ThE PoWeR To HuRt

THE POWER TO HURT: THE POLICE STATE AS OPPORTUNITY

By Judith Young

In the CIA's basic interrogation manual declassified in 1963, for example, a window of opportunity is highlighted in which torture reduces its victim to a state of traumatized disorientation and childlike regression, creating an opening for the interrogator to be transformed into a protective father figure.

This is one of the classic tactics of tyrants across the planet. In the view of Klein and others, it was used after the shock of 9/11 to create a national lens of perception within the overall control matrix, a kind of template to be used by the mind to reflexively process all relevant concepts in terms of the 'war on terror'.

Klein sees the solution as contained in the problem: as we gain awareness of the same pattern playing out again and again, we can become prepared for the next shock and its exploitation by disaster Capitalists:

"If we understand how our states of shock are exploited, if we can recognize the signs, then the next time there is a crisis (and it can be an economic crisis)...then when the next shock hits we can prepare."

"I have a quote...from Milton Friedman, who says that only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change, and...when the crisis hits, the change depends on the ideas that are lying around. So it's not just about recognizing a pattern; it's also about having your [reformist] ideas lying around when the next shock hits."

Love "Light" and Energy

_Don

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http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/carolyn-baker

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8816.htm

http://www.bestcyrano.org/cBaker.htm

http://www.populistamerica.com/carolyn_baker

http://dailyscare.com/blog/carolyn_baker