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| − | |constitutes=prejudice, illusion, propaganda technique
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| − | |description=A misleading view of a person or people, which hampers reconciliation and real communication
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| − | |glossary=The term "Enemy image", promoted by [[Marshal Rosenberg]], refers to a view of a person or people which is influenced by animosity, and as such hampers reconciliation and ''real'' communication. The successful manipulation of large groups of people (e.g. the general public) has often been achieved through the nurturing of their prejudices and fear through such images.
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| − | '''Enemy images''' are label applied to others to justify their own opposition to them. In conflicts between two groups, enemy images are often mutual and arise from [[polarising perspective]]s. Although widely employed by [[propagandists]] and the {{ccm}} in general, ''enemy images are <u>not wanted on this website</u>''.<ref>The practical upshot for Wikispooks editors is that neutral, fact-based, language should be used. Words such as "[[terrorist]]" are not welcome unless used inside quotation marks.</ref> They are build up before [[war]] to rally populations behind the cause, as the [[Integrity Initiative]] actively does.
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| − | Worldwide, people have told stories about strangers with incredible and threatening powers, or about dragons, demons or other such monsters, which can be seen as a projection of their [[fear]]s. In Europe in the middle ages, religious authorities lead a drive against [[witch]]es, [[Catholics]], [[jew]]s or other perceived enemy groups provides a forceful illustration of the power of enemy images to subvert clear thinking.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/327</ref>
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| − | ==Post WW2==
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| − | Set up at the end of [[WW2]], and nominally run from [[NATO]] HQ in Brussels, [[Operation Gladio]] was a Europe-wide network of [[deep state functionaries]] who carried out [[assassinations]], [[kidnappings]] and [[bombing]]s to order. Exposed only in the 1980s, this network was used to promote fear of communism by carrying out [[false flag attacks]].
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| − | ===Cold war===
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| − | Although an ally against Nazi Germany, the [[USSR]] quickly became a cogent enemy image for the populations of Western Europe and [[USA]]. This played a large role in perpetuating the nuclear [[arms race]] and [[cold war]].<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232465993_Enemy_Images_The_Psychology_of_US_Attitudes_and_Cognitions_Regarding_the_Soviet_Union</ref> [[George H. W. Bush]] used the phrase "[[New World Order]]" which was to become a powerful enemy image for many people.
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| − | ===Strategy of tension===
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| − | Arguably, "[[terrorist]]s"<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/747</ref>, "[[paedophile]]s"<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/748</ref> or in some cases even "[[Muslims]]" could be understood as enemy images, in that people do not sympathise with them as fellow human beings.<ref name=dm/> Less arguably, [[establishment]] organisations such as the {{ccm}} nurture people's [[fear]] not only to sell copy but as a tool of [[social control]]. The complicity of [[intelligence agencies]] remains a matter of some conjecture in more modern cases, but it well established in [[Operation Gladio]], where [[false flag attacks]] were carried out and falsely blamed on [[communist]]s. Post [[9-11]], [[Gladio/B]] has substituted Muslims for nationalists.
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| − | ===1979 Jerusalem Conference===
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| − | The 1979 [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]] saw a large number of [[deep state operatives]] convene for a conference which attempted to promote the enemy image of a [[USSR]]-backed international campaign of "[[terrorism]]". This conference laid the groundwork for the [[9-11]] event and launched the enemy image of the "[[Islamic terrorist]]]". This was given a lot of traction after the end of the [[USSR]] say NATO replace Operation Gladio with [[Operation Gladio B]].
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| − | ==9-11==
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| − | The administration of [[George W. Bush]] used the [[9-11]] attacks to promote the enemy image of "[[Islamic terrorism]]" in general, and [[Ossama bin Laden]] in particular. The [[US police state]] was advanced through laws that were passed through [[congress]] after terrorisation projects such as the [[Amerithrax attacks]].
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| − | |source_URL=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48080.htm
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| − | |source_name=Information Clearing House
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| − | |authors=Danny Sjursen
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| − | |date=25 October 2017
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| − | |text=The events of 9/11, we were told, changed everything. The globe was now divided between the forces of good and evil. Bush communicated this quite clearly in an address to the nation just days after 9/11: “Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.”
