Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Enemy image 0 27398 262541 261267 2023-04-14T16:33:30Z Robin 120 /* Selected examples */ image wikitext text/x-wiki {{concept |wikipedia= |image=Enemy Image.png |constitutes=Prejudice, Illusion, Propaganda technique, Ad hominem |description=A misleading view of a person or people, which hampers reconciliation and real communication |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. |key_properties=Description |key_property_headers=Description }}'''Enemy images''' are labels 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 or [[splitting]]. Although widely employed by [[propagandists]] and the {{ccm}} in general, ''<u>enemy images are 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> Groups such as the [[Integrity Initiative]] are used to build them up in preparation for [[war]]. ==History== Worldwide, people have told stories about strangers with incredible and threatening powers, or about dragons, [[Demonisation|demons]] or other such monsters, which can be seen as a [[projection]] of their [[fear]]s, disowned (suppressed and/or split-off) aggressive, sexual and other parts of self. In Europe in the [[middle ages]], [[organized religion|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> ===Post WW2=== {{FA|Strategy of tension}} 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]] (the enemy image) by carrying out [[false flag attacks]]. Manipulating and controlling others to make them believe and act upon (i.e. attack) enemy images is known as [[projective identification]], particularly a [[Psychopath|psychopathic]] variety, which then becomes a [[self-fulfilling prophecy]], the outcome of which the psychopath may cite in a game of ''I told you so''. ====Cold war==== {{FA|Cold war}} [[image:NWO globalist.jpg|right|380px|thumbnail|A faceless [[bureaucrat]] to represent [[Mr. Global]]? Or is it a reference to the [[US Deep state]]?]] 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 understood by many as the result of successful [[manipulation]] by use of enemy images and the "ordering" of the world by the ensuing wars and conflicts. ====1979 Jerusalem Conference==== {{FA|Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism}} 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]]. ===9-11=== [[image:BinLadenRabbitHat.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A [[US]] lapel pin identifies the conjurer, suggesting [[Operation Gladio B]].]] {{FA|9-11}} 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]]. {{SMWQ |source_URL=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48080.htm |source_name=Information Clearing House |authors=Danny Sjursen |date=25 October 2017 |subjects=security, enemy image, 9/11 |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.” |source_details= Our Quest For ‘Absolute Security’ Guarantees Forever War }} ===Post 9/11=== [[image:NWO_scum.jpg|left|410px|thumbnail|''Protestors gathered outside the [[2002 Bilderberg]].<ref>http://blagaroon.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-is-noonan-at-bilderberg-secret.html</ref>''<br/> 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.]] ==Psychological role== {{SMWQ |text=[P]rojective identification ... in which all bad is located in another person who is then annihilated, only evacuates these feelings temporarily, and is ultimately destined to fail. |subjects=scapegoating, human sacrifice, projective identification, projection, enemy image |date=2008 |authors=Anna Motz |source_name=The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body |page=221 |source_URL= |source_details=Routledge, London }} Enemy images promote violence by promoting [[fear]] and [[stress]], decreasing propensity for empathy. ===Dehumanization=== {{FA|Dehumanization}} 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/> in a process of [[dehumanization]] often proceeding and facilitating an attack on the perceived enemy. 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. In advanced cases of [[mass psychosis]], dehumanization goes so far it can be termed "[[demonization]]", where the sub-human other to which the image is applied are portrayed as the common enemy. Aftera period of humiliation, they are subject to increasingly violent attacks. This happened to [[Jews]] in [[Germany]] in the [[1930s]], and [[COVID-19 dissidents]] in 2022, incited by national leaders. ===Scapegoating=== {{FA|Scapegoating}} [[Scapegoating]] has happened for thousands of years in a wide range of societies. ==Selected examples== [[image:everyone I don't like is Hitler.jpg|left|350px]] Post WW2, [[communism]]/[[capitalism]] were launch as enemy ideologies on the west/east sides of the [[Iron curtain]]. [[Adolf Hitler]] was heavily promoted as an [[enemy image]], with such effect that the power of this image lasted into the 21st century. ===Party politics=== {{FA|Party politics}} Many nations which a [[democratic]] process in practice have just two large political parties, which through the [[polarising perspective]] of [[party politics]] were 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 realizations 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 realization in itself does not necessarily entail rejecting enemy images. ===Iraq War=== {{FA|Iraq War}} [[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> ===7/7 Bombings=== {{FA|2005 London bombings}} [[image:shoot_all_bombers.jpg|right|thumbnail|360px|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]].]] 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. [[file:infowars_bilderberg.jpg|left|thumbnail|360px|[[Infowars]] makes extensive use of enemy images, especially about [[deep state milieux]] such as the [[Bilderberg Group]].]] [[image:Bill Gates says time to install your update.jpg|thumbnail|Street art from [[2020]] in [[Melbourne]] highlighting [[Bill Gates]]' promotion of [[mandatory COVID-19 jabs]]. The suggestion of hellfire in the background qualifies this as an enemy image.|right|360px]] =="Conspiracy theories"== {{FA|Conspiracy theory/Academic research}} The use of enemy images is most obvious when it involves simple name calling, but it is a deeper phenomenon; it includes more subtle characterizations of "them" as fundamentally different and inferior to "us", implying dehumanization by suggesting mental illness and/or the threat of an impending attack. The term "conspiracy theory" is a deprecatory label (albeit one with little remaining power in that regard{{cn}}) 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. == The Great Reset == [[image:enemy_image_of_Klaus_Schwab_and_The_Great_Reset_2022.jpg|right|450px|thumbnail|A 2022 enemy image of [[Klaus Schwab]] and [[The Great Reset]] by [[Bob Moran]]]] ===COVID-19=== {{FA|COVID-19}} During [[COVID]], enemy images have been an important tool. ====The "Anti-vaxxer"==== {{FA|Anti-vaxxer}} "Anti-vaxxer" as applied to [[COVID-19 dissidents]] is a crude term, including people who have taken the [[COVID jabs]] and even [[vaccinologists]] such as [[Robert Malone]]. 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> In January 2022 [[Emmanuel Macron]] lead a number of national leaders in their rhetoric by announcing his plans to "piss off" (enmerder) those who decline the experimental COVID jabs. ==In Fiction== [[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> ==Non violent communication== {{FA|Non violent communication}} [[Marshall Rosenberg]] created [[non-violent communication]], a system of communication in which awareness of enemy images is crucial to enable dialogue and empathy. Rosenberg identified judgmental language or labels as violent definition of what others should be or constitute, which very often ends up in a fight about ''who's right'' and prevents mutual understanding and empathy. He cautions ''not'' to use judgmental language or labels, which he calls "jackal language" and instead train the ability to listen for needs, wants and feelings in self and others. This way solutions other than punishment (which is the proposed "solution" to deal with dehumanized enemies) become possible - by trying to meet everybody's needs.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/602</ref> {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{reflist}} 88bt0opcckce1qljziu4rmbfz1vy4wz