Looking Inward For What Plagues America
Looking Inward For What Plagues America
(Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash)
February 13, 2022
Watching the Canadian trucker's caravan for freedom peacefully protesting their government's oppressive COVID measures has inspired others worldwide to push back on Western governments who have declared themselves unanswerable to the people who voted for them. Many are beginning to recognize that the dissidents who have opposed the government's abuse of power during COVID have been pushing back for noble reasons that are wholly justified. Opposing mandates for experimental COVID vaccination, the imposed economic suicide, and masking that doesn't prevent viral spread have never been about racism or extremism; it's about preserving freedom. One need only look at history where tyrants have walked before to see the dangers in complying with governments who break the law, censor speech, and crush the God-given rights of their citizenry.
The trucker's revolt answers a call to duty that was made once before during John F. Kennedy's famous 1961 inaugural address. The then-President Kennedy challenged children and adults alike to embrace civic action and public service as a way of life. His iconic words, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country," called upon every American to contribute to the public good.
While the trucker's protest is a start, it will not solve our long-term problems. Many more across the globe are still asleep, or worse, they have committed themselves to enforce the whims of tyrants and turned against their fellow citizens. To explain why so many people are in denial is a complicated matter. Perhaps we can find clues within the emergence of new technology that has provided endless opportunities to abuse power and tether the masses.
For a moment, let us imagine that Twitter and social media, more broadly, is a battlefield where faceless lever pullers are all vying for control of our mind and behavior. Unwittingly, we have become soldiers in someone else's war, and our social media account is a means to control the people and us that our content reaches. Twitter posts are narrative bullets that forward someone else's plan, which intends to undermine our best interest and the best interests of our country. The cost of remaining blind to this game is the difference between freedom and tyranny.
(Forgive the length of this post but understanding the complexities of our time and the threats to our freedom requires that we challenge ourselves to go beyond propaganda memes to learn essential knowledge that will assist us going forward.)
The internet and social media have liberated billions by giving them the means to connect with others and expose them to the knowledge they wouldn't otherwise learn. However, we must consider that something else may be happening to our minds as we page through hundreds or thousands of posts over weeks, months, and years. Perhaps, the evolution of this technology is not liberating at all. Instead, it is a prison that shackles our mind shaping our thoughts and behavior and subsequently transforming our perception of reality to that of a pseudo-reality.
We can further imagine the pseudo-reality created within social media and TV through the lessons depicted in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."
In the allegory, Socrates describes prisoners chained together in a cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects, which casts a shadow on the other side of the wall. The prisoners believe the shadows are real and the world they project is reality. “Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.”
According to Statista, the monthly number of active social media users is roughly 3.02 billion, which is about one-third of the world’s entire population. A Pew Research Center report suggests that a staggering 88% of people aged 18-29 use social media, making them the highest risk for social media addiction. Those aged 50-64 report 64% consumption.
We often hear reports about China, Russia, and other Middle Eastern state actors hacking databases to steal personal data or that the US government is collecting data on masses of people without their knowledge. Last week the CIA was accused of spying on US citizens again. What are they doing with all that information?
In 1975 Senator Frank Church assembled the Church Committee to investigate the US intelligence community's unlawful use of extraordinary powers. He warned, "I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency (CIA) and all agencies operate within the law and under proper supervision, so we never cross over that abyss."
An analysis reported in Yale's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic explains how personal information can be used to target the public and socially engineer society. "Social media mining occurs when a company or organization collects data about social media users and analyzes it to draw conclusions about the populations of these users. The results are often used for targeted marketing campaigns for specific market segments."
In a 2014 study published in the Journal of Social Marketing entitled "Social engineering and social marketing: Why is one "good" and the other "bad," Emerald Insight reveals how governments, corporations, NGOs, academia, and others utilize information to alter society.
"Conceptual grounding of social marketing within social engineering, [enables] academics and practitioners to contextualize social marketing activities in a broader societal framework."
We develop a conceptual model of social engineering and social marketing, which goes beyond behavior change to incorporate the essentials of society and the influencers of those essentials. In doing so, we show that social marketing influenced behavior lies within the social engineering influenced laws, codes and norms of society, which in turn lie within the morals, values and beliefs of society.
As Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his farewell address, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” The revolving door between the U.S. government, the private sector, and academia, along with the foreign influencers and insurgents within those corporations and the U.S. government, makes for a sobering national security nightmare that is not only in the making but is now fully realized.
Externally controlling you depends upon reducing you into a being with an insatiable appetite in need of a fix, a like, or a retweet. While excesses have been man’s nemesis since the time of Adam and Eve, the modern age is challenging our inherent weaknesses in ways never before imagined. Addiction to social media, TV, the need to be entertained, the obsession with material possessions, abuse of drugs, alcohol, pornography, et al. are part of a socially engineered addiction in the extreme. Many of us have come to believe that life owes us something, and if it doesn’t deliver, we pacify ourselves with a vice to cope. Let us consider that people are not paying attention or engaging in civically-minded activities by design.
