6/23/10

the social engineers


How long has the CIA been conducting social engineering experiments? A long time. One of the first social engineering laboratories, with what me might consider "modern" techniques, was the Philippines.

Aangirfan has a post up collecting some examples of social engineering, including the following video explanation.

The video tells us that 1) social engineering is simply the clever manipulation of the natural human tendency to trust; and 2) a hidden agenda of war is to break up societies and their clans.


One way to manipulate the natural human tendency to trust is by breaking down trust. You break down trust by breaking down society. You break down society by breaking down the family. You break down the family by making it difficult for the family to survive.

There are many ways to do this. You might start a war and make them refugees. You might make it difficult for the family to survive by increasing economic pressures, crime, drugs, etc. You might get people all hopped up on sex and fantasies so they lose track of their priorities and break trust with each other. Whatever method you choose, you keep the pressure on relentlessly. These relentless forces pull families apart. Once you pull the families apart and get them on the move, people become more vulnerable and easier to manipulate. Then you reprogram them. You tell them who to blame. You pit them against each other. It becomes easier and easier as the people forget how to be any other way.

Strong families are the first line of defense against social engineering. Therefore strong families are also the UNDECLARED MORTAL ENEMY of social engineers.




^^^^^^^

It seems that certain indigenous societies share a similar fate over time. It seems that social engineers have long understood that in order to conduct effective social engineering, the first thing to compromise are the people who live close to the land, work hard, and have strong family units.

The Jesuits went to Paraguay in 1588 and began to convert the Guarani Indians. Today the Guarani Indians suffer. Today Paraguay has become a hub for organized crime.

For the Guarani, land is the origin of all life. But violent invasions by ranchers have devastated their territory and nearly all of their land has been stolen. Guarani children starve and their leaders have been assassinated. Hundreds of Guarani men, women and children have committed suicide.

They are a deeply spiritual people...For as long as they can remember, the Guarani have been searching – searching for a place revealed to them by their ancestors where people live free from pain and suffering, which they call ‘the land without evil’.



And the Jesuits also were in the Philippines infuriating the peasants there too, hundreds of years ago. The Dagohoy Rebellion lasted from 1744-1829.

Unlike the Tamblot revolt, the Dagohoy rebellion was not a religious conflict. Rather, it was like most of the early revolts which were ignited by forced labor, Spanish oppression,bandala, excessive tax collection and payment of tributes. On top of these injustices of the Jesuit priests, what triggered Dagohoy most was the refusal of the Jesuit priest to give a Christian burial to his brother who died in service while chasing a fugitive who went against Christianity. This caused Dagohoy to call upon his fellow Boholanos to raise arms against the oppressors. The rebellion outlasted several Spanish Governor Generals and several missions.

And I guess we all heard what happened to the American Indians. To pick out one example, we could recall the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee Indians -- matrilineal, agricultural, with their own system of writing -- were forced from their tribal lands in Georgia and the Carolinas and set on a death march to present day Oklahoma, in order to make room for white settlers.

Thousands of Cherokee men, women and children died along the trail from exposure, starvation and fevers.  Federal funds allotted for their removal was diverted into the pockets of corrupt politicians and military commanders. (source)
And today, what prominent roles do Native Americans have in our society? Well not much. After all the Native Americans comprise less than five percent of the US population. Not that that should really matter, because after all the Jews comprise less than three percent of the US population and that hasn't stopped them from anything, but I guess that's different social engineering.




In Guatemala, over 100,000 people were assassinated over land conflicts in the 1980s alone.

In the 1980s alone, the Guatemalan military and its death squads killed over 100,000 people. Entire Indian villages were massacred. A front-page article in the Sept. 20 New York Times made a rare admission. It said that "the conflict had its roots in a 1954 coup sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency." The Times then went on to claim that "most of Guatemala's 10.5 million people can no longer remember what started it."

But United Fruit--now Chiquita--remembers. What brought down the wrath of this company and of the CIA was President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n's attempt to distribute uncultivated lands owned by United Fruit to landless peasants. 
Today Guatemala is home to the remaining Mayan culture in Central America, which is alive and well throughout the whole country. However, despite rich natural resources and biodiversity, the country remains poor, with high illiteracy rates and a major organized crime problem.


Why do these people have hard lives? These people have hard lives because there is NOTHING wrong with them. The truth is that social engineers have engineered a system that forces people like this into lives of extra difficulty precisely because these indigenous people know how to work hard, they know how to live off the land, and they know how to run their families. Therefore they are naturally strong, the mortal enemies of social engineers, who abuse trusting people to weaken and fray society in order to gain power, and who specifically target the strongest groups first.

