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In reply to the discussion: An attempted mind fuck ( otherwise known as psyops) [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Not sure how well this correlates, but I remember when a secret shadow government was revealed in the 80's, and the activity that revealed its existence was called Iran/Contra. This was absolutely huge, the public outing of an unelected group of men who were conducting secret wars in multiple countries, attacking labor leaders and leftists, and in direct violation of a congressional order not to fund the Nicaraguan Contras, Reagan and Bush's "freedom fighters" (they were actually state-sponsored terrorists).
So we had caught them red-handed, the country was furious about it, it was a very rare opportunity to reign in the dirty secret warriors that were not accountable to any voters anywhere.
What happened? Well, a lot of things happened, but the main thrust of it was that they sacrificed a few people, and made a hero out of Oliver North. They used North as the focal point. Media stories, newspaper articles, they often focused on him and not on the massive criminal enterprise he was a part of. Once he was the story, mission accomplished, the sheeple largely forgot about the actual problem or even believed that this 'good man' North had sacrificed greatly for the good of the country. Whoosh, the American public completely missed the ball.
It really is an old trick. Snowden might as well be nothing more than the tragic figure in Heller's Catch-22. He isn't the story, he's a sign-post pointing to the largest and most complete surveillance apparatus in human history.