Consent That Is Manufactured By Propaganda Is Not Informed Consent by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-03-09 at 23:54:18 )

Consent That Is Manufactured By Propaganda Is Not Informed Consent by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

A new Twitter post by Secretary of State Tony Blinken reads as follows:

"We will never hesitate to use force when United States of American lives and vital interests are at stake, but we will do so only when the objectives are clear and achievable, consistent with our values and laws, and with the American peoples informed consent - together with diplomacy."

Like pretty much everything ever said by Mr. Blinken, and indeed by every United States secretary of state, this is an absolute lie.

Firstly, United States military force is never used to protect "American lives" in modern times, unless you count the lives of United States troops and mercenaries in foreign lands they have no business occupying in the first place.

The United States military is never used to defend American lives against an invading enemy force; that simply does not happen in our current world order. It is only ever used to protect the agenda of unipolar planetary domination, which would be the "vital interests" which Mr. Blinken obliquely refers to above.

Secondly, Mr. Blinkens claim that the Biden administration will never use military force without "the American peoples informed consent" has already been blatantly invalidated by Joe Bidens airstrikes on Syria last month.

The American people never gave their consent to those airstrikes, informed or uninformed. A nation the United States invaded (Syria) was bombed because troops are being attacked in a second nation the United States invaded (Iraq) on the completely unproven claim that a third country against whom the United States is currently waging economic warfare (Iran) supported those attacks. At no time were the people asked for their consent to this, and at no time was any attempt made to ensure that they were informed of the situation before it happened.

We will never hesitate to use force when American lives and vital interests are at stake, but we will do so only when the objectives are clear and achievable, consistent with our values and laws, and with the American peoples informed consent - together with diplomacy.-Secretary Antony Blinken (SecBlinken) March 9, 2021

Thirdly, United States military force is never, ever conducted with the American peoples informed consent. Literally never. Consent is always manufactured for United States wars by lies and mass media propaganda, one hundred percent of the time, without exception.

The bigger the military operation, the more egregious the deceit used to manufacture consent for it. Even in relatively "peaceful" times when the United States is merely raining dozens of bombs and missiles per day on foreign soil, Americans are subject to a nonstop deluge of distorted and outright false narratives about their military and the nations it targets for destruction.

Consent that has been artificially manufactured by propaganda is not informed consent, any more than sex with someone who has been dosed with rohypnol is consensual sex. United States imperialism does not rely on informed consent, it relies on disinformed consent; consent for it is manufactured by disinformation. Informed consent plays no role whatsoever in the use of United States military force, nor indeed in any other major aspect of the behavior of the United States or its allies.

Every aspect of the United States-centralized power alliance is propped up by a relentless deluge of mass-scale psyops. Imperialism, capitalism, electoral politics; consent for all its key pillars is constantly being manufactured by the plutocratic news media, by television, by movies. All of the most influential generators of modern mainstream thought and culture are heavily influenced by a plutocratic class which has a vested interest in keeping power out of the hands of the people.

This is the only thing keeping us from moving into a healthy new paradigm where we collaborate with each other toward a healthy world based on truth and beauty instead of competing with each other over who can create the most profitable pieces of future landfill. No hard obstacles are in place stopping us; our cages only exist between our ears. It is only because powerful people are manipulating our minds to their advantage that we have not already used the power of our numbers to create a healthy, harmonious and enjoyable earth.

Tyranny By Propaganda Is Tyranny By Force

"Chaining peoples bodies looks tyrannical while chaining their minds does not, but as far as the powerful are concerned they accomplish the same goal."-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 16, 2021

It is important to be aware of the fact that our consent has been manufactured for this mess, because it means we never gave them our informed consent, which means no existing power structures have any legitimacy at all.

They have power because they stole our power from us, and it is our prerogative to take it back. We do not need to go through the political systems they have rigged to their advantage or the ideological spectrum of acceptable debate that they have confined mainstream discourse to. We can just take it.

This will only happen after we have freed ourselves in sufficient numbers from their mass-scale psychological manipulations, which will only happen after we have prioritized weakening public trust in their propaganda operations and waking the mainstream public up to the truth.

Once a sufficient number of people have been awakened from their propaganda-induced slumber, we can reclaim our world from the sociopathic manipulators without firing a shot, just by standing up to our true size and flexing our giant muscles.

I sincerely believe this will happen, and that it will happen fairly soon. Then we will extract their rapey fingers from our minds and create something truly amazing together.

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