Obama Information Czar Outlined Plan For Government To Infiltrate Conspiracy Groups
Sunstein called for Cointelpro style effort to silence truth using army of hired provocateurs
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks, as well as real meetings, according to a recently uncovered article Sunstein wrote for the Journal of Political Philosophy.
As we have often warned, chat rooms, social networks and particularly article comment sections are routinely “gamed” by trolls, many of whom pose as numerous different people in order to create a fake consensus, who attempt to debunk whatever information is being discussed, no matter how credible and well documented. We have seen this on our own websites for years and although some of those individuals were acting of their own accord, a significant number appeared to be working in shifts, routinely posting the same talking points over and over again.
It is a firmly established fact that the military-industrial complex which also owns the corporate media networks in the United States has numerous programs aimed at infiltrating prominent Internet sites and spreading propaganda to counter the truth about the misdeeds of the government and the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2006 CENTCOM, the United States Central Command, announced that a team of employees would be hired to engage “bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information,” about the so-called war on terror.
In May 2008, it was revealed that the Pentagon was expanding “Information Operations” on the Internet by setting up fake foreign news websites, designed to look like independent media sources but in reality carrying direct military propaganda.
Countries like Israel have also admitted to creating an army of online trolls whose job it is to infiltrate anti-war websites and act as apologists for the Zionist state’s war crimes.
In January last year, the US Air Force announced a “counter-blog” response plan aimed at fielding and reacting to material from bloggers who have “negative opinions about the US government and the Air Force.”
The plan, created by the public affairs arm of the Air Force, includes a detailed twelve-point “counter blogging” flow-chart that dictates how officers should tackle what are described as “trolls,” “ragers,” and “misguided” online writers.
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New revelations highlight the fact that the Obama administration is deliberately targeting “conspiracy groups” as part of a Cointelpro style effort to silence what have become the government’s most vociferous and influential critics.
In a 2008 article published in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Obama information czar Cass Sunstein outlined a plan for the government to stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.
The aim of the program would be to “(break) up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories,” wrote Sunstein, with particular reference to 9/11 truth organizations.
Sunstein pointed out that simply having people in government refute conspiracy theories wouldn’t work because they are inherently untrustworthy, making it necessary to “Enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories. It might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts,” he wrote.
“Put into English, what Sunstein is proposing is government infiltration of groups opposing prevailing policy,” writes Marc Estrin.
“It’s easy to destroy groups with “cognitive diversity.” You just take up meeting time with arguments to the point where people don’t come back. You make protest signs which alienate 90% of colleagues. You demand revolutionary violence from pacifist groups.”
This is what Sunstein is advocating when he writes of the need to infiltrate conspiracy groups and sow seeds of distrust amongst members in order to stifle the number of new recruits. This is classic “provocateur” style infiltration that came to the fore during the Cointelpro years, an FBI program from 1956-1971 that was focused around disrupting, marginalizing and neutralizing political dissidents.
“Sunstein argued that “government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.” He suggested that “government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action,” reports Raw Story.
Sunstein has also called for making websites liable for comments posted in response to articles. His book, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done, was criticized by some as “a blueprint for online censorship.”
The Infowars office has been visited on numerous occasions by the FBI as a result of people posting violent comments in response to articles. Since the government now employs people to post such comments in an attempt to undermine conspiracy websites, if a law were passed making websites accountable, Sunstein’s program would allow the government to obliterate such sites from the web merely by having their own hired goons post threats against public figures.
The fact that the government is being forced to hire armies of trolls in an effort to silence the truth shows how worried they are about the effect we are having in waking up millions of people to their tyranny.
289 Responses to “Obama Information Czar Outlined Plan For Government To Infiltrate Conspiracy Groups”
- the dude Says:
January 14th, 2010 at 6:43 am
Well, I think you guys on this sight are wackos! aAnd your mom is too!
STARMAN Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 6:57 am
DUH ! WELCOME WELCOME TO PRISON PLANET —– THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING
STARMAN Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 7:38 am
NOT THE WACKO’S PART —- IM TALKING ABOUT THE GOV. MONITORING OF PRISON PLANET
itssoobvious Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Yeah, tell us something we did not already know. Anyone who has spent anytime reading these comments know that about 80% of the posts are garbage, and out of those it is pretty obvious that a large ratio of those are coming from agent provacateurs. To those, I say, welcome. Come and learn a thing or two about what is really going on in the world. Maybe you might even wake up, grow a conscience and realize that you are working for the dark side and change your ways.
