Techniques for Truth Suppression

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Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

1. Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.

2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the “How dare you?” gambit.

3. Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.” (If they tend to believe the “rumors” it must be because they are simply “paranoid” or “hysterical.”)

4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

5. Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nutcase,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and, of course, “rumor monger.” Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the “more reasonable” government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own “skeptics” to shoot down.

6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).

7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.

   

8. Dismiss the charges as “old news.”

9. Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and avoidance” or “taking the limited hangout route.” This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.

   So-called ‘Alternative’ limited hangout news sites are legion on the web now.

   These operatives are also known as ‘Gatekeepers’ since their main purpose is to rope in truth seekers and prevent them from examining specific protected truths.

   Gatekeepers Come In All Shapes And Sizes

   

10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable. “So many people would be involved in this, that it would be impossible to keep it a secret”.

    The Nuclear Bomb Hoax

    

11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. e.g. We have a completely free press. If evidence exists that the Joe Blow’s “suicide” note was forged, they would have reported it. They haven’t reported it so there is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would report the leak.

12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If Joe Blow was murdered, who did it, how did they do it, and why?

13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.

    

14. Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as “bump and run” reporting.

15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the “facts” furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.

16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges “expose” scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.

17. Wrap up the crimes in fear porn.

    

18. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don’t the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.

    

    So Who Are The Controlled Opposition

    I’m betting that anyone who’s landed here already has an idea what ‘Controlled Opposition’ refers to, but just in case it’s a new concept, or you’re not clear what it actually refers to, here’s a description, typical tactics and and a short video below.

    Controlled Opposition: a strategy in which an individual, organization, or movement is covertly controlled or influenced by a 3rd party and the controlled entity’s true purpose is something other than its publicly stated purpose. The controlled entity serves a role of mass deception, surveillance and/or political/social manipulation. In most cases the controlled party is portrayed as being in opposition to the interests of the controlling party.

    Typical tactics of controlled opposition agents:

    Preempt or neutralize true but negative information by having it be disclosed or championed in a skewed/stigmatized manner by a person or group. The truth can be peppered with disinformation or the truth of the message can be neutralized by association due to the extreme, radical, or unpalatable positions held by the controlled entity (person or group) who is disclosing the information or is “championing” a position. The stigmatized or adulterated truth in turn steers people away from truthful information which would normally cause criticism or a serious backlash against the controlling party. Stigmatized truth also greatly inhibits independent research into sensitive areas (usually involving criminal acts by the controlling entity) and serves to manipulate social dynamics in a manner in which it becomes taboo to publicly discuss sensitive (albeit critically important) subjects.

    The so-called ‘alternative’ media, including alleged free speech platforms, is infested with controlled opposition agents, making it particularly difficult for new truth seekers to avoid the disinformation and misdirection perpetrated by these agents.

    At this point, there are so many controlled opposition agents, that it is safest to assume that most of the current sites or platforms you utilize, and any new site or platform you visit is controlled opposition until it’s clear that they’re not.

    Platforms often claim to be free speech but at the same time use vague, flexible terms like ‘extreme views or beliefs’ or ‘hate speech’, in order to allow them to censor whatever speech they want. Many platforms also claim to be for free speech but shadow ban posts, videos or comments, or just delete subscribers with such vague reasons as ‘violated site policies’.

    CONTROLLED OPPOSITION IS RAMPANT IN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA