A Worse Fate Awaits Manufacturing Consent And Terror

Bushian slip a first for Jeb    

WORLD NEWS
By Dallas Darling
05/22/2015

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened." -Joseph Stalin(1)

When he said that "we have to create more ISIS and grow the American economy," Jeb Bush's Freudian Slip was more than just a misspeak or repressed wish. 

Jeb Bush: "Oops…"

It was a harsh fact. As a way to initially manufacture the consent of the American people, an insidious convergence of national and international security organizations, intelligence gathering and policy formation groups, military and corporate complexes, and media and academic institutions now manufacture terror. 

In other words, their very existence and funding is dependent on provoking acts of terror and sustaining terrorist states like the Islamic State.

Beginning with the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, powerful and effective ideological institutions have carried out a system-supportive propaganda function through the reliance on biased and emotional market forces. These forces produced internalized assumptions and false narratives in the minds of many Americans.(1) At the expense of accurate and real world news, Americans have also embraced distorted infotainment and trivial human character stories. Consequently, such acceptance of inverted coercion and self-censorship has not only allowed the manufacturing of consent but also the manufacturing of wars.

If U.S. aggression in Vietnam proved one thing, it was that the war was unnecessary. Vietnam recovered, eventually establishing trade and diplomatic relations with the U.S. The real blood bath occurred in Cambodia, partly caused by American elites.(2) And instead of providing the American people with adequate food, housing, employment, education, and medical care, shadowy organizations sought to manufacture wars. At the center of this twisted rationale was their continued funding and global domination-through at least 150 military conflicts. Manufacturing and selling wars became the norm.

Manufacturing acts of terror and sustaining terrorist groups became the rule of shadowy groups and an alternate government, too. Forged in the jungles of Cambodia and Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge, American organizations soon after realized how they could have used their own diabolical creation to further their political, financial, and social agendas in the region. Later, their military and financial assistance of the Mujahadeen, Taliban, al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Chechnya's rebels, the sociocide against Iraq followed by the Islamic State, are only a few examples of manufacturing terror and terrorist states.

Due to powerful organizations like the National Security Agency and Wall Street, Pentagon and National Association of Manufacturers, Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigations, Council on Foreign Affairs and RAND Corporation, News Corporation and the HollywoodIndustry, Trilateral Commission and Bilderburg Group-just to name a few, and thousands of academia, lobbyists, and financiers; the American people have consented to perpetual warfare. Knowingly or unknowingly, they have also allowed these groups to brutalize and kill millions of innocent civilians.

Still, the U.S. military commandos that just killed a senior Islamic State official, or the elite armed forces that assassinated Osama bin Laden, serve as messianic pretenders, bolstering the imaginary needs of a permanent warrior class and warfare state. The same is true of news about the Islamic State overrunning Ramadi in Iraq. Along with administering a surgical procedure that eliminates desire and memory, endless and recycled infotainment justifies a permanent and massive corporate-military complex. Institutions and organizations which prey on the marginalized and commit real acts of terror and terrorism remain concealed.

Fortunately, some government whistleblowers are challenging the status quo, claiming that some terrorist acts are false flag events and created by a totalitarian security apparatus. 

Reports abound how domestic and foreign informants not only incite terrorism through the groups they infiltrate, but how a national security state and intelligence agencies assist terrorist organizations with information and military aid. 

As a result of imaginary or real terrorist attacks, a heightened state of alert and security becomes commonplace. It also encourages mistrust of neighbors while inducing dependency on the State. 

Liberty should always be liberating, but for the U.S. its brand of liberty crushes freedom and the spirit of independence. Again, elite institutions and counter-terrorist organizations are provoking, even sustaining acts of terror and terrorist states. Marginalized and oppressed peoples, especially in Muslim communities and Islamic nations, are targeted and then entrapped in complex spidery webs of shadowy sting operations. If he decides to run for the presidency-and the same can be said of the other candidates-Jeb Bush will be another nominal president as were his predecessors.

The endless and deadly cycles of manufacturing consent, of manufacturing war, and of manufacturing terror will continue to evolve. A far worse fate awaits America's terror machine and the world. Could it possibly be the fate of manufacturing genocides?

Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)

Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Readingon Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some NationsAbove God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.

(1) It is debated if Joseph Stalin actually said this statement. However, the meaning and its application is still very appropriate regarding totalitarian leaders and absolute political systems.

(2) See Edward S. Herman's and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York, New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.

(3) See William Shawcross's Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

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