Princess Diana articles by Seamus

[Jan Klimkowski]

Seamus - I don't see any improvement in the quality of your analysis as further parts of this article appear.

I shall only address one point for now: your use of the phrase "conspirahypocrite".

As well as being aesthetically ugly, it plays into the narrative officially sanctioned by the ruling elites.

The phrase "conspiracy theory" is itself a pysop.

"Conspiracy theory" is used by the powerful to declare certain subjects or analyses out of bounds, off limits, verboten.

Here is a fine example of the form, British PM Tony Blair in the House of Commons during the buildup to the war on Iraq:

Mr. Dennis Skinner(Bolsover)
When the Prime Minister meets the American President at the end of the month, will he tell George Bush that there is almost certainly a majority of the British people against the idea of a war with Iraq? Will he tell him that a lot of the British people are against the war because they can see that it is all about America getting its hands on the oil supplies in the middle east? Will he also tell him that we are not prepared to fight a war based on the fact that this vain American President is concerned more about finishing the job that his father failed to complete 12 years ago?


The Prime Minister
It will not surprise my hon. Friend to hear that I am afraid I cannot agree with him. Let me first deal with the conspiracy theory that this is somehow to do with oil. There is no way whatever, if oil were the issue, that it would not be infinitely simpler to cut a deal with Saddam, who, I am sure, would be delighted to give us access to as much oil as we wanted if he could carry on building weapons of mass destruction. The very reason why we are taking the action that we are taking is nothing to do with oil or any of the other conspiracy theories put forward. It is to do with one very simple fact: the United Nations has laid downindeed, it has been laying down for 10 yearsthat Saddam Hussein has to disarm himself of weapons of mass destruction and that he poses a threat because he used those weapons, and I believe that we have to make sure that the will of the United Nations is upheld.

House of Commons, January 15, 2003.

I vividly remember Blair answering questions from journalists at PM's press call during the same period when oil and the quality of the intelligence were being discussed, and saying that responsible news outlets shouldn't be spending time on "conspiracy theories".

Of course, we now know that the intelligence was entirely false, and was cooked up to justify a war that had no public support and no political, military or security justification.

The phrase and framework of "conspiracy theory" is a psyop designed to delegitimize deep political research and any discourse which challenges the ruling elite's version of reality.

Phrases such as "conspirahypocrite" play into the aims of this psyop.

In short, they provide succour to the enemy.