Anders Behring Breivik deemed his act as “atrocious” but necessary in his statement to police. It begs to ask the question if the current propaganda war between Democrat and Republican is not part of some far reaching new variations of experimental psychology.; a form of behavior modification seeking to control the behavior of individuals and of people in groups. There seems a concurrent passion for results; constant opinion polls taking the pulse of the swaying herd we are taken to be. And this whole process also seems deliberately insensitive to the mental processes associated with obtaining the results. Although we hate to admit we seem to respond sometimes quire predictably to B.F. Skinner’s conditioned reflex. …
Deputy police chief Roger Andresen declined to comment on the possible motive for the killings, but said: “We have no more information than … what has been found on (his) own websites, which is that is goes toward the right (wing) and that it is, so to speak, Christian fundamentalist.”Breivik, who liked guns and weight-lifting, belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multiculturalism, Islam and the “cultural Marxists” of the establishment.Read More:http://www.grm780.com/the_granemporium/2011/07/anders-behring-breivik-norway-gunman-identified-as-sole-killer-deems-act-as-atrocious-but-necessary.html#_
---According to the Post, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sought to foster a sense of unity among House Republicans at their meeting by playing a clip from The Town, a 2010 crime thriller starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner. In the segment of footage reportedly shown, Doug MacRay, a bank robber played by Affleck, says to his friend Jem Coughlin, played by Renner, “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later. And we're going to hurt some people.” Jem then responds, "Whose car are we gonna take?" Republican aides tell the Post that Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a Tea Party-backed lawmaker with a penchant for making eyebrow-raising remarks, told his colleagues after the clip was shown, "I’m ready to drive the car."---Read More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/the-town-republicans-debt-ceiling_n_910472.html image:http://midtowngirl.com/2010/07/fierce-or-funny-the-town-movie-trailer.html
Rick Salutin:It doesn’t matter whether the ideology is religious, anti-religious, left or right. The film clip from The Town that U.S. Republicans in Congress are showing each other to stiffen their resolve about killing off services that people need has the same quality.
What ideology lacks is humility. You might have thought a thing through as best you can but what makes you sure you haven’t missed something, or even that a human mind is capable of solving this problem? And religion is no answer. You can believe you have the word of God to guide you but how do you know you’ve understood or, very often, even translated it properly? Non-ideologues do the best they can to reach a decision, then proceed with extreme caution….
Ottmar Horl. Chomsky:That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.I think that's true of Wikileaks, too. Take the parts that barely get reported and some of them are very much like that. So for example there are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret. Read More:http://chomsky.info/interviews/20110309.htm image:/2009/10/gnomes-on-a-hot-tin-drum/
…Another chilling phrase comes in his manifesto: “This does not mean that I oppose diversity. But appreciating diversity does not mean that you support genocide of your own culture and people.” It has an odd touch of the political correctness he deplores. It’s chilling because it’s so close to what respectable people keep repeating.Read More:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1031919–salutin-the-most-chilling-words-breivik-uttered
Although Skinner is a rather deplorable figure as a moral philosopher and social planner, his behavior modification and its modern mutant and unruly form does focus on the question that has obsessed moral and social philosophers since the Greeks. Namely whether the individual is autonomous or an automaton. Certainly that can be asked in terms of Breivik. Is he the victim of an enforced cultural assimilation into a subculture world. It seems palusible to suppose that he trained himself or was in some way trained to perform an action that did not come naturally. And, paradoxically, he was probably unaware of the high degree of control to which he was responding. As Skinner himself wrote:
We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That’s the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement—there’s no restraint and no revolt. By a careful design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to behave— the motives, the desires, the wishes.Read More:http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hubin1/documents/beyond%20freedom%20and%20dignity.pdf
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However, the EDL’s arguments bear a strong similarity to the comments by American right-wing pundits: “The Sunday Mirror says that Breivik’s views were vile. All of them? For example, he argued that ‘Muslim gangs in Norway are free to do what they want’. What’s vile about saying that? Indeed, from many accounts, what he says about Muslim gangs in Norway is absolutely the case and there is much evidence which shows it to be the case. He also told the truth about Norway’s ‘Islam-blocks’ in Oslo. That is, blocks of ‘subsidised and low-cost’ housing especially created for Muslims. How on earth is multiculturalism served by creating subsidised Muslim ghettos? That’
e exact opposite of multiculturalism. It is, in fact, Muslim hegemony and supremacism – funded by the state itself. It’s a massive case of Leftist social engineering. Read More:http://socialistresistance.org/2340/breivik-right-wing-violence-and-ideologya
---The additional final linkage that characterises many of the newer fascist parties and which breaks from traditional fascist parties is their economic agenda. Traditional fascism advocated strong state and corporatist linkages; this was probably due to the fact that initially they were initially tied to socialist ideology (both the case for Mussolini and Hitler) and the power of Keynesian economic proposals following the great depression as unregulated capitalism clearly was crisis prone. Many of the modern right-wing fascist groups (especially in the US) have a clear neoliberal economic agenda; some of which actually are based in such thinkers as Ayn Rand and Friedrich von Hayek and his modern version (Milton Friedman). While the Tea Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement) has been presented as a source of humour in the UK, there is no question that this is at least ---Read More:http://socialistresistance.org/2340/breivik-right-wing-violence-and-ideology image:http://www.anunews.net/
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---Jeff Jetton: So you don't think the United States will let democracy flourish? Noam Chomsky: They don't want democracy here, why would they want it in the Middle East? In fact, what's going on in -- you mentioned Wisconsin and that's quite appropriate. The last thirty years have been a major assault against democracy here, and the governor of Wisconsin is trying to carry it forward. Finally there's some resistance, but plainly elites here don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. In the Middle East it's dramatic because of the attitudes of the population. ---Read More:http://chomsky.info/interviews/20110309.htm image:http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/13/ron-pauls-latest-lonely-position-we-should-have-asked-pakistan-to-arrest-bin-laden/
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