An old foe has proven many liberal sites faux. US disinformation agencies are alive and well on the net, camping out on actual liberal sites and even starting web sites pretending to be liberal. Obvious targets--KOS and Huffpo are disproportionately under attack. The government claims such activities undermining American freedom of speech are against policy and some would say clearly against the law. But, I recently uncovered via the association of known government IPs to certain people on these liberal sites as disinformation "Shills" (originally referring to fake endorsers in snake oil crowds).
My techniques were varied but basically I placed links on liberal sites to liberal sites on subjects of protest and with the cooperation of site owners, I monitored their site tracking against known lists. In some cases, the domains showed "customs.gov" and even "CIA.gov". Clearly, they don't think they need to be careful as most web-surfers are naive to these efforts.
I have documented verification of these shills on Huffpo, Kos, and the forums of Randi Rhodes, Al Franken and of Arianna Huffington (
http://forums.ariannaonline.com/ also known as
http://www.debatebothsides.com/...). Certain cut and paste common arguments are consistently used on these sites, word for word. It is both personalized and automated.
By no means would I suggest nor would I discount the possibility of full control of certain sites. Consistent with Machiavellian politics, "Keep your friends close...your enemies closer."
Recently, one of these shills on ariannaonline slipped up when I questioned why he hadn't gone home from work yet, seeing that his IP has been active for at 16 hours straight. It appears there are "tag team" efforts. I can't disclose the techniques specifically, but they are deductively conclusive to have identified this government shill. When asked why he was still surfing from work, he said he was not at work, though the IP proved otherwise. When he was outed, he disappeared, but he returned to utilize a rule on the site "2. Revealing information about a poster they have not posted themselves in the current AO forum is not permitted."
Even when the user with whom I was working pointed out that this person or persons were clearly there for disinformation activities, the site enforced the rule, though no one was personally identified. It was very clear the shill was outed. He had commented regularly, attacking a poster of a call for National Strike/Boycott, also referred to in this Kos article:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
This user is one of many I have identified but serves as a textbook example of what to look for based on this well known article:
How To Be a 9/11 Gov't Shill © Sept. 12, 2001, John Rendon Group
(or, "How I took my legacy of service to my country and flushed it down the loo for some retirement age beer money.")
1. Come from a government-related background. Ex-military, ex-intelligence and ex-defense contractor employees are fertile ground for post-retirement Perception Management recruitment. Generally, your loyalty has been established, and you posses the basic knowledge of the machinations of government business, whether it be above-board or covert. Plus, odds are at some point you've been forced to participated in some kind of Skull & Bones-ish, Bohemian Grove-esque homo-erotic ritual with Henry Kissinger or Merv Griffin (ewwww) that can be used to insure you'll keep your trap shut about what you know about us. Not to mention, you have a decent amount of free time now to spend online - and no one will ever be clever enough to remove the "ex" from your description.
No special skills are required - all you need to become a top-level propaganda whore is a PC or Mac, an internet connection (use a free NetZero dial-up account if your the standard, technically-challenged, corporate teat-sucking tight-ass), knowledge of simple cut-and-paste techniques, a talent for repeating yourself ad nauseum, and the ability to endure appearing moronically uninformed and embarrassingly ignorant of the mores of common sense and ethical conduct. Oh yes - and the ability to sleep at night whilst knowing you're helping a gang of disgusting mass murderers get away with the worst crime of in the history of mankind. (This will take some getting used to, but will become easier as you acquire the ability to look yourself in the mirror each morning and realize your not just getting older, you're becoming a slightly more wealthy, conscience-less shell of a human being.)
2. Always appear to be a Democrat/Liberal, and try to pick an appropriate nickname. Even if you are not a real Liberal (and anyone can be a shill, we don't care if you used to drive Bin Laden's car), be sure to constantly espouse Liberal/Democratic values, particularly total disgust for the current administration. This "ideo-camo" (as we call it) lends credence to otherwise more suspicious "Bush is innocent" attitude and helps obfuscate the financial nature of your opinions and motives.
If you truly are a Liberal, you will know the proper catch phrases and attitudes to possess. And take heart in the concept that you've not only sold out your country for money, you're stabbing your party in the back as well (see: Lee Hamilton). It's a Purgatory two for one sale! Now, if you're a Freeper or NeoCon with a mask on, try surfing the Liberal blogs for as long as you can stand it, glomming Dem talking points and Right-Wing put-downs. They're out there in spades these days - even the Republican blogs have some good ones.
