tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976093824276931409.post4307998895291031691..comments2023-10-18T17:03:47.698+01:00Comments on Surely some mistake?: The War on 'Aspiring Jihadists'Tim Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237522140184882034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976093824276931409.post-84830477876090193932012-09-29T15:17:52.453+01:002012-09-29T15:17:52.453+01:00Thanks for that, M.I.R.Thanks for that, M.I.R.Tim Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15237522140184882034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976093824276931409.post-3664063483993008002012-09-24T23:28:24.536+01:002012-09-24T23:28:24.536+01:00Also a thought just occurred to me that the behavi...Also a thought just occurred to me that the behavior described in the post at historicalpresent seems similar to what could get you convicted of 'grooming' if the informant was above the age of consent and the victims below.money isn't realnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976093824276931409.post-37929990017340077582012-09-24T22:23:26.879+01:002012-09-24T22:23:26.879+01:00An interesing post Tim, you will probably be inter...An interesing post Tim, you will probably be interested in this post on the brainwashing of the cleveland five, by an FBI Informant.<br /><br />"This treatment was brainwashing—or, as it is sometimes termed, coercive persuasion. The new social environment Azir created meets several of the conditions psychologist Margaret Singer associates with such thought-reform in her book Cults in Our Midst: Azir separated the alleged conspirators from their support networks by suggesting outsiders couldn’t be trusted (a tactic Schulte provocatively describes as using “security culture against activists”), controlled their time by providing them with long days of work, and kept them unaware they were being manipulated by presenting himself as a friend and mentor. According to Gupta, friends described Stafford and Baxter as “highly impressionable,” and Azir took advantage of their vulnerability. Sociologist Richard Ofshe (quoted in Brainwash by Dominic Streatfeild) explains that people subjected to such manipulation “make bad decisions because they find themselves in situations that are built to get them to make those decisions.”<br /><br />In addition to controlling their social environment, Azir manipulated the group physiologically to make them more suggestible. Fatigue obviously helped, and marijuana may have as well: Researchers in the 1970s found that “the drug caused an increase in suggestibility similar to that produced by the induction of hypnosis.” Similarly, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse’s 1972 report, “Marijuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding,” stated that “cannabis intoxication produces a heightened suggestibility.” I don’t know if this phenomenon has been exploited by the FBI before. According to John Marks’ classic The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” though, the Office of Strategic Services used cannabis as a truth drug during World War II. The CIA, its successor agency, later experimented more extensively."<br /><br />full post at:-<br /><br />http://historicalpresent.net/2012/06/cleveland-5/money isn't realnoreply@blogger.com