For decades, the idea that addiction is a brain disease has dominated thinking and practice worldwide. In a forthcoming book, "Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction," experts reevaluate the long-held belief that addiction is a disease. "The authors argue that our understanding of addiction is currently undergoing a revolutionary change, from being considered a brain disease to a disorder of voluntary behavior."
In 2020, CEAR Program Director and Georgia University research fellow Don Ross published "Addiction is socially engineered" in the Journal of Behavioural Brain Research. Ross writes:
It remains true to say that almost all human addiction is "socially engineered" in the sense that it results from humans' social capacity to manufacture and efficiently distribute flows of addictive products, a capacity that could not be selected against in the evolution of the brain. Addicts must make choices to recover, and in that respect, addiction is a 'disorder of choice.' However, it is concluded that the most relevant sense of 'disorder' arises at the social rather than the personal scale.
Beyond most people's purview, many of the influencers on Twitter are running information operations (IO) on their readers. Generally speaking, the goal is to control your mind and behavior to help them reach unstated goals. The U.S. Army defines IO thusly:
Information is the currency of information operations (IO), the data that, once controlled and understood, leads to information dominance and the tactical advantage on the battlefield.
There are specific behavior characteristics that many operators share. They often come out of nowhere; they possess some expertise in a subject that the media has made people concerned about, and they rapidly rise to celebrity status of varying scale.
In October 2018, Twitter launched an archive of foreign information operations (IO) discovered on their platform by foreign actors like Venezuela, China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. They failed to list any Ops by U.S. media, the intelligence community, academia, NGOs, and countless other political operatives in the US. Suffice to say; this is not a conspiracy theory. It is happening.
Stephen Coughlin’s memo “Warning On Racism” describes what we are witnessing in the narrative battle space as “organized destruction” that is deployed in mass-line attacks expressly to destroy America through political warfare lines of effort. (LOO) A mass line is a tool created by Mao Zedong and used by revolutionaries since to prepare the minds of the masses for the revolutionary transformation of society.
UA argues that the left operates dialectically through weaponized attack narratives to destroy identity. It accomplishes this objective through targeted negation campaigns that seek the denial of individual, social and national identity.
The negation process conditions the domestic populations to accept and even support violence, integrates non-violent actions to enhance effects, and shapes enduring perceptions in support of planned end states.
The LOO was ever-present during the 2020 riots following George Floyd’s death and again in the Kenosha riots following the justified police shooting of Robert Blake.
In one glaring example, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez delivered a live report in Kenosha while the chyron “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING” appeared onscreen.
These are not mistakes but deliberate dialectal attacks to alter public perception.
We witnessed it again in the arrest and subsequent self-defense trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The media and the U.S. government framed the violent mob of armed men who charged Rittenhouse as civil rights activists while Rittenhouse himself was labeled a domestic terrorist. UA explains:
As appropriated by the left, the “racism” line of effort (LOE) seeks to define all things American as “racist” in furtherance of delegitimizing all things American.
It does this, for example, by designating all things American as “white”; white nationalism, white supremacy, white privilege, etc. and therefore racist.
The end state is the suppression of all speech that promotes or defends America by designating all things American as racist.
These narratives escalate by design. To recognize their arc and trajectory, it is necessary to understand the roles they play in political warfare regimes.
As Josef Pieper observed, [in “Abuse of Power Abuse of Language”] the objective is reality dislocation; to deny people their “share and portion of reality, to prevent their participation in reality.
The U.S. government, the media, and corporate America made civil rights heroes of those who burned U.S. cities and businesses, normalizing the acceptance of domestic terrorism committed by a state-protected class.
From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, companies proclaimed “Black lives matter.” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon adopted the posture of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protests against police brutality and took a knee with bank employees. McDonald’s declared Floyd and other slain Black Americans “one of us.”
After the January 6 protests, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that Right Wing extremism had risen to become the top domestic threat to the homeland while denouncing that left-wing extremists played a part in the events.
Wray’s testimony ignored reports that the FBI themselves played a role, that agent provocateurs were spotted on the grounds stoking flames, and that Ukrainian press were filming on scene at choice locations where vandals breached the U.S. Capitol. The FBI refused to answer probing questions during Senate Congressional Investigations into their activities surrounding the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol protests.
Maybe we can imagine why all of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine have not been thoroughly investigated. It is more than a little interesting that the media has done so little to probe Hunter Biden’s illicit activities both with China and Ukraine while Joe Biden was Vice President and since.
The January 6 Capitol protest labeled by the government and media as an "insurrection" has left lingering questions deliberately unanswered for purposes that have yet to be exposed. It was not the first time the media reported a Ukrainian presence in U.S. riots or protests. In June of 2020, Turkish Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told then-President Trump that Black Lives Matter protesters working with Communist Kurdish PKK militant groups were behind "violence and looting" during BLM/ ANTIFA riots.
Erdogan "conveyed his concern to President Trump over the cooperation between the elements, who are behind the incidents of violence and looting in the U.S., and the PKK/PYD-YPG terrorist organization that operates in the north of Syria" during a phone call on June 8, 2020, the Turkish presidency said in a statement.
