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 with 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