Codewords, Keywords

•   A note on simple messages and codewords, keywords. It's possible, probably necessary, to strengthen the impact of your simplified message, your HIGH CONCEPT statement, by including code words that convey concepts which, if spoken directly, might be considered distasteful, rude, unacceptable in the media that you want to carry your message.

  Thus for example, we have a long tradition of not blaming things *directly* on Jews, but instead on: Hollywood, or Eastern Elites, or International Bankers, all of which are codewords for Jews.

  More recent codewords/keywords are: Ruby Ridge, and Waco, both of which indicate government slaughter of dissidents; Oklahoma City or Patriot Militia or Self-Defence, which represents armed resistance against overweening government; and so on.

  Other codewords: Welfare Queens - black women (of little morality / education / worth); 'Street Gangs' - Black and Mexican and Oriental kids. What are your favorite codewords?

•   Careful use of codewords can add layers of complexity to your simple message, new layers so that your message, at one level, is simple, is straightforward, is easily apprehended; and at another level, has an added complexity that your believers can appreciate and relish.
  
  

  Establishing Blame

•   Your conspiracy ALWAYS needs someone to blame events on, and your codewords are the keys to establishing that blame. In fact, just using the right codeword WILL establish the blame, and all your supporting evidence really isn't necessary, because the blame is implicit in your use of the codeword.
•   Again, in Christian, and especially in Protestant America, codewords related to UFOs, like various aliens, the Grays and the Reptilioids, have links to The Snake in the Garden of Eden, to Satan, and to Jews. In fact, the easiest way to have your conspiracy theory gain acceptance is by using codewords that boil down to meaning 'Jews'. Blame everything on the Jews, you cannot go wrong! Hey, it's worked for thousands of years, why interfere with a good thing? ... If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The tried-but-true approach...

  Of course, when delivering this message, it's necessary to ignore such information as, that Jehovah is a non-human extraterrestrial entity whose message [was] channeled by humans into books called 'bibles'; that Jesus is the alien-human hybrid son of this extraterrestrial entity; that Jesus was killed by Romans, Italians, not by Jews; that Christianity is a spin-off Jewish sect, and is thus merely cannibalizing its parent; that Christianity is the institutionalization of Roman power and imperium.

  
  

  Dueling Conspiracies

•   It becomes evident that every conspiracy theory is itself the product of another conspiracy. History can thus be seen as the battles of dueling conspiracies; the rise and fall of dominant heresies; the playing-out of human greed, fear, hate and desire. In other words, it's all a grand game, just about as entertaining as they come, eh?

  Each historical conspiracy has had its own codewords, its own language of blame and shame. Each has played upon hate and greed and fear (and sex). Each has set its own rules for participation. But eventually, they are all formed of similar components -- they are all modular and interchangeable. They are all Belief Systems, Human Games. See KNOWLEDGE vs. BELIEF for more on this.

  Thank you, thank you for your attention. (Dictated whilst strolling, 26 April 2000, Forestville California, 2:30 in the afternoon)

  
  
  

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  Further Thoughts

  [in need of further editing]   [dictated Saturday 6 May 2000 - Tempiute, NV] (Note: include links to searches of 'conspiracy theory', 'racial codewords', 'racial-ethnic codewords/keywords')

  
  
•   Another rule of conspiracy theorizing: It's not necessary to show that the conspiracy is effective, competent - merely argue that a conspiracy exists. Since people are always plotting things, of course there are conspiracies - *everyone* conspires. So, ignore the results or lack of results of the conspiracy you're theorizing about - only push its existence, not its functionality.
•   A note on Conspiracy Theories [include this in the guidelines - under Tactics, not Strategy] - It can be useful to plot the players in a conspiracy by noting some phenomena, by noting who suffers and who benefits, or at least, who *doesn't* suffer. So for instance: AIDS. If we accept that the spread of AIDS is the result of a conspiracy, then we ask: who benefits, who suffers, who doesn't suffer? We see that AIDS first struck gay male communities in the US and Western Europe; therefore it was a plot against gay males. But wait! It quickly spread throughout the rest of the world, and transmission is primarily heterosexual. The vast majority of AIDS sufferers these days are 3rd-world women and children. But gay males, and 3rd-world heterosexual males and females, are being decimated by AIDS; but one population that ISN'T, are 1st-world Lesbians. Therefore, AIDS is a Western Lesbian conspiracy! It's obvious.
•   By using this kind of logic, looking at any phenomena, see who doesn't suffer as much, it's very easy to pinpoint the actors, the driving forces, the controllers of any conspiracy. Now, rational observers may note the absurdity of this kind of logic, but such commentators are merely pawns of the conspiracy themselves; they're spin-doctors, apologists, flacks. Ignore them. Or attack them. Or call for their utter destruction by the awakened victims of the conspiracy.
•   Oh yes, there's a certain standard of language you must maintain in promoting conspiracy theories. Identify a person or entity, some sort of entity, identify their relationship to the conspiracy by saying it MAY be so. This person MAY be an evil malefactor... a mind-control victim, et cetera. And from then on, speak as though that is a FACT.
  