Perhaps Ihan Omar's visit with Erdogan makes more sense now. In March 2019, the Washington Free Beacon outed Omar's participation in fundraisers with groups that "have been tied to the support of terrorism." Later in April, The New York Post reported that a pro-Erdogan Turkish newspaper ran an article soliciting campaign contributions for Omar, which was reprinted in other publications." Other political contributions began to pour in, while Omar's voting record supported pro-Turkey policies.
As it turns out, The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP), Turkey's largest political party, is led by Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan. He's an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter who has a long history of supporting Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and al Qaeda. Erdogan's seemingly helpful warning to President Trump suggests he had an alternative motive to deflect AKP's involvement in the Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA protests.
Reports that Erdogan wants to resurrect the Ottoman State have concerned national security experts. In August 2020, the autocrat returned the Hagia Sophia into a mosque in a move that, for many, signaled Erdogan’s attempt “to revive his dwindling popularity. A substantial segment of the Turkish population sees the move as part of the effort to reclaim their country’s history,“ writes Mohammed Ayoob.
Political warfare expert, Stephen Coughlin, alludes to Linda Sarsour's possible involvement. Sarsour is a Muslim anti-Semite who has a history of collaborating with known terrorists. Sarsour organized the 2017 Women’s March that featured speakers Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian-Arab terrorist responsible for murdering Jewish students. Odeh lost her appeal of an immigration fraud conviction and was later deported.
In a speech at the 54th Annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Convention, Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women’s March, called for a “jihad” against then President Trump. (ISNA is also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terror financing trial.)
When we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad,” she said at the convention in Illinois last weekend. “That we are struggling against tyrants and rulers — not only abroad and in the Middle East and the other side of the world — but in these United States of America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.
Our number one priority is to protect our community; it is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority,” she said. “Our top priority is to please Allah and only Allah.
(D-MN) Rep. Ilham Omar is pictured below with Sarsour at a gala for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation financing trial, the largest in American history. Omar received backlash after posting an anti-Semitic tweet before the event.
Sarsour is pictured below with Black Lives Matter co-founder Marxist Alicia Garza promoting her book "We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders." Sarsour details her efforts to bring Muslim protestors to every significant American protest in distant memory. Blogger Ariel Sheen published excerpts of the book on her website that keen-eyed readers will find it illuminating. Sarsour's history of collaboration with known terrorists and her description of insurrectionist activities is another scar on the reputation of the FBI. The latter's failure enables threats to go unaddressed and further compromise America's national security.
In a September 2021 report, the Washington Examiner published “The radical roots of BLM,” highlighting a new book, “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution” by Mike Gonzalez. The author blows the lid off of the fairy tale that BLM is a civil rights movement. On the contrary, he exposes in great detail that it is a revolutionary Marxist organization.
To speak of “Marxist revolution” in 2021 is to invite questioning looks and accusations of paranoia. But by their own admission, the leaders of BLM are “trained Marxists,” as co-founder Patrisse Cullors put it in 2015. Despite recent efforts to hide the movement’s ideological origin, Gonzalez makes it plain that BLM is a far more revolutionary group than it wants its casual supporters to believe.
Gonzalez draws particular attention to the direct connection between Garza, Cullors, and Opal Tometi and the previous generation of radicals, most notably Angela Davis and Assata Shakur. And just as Davis and Shakur chose violence and division over unity and equality, their intellectual descendants continue to push an agenda far more divisive than their slogan suggests. Last summer, in response to civil rights icon John Lewis’s exhortation that “rioting, looting, and burning is not the way,” Garza asked reporter David Remnick: “Why are we having this conversation about protest and property when a man’s life was extinguished before our eyes?”
The deliberate mischaracterization of George Floyd Riots deceptively termed "peaceful protest" perpetrated by BLM and ANTIFA cost a record-setting $2 billion in damages after violence erupted in 140 cities. The Kenosha riots' tab racked up another $50 million for taxpayers that damaged more than 100 buildings. And the costs related to nearly 80 nights of protests in Portland, Oregon, soared past the $23 million mark in damages and lost revenue.
While the FBI ignores and dismisses the above activity, the DHS has followed in their footsteps, selectively ignoring threats from a protected class while politicizing others in a manner that always seems to benefit the policies of Democrat politicians. Equally curious is the historic failure of Republican leader’s whose hands are perpetually tied when called upon to prevent the intelligence community from abusing their extraordinary powers. The reason for both party’s failures always trace back to greed and power. In a shocking move on February 7, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security declared that First Amendment Rights, once thought to be the foundation of democracy, are a terrorist threat when voicing disagreement with the U.S. government.
Should you choose to accept it, your mission going forward is to learn more about these occurrences and share them with others. You can find essential educational information at unconstrainedanalytics.org. Begin with reading Stephen Coughlin and Rich Higgin's report, "Re-Remembering the Mis-Remembered Left: The Left's Strategy and Tactics To Transform America." Their work reveals how the GOPe functions as the left's defeat mechanism by design to defeat you. The GOPe rules the GOP.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are unplanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn