Pixelated Semantics

Disinformation and perception

In testimony before the Spanish parliamentary commission investigating the "3-11" blasts, the former conservative government is revealed as having deliberately withheld information of Islamic links for fear it would influence elections after the attack. "It was a disinformation operation seeking an electoral advantage" a Socialist party parliamentary spokesman said. The electorate voted out conservative incumbents for their unpopular support of the war in Iraq, heightened by Aznar's attempts to obscure links to Islamic terrorism. It was critical to prevent voters from perceiving the attack as retribution for support for the US-led coalition and its deployment of troops to Iraq. The attempts by Foreign Minister Downer, echoing the Bush Gang, to insist the Spanish were influenced by the terror of the 3-11 bombing into withdrawing from Irak are in this light revealled as a poorly-designed "disinformation operation" to seek electoral advantage domestically. The "War on Peace" being conducted by the Bush gang and cronies is clearly a massive campaign to manipulate public sentiment and justify totalitarianism while making some nice profits along the way. The US government scientist who ate a candy bar on her way into a subway station where food is prohibited, and was then arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police is one person who would confirm the domestic impact of this "war". In the meantime, the actual perpetrators of terror often remain at large; gains and losses in this "war" depend solely, ultimately on political perogatives for maintaining power, at the expense of ordinary people. The human effects from acts of war and terror currently matter much less than the public perception of these shadow conflicts.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 11:08 am ::