Why Such Amateurish Deceptions?
September 10, 2015
MAKIA FREEMAN writes at a New Age-y site with a healthy skepticism about major news events:
The recent spate of amateurish false flag shootings, which are now being rolled out at an increasingly rapid pace, give one cause to wonder: why? Why are the elite orchestrating such feeble and poorly executed false flag shootings? With all their money, power, control of the media, control of law enforcement and control of politicians, why can’t they make these false flag shootings look more real? Aren’t they worried that with such amateurish false flag shootings they are running the risk of being caught? Of being exposed? Of doing such an atrocious job that it defies common belief, and thus acts as a catalyst to wake people up?
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Since the elite own the MSM and Hollywood, they could pull off a false flag shooting that looked way more believable than what we have been seeing. Is it possible these amateurish false flag shootings are calculatedly fake? In other words, are they a kind of test to see who’s paying attention? Is one of the main points (alongside gun control, promotion of fear, promulgation of terror, police state mental conditioning and distraction) to collect data on post-crisis reaction?
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Priscilla writes:
Makia Freeman asks whether one of the main points of amateurish false flags might be to collect data on post-crisis reaction. According to an article in The Guardian, “the U.S. military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A California corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom)…to develop what is described as an ‘online persona management service’ that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.” In short, the military is developing sock puppets. The Guardian continues, “Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.”
While these activities are purportedly to take place outside the U.S. in foreign languages only, I wonder, since the NDAA has legalized the use of propaganda on the American public, if such interventions will stay or have stayed overseas.
Viewing manufactured crises or staged events as opportunities to introduce topics into the “national conversation”, shape narratives, nudge attitudes in the preferred direction or even disseminate misinformation, it’s certainly possible data is being collected on post-crisis reaction. The “unreality” of staged events might prolong the conversation, attract a broader spectrum of commenters and provide a tool to gauge a tipping point of credibility.
It’s a trusim that you never really know who you are talking to on the internet (does that make me sound paranoid?).