3. Sign up on a Lib message board and make a bee-line for the conspiracies section. (They all have them now, some are just hard to find, since the mods and corporate heads tend to fear too much of this "crazy talk". If it's not in the current events section, try the "Coffee Klatch" or "Pa Dutch Quilting" section, anything that sounds unrelated to conspiracies. They stick them anywhere there's room, and often try to appease ad sponsors by hiding them out of view of the GP.
Try to visit a political thread occasionally on the board you join, and make an ideological comment... although to be honest, very few will check your post history list and put 2 and 2 together. If necessary, just drop by, type a generic line like "Yeah, man, BushCo is going down!", then get back to work in the conspiracy room. Remember - we're not paying you $14.95 a line for posts with valid opinions here.
4. Stay in touch with your superiors - the paradigm of conspiracies obfuscation is always changing. The initial stages were to totally deny and obfuscate any government involvement in the op, while the bureaucrats foot-dragging successfully pushed the investigative envelope as far from the time line of events as possible, allowing for the maximum amount of evidence attrition to occur (and public apathetically-fed forgetfulness). Now that the world is slowly awakening to reality, Phase 2 is well under way - compartmentalize and restrict the blame. On the internet, we have shifted into the "a few rogue elements of the government having advance knowledge of the attacks" scenario. This blame, while still needing critical minimization, must be aimed at the proper targets as it invariably seeps out. Outside the 'net, no problems - rape allegation trials, missing rich girls on exotic islands, shark attacks and other everyday tripe are far more important to John Q. Public, as our corporate operatives repeatedly assure their sock puppets in the cable news biz.
For example - Mike Malloy 'came out' on various conspiracies a while back. The damage may have already been done there, so we're scaling back. Randi Rhodes, however, is just now starting to really spill it, so we need heavy-duty shilling over there. Get your ducks in order and remember - we pay by the line! Post long and post often, about your undying love for The Goddess, whilst displaying the most righteous indignation over her daring to question the honesty of the Bush administration (don't worry, it sounds totally nonsensical, but... you'll figure out how to sell it, because if you don't, you're fired.) Rest assured that Randi will get wind of your boycott and phone you personally to plead with you to reconsider. (Just one of the many perks of Perception Management Shilling.)
5. At all times, maintain the theory that the Bush administration, each and every one of them, are too stupid to have contributed in any way to the perpetration of conspiracies (as if none are true). Not too stupid to have the names of the perpetrators they claim did the deed, not 24 hours afterward without a shred of evidence, but too stupid to... well you get the picture. They're dumb, unorganized and... dumb. The three most important words to hammer away with are "incompetence", "incompetence" and "incompetence". Make constant references to the botched Iraq War, the botched Katrina relief and the other botched Investigations. Oops, scratch that 3rd item, my bad.
Also, try not to bring up the fact that the media completely ignored all of the evidence these "Truthers" are bringing up, and still continue to ignore it to this day. That does not mean in any way that the corporate heads of these "news organizations" are directing the reporting or editorializing the content. Except for Fox News - remember, even if you were a Repub, you're a Liberal now, and Fox is fair game. There, every news outlet is equal and "doing the best it can", and none can be blamed for ignoring anomalies. It's all just "junk science" and "wild speculation by delusional paranoids." (Two more good focus-group-tested phrases, btw.)
You will see some "celebrities" and even some Congressmen coming on board this Truth Movement. Fear not, all is under control. Everyone you see being allowed to speak out in the MSM has been carefully selected on the basis of their past behavioral history (no matter how irrelevant to intelligence or honesty), their character assassination vulnerability (the "assassination method for pussies" as we call it in the agency), or their closet skeleton count (also known as "the number of whacky, fringe organizations they can be somehow attached to" for overall discrediting purposes).
6. On message boards, try to post up the same points as often as possible, even if they've been shot to hell like Swiss cheese. Just because 26 other posters handed you your ass a few times, over some flimsy data you supplied, doesn't mean there isn't a newbie out there who will see it and swallow it like candy. Remember, this is not a battle to win over "Truth Movement" members - they cling to their silly "facts" and "proof" and "evidence of previous governmental dishonesty"- it's all about impressing the uninitiated center. You have righteous indignation on your side, and most people are too lazy to do any research themselves, and will often buy into the first bit of data they see. So get to them first and often!
