The Pentagon’s strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information has already been chronicled in a recently declassified report, “The Information Operations Roadmap”; is a window into the minds of those who see free speech as dangerous as an “enemy weapons-system”.
The Pentagon is aiming for “full spectrum dominance” of the Internet. Their objective is to manipulate public perceptions, quash competing points of view, and perpetuate a narrative of American generosity and good-will.
Rumsfeld’s comments are intended to awaken his constituents to the massive information war that is being waged to transform the Internet into the progeny of the MSM; a reliable partner for the dissemination of establishment-friendly news.
The Associated Press reported recently that the US government conducted a massive simulated attack on the Internet called “Cyber-Storm”. The wargame was designed, among other things, to “respond to misinformation campaigns and activist calls by internet bloggers, online diarists whose ‘Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events”.
and apparently
“...the violent extremists have established ‘media relations committees’—and have proven to be highly-successful at manipulating opinion-elites. They plan to design their headline-grabbing attacks using every means of communications to intimidate and break the collective will of free people”
a word-perfect description of rummy and his chummies in the pentakremlin
So their goal is to convince the internet-public-at-large that people who crticize the administration's actions online are being duped into doing so by the terrorists, and as such should be shunned and ignored and never believed.
This will go over like a fart in church. I mean, aren't they a little late? Their target audience are all people who already completely distrust the administration - actions like this are only going to reinforce these people's opinions, not convince them otherwise.
Sometimes I can't help but be glad Bush, Cheney, Rummy et al happen to be driving this ridiculous fascist effort. I mean, just imagine how successful it might be if it were all being done by intelligent, reasoning people.
R00k wrote:So their goal is to convince the internet-public-at-large that people who crticize the administration's actions online are being duped into doing so by the terrorists, and as such should be shunned and ignored and never believed.
This will go over like a fart in church. I mean, aren't they a little late? Their target audience are all people who already completely distrust the administration - actions like this are only going to reinforce these people's opinions, not convince them otherwise.
Sometimes I can't help but be glad Bush, Cheney, Rummy et al happen to be driving this ridiculous fascist effort. I mean, just imagine how successful it might be if it were all being done by intelligent, reasoning people.
these morons have probably just now figured out that since they have the mainstream media by its corporate balls, the only way people can escape the deafening noise of their propaganda is via open media like the internet
ultimately the idea is to make it difficult if not impossible for people to organise and interact on any meaningful political level without going through a 'controlled' gatekeeper like the corporate media, who will make sure only the weakest and most compromised 'dissenters' get heard
