious, but is sure it was sarin. How very suggestive!

Thought control, which no one in the US believes themselves a victim of, relies heavily on suggestion.

Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN (who has all the markings of a CIA mole), said that sources have told her that physicians working with the Free Syrian Army obtained blood samples from chemical warfare victims and provided them to US intelligence along with soil samples collected from the earth.

Sources? I don’t want to sound suspicious, Christiane, but unless you name your sources for us, don’t you have the ability to just make shit up? Worse yet, might you not be used as a disinformation pipeline, Judith Miller-style, for our latest round of bombings of innocent people in a faraway land?

That’s how it works, anyway. The American news media, regarding the Tsarnaev brothers and use of chemical weapons in Syria, has no evidence, but rather only the pronouncements of authoritative sources. But due to the power of suggestion and full-specter dominance of our information sources, our opinions are first their opinions.
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*Even though an American citizen, the executive, currently Obama, has given itself the right to murder us without due process.