THE SARS & SADDAM PSYOPS:
Enemies Within
and Without

By Fintan Dunne
http://www.GuluFuture.com
21st March 2003

Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove
General Jack D. Ripper: "Its incredibly obvious isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

A new virus called SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is being hyped into a major internal threat to the body, even as we are encouraged to face down a looming external enemy -this time Saddam Hussein and indirectly Islam.

Noting that the Centers for Disease Control is a military operation, we ask: are we being manipulated by PsyOps --psychological warfare techniques which play upon our hidden motivations? Let's look at the social psychology behind all this.

In Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, the paranoia of General Ripper about a foreign substance in his bodily fluids was suspiciously prophetic. Twenty years later scientist Robert Gallo confirmed Ripper's suspicions: a foreign substance called HIV had indeed been introduced into our bodily fluids.

General Ripper was torn between an external "Commie" enemy, and a suspected internal enemy in his body.

TO BE or NOT TO BE

The primal motivation behind all paranoia is fear of death itself. The inherent dualism of life presents contradictions between day and night, left and right, male and female etc. Our psyche is most aware of the dualism ME and NOT ME, and of: LIFE and NOT LIFE.

Indeed human psychology equates the dualism of ME and NOT ME with that of LIFE and NOT LIFE.

If I need to assert ME, it probably comes at the expense of all that is NOT ME -especially YOU! Existence is a life and death struggle.

Just watch two four year-olds grapple over a toy. "ME" says the first child. "No...ME!" counters the second. All things being equal, they could battle for an eternity over that toy.

But those infants won't stay 'dualists' (or duelists!) forever. Soon the rough and tumble of the school playground will turn our dualists into a pluralists. From the dualism of the 'one,' the child progresses to the pluralism of the 'many.' As will society.

FROM PROJECTION
TO INTROJECTION

In fact, that movement from 'one' to the 'many' is the process our world society has been going through since the pluralist revolution of the 1960's and the electronic communications explosion which followed.

That made us aware that 'Commies' are just people too. This is how the 'social mind' grows up. Although composed of adult members, the social mind is but an infant: nations battle over territory like infants warring over toys. It is depressing to realize that the collective mind lags so far behind the developmental capacity of the individuals of which it is composed.

But eventually, the social mind- like the infant, learns to communicate. Like a growing child, the Nation or group becomes more aware of the diverse world around it. This thrust has been mirrored by the growth of the Internet.

However, this development deeply challenges the methods by which the individual/group psyche copes with death fears. Before, the classic means was to project all fears of the enemy (NOT US = DEATH) outwards onto other groups.

Now, because of growing awareness, these projections no longer work so well. If we cannot 'dump' our death fears elsewhere- where will they go?

They go inwards. We have to adsorb the fears- introjecting them rather than projecting. The group comes to realize that it is WE who are our own worst enemies- not some OTHERS. Now the enemy is not without: the enemy is within.

This blurring of the boundaries between ME and NOT ME me is a psychological momentum which threatens both group and individual psyches.

If interpersonal boundaries fall, where will we end up? Dancing naked as in Woodstock? Shock. Horror. We still need our psychological clothes and we hesitate to shed them.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is quoted answering this question: "On what day will the Kingdom of Heaven arrive?" With this answer: "On the day that you trample your clothes into the ground." Read clothes literally and symbolically.

That's deeply threatening to the puritan complex that has reared it's head in the USA before --during prohibition times of old and the jogging and health crazes of late. And it spells the end for the military-industrial complex. An end which it has deferred by deploying PsyOps against us.

THE ENEMY WITHIN

The AIDS hysteria erupted in 1984- a symbolically appropriate year, as Big Brother represents all the parental influences the social infant is attempting to outgrow.

The temptation to run back to Big Mommy or Big Daddy to avoid the threatening world outside, is strong and was deliberately fostered:

1) The internalization of the 'enemy' was satisfied by finding a threatening enemy within the individual body: The HIV virus.

