For many years, American society

has lived under a state of siege

We have constantly been bombarded,

every minute of every day,

with psychological conditioning that is meant

to lead us into a state of hopelessness

We've become Pavlov's dogs

The 'State' media, particularly television,

serves as an extension of the government propaganda apparatus,

pumping-up the fear and anxiety levels,

until the people become numb, convinced that

we are helpless before a tidal wave of great dangers

We are literally being scared to death,

so that we will give-up, roll over, and play dead

They want our surrender to be assured before they take

the final steps to murder our democratic Republic

Fear & Conditioning

When a dog encounters food, saliva starts to pour from the salivary glands located in the back of its oral cavity. This saliva is needed in order to make the food easier to swallow.

The fluid also contains enzymes that break down certain compounds in the food. In humans, for example, saliva contains the enzyme amylase, an effective processor of starch.

Ivan Pavlov became interested in studying reflexes when he saw that the dogs drooled without the proper stimulus.

Although no food was in sight, their saliva still dribbled. It turned out that the dogs were reacting to lab coats.

Every time the dogs were served food, the person who served the food was wearing a lab coat. Therefore, the dogs reacted as if food was on its way whenever they saw a lab coat.

In a series of experiments, Pavlov then tried to figure out how these phenomena were linked. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed.

If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling. More...

Replace the bell with endless TV 'news' telling us to be fearful of the next terrorist strike and you realise that fear is a conditioned response.

We're programmed to be scared. The essence of a modern warfare State.

Fear-Inspired Propaganda

The Bush Regime has used propaganda to impress its policies on the American people.

They have utilized one of the most easily-controllable human emotions - fear.

They have used fear to overstate terrorists threats, driving American taxes into defense contracts, while at the same time ignoring relevant issues on home soil (see Hurricane Katrina).

They have even used fear to engage in a war which is of no benefit to United States safety or diplomatic relations.

The administration has manipulated its citizens' fear of death and has unjustly used it to promote its agendas, hiding behind a guise of patriotism.

This regime uses fear to vilify people of the Muslim world and equate Islam with fascism.

This enables us to support war, under the impression that if we do not extend our imperialist might over these countries and smash their governments and ways of life, we are all going to die.

Pumping up the Fear & Anxiety Levels

For many years, American society has lived under a state of siege. We have constantly been bombarded, every minute of every day, with psychological conditioning that is meant to lead us into a state of hopelessness.

We are addicted to the source of this Pavlovian conditioning - television.

This medium serves as an extension of the government propaganda apparatus, pumping-up the fear and anxiety levels, until the people become numb, convinced that we are helpless in a roiling sea of great dangers.

We are literally being scared to death, so that we will give-up, roll over, and play dead. They want our surrender to be assured before they take the final steps to murder our democratic-Republic.

The people don't understand that they are the source of all power within this Republic.

Our task, as we fight those who seek to force nuclear war against Iran upon us, is to remind the people of their power and their freedom to reject another illegal, immoral war, to be fought on behalf of Israel.

We must find ways to overcome the inertia of hopelessness, by replacing it with reasonable hope.

It is up to the American people to enforce the common will to avoid this war, by restraining the monsters who push to unleash it.

All of the war plans that are being carried out, and those that are yet to be carried out, since the decisive November elections, stand in direct contradiction of that common will.

Our Constitutional rights have been violated by the leaders of our government, who have taken oaths to defend that same Constitution.

Our only salvation lies in protecting the Constitution from those who seek to destroy it.

The path to preserving freedom is spelled-out clearly within its living words. When free people stand together and speak with one voice, then government has no choice, but to listen.

It is illogical, that the majority of American people don't want to be warned about the coming American economic collapse, or the imminent Muslim genocide that will most assuredly usher the whole calamity in.

But logic has nothing to do with it. It is all about fear and denial, with denial being understood as a psychological defense mechanism that that people use to isolate themselves from disturbing conditions.

People, who are "in denial," disavow knowledge of painful realities, in order to reduce anxiety/fear levels, sometimes to the detriment of their own health.

Our government has developed Psychological Operations (PSYOPs), which are based on manipulating populations who are in full-blown denial.

In addition to these ongoing programs of conditioning and disseminating disinformation, Internet reports have revealed that the Department of Defense is developing a simulated Parallel Earth

This is designed to help them to fine-tune their plan. Sentient World Simulation (SWS) bases its AI "thinking" on the psychological theory of "learned hopelessness."

According to researcher Marlena Plavšic, "learned helplessness" refers to the passive acceptance of unpleasant situations, nullifying the natural reactions, which normally cause attempts to escape or to control the situation.

"Learned hopelessness" is a state of deep depression, brought on by prolonged immersion in a reality of learned helplessness.

Although psychologists noticed it in humans earlier, the title “learned helplessness” was conceived by the American psychologist Martin Seligman who did experiments first on dogs, and later on humans.

The term refers to passive acceptance of unpleasant situations, without attempting to escape from them or to control them.

A person with learned helplessness easily gives in her/his goals if s/he failed few times in achieving them. Such persons show apathy, no motivation, depression and pessimism.

The intensity of learned helplessness depends on what a person holds responsible for the helplessness: she herself/he himself or the outside factors...the victims believe they are helpless.

The SWS computer simulation allows military leaders to "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners.

By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors."

Homeland Security and the Defense Department are already using it to simulate crises.

They try to anticipate how stressed-out populations can be manipulated by increasing the fear and anxiety-induced helplessness, through the introduction of panic-causing events, like earthquakes, tsunamis and terrorist attacks.

Sound familiar, to anyone? Sounds like the fear-mongering basis of the whole "war on terror," doesn't it?

Peter Chamberlin @ AFP