On and on. Around the world. Over and over again the story repeats. The people live on the land, they work hard and have big families. They have enough to eat. They have clean water. They settle their conflicts with their neighbors. Someone shows up "to help:" to bring democracy, to bring economic growth, to bring religion. Things get worse. The people suffer and may have to leave their land, or stay and be poor. This goes on for so long that no one remembers anymore what it used to be like. History gets forgotten or rewritten. It becomes a racial thing. You know, those people have hard lives because they're brown.

That's the social engineers at work. They set people up and then they throw them right under the bus for walking into the trap. And it was important to set up the brown people first, and to practice on them for a long time, so that the white people would never see their turn coming.



^^^^^^^

The social engineers know that all they need to do is redefine people with legitimate grievances as terrorists, and that will be all that's required to justify killing them. As long as 1) the people are far away, and 2) the right experts, such as military or foreign policy people, tell us that the people are terrorists, and 3) there's no chance of any serious consequences, it's that easy. And now, maybe the people don't even have to be far away.

The social engineers have been at this for years and years, perfecting this, practicing it. Only God knows how many innocent people have died as a result.

In the Philippines, before Vietnam, there was the Huk Rebellion (1946-54), often described as a "Communist-led peasant uprising."


  • Philippine independence from the United States was scheduled for July 4, 1946. 
  • An election was held in April for positions in the new government. 
  • The Hukbalahap participated, and the Huk leader Luis Taruc won a seat in Congress but--along with some other Huk candidates--was unseated by the victorious Liberal Party. 
  • The Huks then retreated to the jungle and began their rebellion.
So a group of people ran for election, won, but were unseated, and they took umbrage. They must have had their reasons. In any case, the government cracked down hard on them.

How hard? Very hard.

The Philippines' counterinsurgency campaign that followed the Huk move to open revolt in 1946 was known as President Roxas's "mailed fist" or "iron fist" policy (the CIA would later describe it as a policy of "gradual extermination"). The full force of the army, the Constabulary and the civilian guards was thrown against the Huk forces when they could be found, and, more frequently, against the peasant communities associated with them. Villages were mortared, shelled, and burned, suspects were rounded up and shot.1 The repression was largely carried out on traditional punitive lines, and in many areas it was considered worse than the Japanese occupation. Some of the counterinsurgency measures were the same as those used by the Japanese, including the zona and the "magic eye" (identification by a hooded informant).2 Population movement was severely restricted by means of passes issued, for a fee, by mayors and provincial authorities, with imprisonment, beatings, or even death as punishment for traveling without one.3
Sounds like Gaza.

Were these Huk's terrorists? No they were not. Their operations were defensive.

Even in the central Luzon heartland, Huk military operations remained essentially defensive, a resistance movement against overwhelming external force. Huk forces carried out ambushes, raided outposts, cut roads, and "confiscated" funds and property to sustain the movement; they neither held nor sought to hold territory, and there was never any question of liberated zones.6

They were vulnerable to US aid coming in and eroding popular support by providing services to the locals.

The HMB movement's failure to evolve into a popular, national movement with clear objectives left it extremely vulnerable to both the aggressive, programmatic counterinsurgency initiated in 1950, as well as to highly publicized rural projects designed to undermine Huk support—including well- drilling, health clinics, military-backed courts to hear tenant-landlord disputes, and loans to peasant farmers. As in later American psy-war reform projects, from Vietnam to El Salvador, at least half of the funding for the rural development projects was provided by U.S. economic aid.7

Only much later, decades later, did the movement really become "Communist," after the land conditions had very seriously deteriorated.

In 1969, remnants of the HMB and a breakaway faction of the Communist Party came together to form a new, national guerrilla organization, the New People's Army (NPA). By then, the agrarian conditions that had motivated the Huk Rebellion in the 1940s and 1950s had worsened throughout much of the nation. The emergence in the 1960s of mass organizations of students, trade unionists, slum dwellers, and multisectoral political opposition groups in the capital and other urban areas provided new and powerful allies to the previously isolated peasants. The post- Huk revolt that sputtered and flared in the 1970s would emerge in the 1980s as a full-fledged revolutionary movement active throughout much of the national territory. The counterinsurgency methods in use today in the Philippines draw directly from both the experience of the 1950s and the later development of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine and practice.


The CIA knew the people had legitimate reasons for rebelling, but they played up the Communism angle because it was politically expedient.

