The Insanity Of The Manipulated Masses
During the weeks after 9-11 and during a time when the
Bush Administration was talking about aggressively
attacking the invisible enemy he called "world
terrorism," something very strange happened to a lot of
Americans.
I think just about everybody went crazy.
Everywhere you looked the American flag was flying. The
red, white and blue was displayed on store fronts, on
every flag pole, and their cars.
Young men and women rushed to local recruiting offices
to sign up because they wanted to defend their country.
America was like a hive of disturbed bees, buzzing
about wildly, prepared to sting anything that looked
threatening, and sacrificing their all to do it. Nobody
was thinking. Everybody was going to war even though
nobody knew exactly who the enemy was.
While patriotism is usually a good thing, somehow I
thought there was a lot of overplay going on. And for
many, it still is. Throughout the Midwest those flags
are still waving, and it seems they are even bigger
than they used to be.
Even our leadership was caught up in the frenzy. The
Bush Administration sent troops off to attack
Afghanistan because intelligence told us that Osama bin
Laden was the mastermind behind the attack. And even
though Osama is a native of Saudi Arabia, intelligence
said he was operating with the Al-Qaeda, a group of
radical Moslem militants stationed in Afghanistan. Thus
we bombed, shot and killed Afghanistan people. Then we
shifted our attention to Iraq and did the same thing
there and for even less defined reasons.
Two years later we are still in Afghanistan. We also
are in Iraq. And our troops are caught in a strange
quagmire that can't be resolved. Many thousands of
innocent civilians in both countries are dead. Hundreds
of our troops are dead and many more are hospitalized.
Osama bin Laden is still at large. So is Saddam
Hussein. Now new intelligence tells us that the attack
might really have been perpetrated in Saudi Arabia. In
fact, most of the terrorists involved in taking over
those airplanes are now known to have been from Saudi
Arabia, not Afghanistan or Iraq. I wonder why that
didn't occur to our military leadership at the start?
Talk about going off half cocked.
While war insanity was going on our legislators let a
document called the Patriot Act slip into law without a
fight. That document, designed to strip Constitutional
freedoms and turn the nation into a police state, has
since fallen under severe public attack. The last I
heard Congress agreed to take a look at it; something I
think it didn't do the first time around.
How could stuff like this happen in the United States?
Writer David McGowan, in a recent article in the Web's
Online Journal, titled "Funtionally Insane Americans,"
suggests that most people in the United States were so
emotionally upset during the days following the 9-11
attacks that they lost touch with reality. I think they
found safety in numbers and a form of hive mentality
took over.
McGowen wrote: "the severity of any individual's
insanity is a function of the degree of that person's
disconnection from reality.
"That definition, of course, is entirely dependent on
how 'reality' is defined. From the point of view of the
state, 'reality' is whatever the shapers of public
opinion say it is. Anyone who disagrees with the voices
of authority is, therefore, insane."
One example of the mass hysterical insanity was an
arrest in Albany New York of a man who wore a "peace"
T-shirt in a shopping mall. That the man associated
himself with the peace activists of the 1960s so
incensed the war-charged masses that the man was
actually led away in handcuffs by uniformed police
officers.
Of course not everybody in America bought into the war
fever. I know that I was among thousands of people
voicing concerns to one another via the Internet in
those crucial weeks. The media all but igorned public
demonstrations opposing military action. Public
comment, we quickly found, could lead to open verbal if
not physical confrontation.
How could so many people be guided into a mass hysteria
like that?
The 9-11 event was so severe and unexpected, it seemed
to glue the public into a state of mass fear. That we
were constantly shown the video clips of the airplanes
flying into the World Trade Center towers was a form of
collective conditioning. After this, it did not take
much for the nation's leaders to take us in any
direction they chose.
Jeff Rense suggests on his web site that mental
manipulation can be accomplished through our television
sets with more than images. He said U.S. Patent No
6,506,148, for example, is a device for "nervous system
manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors."
Rense writes: "Certain monitors can emit
electromagnetic field pulses that excite a sensory
resonance in a nearby subject, through image pulses
that are so weak as to be subliminal.
"This is unfortunate since it opens a way for
mischievous application of the invention, whereby
people are exposed unknowingly to manipulation of their
nervous systems for someone else's purposes.
"Such application would be unethical and is of course
not advocated. It is mentioned here in order to alert
the public to the possibility of covert abuse that may
occur while being online, or while watching TV, a
video, or a DVD."
They wouldn't do that would they?
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