The Danger Of The Fetzer Assassination School

[Jan Klimkowski]

Don - thank you for making thoughtful and considered posts articulating your view.

We know that Cass Sunstein has officially lobbied to make conspiracy "theories" illegal and advocates using undercover disinfo agents on forums like this to undermine the truth. I recognize that. I know there are people posting on JFK forums that have a dishonest agenda. However, there is a huge difference in being aware of that, and specifically accusing individuals of being a disinfo agent. You can't prove these kinds of accusations, and thus calling them names and intimating that you have some esoteric knowledge about them that others don't is really counterproductive.

As a long term researcher of deep political matters, I suspect you would agree that many techniques and technologies being used for covert operations do not become public for a decade or more after they were first introduced and utilized.

For me, the only surprizing aspect of Sunstein's utterances are that he made them publicly.

If you deconstruct his covert operation - for that is what it is - it is instantly recognizable.

Sunstein's psyops are no more, nor less, than Operation Mockingbird for the digital age.

Mockingbird began at least as early the 1950s, but was created for a world where the means of distribution of "information" and "opinion" resided in a small, chosen, few: primarily journalists and broadcasters.

From wiki:

Further details of Operation Mockingbird were revealed as a result of the Frank Church investigations (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) in 1975. According to the Congress report published in 1976:

"The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets."

The internet has changed all that, as anyone can "publish" their opinions to the entire "global village".

So, the original Mockingbird tactic of "owning" hundreds of journalists in key publishing and broadcasting organs across the world is no longer sufficient to control consensus reality.

Here is Sunstein in his own words (see Phil's post #250 in this thread for more):

Government agents (and their allies)
might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to
undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises,
causal logic or implications for political action.

In one variant, government agents would openly proclaim, or at least make no
effort to conceal, their institutional affiliations. A recent newspaper story recounts that
Arabic-speaking Muslim officials from the State Department have participated in
dialogues at radical Islamist chat rooms and websites in order to ventilate arguments not
usually heard among the groups that cluster around those sites, with some success.68 In
another variant, government officials would participate anonymously or even with false
identities. Each approach has distinct costs and benefits; the second is riskier but
potentially brings higher returns. In the former case, where government officials
participate openly as such, hard-core members of the relevant networks, communities and
conspiracy-minded organizations may entirely discount what the officials say, right from
the beginning. The risk with tactics of anonymous participation, conversely, is that if the
tactic becomes known, any true member of the relevant groups who raises doubts may be
suspected of government connections. Despite these difficulties, the two forms of
cognitive infiltration offer different risk-reward mixes and are both potentially useful
instruments.

So, "government agents" are covertly to "cognitively infiltrate" internet forums, social media, essentially any public non-MSM controlled space, to disrupt "conspiracy theories".

This is not about debate, discussion, free speech.

This is not a fair fight governed by Queensberry Rules.

This is about criminals, acting anonymously, using illegal and malicious means to prevent their crimes being investigated.

If Sunsteinian psyops are Mockingbird operations for the internet age, then I believe we can reasonably assume that they have been in use for at least a decade, and possibly more.

Nailing an individual Mockingbird to the wall is always going to be a dangerous process.

However, I would argue that it is incumbent upon us to identify the traces of a Mockingbird operation.

Here are some of the key factors a Sunsteinian psyop would likely exhibit:

- the disruption of serious research
- the banalization of serious research
- the relentless promulgation of hypotheses after they have been thoroughly debunked
- the publicizing of those hypotheses in arenas likely to get MSM attention
- the knowledge that these hypotheses, their key evidence and their chief protagonists will not survive basic due diligence from MSM researchers

All serving the End Purpose of a Sunsteinian psyop: To delegitimize research which challenges officially sanctioned history, and to enable MSM to say "Look - this is why you can't trust conspiracy theorists".

Once again, we are not playing by Queensberry Rules.

Indeed, we are not playing at all.