2) The internalization of the 'enemy' was further satisfied by finding a threatening enemy within the social group body: alleged carriers of the virus like homosexuals, drug users and 'naked' sexual hedonists.

3) This hysteria relieved the pressures of the thrust towards openness by encouraging isolation instead. The obsessive fear of contamination found in individual neurosis erupted in the group mind.

Interesting too that the AIDS theory was announced in the U.S.- perhaps the most culturally introspective nation in the world. The initials "US" form the word "US" --the primal group.

And now the internalized AIDS enemy is being supplemented with an Islamic enemy as threatening as the previous "Commie" enemy.

How do we become entrapped by this enemy hysteria? Surely a rational media should should be our best defense. And how did Science become the tool of the regressive AIDS hysteria? Is not Science the defender of truth against superstition and hysteria?

IRRATIONAL RATIONALITY

John Rappoport has recently outlined how PR specialist Ellis Medavoy was contracted by figures close to the council on Foreign Relations and the British Round Table to pave the media paths which led to widespread acceptance of the HIV/AIDS paradigm.

Two years before HIV was 'discovered' by Robert Gallo and the scientists who followed in his footsteps, Medavoy was already at work. There were of course many other possible hypotheses to explain the diseases which were afflicting gay men in the early eighties.

Dissenting scientists have struggled to find acceptance for these alternative ideas. But alternative explanations lack the emotional impetus that has hypnotized both the scientific establishment and the public.

The 'virus' theory satisfies the psychological needs and therefore wins out. In any event, scientific medicine traditionally sees treatment as a war waged on the battleground of the patient's body.

HIV researcher Dr. David Ho advised launching a preemptive "hit 'em early- hit 'em hard" strike against the virus. This, like much of our 'rational' medicine is merely militaristic nonsense.

The same "hit 'em early- hit 'em hard" theory was favored by hawks among the Cold War military. The same is also prominent in our response to the Islamic "threat".

In fact, "hit 'em early- hit 'em hard" is less a considered military strategy and more a projection of childhood experience in the era of spare the rod and spoil the child. The parental mantra was these same words. Our military leaders are captives of a past generation and it's now outlawed violence against children.

CYCLES OF FEAR

There is some light at the end of the tunnel. Just like any child, the social infant must eventually grow up. That is inevitable and evolutionary.

Second, there is a cyclic pattern to these regressive social movements. The 'Roaring Twenties' were followed by economic depression and eventually death and war in the 1930's and 40's. Subsequent a 'baby boom' led to the spiritual Sixties and Seventies --only to founder again in the materialistic Eighties and Nineties.

Recently, as the US prison population rose dramatically even as abortion statistics rose too (the opposite of a baby boom). These two were indications of a war against the enemy within. The tensions of the approaching millennium accentuated this drift.

But once through the millennial barrier, a thousand years of future offered another upswing --though a coherent vision about that future has yet to emerge. Buoyed by the staged 9/11 PsyOp, the fear dynamic still clings to power.

It would be naive in the extreme to assume that the Psychological Operations specialists in the influential British Tavistock Institute and in the military structures of the US and UK are unaware of the dynamics outlined in this article.

That renders credible the view that both the internal enemy AIDS in 1984 and the external enemy Islam on 9/11 were both deliberate "PsyOps" - Military Psychological Operations.

Is it entirely a coincidence that the SARS virus scare spearheaded by the military-run Centers for Disease Control makes it's appearance at EXACTLY the same time as the War on Iraq kicks off? Hardly.

We are seeing the tip of an iceberg here. A ghastly and clever manipulation of devious intent. Most people are easy targets for this PsyOp.

However, some 'social infants' are determined to scrap the parental masquerade of government and of authoritarian medical and scientific institutions. Some of us are keen to embrace the challenges of growing up. And to face the harsh realities of the ways the world is manipulated by Information Warfare.

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