Using Emotion To Control The Sheeple
The following is an article i wrote for abovetopsecret - original thread here - http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread800832/pg1&addstar=1&on=13297535#pid13297535
Oh yes I went there…I used the sheeple word
Its not a new concept, and is well known to work in a variety of circumstances, for example – take an advert for Save The Children often in their advertisement’s they will show you children that are crying, distressed, ‘appearing’ to be in pain, in discomfort etc – to play to your pity nature, to ‘feel’ sorry for these children. They depend on this emotion from you so that you donate to their funds, if they were to show you an advert of smiling children, laughing etc you would not be so inclined to donate, or even pay much attention to it.
Disclaimer – I am in no way undermining the work of this organization, just using them as an example
Many advertising agencies use emotional responses to get you to subscribe to what they are telling you, so as I say not a new concept.
However what gets me curious is the fact that some people don’t seem to understand that government agencies will use these same tactics to control the populace, to sway public opinions, to get their vote of ‘confidence’ – to use that term loosely. The put forward propaganda, shock tactics, basically lying by omission to get what they want. A form of psychological warfare, which may also involve false flag operations. How is this so hard for some people to understand? Governing bodies control what they want you to know (or at least try to) via TV, Radio, News reports and other means. The way I have come to view it is that the ‘powers that be’ are the trolls of the world, the magicians to show us a magic trick to perform a slight of hand, showing you something with the left hand whilst the right hand does something else.
A few examples of when government agencies have used such tactics.
Operation Himmler Was a false flag operation by the Nazi’s. They faked attacks on their own people & resources and blamed the attacked on the poles – this was to justify them invading Poland. The Nazi’s went as far as setting fire to their own parliament blaming the fire on other people – this paved the way for Hitler to seize power.
In the 1950’s Agents of an Israeli terrorist organization working in Egypt bombed several buildings these included the U.S diplomat offices, ‘evidence’ was planted to implicate Arabs however due to one of the bombs detonating to early the Egyptians were able to identify the true culprit and along with Israel’s Defense Minister, the entire Israeli government were brought crumbling down by the scandal.
Sources of Interest
- communitarianisms, nationalisms, nostalgias
-The Lavon Affair
The Russian KGB have been known to bomb their own people particularly to justify war against Chechnya and put Vladimir Putin into power see this report here for example
The Tonkin incident is another prime example. American destroyer named ‘maddox’ was reportedly attacked a few times by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in 1964. Which was a complete fabrication to the truth– the reality was that North and south Vietnam were partaking in aggressive ‘raids’ against each other of which president Nixon used as an excuse to go to war – which they lost. See This source here
Operation Gladio was the name given to one “Strategy of TensionProject” used by NATO/US. It scapegoated an “internal enemy” political affiliation - the Left and Socialists and Communists - and helped keep the “reactionaries” and “punishers” - the post-war fascists - in power.
They did NOT just “kill commies” who they wanted to defeat in elections. They killed crowds of random victims to get everyone terrified, so they would vote for the far right for “security”. There were some targeted assassinations too.
1898 - The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor was immediately pinned on the Spanish and the rallying call became, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain.”
The G20 Riots
Other possible ‘false flag ops’
Desert Storm (First Gulf war), 1991)
Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan invasion), 7.10.2001
Enduring Justice (Second Gulf war), 20.3.2003-: later known with less irony as Operation Iraqi Freedom
9/11
Operation Northwoods
There are many, many, many more that could be added to this list as well, a lot of which I haven’t even mentioned in this thread - the above is only to show an example of this kind of thing going on, to show you that really the ‘powers that be’/government will do what it takes to get what it wants done, and they are not beneath playing on the masses emotions to do it. Something that really shouldn’t be forgotten.
Some interesting links
- Spiderdnews
- Foreign Policy
- Top 10 false flag operations that shaped our world
If it wasn’t for the governments fear mongering etc would half of these incidents have taken place? I’d hazard a guess and say no.
These tactics are used a lot in the Elections, they will appeal to your patriotism, your fears etc - Hell, want an example? SOPA/PIPA – how convenient. Don’t you think these two bills come to light during the run up of the US elections, how convenient also for them to be scrapped once there was uproar, this of course won’t be the end. Other acts are going through, ACTA for one. A lot of people will also say that its convenient that we have ‘Anonymous’ coming to the rescue, who is to say that this isn’t another false flag op, a way to tame and control the masses, to get what they want – With the rise of Anonymous they are effectively giving the government a reason to take away our freedoms, particularly online, in the first place - all this in election year as well, we all like to think that we stand for freedom of speech, we have our own rights, thoughts, feelings that no-one can control, but is that truly the case?
I will leave you with this thought

The individual is smart, The group are sheeple