COMPETING VIEWS: Internet Rife With Disinformation; Sandy Hook Shooting—Where’s the proof?

• “Cyber shills” working to misdirect, embarrass legitimate conspiracy researchers

By Michael Collins Piper

Evidence suggests patriots and truth seekers are being subjected to insidious means of mind control—and crowd control—through a covert campaign now being orchestrated across the Internet.

Consider this: Right after 9-11, AMERICAN FREE PRESS correspondent Victor Thorn demonstrated that the United States government version of what happened to United Flight 93 on 9-11 was an absolute lie, and that the plane was deliberately shot down by the government.

Yet, today, there is an ongoing push to flood the Internet and independent media with a never-before-seen genre of thought that holds, essentially, that nothing reported in the establishment press is “for real”—that every traumatic event is, to one degree or another, a big hoax.

Here’s the problem: Had this mindset held sway after 9-11, it would have been alleged there never even was a United Flight 93, that it neither crashed nor was shot down and that those who died on the plane never existed and that their survivors (and some of the witnesses interviewed by Thorn) were paid actors—referred to as “crisis actors” in this new genre—deployed to misdirect honest investigators.

The Internet would have been rife with accusations that Thorn’s revelations were actually part of the cover-up and, as a consequence, many good folks might have doubted AFP’s credibility.

Fortunately, most people see through such nonsense. However, this new “meme” (that nothing is real) is catching hold among many who don’t realize that ongoing efforts to impose this worldview—almost a cult-like ideology—on truth seekers is a very real conspiracy designed to undermine diligent reporting of the type seen in AFP.

Unfortunately, many are falling into this carefully-crafted trap. A bevy of disinformation specialists known as “cyber shills”—along with amateur keyboard detectives caught up in the frenzy—are bombarding patriots with all manner of outlandish “analysis” of photographs and videos, purporting to “prove” some point that is invariably a total distraction from the real facts that should be unveiled.

This does harm to the serious efforts of those who are trying to expose the very real conspiracies and cover-ups surrounding 9-11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the JFK assassination, the Boston bombing and so many matters hidden behind the media monopoly’s iron curtain of censorship.

Note: AFP is here to tell readers that there’s more to the story of shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and at the Washington Navy Yard and to the Boston Marathon bombing than many of the Internet sensationalists are telling you.

In truth, many still do not understand the big secret about Sandy Hook: In the face of the predictable media push for gun control following that tragedy, there was an obvious conspiracy by Internet provocateurs to misdirect patriots into thinking they were fighting gun control by repeating stories that “no children died” when, in fact, such claims made Second Amendment advocates look ridiculous.

Serious-minded Second Amendment advocates were arguing, of course, that guns in the hands of teachers and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary could have saved the lives of those who were massacred.

On April 28—at website newswithviews.com—respected patriot Devvy Kidd put it in perspective:

Over the past nearly two decades, every time some horrific “event” happens, wanna-be “journalists” come out of the woodwork with their conspiracy theories based on absolutely nothing; bloggers who specialize in no facts, just rank speculation. [These are] irresponsible people out to make a name for themselves or to get people to their websites. They have zero credibility and hurt the rest of us by being lumped together [with us]. I have debunked conspiracy theories in the past based on documentation. I get attacked as if I’m the bad guy for pursuing the truth. There are conspiracies and cover-ups, but we want the truth, not speculation.

For years, AFP has been smeared for publishing what critics call “conspiracy theories,” which are, in fact, truthful reporting of high-level misdeeds. Those trying to discredit revelations about the real conspiracies do all they can to make AFP and others who expose those conspiracies and the truth about mind control appear to be “nut jobs.”

That’s why, in 2008, University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein—a Barack Obama crony —issued a formal crisis management paper on “conspiracy theories,” outlining a proposed program of what he called “cognitive infiltration” to discredit such theories, particularly those implicating Israel in 9-11.

And while such “Judas goat” operations have been going on for years, involving, for example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) infamous Anti-Defamation League-assisted COINTELPRO—targeting the Ku Klux Klan, the National States Rights Party, the Minutemen and other dissidents—we know of one current Internet-focused scheme exposed by Thorn in AFP. Reporting that the Israeli government pays young Israelis $2,000 a month to troll the Internet and spread disinformation, Thorn noted that this connivance is well coordinated:

Participants are provided with specific scripts to use on enemies, complete with details involving sensationalized accusations against enemies, divide-and-conquer strategies where one individual is pitted against another, plus a variety of distraction techniques and the marginalization of opinions that differ from the official Jewish party line. Other tactics include denying inconvenient facts, refusing dialogue by sending conversations off into absurd directions, or dishonestly manipulating sources to entrap a foe.

Programmed to capture the imagination of sincere truth seekers, these manipulations—aimed at a receptive “captive audience”—are intrigues designed, as Thorn noted, to not only redirect debate by countering conspiracy theories but also by inserting ridiculous disinformation into the debate.

