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Title: Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression (The Bot Bible Exposed !!!)
Source: David Martin
URL Source: http://www.dabney.com/wacomuseum/library/martin1.html
Published: May 5, 2005
Author: David Martin
Post Date: 2005-05-05 09:01:54 by crack monkey
Keywords: Suppression, Techniques, Seventeen
Views: 239
Comments: 8

Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Originally Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression


by David Martin, author of America's Dreyfus Affair Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen.

Wax indignant. This is also known as the "how dare you?" gambit.

Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through "rumors." (If they tend to believe the "rumors" it must be because they are simply "paranoid" or "hysterical.")

Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist," "nut," "ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and of course, "rumor monger."

Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the "more reasonable" government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own "skeptics" to shoot down.

Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).

Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.

Dismiss the charges as "old news."

Come half-clean. This is also known as "confession and avoidance" or "taking the limited hangout route." This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal "mistakes." This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.

Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.

Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. For example: We have a completely free press. If they know of evidence that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) had prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing they would have reported it. They haven't reported it, so there was no prior knowledge by the BATF. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press that would report the leak.

Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. For example: If Vince Foster was murdered, who did it and why?

Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.

Scantly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as "bump and run" reporting.

Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the "facts" furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.

Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges "expose" scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.

Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, "What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?" Don't the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not. Earlier versions of this page:


Many people who distrust the mainstream media have turned to alternate news sources, some of which are Internet based. Unfortunately, many of these alternate sources of news simply promote an alternate series of lies. These alternate lies are of course dressed up as "exposés." But you can easily tell the phonies from the real thing. The information in the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum is an acid test.

Does your news source promote Mike McNulty's video, Waco: The Rules of Engagement or wring its hands because the Davidian law suit against the government failed? (See Waco Documentary Is A Hoax! and Waco Suits for Waco Suckers.) Does your alternate news source carry promotional pieces about rebuilding the Davidian church in Waco and mouth nice words about "healing"? (See The Cover-up Church.)

Remember, since ancient times, inquiries into questionable deaths have started with the bodies of the victims. If your news source won't give you an honest and full account of the forensic information on Waco, or if it does not have a link to the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum ... your alternate news has failed a fundamental acid test.


Published by Public Action, Inc, a news and news analysis service. All commercial rights are reserved. A full statement of terms and conditions for copying and redistribution is available in the Museum Library. "Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum," "SkyWriter," and the sky writing logo are trademarks of Public Action, Inc. To receive occasional dispatches on Waco issues, write to Curator@Public-Action.com and put SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum or http://206.55.8.10/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum Curator@Public-Action.com

All original material is copyright 1996-2000 by Carol A. Valentine, on loan to Public Action, Inc. Postal Address: Carol A. Valentine, PO Box 10933, Burke, VA 22009

This page last updated February 28, 2001.

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Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7.

#7. To: crack monkey, *LP Fag Funnies* (#0)

Okay, I got the list.. I'll save the source so we can do a thread on it later..

Now, for a list of Bots.. Who should be included? Who's your "favorite" bot?

I mainly just think of the regulars.

Badeye, Trace, Floyd... ????

Ladies and Gentlemen, presented here for your enjoyment, it's time once again for "Name that Bot!"

Bot#1

Bot#2

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Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-05-05   12:20:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#8. To: Jhoffa_ (#7)

8, 10, and 12 fit Mudbot Slim. #1 is suitable for Butteye--I'm sure "dummying up" comes naturally to him. #2 is Trash-zipcode, #3 is BeACh-oozer. #5 applies to an entire forum: assclown posse. Also used by "languid"/jizzfan. #8 is also a Butteye favorite. Ah--#11, if that isn't a BAC technique, I don't know what is! #12 sounds like Mark Feelum, and whaddya know, #14 is the hallmark of our very own continental op.

Hey, they left out one. Bot 19: "Be a totally scary, vitriolic, poisonous bile- spewing hateful bitch... this way, people will go away instead of trying to get you to listen to reason." That one's aligyrl.

#s 12 and 15 sound a lot like palo verde.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-05 12:40:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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