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[Jan Klimkowski]

But wait!

Why label ourselves at all?

I have a threefold strategy.

If a person calls me a "conspiracy theorist", I refuse to accept the description or be labelled by the term.

If that person then asks "what do you call yourself then?", I reply simply that I am a researcher, or an investigative researcher.

If a person does not label me nor ask me to define my world view, then I am perfectly happy to have no label at all.

Now, researcher or investigative researcher are perfectly respectable vocations, which highlights why TPTB and MSM are so keen to avoid these phrases and instead use labels such as "conspiracy theorist" or "truther".

As I wrote in the dedicated Conspiracy Theory thread, there is a strange schizoid framework to this.

Fundamentally, the term "conspiracy theorist" is designed to delegitimize and marginalise genuine investigative research. However, if it gets too hot in the kitchen, the very same politicians and paid pundits who label any dangerous theories as a "conspiracy theory" then start talking about "international conspiracies" and expect both MSM and the public to take them seriously.

There's an example of this schizophrenic nonsense in my comment below:

The term "conspiracy theory" is itself a psyop, designed to delegitimize and marginalise genuine investigative research into the deep politics of historical and current events.

When a politician calls an interpretation of events a "conspiracy theory", 99 times out of 100 it is a signal for MSM henceforth to report that interpretation as "ridiculous", "nonsensical" or even "dangerous".

A classic example is Prime Minister Tony Blair declaring, prior to the second invasion of Iraq, that anyone who believed the imminent war was about "oil interests" was peddling a "conspiracy theory". This completely shut down debate of this interpretation in British MSM. Meanwhile, Blair's ridiculous claim that Saddam had WMD which could strike the West was communicated in hushed and reverent tones.

Of course, if any "conspiracy theory" was dangerous nonsense, it was Blair's WMD claim.

However, every now and then a politician in trouble declares an event to be an "international criminal conspiracy" and expects MSM to take him seriously. Of course such a "conspiracy" must have its bogeymen and be inherently evil.

In Britain, we currently have a meat scandal, where burgers and mince based ready meals, labelled as containing pure beef, have been found on occasion to contain pure horse.

So, with huge commercial interests at risk of consumer indignation and horror, a few days ago our Environment Secretary declared that the Brtish public were victims of an "international criminal conspiracy".

09 February 2013

The Environment Secretary warned of an "international criminal conspiracy" today as food bosses met in central London to discuss the escalating horse meat crisis.

Owen Paterson said that there would be investigations to establish whether "either gross incompetence or criminal acts" were at fault.

He was speaking as leading food producers, supermarkets and health officials met at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs headquarters in central London for talks on the crisis.

It was obvious he would need EVIL BOGEYMEN to pull this off.

Initially, Romania was blamed. This charge had grave racist undertones, as Romanians are about to have freedom of movement across the European Union, and have effectively been described as dirty thieves and criminals by politicians of the right. The fact that many Roma (Travellers, Gypsies) live in Romania and have a cultural associations with horses, was part of the cheap slur.

Unfortunately for the politicians, this claim of an international Roma conspiracy failed when the police raided British meat packaging plants on suspicion of involvement in the horse for beef scandal.

A new BOGEYMAN was needed.

And has now been identified.

The evil slav arms dealer, VIKTOR BOUT. And, hey presto, the "international criminal conspiracy" now involves an evil foreign criminal empire and Romania.....

Of course we at DPF know that Viktor Bout is not a freelancer.

Rather, as our dedicated Bout thread demonstrates, he is owned by intelligence agencies.