Scare tactics???

[flamin lib]

Why is it that W can get away with telling us that Social Security will be bankrupt and seniors will have no benefits but Dems are accused of scare tactics when we point out that the plan is to destroy the program?

[ramapo]

1. Because the Republicans are better

at propaganda and marketing.

[flamin lib]

2. So how can we change that?

[KansDem]

4. First, buy all the voting machines and vote counting software...

The rest will follow...

Diebold is responsible for:
9/11 attacks
Iraq invasion
1500 Americans and over 100,000 Iraqis dead
ANWR defeat
"New and Improved" bankruptcy bill
Attack on Social Security
etc...

[politicaholic]

5. Start a left leaning news channel that has better shows than Faux...

We need shock value. That's exactly what O'Lielly and Hannity are doing and it seems to be working.

The only real mainstream spokesman the Dems had was that bald spineless mutant on Crossfire.

[flamin lib]

6. Yeah, I like that. I think AAR is a start and as it gets more

ratings and into more markets we may be able to drive a truly liberal biased network into the MSM.

Isn't Al Gore working on something like that?

[politicaholic]

8. Oh yeah, Gore, I heard that...

I don't see any reason why that can't be started. MSNBC is dropping into the tank, maybe they should buy them out.

I just don't understand why Faux gets such ratings, even over The Daily Show. Sure they have scantly clad dumbasses reciting off of the teleprompter and helmet headed clones who couldn't research into a good tie let alone a story.

Since when did it be okay to be labeled a conservative reporter, but to be a liberal reporter you're a piece of crap?

[libertypirate]

3. forgot blackmail....

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. The rw hacks immediately lie as second nature, libs generally

don't simply make up shit to push an agenda.

[nolabels]

9. I don't know who or what this mythical creature known as "Liberal" is.....

but I sure have some wingers and neocons I could point out.....

Mostly the job of these type of folks is deceive others while others work behind the scene that that most people are not aware of


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Summary: The psychological principle behind jail design, the effect of a dummy camera, at work on the battlefield? How the pan-opticon effect may turn war into a factory of diplomatically useful images.
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In the late 1800s Jeremy Bentham invented a new jail design, which he called the Pan Optiplex, or Pan OpticonD—which means all seeing in Latin. The prison was arranged in a semicircle with cells that faced a guard tower, positioned in such a way that the guards could see the inmates, but the inmates couldn't tell if they were being watched. The principle was psychological; if the inmates believed they were being watched, they'd behave themselves. Any human being will behave differently if they think they're being watched, which is why behavioral scientists who want to watch people (or other animals) go out of their way to hide behind two-way mirrors and concealed cameras. Conversely, it's why the cheapest “security” measure is a realistic looking dummy camera mounted somewhere conspicuous.

In the war we've just wrapped up in Iraq we saw the deliberate use of conspicuous observation on the battlefield. Some have speculated that reporters had been embedded with specific units in order to conduct a magic trick on a large scale. The magic, in this case, is indirection—and stage magicians use this by hiring sexy women in revealing costumes to act as their assistants. You look at the girl and the flash-powder explosions and your eyes aren't looking at the magician palming a card. Penn & Teller perform a trick on stage where an almighty big bang goes off at the back of the auditorium, shocking the entire audience into turning around to look behind them, while something obvious and sneaky happens on the stage. So by embedding reporters in some units, attention is drawn away from others who can conduct business that the Pentagon doesn't wish to explain.

There's nothing to suggest this isn't true, but the Pentagon could have killed three birds with one stone. In addition to the above, embedding reporters applies the pan opticon effect on the soldiers of that unit and makes them behave better than they would've. Back home we get 24/7 footage of professional, honorable soldiers, giving the whole US operation a cleaner image than it deserved.
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http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/humanity/scare_tactics.html