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| − | ==Post 9/11==
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| − | [[image:NWO_scum.jpg|left|425px|thumbnail|''Protestors gathered outside the [[2002 Bilderberg]].<ref>http://blagaroon.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-is-noonan-at-bilderberg-secret.html</ref>''<br/>
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| − | In the same way that ''knowing'' a spider is harmless does not necessarily reduce [[fear]] of it, awareness of the ''facts'' about [[deep politics]] does not necessarily entail abandoning ''[[emotional]] attachment'' to the concept of the enemy image.]]
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| − | ===Party politics===
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| − | Many nations which a [[democratic]] process in practise have just two large political parties, which are often seen as opposites. These nations' political discourse is often dominated by enemy images, which represent an emotional barrier not only to people's reconciliation, but also to more important realisations about the state of [[society]] - such as, for example, the role of the [[deep state]] in nurturing factionalism. Enemy images hide the fact that the [[party political]] system has little real cogency, but this realisation in itself does not necessarily entail rejecting enemy images.
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| − | [[Steven Green]], a US soldier who in 2006 took part in a gang [[rape]] of a 14 year old girl and the subsequent [[killing]] of her and her family, exemplified the impact of enemy images. He stated about Iraqis that "There's not a word that would describe how much I hated these people. I wasn't thinking these people were humans."<ref name=dm>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340207/I-didnt-think-Iraqis-humans-says-U-S-soldier-raped-14-year-old-girl-killing-her-family.html?ito=feeds-newsxml</ref>
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| − | ===7/7 Bombings===
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| − | {{FA|2005 London bombings}}
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| − | [[image:shoot_all_bombers.jpg|right|thumbnail|400px|The coverpage of UK's ''[[Daily Express]]'' from 23 July, 2005, the day after [[Jean Charles de Menezes]], an unarmed man, was killed by the [[Metropolitan Police]].]]
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| − | After the [[2005 London bombings]], UK {{ccm}} repeated their procedure after [[9-11]]; they responded not with a careful reporting of the story, but with use of [[enemy image]]s.
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| − | [[image:Bill Gates says time to install your update.jpg|thumbnail|Street art from 2020 in Melbourne depicting [[Bill Gates]]|right|380px]]
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| − | =="Conspiracy theories"==
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| − | The use of enemy images is most obvious when it involves simple name calling, but it is a deeper phenomenon; it includes more subtle characterisations of "them" as fundamentally different and inferior to "us". The term "conspiracy theory" is a deprecatory label (albeit one with little remaining power in that regard) and researchers into them almost never entertain the possibility that they may be correct. Instead, they [[Conspiracy theory/Projection|project]] their refusal to engage onto "conspiracy theorists", concluding that they are emotional needy.
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| − | ==COVID==
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| − | During [[COVID]], enemy images have been an important tool.
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| − | Western Australian Premier [[Mark McGowan]] labelled [[Clive Palmer]] an '''enemy of the state''' for his dissent around COVID.<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-think-he-s-the-enemy-of-australia-mcgowan-ramps-up-war-of-words-with-palmer-on-wa-border-battle-20200731-p55hdj.html</ref>
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| − | ==In Fiction==
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| − | [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[1984 (book)|1984]]'' features the "Two Minutes Of Hate" in which party members are expected to hate a person named "Emmanuel Goldstein".<ref>https://prezi.com/ftzmeadoifee/the-importance-of-the-two-minutes-of-hate-emanual-goldstei/</ref>
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| − | ==Non violent communication==
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| − | {{FA|Non violent communication}}
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| − | [[Marshall Rosenberg]] created [[non-violent communication]], a system of communication in which removal of enemy images is crucial to enabled dialogue and concensus.
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| − | ===Response===
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| − | Marshall Rosenberg encouraged people to overcome enemy images by avoiding judgmental language or labels, and by ''not'' seeking to punish people.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/602</ref>
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