PsyOps: 911 and Bush's Second Inauguration
author: Scott Loughrey
Loughrey argues that the US national media is employing PsyOps to control
the general population.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/911investigation/
To someone with schizophrenia, the brain is over-stimulated. Emotions, ideas
and the makeup of personality clash, rendering the individual helpless to
achieve peace of mind. That more or less describes the state of the
progressive movements in the US at this writing as well.
The media that progressives are exposed to isn't simply skewing debate and
favoring powerful institutions. It is also successfully indoctrinating the
anti-war movement. PsyOps is being waged on all of us, in a wide variety of
areas and scope. As a result the US progressive community is too
indoctrinated to understand how to effectively fight the menace in
Washington.
Inauguration PsyOps
The day (1/21/05) after George Bush's inauguration for a second term the
Washington Post published a photograph (in its print edition) depicting the
swearing-in ceremony from an aerial view. The Post openly admitted that the
photo was doctored; i.e., the caption said it was "created by combining
multiple digital images taken in succession" (The Washington Post). When
looking at the photo, it is quite obvious that the crowd size is wildly
over-represented. For example, the grandstand overflowing with people in the
top left of the image doesn't look remotely real. So, not only is the
Washington Post publishing doctored photos to elevate Bush's importance, but
the fakery is obvious. In addition, the Post's caption suggests the current
editors feel no reason to conceal its lack of objectivity when covering the
public rituals of the US government.
A similar view of the swearing-in scene appears in a very brief video clip
that was aired by Democracy Now in its post-Inaugural coverage (1/21/05).
The crowd size looks significantly smaller than what appears in the
Washington Post's image. This episode of Democracy Now, hosted (as ever) by
the ubiquitous Amy Goodman, is noteworthy for many reasons. For one, it
opens with extended video clips of Bush at the Inauguration ceremony.
Democracy Now airs video clips of Bush that show him at his most confident
and statesmanlike, as he recites the oath of office and kisses his wife and
two pretty twin daughters.
How does Democracy Now continue to broadcast extended video clips that
flatter powerful figures while still retaining its enormous stature within
the progressive community? Later in the same episode Democracy Now's
producer/correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how the DN crew managed to
document one of the most sensational episodes that took place throughout the
busy day. Scahill tells us that Democracy Now "got caught in some of the
more violent exchanges that occurred...at the heart of the scene [between
police and inaugural protesters]". Scruffy and unflappable, Scahill
describes how police employed pepper spray and metal whips against the
defenseless protesters. Scahill indicates that some of the Black Bloc
protesters were actually police infiltrators. Scahill concludes the
curiously brief segment with Democracy Now's pledge to publish some of the
photographs of these police infiltrators. (At this writing only one
photograph appears on the site, and the alleged infiltrator is hardly
recognizable. Also, none of the highly-charged photos show either him or Amy
Goodman at the scene.)
Why does DN spend so much time in the beginning of its program (1/21/05)
showing favorable video clips of Bush speaking at the Inaugural ceremony?
Why doesn't Democracy Now lead instead with the story of how Goodman and
Scahill risked their necks in order to witness the police attacking the
street protesters?
One explanation is that the entire street confrontation between the Black
Bloc, the police and the two Democracy Now correspondents was staged. This
would enable Democracy Now to begin its broadcast with video that makes the
President look good. Then to retain its credibility with the groups
resisting Bush the street scene could have been acted out (with the
cooperation of the DC police and a small crowd of actors.)
Because of its track record no one should rule the possibility that this
episode of Democracy Now was a PsyOps campaign. After all, the same program
recently helped facilitate the electoral coup d'etat of 2004 and the
subsequent massacre of Fallujah last November.
911 News Media Hoax
9/11 was undoubtedly the greatest day of visual indoctrination in world
history. The horrific video footage of planes striking the World Trade
Center was repeatedly broadcast on television on 9/11/01 and seen by
millions around the globe. In the days that followed these clips were taken
off the airwaves. They have hardly been seen on television since.
Meanwhile, a discussion has been raging on the Internet for the last several
years about whether this video was actually fake. One advocate of the idea
that the planes shown on television were not real is the Webfairy. She
provides this pictorial representation to argue that the North Tower was not
hit by an actual plane:
(The images come from the documentary '911', from Gedeon and Jules Naudet.
Note that the magnification increases as the sequence progresses. Also, note
that a new version of this footage has been recently published.)
Most people can see that this blurry object could not possibly be a Boeing
767 colliding w ith the North Tower. The anti-war movement needs to begin to
visualize the considerable power behind critically reintroducing the 9/11
images. Within this video footage lies a unique opportunity to reverse the
indoctrination of millions of people. Reexamining the official story of 9/11
could enable the Left to transcend political ideologies in order to
galvanize the masses like no other message the anti-war movement can offer.
The incentive for attacking the official story of 9/11 should be obvious.
September 11th has been employed as the catalyst for the Bush
administration's imperialistic wars and domestic repression. The invasions
of Iraq and Afghanistan, the USA PATRIOT Act, the concentration camps at
Guantanamo Bay, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the
daily assault on civil liberties have all been accomplished by invoking the
terror of 9/11. Considering the propaganda benefit that 9/11 is to the Bush
Regime it behooves the anti-war movement to reexamine the video the TV
networks aired that day.
Will the anti-war movement reverse its own indoctrination in time to stop
the Bush Regime? Stay tuned.
Scott Loughrey
add a comment on this article
Looney 26.Jan.2005 11:17
Bakunin link
Self-evidently crazed. Read this ... for yourself, or don't ...
scared 26.Jan.2005 15:30
booboo link
The Left is too scared to go there-when the chips are down the people are so
cowered by the current police state paranoia that they'd rather swallow the
Bin Laden fairy tale. There are much better 911 resources on Rense.com than
here. It would behoove the Left to investigate and make some noise, but then
someone unknown might get interested in them and POOF! you're in prison or
worse for spreading treasonous propaganda about the WAR ON TERROR. The Bush
Gang just laughs all the way to the bank (and Iran?)
head space for rent propagandists-shame 26.Jan.2005 17:53
CultureJamCleveland link
Psychological Warfare - An American soldier's perspective Current rating: 0
by World Productions
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Psychological Warfare - An American soldier's perspective
An in-depth discussion regarding the tools used by corporate interests to
manipulate the America belief system by the art of suggestion. (Hypnosis)
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/psychological-warfare_.mp3
The recording is public domain.
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