Realize what your handlers have done in just the past year; tried to force an unsafe vaccination for a mild flu while threatening Americans with marshall law, demonized and called Americans Nazis for freely expressing ideas at town-hall meetings, called returning war veterans potential terrorists via the MIAC report, violated the right to peacefully assemble by terrorizing citizens with stormtrooper-style riot police in Pittsburgh, attempted to give away American sovereignty to an unelected world government via a climate change deal in Copenhagen, used a false-flag attack on Christmas to attempt to implement mandatory naked body-scanning at airports in an attempt to scare people away from traveling, and currently attempting to initiate a scientific-dictatorship while taking over 80% of the economy via healthcare reform. I could go on, but you get the point.
So, to you government boys, are you going to use your positions of authority to reign in this prison planet being set up as we speak, or will you do what is right and bring the criminal banking elite to justice and finally set mankind free? You are the gatekeepers. Do what is right.
MYSPACE/ERIKTHERED9 Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:55 am
AND EVIL IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL CONSPIRACY
Got to love this AJ post. The topic of this post is DEMONIC TROLLS…. Thats about what the truth movement battles day in and day out, and thats why i keep saying that those who defend evil are the overall enemy to humanity.
LETS USE THE EVOLUTION BLOG IN THE TOP MYSPACE BLOGS AS AN EXAMPLE
Evolution has been proven fraud but is still taught in schools across the world because of the demonic movement oppression towards the Creator and creation. One of the all time top myspace blogs is the EVOLUTION/RELIGION IS WRONG BLOG which is always either in the 1 or 2 spot all time. This is purposely done as in accordance with repetative mind control tactics. The whole blog in itself is a blatant lie. I guess much religion would be wrong if the religion was demonic imposture. The people that hang in this evolution blog are luciferian and will erase any quality debate that shows evolution to be fraud. I have watched them repeat comments over and over to keep them in the top blogs. They hate anyone who talks creation period and they hate the creator with passion. They are luciferian and they give themselves away with ease to someone like me. But to a lot of youngsters who have no clue, then their blog would be used as prime demonization to unknowing victems of fraudulent disinformation.
THIS POST EXPOSES THE DEMONIC NETWORK/MOVEMENT
For it is this demonic network/movement that sends out these disinformants and luciferian bloggers to spread confusion, doubt, and chaos into the mainstream truth movements. Know your enemy, they are easy to spot when Universal Truth and the Creator are your foundation.
THE WICKED ARE STAINED FROM THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT
tattoo joe Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 8:43 am
we need to be fighting for independance for our country again. so i say lets change the love of power into the power of love. this planet shouldnt be a prison it should be a celebration of life. Im so sick of this country and basically society. I can survive with out thier consumer driven society. f--- your TV f--- THE US GOV AND ESPECIALLY f--- YOU OBAMA! f--- YOU CHENEY! f--- THE BUSHES AND ANYONE RELATED TO THEM! WE WILL TAKE THIS WORLD BACK!
Chopulin Colorado Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:51 am
& phuck the horses they rode in on as well!
cassie Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:51 am
CONSPIRE; TO BREATHE IN ONE ACCORD WHICH IS TRUTH. FEAR TRUTH? FEAR US. THIS AMERICAN BELIEVER WILL FIND YOUR THREATS AND FEAR MONGERING FALLING ON DEAF EARS. SHUT UP OR COME LOCK US UP AS WE ARE NOT BACKING DOWN FOR A NANO SECOND FREAKS. LOVE, CASSIE
NAZI in POWER Reply:
January 18th, 2010 at 9:48 am
WHEN ????????????????????????????????????? all i see is chatter , talk talk talk and u do nothing!! pussys
LandOLakes Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
If true, this is misguided. Good governments would push to bridge any communication gaps to get the accurate information out into the public. This back room stuff only contributes to paranoia/suspicions and is one of the reasons conspiracies exist. What conspiracy groups? All I see in my recreational net travels are caring, intelligent people who have a nose for the truth, and their bullsh*t meters have been going off for years now; and as news has unfolded after the facts, they have good reason. Tell the whole truth, and people will know it in their gut. Do the right things, and present all of the facts without appearance of personal agendas, and people will not feel righteously compelled to dig for any ommitted facts to fill glaring info gaps. Citizens looking to make informed decisions based on finding missing info are not conspiracy groups. They are trying to be responsible members of society and make good decisions for their lives and community in spite of being fed partial information, imho. Transparency, transparency, transparency!
