by NewKid » Fri May 05, 2006 10:22 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>But that's not General Vallely's claim to fame. He is known for a paper he wrote with a military intelligence officer named Michael Aquino in the late 1980's called From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory. Aquino is also the founder of a Satanic cult called "The Temple of Set" which has had many run-ins with the law regarding satanic pedophile rings on military bases. I still kid you not. You can find a copy of this paper on the Temple web-site. He founded the cult in the mid-1970's more than a decade before he wrote this paper with our friend Vallely. I'm not big on guilt by association -- but really. <br>Vallely and Aquino's views are a bit eccentric, to say the least:<br><br><br><br>In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe - neither through primitive "battlefield" leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics - but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic media -- television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts made possible a penetration of the minds of the worlds such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur, we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and the integrity to civilization with it. If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they then desire moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Unlike PSYOP, MindWar has nothing to do with deception or even with "selected" - and therefore misleading - truth. Rather it states a whole truth that, if it does not now exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States. The examples of Kennedy's ultimatum to Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Hitler's stance at Munich might be cited. A MindWar message does not have to fit conditions of abstract credibility as do PSYOP there; its source makes it credible. <br><br>[...]<br><br>"MindWar must target all participants to be effective. It must not only weaken the enemy; it must strengthen the United States. It strengthens the United States by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest in a specific war."<br><br><br>As Rigorous Intuition notes here, that sounds remarkably like the comment made to journalist Ron Susskind about "creating reality:" <br><br><br> . . .<br><br>These are all extremely creepy people involved in all kinds of neocon cloak and dagger fantasies.<br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_11_06_digbysblog_archive.html#113147542831962924" target="top">digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_11_06_digbysblog_archive.html#113147542831962924</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Cited today at FDL<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> If Walton thinks the whole thing sounds like bullshit now, wait ’til he sees the witness list. Can we assume the list will include Lt. General Tom McInerney and Maj. General Paul Vallely? They’ve made these claims before and Vallely’s couldn’t even stand up to Jeralyn’s Lexis/Nexis debunking (as I recall this erupted around the same time as the "Joe Wilson is a French Spy" theory, Vallely eventually admitted he screwed up the dates and Sean Hannity told us that this made his story even more plausible). They’re both big neocons, authors of the Regnery classic "Endgame: The Blueprint For Victory in The War On Terror," and as Digby noted: <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/05/desperation-sets-in/" target="top">www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/05/desperation-sets-in/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=newkid@rigorousintuition>NewKid</A> at: 5/5/06 8:34 pm<br></i>
