reply to post by theflyingscudman
You are welcome and thank you for the personalised reply.
I think perhaps we need a better definition of what a COINTELPRO does.
Now before we go further I do expect you to think that this could be a method of diversion used to control or derail your purpose with this thread as
set out in your OP so I'll explain my thoughts upon it and hopefully you will understand why I ask.
During the Obama/McCain election drive in the US massive campaigns were set up by both parties interested in taking the presidency. Telephone, email,
door-to-door and mail was sent out to try and alter people's perceptions upon who they should vote for. It was the most organised PR event that had
ever come into being within the US political elections and it was seriously well organised. I remember watching the BBC and seeing tech reporters
mention Twitter for the first time, Facebook pages being established and blogging sites being named. In essence a huge educational drive was being put
forward to have people sign up and get categorised.
I didn't see the point of Twitter then and I still don't see it's use now - but now everyone (ATS included) has a Twitter or knows people who
tweet.
I'd expect this operation, by both sides of the potential winners of Government, to be a COINTELPRO concept. Having millions of people visit a
Facebook page, see a funny cartoon, express their thoughts about Barack or John (Or Sarah) all requires signing up, logging in and dropping out. An
operation which has huge beneficial affects to the efficiency of the intelligence operations section of the US government regardless of who claims the
election is exactly how I would work if I was in charge.
Having someone hang around forums and doing individual postings to only a few people seems like a waste of resources and effort - especially when you
look at every single forum in the world. Are World of Warcraft trolls COINTELPRO agents too? They have exactly the same kind of group dynamics we have
here on individual threads with exactly the same outcome. If it only when it comes to UFOs/9-11/Masons that we get them showing up?
Facebook received money from the CIA to get it established. There are tons of threads on here about how it operates. I'd expect that the people that
you say you saw and the numbers and/or funds associated would most likely be in huge operations which create profiles of every single citizen of the
world rather than someone to hang around in a forum.
So I'm not against the COINTELPRO concept at all. I believe that the CIA/NSA or whomever definitely pays out money to control the web. I just think
they do it to a scale that conquers all rather than throw a few people, who will fight anyway, a false clue or two to keep them away from 1 particular
truth out of millions.
I hope I have come across clearly here. If you have any questions I'll happily elaborate.
As for my being a skull digger I knew from the content in your initial post that some scrutiny would be applied to any responses - especially first
responses and expected to at least have some suspicion cast upon me.
I like the way that you reflected 3 times upon who or why I would respond in the manner that I did and would like it to be noted that whilst being a
spy or agent of an intelligence agency would be cool, having a stout intellect pretty sweet, I'm just a regular Joe who tries to investigate the
unknown as best I can without getting too excited about the fantastical over the mundane.
Again, I'm sure this thread will have many sorts of opinions in it and I hope to see all aspects of the COINTELPRO angle explored.
-m0r