That’s how the Left works.
It can be seen in how the international Left (which includes the media and UN/EU/US) in collusion with the Arabs/Muslims lie about Israel. The way the Left lies about its ideological connection with German National Socialism and Fascism in general. The way the Left lies about economic policies and financial crisis’s, never failing to use normal downturns as an excuse to centralize more power onto themselves, or even in the ‘global warming’ industry, where pseudo science replaces real science, and the loudest voice in the room carries the day.
Ferguson and the Big Lie
DEC4
Written by: Diana West
Thursday, December 04, 2014 4:47 AM
“Hands up, don’t shoot.” No doubt Stalin would approve.
When Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Thomas Sowell for his reaction to the mantra “Hands up, don’t shoot” now being repeated from the protest theater of the streets to the floor of the US Congress by members of the Black Caucus in order to negate the evidence weighed and assessed by the Ferguson grand jury, Sowell replied:
Oh, for political reasons. I thought of Joseph Goebbels’ doctrine, people will believe any lie if it’s repeated often enough and loud enough.
This exactly describes the mechanism of The Big Lie. People speak of it variously as a tactic of “Alinskyism,” an “information war,” “the 1960s”, or, in this case Nazi Germany. They are all correct. But the Big Lie, which marries political mendacity to mass media, is the brain child of Marx. Like the concentration camp, it was introduced to the world by Soviet Union, not Nazi Germany. The results of of this strategic assault on the truth as a means to power are all around us.
At its core, American Betrayal is the history of the Big Lie, and how it corrupted the West. Boggled by the post-9/11 experience of living through the creation and enforcement of a suddenly newly current Big Lie — “Islam is a religion of peace” — I set out to discover where in our past facts were sundered from conclusions. As I researched the past, tracking backwards from Big Lie to Big Lie, I discovered in the gigantic works of historian Robert Conquest cogent analysis of how, or at it least when, and by what mechanism, it all began.
The first Big Lie, Conquest argues, was the negation of the mass atrocity known as the Ukraine Terror Famine, whereby Stalin engendered the death of five, six, possibly many more millions by state-engineered famine in the early 1930s, and the West decided not to notice. Indeed, on the heels of the Soviets’ undoubted crime against humanity, FDR would actually “normalize” relations with Stalin, another mechanism, as discussed in American Betrayal, of moral decline. In the memoir of ex-Socialist Eugene Lyons, I came across the actual moment of media creation of this first Big Lie — a sordid scene in a Moscow hotel room whereby the Western press corps made a late-night deal with the Soviet censor and washed it down with vodka and zakuski (hors d’oeuvres).
From American Betrayal, pp. 100-101:
[Conquest writes:]
On the face of it, this [deception] might appear to have been an impossible undertaking. A great number of true accounts reached Western Europe and America, some of them from impeccable Western eyewitnesses . . .
But Stalin had a profound understanding of the possibilities of what Hitler approvingly calls the Big Lie. He knew that even though the truth may be readily available, the deceiver need not give up. He saw that flat denial on the one hand, and the injection into the pool of information of a corpus of positive false- hood on the other, were sufficient to confuse the issue for the passively in- structed foreign audience, and to induce acceptance of the Stalinist version by those actively seeking to be deceived.
Flat denial plus a corpus of positive falsehood: Sounds like another black hole of antiknowledge, another corroding attack on the basis of the Enlightenment itself. Conquest describes this concerted effort to deceive the world about the truth of the state-engineered famine, Stalin’s brutal war on the peasantry, as “the first major instance of the exercise of this technique of influencing world opinion.”61
This instance, then, was a seminal moment in the history of the world. The seminal moment, perhaps, of the twentieth century, a moment in which history itself, always subject to lies and colorations, became susceptible to something truly new under the sun: totalitarianism; more specifically, the totalitarian innovation of disinformation, later expanded, bureaucratized and, in effect, weaponized, by KGB-directed armies of dezinformatsiya agents.
What do I mean by “armies”? Ion Mihai Pacepa, former chief of intelligence in Communist Romania, told me, “During the Cold War, more people in the Soviet bloc worked for the dezinformatsiya machine than for the Soviet army and defense industry put together. The bloc’s intelligence community alone had over one million officers (the KGB had over 700,000) and several million infor- mants around the world. All were involved in deceiving the West—and their own country—or in supporting the effort.”62