NAZI in POWER Reply:
January 18th, 2010 at 9:47 am
This is what happends when zionist Jews have power , life turns into s---
Chris Killz Reply:
January 18th, 2010 at 11:39 am
PUT SNITCHES IN DITCHES!!
Elvenrunelord Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 7:35 am
I think its perfectly ok if they want to come to the meetings. After all the conspiracy people have infiltrated all their organizations already.
This my friends is what we do in the NWO…we get to know each other really well.
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. Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 8:40 am
That’s original
wolf56 Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 8:55 am
1st commenter,troll!
REX-84 Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:46 am
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Im A Troll Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
well aj’s mods didnt like what i said the first time about this rex 84 spammer. i wonder why they allow this post in every thread?????? it must be one of those gvt run conspiracy websites. connect the dots folks.
Peter Wolf Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Sunstein should be renamed as s---stein.
Give me as many little trolls as you can Mr s---stein as i enjoy bashing them.
andrew Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:59 am
dude you are a great spokesperson for america. im so impressed.
savedman Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Hey friends,
Don’t be alarmed at the government takeover of all of your private life. You aren’t concerned with the well-being of your eternal soul in eternity, so why should you be concerned in the least with the things that concern your well being while in your body?
My friend, surveilance and control into the minutest areas of your life is on the way, just look at merry old England. They rejected The Lord Jesus Christ and His Word over a century ago when the Revised Version was produced by them. That was the death nail in their spiritual coffin. All that the catholic devil’s bibles produce is social clubs that are “rich, increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” (Revelation 3). The reason for America’s demise and the takeover by the government is directly tied to Her rejection of the Authorized King James Bible 1611. America was blessed by God Her Creator until the turn of the 20th century when Her churches went liberal with the devil’s masterpieces of trash which began to be produced nin 1881. My friend, if you want a Personal Revival, you will return to the King James Bible 1611 and live according to it, otherwise you have no hope of ever getting right with God. Repent and Receive The Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved (Acts 16:30,31). Now, you can go back to sleep until the church is gone and you find yourself in the middle of the tribulation. You better look at Haiti with a fearful eye, for that is just a precursor of what is coming with God’s judgments of Revelation 6-19.
MYSPACE/ERIKTHERED9 Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 10:15 am
THE QUOTE…..Hey friends,
Don’t be alarmed at the government takeover of all of your private life. You aren’t concerned with the well-being of your eternal soul in eternity, so why should you be concerned in the least with the things that concern your well being while in your body?
LOL, THATS BEAUTIFUL, I MEAN, FOR REAL, EVIL IS SUCH A JOKE AND COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS ITSELF. GOOD LOOKING OUT.
savedman Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:07 am
When the time that evil is accounted for believe me it will not be “a joke.” Hell is nothing to laugh about. Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels (Mt.25:41), and sinners go there as intruders because their sins have not been atoned for. Only the precious blood of Jesus Christ shed on Calvary’s Cross can atone for your wicked sins. If you refuse to be washed in His blood, you will find that hell is no joke friend. God has done everything He is going to do to get you to heaven. He gave His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ for our sins. Sin is blinding and will damn its victims to hell. My friend, God’s love for you was demonstrated when He smote His own Son in your place. It was a vicarious death that Jesus Christ suffered, He had no sin of His own. It was our sins that nailed Him to the tree. That crucifixion tree can become your tree of life if you will humble yourself in God’s sight and call upon Him in prayer and Receive The Lord Jesus Christ as your substitute. Why would you die in your sin when it has already been paid for?
MYSPACE/ERIKTHERED9 Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I HEAR YOU SAVED MAN, I TALK TO THE CREATOR EVERYDAY FOR THE CREATOR GOD IS THE TRUTH ALWAYS AND FOREVER.