7. Always point to your "superior credentials" on technical issues, even if you have to make them up. No one can prove squat about anyone's life experience, education or previous employment history via online info, so go nuts. Try, if you can, to relate any claims you make to the subject matter. For example, if I were to tout my experience in avionics while explaining why Larry Silverstein didn't mean "Pull it!" when he said "Pull it!", that would be a mistake. Likewise, mentioning the large mouth bass I caught at the lake last year sounds very personal and mention that Donald Rumsfeld was shtupping his wife, while the government was making so many mistakes.
One you've established your pseudo-superior experience on a subject, immediately challenge others on the thread to produce proof of theirs. Most message board posters will not be as clever as you, and will admit they haven't had time to make up a schooling history. Bam! You got 'em.
8. When you find something that works, stay with it. An overused Achilles ` heel can stand the test of time, no matter how it's ripped apart by facts of an investigation. Plenty of suspect evidence has been planted. And when all else fails, bring out the "A" word - associate conspiracy-trust members with alien abductions and UFO-logists. We've been cultivating this parallel for decades now, so use it. What do you think - that we spend 200 mil a year on Area 51 because we're doing some kind of actual research there? Bahahahaha!
Also, try to derail any debates that point to taboo subjects. For example, the significance dates and numerology. Red flags are comments about certain dates being... I don't know, the day Henry Kissinger orchestrated the overthrow of Chile's democratically-elected government and the murder of Salvador Allende.
Don't forget another asset you've had from the beginning - the shill websites. Some of these[/url] are admittedly completely government-funded piles of steamy sh*t, but some are simply what appear to be conspiracy Websites, but in reality do some kind of damage to various aspects of the cohesion by demonstrating an Anti-Semitic background or again UFOs. In fact, if you surf around a lot, you may notice it's difficult to find 2 websites that don't disagree on some aspect of the anomalies. We're good, and we are at it 24 hours a day :)
9. When discrediting serious investigators, use clumsy, manufactured put-down phrases, as if they're part of normal lingo. Once someone - anyone, any one person - espouses one of the above semi-bizarre theories, and then the entire membership of the message boards' website can be attached to this line of thinking. For example, if one of our own operatives comes by and suggests that "Passion of the Christ contains hidden messages detailing conspiracies", then everyone you wish to discredit on this MB can be referred to as "you Whack job Passion of the Christ UFO-oligist, tinfoil theory Info Decoders." Use ad infinitum.
Don't sweat discrediting ordinary Americans, particularly those who witnessed anything not sanctioned by the government, just let them speak. How much damage can they do with a video camera and a microphone? Oh yeah, that's okay. Special shills have already discredited them. Don't worry; we've got your back.
10. Lastly, do not give up, until we tell you to do so. Normally, we can send you guys out in groups of 3 or 4, plus there are always the truly stupid or truly up the government's ass non-paid whores who will join in, just for the fun of berating people they see as stupid, non-acceptors of everything they're fed by the gov't and MSM.
But delegation of shills on the 'net is tricky, and you may be asked to hold down the fort on your own for a spell. Better put on a pot of coffee.
Good luck, and without a doubt, you can probably take pride one day in the fact that you have helped keep the reality out of the public consciousness, and helped former used car salesmen scum like us insure that any unavoidable blame for NSA/CIA operations falls on a few sacrificial lambs in middle management, and that the corporatists/bankers who have directed and funded these operations for centuries will survived unscathed, to rule another millennium.
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Since there are no paid government shills on this particular site, it's a relief to know I have finally posted an article that will not draw complaints about its content, I say tongue-in-cheek.
The fact is, where there is an open door, there will be tinfoil hat theorists and those that oppose them, government paid and unpaid. Propaganda has been around for a long time and will continue. Jews will continue to be called sexually powerful and rich when it is convenient to an argument, and poor, impotent gum smackers when that serves the purpose.
Personally, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt, they are here there and everywhere. CIA is big; NSA is at least 9 times bigger, and those are the official numbers. Don't assume all you chat with on this "Neutral Internet" are just beer-drinking, harmless fellow citizens. They are certainly out to do anything they can to keep their jobs and most of all, to keep power from changing hands.