Although the influence of the Philippine Communist Party (PKP) on the rise of the HMB was relatively minor, and its later attempt to control the Huk Rebellion proved ineffective, the role of the PKP stood out in the analysis of the U. S. military. Even though the agrarian roots of the conflict were recognized, the ideological viewpoint that categorized the Huks as communists dominated practical policy. Some early CIA and military reports provided a fairly measured assessment of the Huk movement, but by 1950 the view of the Huks as a phenomenon of the Cold War prevailed. A 16 January 1946 Military Intelligence (G-2) report presented a rather fair view of the economic background of the wartime Hukbalahap, observing that they lived in the Luzon Plain, an area in which "98% of the land is owned by 2% of the people," whereas "the majority of the people are tenant farmers who raise rice and pay 50% of their production in land rent."8 While attributing the strength of the movement to the agrarian situation, it suggested a gradual infiltration by leftist leaders:
During the occupation by the Japanese, the Japanese took 75% of the rice production in tax. This created an opportunity for patriots to organize guerrilla bands to fight the Japanese as a means of survival.... After the Hukbalahap movement became effective, certain liberals (with communistic leanings) decided to proclaim themselves as members of the Hukbalahap and use it as a means of political power.9
The Huks resisted the unfair economic system, and they resisted quite well. They had to go. So the CIA's Edward Lansdale simply REDEFINED the Huks as Commies and terrorists and thugs -- on official documents only because his private correspondence showed that he knew better -- but thus with a few strokes of the pen, he justified the murder of innocent people.



Major Edward Geary Lansdale...maintained that the leaders of the wartime Hukbalahap were all "true disciples of Karl Marx," hell-bent on revolution.12 And, in a convoluted twist of logic that would become characteristic of U. S. policy, Lansdale maintained that the mass following of the Hukbalahap was won primarily through terror....

...for the official record, the Huks were commies and the job was to eliminate them.

It is truly hard to appreciate how relatively small lies like this grow and grow, and bear hideous fruit year after year, and cause untold suffering for untold human beings; yet that is what happened. And that is what happens to this day, all around the world. It keeps happening because people keep believing the lies told by people who have a long proven history of lying. It keeps happening because before this lie started about the Huks, the Americans had fifty years earlier thought nothing of brutalizing Filipinos during the Philippine-American War.

It has all been done before, many times, killing people for no good reason.

The conflict (like Iraq it was never called a ‘war’ by the Americans) involved 200,000 American troops and cost the taxpayer about $600 million. According to contemporary American approximations 16,000 Filipino ‘insurgents’ were killed, and upwards of 1,000,000 civilians were killed (this in a country of approx 10 million at the time).

The fight against the Americans was hard fought, and though US military might meant that more were lost on the Filipino side, the fact that they were fighting for their own country and against a new imperial power meant that they naturally fought harder and with more passion than the Americans.

The Americans responded with a fear campaign that included killing civilians, including women and children. It also brought about further innovations like the use of the “water cure” on captured Filipino fighters, orders to kill everyone over 10 years of age on Samar, and the creation of concentration camps.

...The present war is no bloodless, fake, opera bouffĂ© engagement. Our men have been relentless; have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people, from lads of ten and up, an idea prevailing that the Filipino, as such, was little better than a dog, a noisome reptile in some instances, whose best disposition was to the rubbish heap. Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to ‘make them talk,’ have taken prisoner people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later, without an atom of evidence to show they were even insurrectos, stood them up on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop them into the water below and float down as an example to those who found their bullet-riddled corpses. [A reporter for the Philadelphia Ledger]


Over a hundred years ago that happened.

We must stop listening to liars, to the social engineers, if we ever want to have a different world to live in. Because they'll have us on this ride from hell forever IF WE LET THEM.

The resistance beings in your mind. Thinking is resisting.

22 comments:

Greg Bacon said...

Thinking is resisting.

And therein lies the problem; most Americans have been dumbed down to the point that they need to be watered twice a week.

A. Peasant said...

exactly. we've been socially engineered also, just with different methods. economic stress plus drugs plus teevee programming has worked really well to convince people that they're so much smarter than those poor uneducated peasants who can never get out of their own way.

the goal is the same, divide and conquer, but with different methods used for different groups.

Anonymous said...

Excellent post. I sometimes think that 'evil spirits' are at work.

- Aangirfan

bholanath said...

Brilliant and beautiful analysis of the mode and method of the 'march of civilization' of the last 500 years to downpress those who have 'nothing wrong with them'.
Of course earlier the Western indigenous had to be 'socially engineered' with witch-burnings, commons-stealing, plagues, etc. to get them to be the agents of clerical and royal holocausts of the 'brown people'. Amazing how it's possible to get humans to not recognize other humans as humans..????!

Anonymous said...

Peasant this is the absolute truth. It is the old they are backward, no technology, commies, everybody should want to work at walmart line.

People who find a way to survive with the natural world are a threat whether it be growing bananas, fishing or shooting buffalo.

Yeah I am now marveling at what technology has done for us, finding a way to open the heart of the earth. I am real impressed with that one as you know. Yeah I go on and on about it because it is so criminal.