  

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  The More Names, The Better

•   More tactics for conspiracy theorizing: When presenting your conspiracy theory, it's helpful to list LARGE numbers of names; everybody you can think of who may be a player in the conspiracy; people who have been involved in some business, governmental agency, club, association, convention, conference, blood or marriage relationship, or even been in the same town at the same time with any other (alleged) conspirator. These names can be linked to well-known miscreants - can have attribution such as, they MAY be doing this or that - can be defamed by asserting that the organization that they're somehow related to has negative aspects or is part of The Conspiracy.
•   It doesn't matter if any of these people were in such an organization or relationship in OPPOSITION to the conspiracy; thus everybody participating in an advisory committee (whose findings you don't like) can be tarred-and-feathered as contributing to that finding (you don't like) even if they were actually in opposition, issued a minority report, whatever. Thus you may blame an entire Supreme Court for OKing abortion, even those justices who voted against it.
•   You can spend a lot more time establishing all the near-infinity of linkages between all the people allegedly involved in a conspiracy, than in detailing exactly what it is the conspiracy has resulted in. Quote from words from writings, speeches, letters of any of the alleged members of the alleged conspiracy - construe those words in the worst possible way - and then use those words to represent the feelings of everyone in the organization. Thus, because the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association no longer view homosexuality as a mental disease, these organizations and ALL their members can portrayed as being pro-gay. Likewise, if any member of such an organization ever said anything in favor of eugenics, then the organizations and ALL THEIR MEMBERS can be portrayed as being pro-eugenics, and part of a racialist-elitist conspiracy.
•   Similarly, if any member of an organization is also a member of another social/professional or ethnic group that is in any way associated with some third group that you wish to link them to, just mentioning the relationship establishes the link. For example, if any organization has Jewish members, then it's obviously a pro-Jewish organization, pro-Zionist, and is linked to the Jewish Defence League, Mossad, Shin Bet, anti-Palestinian state-sponsored terrorism, international bankers, media elites, etc. And if an organization of any sort has any Arab members, then obviously they're pro-PLO, terrorist, connected to Osama Bin Laden, Hamas, Islamic Jihad; they've shot up airports and Olympic athletes, bombed airliners and embassies and the World Trade Center, mailed anthrax spores, promoted suicide-bombers, etc.
  
  

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  Your greatest tool for establishing conspiratorial links is: COLLECTIVE GUILT - GUILT BY ASSOCIATION! Everybody knows somebody, who knows somebody else, who knows somebody else -- and at least SOME of those somebodies are GUILTY! Thus, EVERYBODY has criminal / conspiratorial links. Exploit this!

•   If anyone you wish to name as a player in a conspiracy ever went to the same school, belonged to the same fraternity/sorority, attended any of the same lectures, plays, movies, concerts, as a criminal mastermind / blackguard / un-indicted co-conspirator, well then obviously, there's a link. Think: six degrees of separation.
•   Everyone who was in, or near, or placed a telephone call to Dallas Texas in November 1963 is linked to the John Kennedy assassination. Everyone who was in or near Oklahoma City in a certain week is obviously linked to the Murrah Federal Building bombing. Anyone who was in or near Waco Texas, or who worked for the federal government, or who doesn't like Millerite millennialists, is obviously involved in the Branch Davidian 'slaughter'. Anyone who has ever been in the military, federal government or mass media is involved in the Roswell alien coverup. Any woman who's been in the White House in the last 8 years has probably had sex with President Clinton; and anybody else who's been in the White House is involved in the coverup of his affairs. Anyone who's ever walked in or near a Masonic lodge is part of the international Freemason world government plot. And so on.
  
  

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  Defamation With Discretion

•   Thus, when you're populating your conspiracy scenario with a cast of players, you may select ANYBODY, find links to ANYBODY else, and name names. And suggest evil deeds. VERY evil deeds. You may find it prudent to only name names of people already in public life. It doesn't hurt to throw in a lot of dead people too. You DO want to avoid being sued, now don't you? For defamation, libel, slander, etc. Unless you need the publicity and can afford the lawyers.
•   When you decide to defame people, be discrete in choosing your targets. And when naming people who are only peripherally in public life, be judicious in your language. Don't say that so-and-so is a communist cocksucker; say that they're ALLEGED to be a communist cocksucker, or have LINKS with communist cocksuckers, or dogfuckers, or whatever. Whereas, public figures you can defame all you want - anything goes.
•   You can also avoid being sued and stress the historical underpinnings of the conspiracy by um presenting a lot of material on conspiratorial stuff that happened a long time ago, to show that your conspiracy's been around a long time. Also, you can defame the long-dead with no fears of repercussions. Also, when naming names, name people who are actually minor players in the Real World, but make them SOUND as if they're fairly important. Focus on the secretaries and staffs of shadowy non-governmental organizations, not leaders of the corporate/political world. Don't mention the actual people who DO run things today. Sure, there are those who say Bill Gates is Satan; but few are alleging that he actually instructed his programmers to insert the backdoors that the NSA and other US security agencies have been using in Windows software.
  
  

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    PLAGIARIZE PLAGIARIZE PLAGIARIZE - but be certain always to call it, RESEARCH. —T.Lehrer

•   Finally, remember that no conspiracy theorist works in a vacuum. PLAGIARIZE the works of all previous and contemporary conspiracy theorists. You'll find a rich lode you can mine, of materials, quotes, names, EVERYTHING! Conspiracy theories, like many other aspects of human belief systems, are modular and interchangeable; you can pluck pieces from here and there, shrink-wrap'em, and produce brand-new theories, brand-new belief systems, based on a [near-]infinity of previous work. If anything when constructing your theory, you'll be [faced] with an embarrassment of riches. You will hardly know where to stop.
•   Any John Birch Society "American Opinion Bookstore" will provide you with a glut of materials, as will such online resources as the archives of the Conspiracy Theory Research List. Have fun.

CONTENTS:

PART I

1. Elements Of The Conspiracy:
   Players, Evidence, Contexts, Concepts
2. Constructing The Conspiracy:
   Selection, Presentation, Motivation, Marketing
3. Fear, Greed, Hate
4. Pyramid Structure
5. Simplicity Succeeds


PART II

6. Codewords, Keywords
7. Establishing Blame
8. Dueling Conspiracies
9. Further Thoughts [needs editing]


PART III

24. Resources
25. FAQs
26. Goto GO! Index

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