Atrocity Propaganda
By establishing a baseline lie and painting the enemy as a
monster, atrocity propaganda serves as an intelligence function, since it
wastes the time and resources of the enemy's counterintelligence services to
defend itself. The propagandists' goal is to influence perceptions, attitudes,
opinions, and policies; often targeting officials at all levels of government.
Atrocity propaganda is violent, gloomy, and portrays doom to help rile up and
get the public excited. It dehumanizes the enemy, making them easier to kill.
Wars have become more serious, and less gentlemanly; the enemy must now be
taken into account not merely as a man, but as a fanatic.
CNN Headlines – 28 Oct thru 07 Nov,
2014.
28 Oct 2014
ISIS allegedly using poison gas
29 Oct 2014
ISIS executes
45 prisoners
30 Oct 2014
ISIS executes
400 tribesmen in 48 hours
30 Oct 2014
Yazidi Women
Sold, Raped, Enslaved by ISIS
30 Oct 2014
'Treated like cattle': Yazidi women sold, raped, enslaved
by ISIS
03 Nov 2014
ISIS brainwashing
children into killers?
04 Nov 2014
Report: Children
say ISIS captured, beat
them on way home from exams
06 Nov 2014
Video shows ISIS fighters trading women
07 Nov 2014
Freed prisoners describe ISIS torture
Poison gas,
executions, rape, enslaving, brainwashing children, trading women, torture.
Searched BBC news, did not find similar headlines of such atrocity veracity.
Father of Spin by Larry Tye, 1998,
Excerpt
The selling of America on the Persian Gulf War was a public relations triumph. Its leading man,
Saddam Hussein, was cast as pure villain complete with menacing leer and
malevolent mustache. It had Iraqi soldiers snatching infants from hospital incubators and
leaving them on the floor to die while Iraqi helicopters hovered over Kuwait
City and Iraqi tanks rolled down the streets. One detail was left out of that
version of the war, however: the fact that it was crafted by one of America’s
biggest public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, in a campaign bought and
paid for by rich Kuwaitis who were Saddam’s archenemies. Hill and Knowlton’s
war against Iraq was hardly a PR first.
Nayirah testimony later discovered to be a
fabrication.
On October 10, 1990 Nayirah was the last to testify at the
Caucus. In her oral testimony, which lasted 4 minutes, she stated:
I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital with twelve other
women who wanted to help as well. I was the youngest volunteer. The other women
were from twenty to thirty years old. While I was there I saw the Iraqi
soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took
the incubators and left
the children to die on the cold floor. [crying] It was horrifying.
That night, portions of the testimony aired on ABC's
Nightline and NBC Nightly News reaching an estimated audience between 35 and 53
million Americans. Seven senators cited Nayirah's testimony in their speeches
backing the use of force. President George Bush repeated the story at least ten
times in the following weeks. Her account of the atrocities helped to stir
American opinion in favor of participation in the Gulf War.
Hill
& Knowlton - It
is unclear how much of Nayirah's testimony was coached. Though the firm was
supposed to provide only stylistic help, it was reported that H&K
"provided witnesses, wrote testimony, and coached the witnesses for
effectiveness."
Media Control by Noam Chomsky, 2002,
Excerpts
Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 on the platform
“Peace Without Victory.” That was right in the middle of the World War I. The
population was extremely pacifistic and saw no reason to become involved in a
European war. The Wilson administration was actually committed to war and had
to do something about it. They established a government propaganda commission,
called the Creel
Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist
population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy
everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the
world. There was a good deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns, such as
Belgian babies with their
arms torn off.
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