{"id":50520,"date":"2022-01-26T03:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=50520"},"modified":"2022-01-26T03:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:21:57","slug":"the-civil-war-psy-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/the-civil-war-psy-op\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Civil War\u2019 Psy-Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50523\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/j63.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2022\/01\/18\/the-civil-war-psy-op\/\">The \u2018Civil War\u2019 Psy-Op<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Psy-ops can have many objectives, demoralization being the most common. But they can also be used to prep the ground for other operations, to create opportunities that otherwise might not present themselves.<\/h3>\n<h3>That\u2019s what\u2019s going on now. The regime wishes to crush all actual and potential opposition. To do this, it needs to criminalize dissent. But doing that runs against the letter and spirit of the great charters of American liberty, and against the grain of the American character. To do what they want to do requires changing public opinion. Or, more specifically, it requires wearing down Americans\u2019 inborn resistance to censorship and political persecution.<\/h3>\n<h3>But as much as Americans hate those things, they also hate and fear even the prospect of terrorism, civil strife, and domestic conflict. Here we come to another dog resolutely not barking. There is no terrorism, civil strife, or domestic conflict\u2014at least not coming from the Right. Yet the Department of Justice recently created a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/11\/doj-creating-unit-focused-on-domestic-terrorism-amid-spike-in-threats\/\">domestic terrorism unit<\/a>\u201d to target \u201cthose who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Read carefully that unusually candid statement. They aren\u2019t going after\u00a0<i>actual<\/i>\u00a0terrorists or terrorist acts. I suppose they would if they could find any. But there aren\u2019t any to be found.<\/h3>\n<h3><em>So instead they\u2019re targeting motives, animus, and ideologies\u2014i.e., ideas and feelings, not actual acts.\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Civil War\u2019 Psy-Op &nbsp; Psy-ops can have many objectives, demoralization being the most common. But they can also be used to prep the ground for other operations, to create opportunities that otherwise might not present themselves. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on now. The regime wishes to crush all actual and potential opposition. To do this,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,3958,5445,5477,13,473,74,9853,5512,5673,5594,1928,5540,3553,8486,5953,399,2967,2098],"tags":[13804,1555,13805,13806,597,13807],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}