{"id":139714,"date":"2014-09-25T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139714"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:30:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:30:41","slug":"u-s-propaganda-delves-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/u-s-propaganda-delves-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Propaganda Delves Into The Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a dizzying barrage\u00a0of lies, mainstream media fear-mongering and a couple of beheadings, the Obama Administration finally achieved\u00a0its long sought after war in Syria. The tactic that proved most effective in mobilizing the American public back into a\u00a0shivering, post-9\/11 fetal position, was the same tactic used by elites in the UK to convince Scotland against voting for independence. That tactic, as I detailed in\u00a0a recent post<\/a><\/strong>, is\u00a0fear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, fear in itself is not enough. It must be coupled with endless slogans and misdirection by the mainstream media and politicians. It must lead the public\u00a0to subconsciously embrace\u00a0a\u00a0thought process that is completely irrational. Such tactics can be labeled propaganda, and it results in a public suddenly supporting a war it strongly opposed only a year ago. All it takes is a little\u00a0repackaging. Propaganda allows those who profit from war to push\u00a0the American public into a tizzy of trepidation based on a couple of beheadings from ISIS, while not batting an eye over\u00a0the daily beheadings<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that were simultaneously occurring\u00a0in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

So the power structure and its impotent puppet, Barack Obama, intentionally pushed the American public into a frenzy of fear and finally got their little war. Nevertheless, serious people immediately began to call into question two very significant issues with respect to the aggression.<\/p>\n

First, it appeared clear to almost everyone without a biased penchant for overseas death and destruction, that the war is completely unconstitutional and illegal no matter how you slice it. As I highlighted in the post,\u00a0Obama\u2019s ISIS War is Not Only Illegal, it Makes George W. Bush Look Like a Constitutional Scholar<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

But the 2001\u00a0authorization for the use of military force<\/a>\u00a0does not apply here. That resolution \u2013 scaled back from what Mr. Bush initially wanted \u2013 extended only to nations and organizations that \u201cplanned, authorized, committed or aided\u201d the 9\/11 attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Not only was ISIS created long after 2001, but Al Qaeda publicly\u00a0disavowed<\/a>\u00a0it earlier this year. It is Al Qaeda\u2019s competitor, not its affiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Obama may rightly be frustrated by gridlock in Washington, but his assault on the rule of law is a devastating setback for our constitutional order. His refusal even to ask the Justice Department to provide a formal legal pretext for the war on ISIS is astonishing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanks to a dizzying barrage\u00a0of lies, mainstream media fear-mongering and a couple of beheadings, the Obama Administration finally achieved\u00a0its long sought after war in Syria. The tactic that proved most effective in mobilizing the American public back into a\u00a0shivering, post-9\/11 fetal position, was the same tactic used by elites in the UK to convince Scotland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}