This further discredits any and all conspiracy theories—which happens to be the ultimate purpose of this multi-faceted effort.

Implementing Sunstein’s treacherous mind-control agenda, crisis management experts recognized that Internet-active truth seekers constitute a “crowd” as defined by Gustave LeBon’s sinister study—The Crowd—a legendary work described as having “exerted a powerful influence upon the thought of men aiming to understand the workings of collective behavior and of social psychology.”

Remembering what LeBon said—“To know the art of impressing the imagination of crowds is to know at the same time the art of governing them”—Sunstein set in motion an Orwellian framework for both mind control and crowd control all too visible on the Internet today.

AFP pledges to ignore their disinformation and focus on the big picture and continue to confront the real issues with facts, not speculation.

Michael Collins Piper is an author, journalist, lecturer and radio show host. He has spoken in Russia, Malaysia, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Japan, Canada and the U.S.

 
 
 

Sandy Hook Shooting: Where’s the proof?

• Zero evidence of a shooting has been proffered by the government or mass media

By John Friend

The alleged shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December of last year has caused quite a bit of friction and disagreement amongst the staff at AMERICAN FREE PRESS. Here I will attempt to explain my views on this controversial subject, which stand in stark contrast to the position taken by Michael Collins Piper in his recent article entitled, “Internet Rife with Disinformation: ‘Cyber Shills’ working to misdirect, embarrass legitimate conspiracy researchers,” published on page 18 in Issue #43 of AFP’s print edition.

I took a keen interest in the alleged Sandy Hook shooting from the very beginning. The Connecticut State Police (CSP) and news media reported that on December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old young man named Adam Lanza first shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in their Newtown home before driving to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and going on a shooting rampage, murdering 20 children and 6 adults, truly an amazing, and highly implausible, feat allegedly accomplished by a young man with no known military training. According to the official narrative of the alleged shooting, Adam Lanza—the “lone gunman”—shot all but two of his victims multiple times, firing 154 total rounds in a matter of minutes. Many have questioned the plausibility of such a scenario.

The alleged Sandy Hook shooting scenario conveniently aligns with the hysterical anti-gun agenda and planned destruction of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution long promoted by certain organized political factions.

Coincidentally, the Sandy Hook scenario mirrors the March 13, 1996 Dunblane, Scotland incident where it is alleged that a “lone gunman”, Thomas Hamilton, entered the Dunblane Primary School armed with four handguns, shooting and killing 16 children and one adult before committing suicide. Even more coincidentally, in the immediate aftermath of the alleged Dunblane Massacre, the controlled media directed public debate on gun control laws, including public petitions using emotionally manipulative appeals calling for a ban on private ownership of handguns, the exact tactics used by the mass media in the U.S. following the alleged Sandy Hook shooting.

• A workshop organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services entitled “Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters,” was taking place in Bridgeport, Connecticut—roughly 18 miles from Newtown—the same day as the alleged Sandy Hook shooting;
• The State of Connecticut and the CSP have a history of staging mass shooting drills, utilizing scripted actors and role players complete with fake blood;
• Virtually all standard operating procedures pertaining to medical and police personnel responding to a genuine mass shooting were not followed that day, including the fact that medical personnel responding to the alleged shooting were forced to operate at a fire station several hundred feet from the school rather than at the school itself;
• No Emergency Medical Technicians entered the school to examine and remove the alleged shooting victims to a hospital for emergency medical care, or for a certified Medical Doctor to pronounce them dead;
• The alleged victims were examined and identified not by medical personnel, but by the CSP, and were allegedly removed from the school at night;
• The parents of the alleged victims were not allowed or even asked to identify their children’s bodies;
• DHS vehicles and personnel were in the vicinity of the school before the alleged shooting even took place;
• The State of Connecticut’s Emergency Communications System was taken over on the morning of the alleged shooting;
• In the age of digital media, no digital photographs or video of the victims or crime scene has been presented, and the photos of the alleged victims presented in the media are all extremely suspicious, showing signs of alteration and/or photoshopping;
• The Newtown City Clerk’s Office initially refused to release the death certificates of the alleged victims—which are normally public records—but was eventually forced to release them only after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed;
• The Sandy Hook Elementary School is currently being demolished, and those involved in the demolition have been sworn to silence and cannot discuss anything related to the school;
• Military strategists and experts specializing in psychological and information warfare have stressed the importance of utilizing victims—either real or fabricated—in obtaining specific political objectives. For example, the infamous Operation Northwoods document, prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presented to President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, specifically called for creating “casualty lists” which would be placed in U.S. newspapers to facilitate “national indignation” and swing public opinion in a desired direction;
• Professor George J. Stein’s 1995 essay “Information Warfare” describes sophisticated psychological warfare techniques in which “fictive or fictional operational environments” can be “generated, transmitted, distributed, or broadcast by governments” or other actors “through increasingly diversified networks” – mass media, social media, television, radio, etc. – in order to obtain public policy objectives or to “shape the political context” in which public policy is made.