In Paraguay they have always had military dictaors, the one that comes to mind is Alfredo Stroessner, the "strong man" I believe they called him. They must have dug out some serious mountain fortresses there as all the nazis seem to end up there and now Moon and Bush own the land over the world's largest fresh water acquifer.

Port Goss the petty killer was getting er done for Reagan in Nicaragua. I am pretty sure he resigned a few years ago over his having black water helicopters exraying peoples houses here in central Florida. They did it mine because all I can figure I was looking at the wrong website. My throat still burns and the dentist said I should be checked for cancer. That was years ago.

The local cops around here knew it also because I know some of them. They were told if they say anything about it they will be fired or worse. Porter resigned not too long after this. I know nurses who said people were saying the same thing, going into depression.

Hell I called Gerry Spence and they said I wouldn't believe how many had called about this but they didn't practice in Florida. His secretary just said oh my God.

They stopped doing it years ago I think? I know the sheriff around here resigned and said he was leaving the Republican party.

Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
A. Peasant said...

aan, thanks and yes i agree. evil is a disease of the mind.

bho, thanks also. there are many other examples. i know aan has covered a lot of similar cases in indonesia and SE asia. and then there's iraq, afghanistan, africa, etc.

really deadly.

A. Peasant said...

hey dubs, i will check out your links. i am behind on everything with my children out of school! they interfere with my reading and writing, but i put my money where my mouth is haha.

A. Peasant said...

hmm. dubs, interesting. you know i thought something like this was possible also. not convinced yet but we'll see.

bholanath said...

What you describe is exactly what is going down in Central and Northeast India. Mining corps like 'Vedanta' behind most of it (and 'Maoists'), and the Indian govt takin their schoolin from a certain middle eastern cabal.
The plague of 'social engineering'.

respects,
bholanath

A. Peasant said...

bho, yes that whole Naxalite business is very very similar, and roger on the mining. i had forgotten about that example, good one!

i wrote about it in november 2009:

http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-maybe-all-those-connections-arent.html

Anonymous said...

http://dublinmick.wordpress.com/

I am having things erased on google. I toying with a word press. It took me all day to find out how to hot link something there. I left links to my "inner circle" LOL!

A. Peasant said...

oooh! i like it! do you want me to change the link on the blogroll to go over there?

Anonymous said...

No please keep the campfire most of the info is still there. Word press is only a skeletal site now I am not very familiar with.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for spelling it out. I've had thoughts along those lines for a long time. The prime example of society destruction is the position (and treatment) of women in Muslim countries. Women are IMO central to family; disenfranchising women and destroying psychologically them renders any family around such women dysfunctional, and per extension such a society. On a side note, women in jewish society are even more disenfranchised than their muslim counterparts despite appearances, what should also tell us something about those people.
My other observation, which you write about at length, is that farmers are the first people who are attacked in any conflict - one more example is the mass murder of the Kulaks in the Soviet Union.
In general, any group which gets attacked (is at the "receiving" end of war) has more nature-bound ways than the attacking society, and this is not entirely explained by the technological difference.

A. Peasant said...

anon, thank you for fleshing it out a little more. there is definitely more to this. it sort of clicked when i was writing this at such a high level of understanding that i was having trouble articulating it, and yes it includes women at the center, and the connection to the land. that is exactly where the real strength in humanity resides. so they hack away at the root of fertility, because we are dealing with a death cult. anything to do with fertility and life they want to kill. and the men don't know enough to defend their women half the time, and so they turn into savages thinking that represents strength.

bholanath said...

Yes, farmers are primary targets, even more are the elder men and women with the plant-medicine knowledge.
That says it all about the planet-rapers' ultimate agenda.

respects

A. Peasant said...

hey bho, i watched some of your drumming this morning, very cool. !

morris108 said...

I never know which videoette will be popular (or deemed good). Indeed I am exploring to find a path/style.

I just want to apologise that when I was speaking to the camera, I thought your whole post was above the Social Engineering video, hence I referred to it as "accompanying text". Also I do not know how to pronounce "bough" (boff or bow?) so I referred to you as a blogger.

btw. I am talking about a video which used your post as source text

Social Engineering Goals and Prerequisites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPlyKtTjssU

A. Peasant said...

oh Morris, i am honored that you made a video of this post! i will add it in.

(btw bough is pronounced bow -- as in 'rock a bye baby on the treetop... when the bough breaks the cradle will fall...)

morris108 said...

Thank You A - it was an honour for me.

legal mumbo jumbo

Disclaimer: The posting of stories, commentaries, reports, documents and links (embedded or otherwise) on this site does not in any way, shape or form, implied or otherwise, necessarily express or suggest endorsement or support of any of such posted material or parts therein.

Fair Use: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.