Omgekeerde waarheid
Intussen is ook [Homeland Security Secretary] Ridge lekker bezig. 'Ridge unveils anti-terrorism tips' is de kop boven een artikel van MSNBC. 'The United States has not seen a public safety campaign on this scale since the Cold War drills and bomb shelter precautions of the 1950s and 1960s. [...] Dubbed the Ready Campaign, it will include television ads advising Americans how to prepare for the worst.' In de beste Skull & Bones-traditie van omkering, zeggen de autoriteiten dat 'they crafted the Ready Campaign to avoid scaring people'. En in de beste Amerikaanse traditie van infantilisering: 'The Ad Council — the nonprofit group that came up with Smokey Bear’s “Only you can prevent forest fires” and McGruff the crime dog’s “Take a bite out of crime” slogans — helped put together the campaign.'

Angst als strategie
In dit artikel is iemand het duidelijk zat geworden: 'Endless Fake Terror Alerts: Fear Based Mind Control'. Het artikel ligt in het verlengde van de vorige DaanSpeak in deze serie. 'If I called in a hoax bomb threat to a government building I would rightfully be arrested and yet our governments have been doing the exact same thing on a larger scale without retribution', schrijft Paul Joseph Watson. Hij haalt in zijn stuk een ander interessant artikel aan: 'Sources within both the FBI and CIA tell Capitol Hill Blue the Bush administration keeps up the pressure to come up with “something, anything” to support the glut of vague terrorism alerts from both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security. “Most of the time, we have little to go on, only unconfirmed snippets of information,” admits another FBI agent. “Most alerts are issued without any concrete data to back up the assumptions.” [...] 'Sources inside both the FBI and CIA say recent disclosure of a White House planning memo listing the war on terrorism as a legitimate political advantage and fundraising tool is just one of many documents that discuss how to use the threat to greatest political advantage. “Of course the White House is going to exploit the terrorism threat to the fullest political advantage,” says Democratic strategist Russ Barksdale. “They would be fools not to. We’d do the same thing.”

Bewijzen van strategische leugens
In de vorige DaanSpeak in deze serie vertelden we over angstaanjagende waarschuwingen die waren gebaseerd op leugens. Paul Joseph Watson voegt nog een aantal voorbeelden toe.
1. 'A plot to release cyanide in the London Underground was ‘foiled by MI5’ and splashed across the front pages. The fact that no cyanide was ever found and most of the suspects were released within days was barely mentioned. Nine arrests were made under anti-terrorism laws and yet six of those detained were released within hours.'
2. 'In late January 2003, 28 Pakistani men were arrested in a raid in the Italian city of Naples. The headlines shrieked that the men were plotting assassinations and bombings of NATO targets. They had maps of London, the U.S. consulate and American naval bases. They were a definite ‘Al-Qaeda terrorist cell’ in possession of 800 grams of explosives, enough to blow up a three-story building.' Maar een paar weken later meldde de BBC: 'Italy frees Pakistani terror suspects'.
3. Over Britse troepen die in Afghanistan chemische fabrieken moeten opruimen. Nota bene bondgenoot VS spreekt de Britse feiten tegen, waarop de beslissing is gebaseerd de troepen te sturen: 'A White House spokesman, drawn into the row, said 'no evidence' had yet been uncovered in Afghanistan that Al Qaeda had succeeded in producing anthrax or other biological or chemical agents', zo staat te lezen in The Observer: 'Story of find in Afghan cave 'was made up' to justify sending marines'.

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