90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, January 6, 2022

On Mass Formation Psychosis

Have you ever seen those experiments where they have a group of people and everyone is an actor except that one guy and every one agrees on something that is before their eyes and is patently untrue and eventually that guy agrees that he sees it too?

I am one of the few that would continue to say, I don't see it...

I would be trying as hard as I could to see it, but if I didn't see it, I wouldn't say I did to fit in or be part of the group. I am a contrarian at heart, and I suspect many of you are also.

Documents: Feds Instigating Phony Whitmer Kidnapping Knew Lead Patsy was Mentally Ill, Made Fun of Him Behind His Back

Defense attorneys in the phony kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are arguing that communications between federal agents, including their teasing of the lead patsy for being mentally ill, prove that the plot was dubious.

The feds gave the so-called mastermind of the plot, Adam Fox, the nickname of “Captain Autism” as they set up the fake kidnapping, laughing at him the entire time as they set up the entrapment scheme, documents have shown.

“No one would have conspired with Adam Fox because no one believed he had any ability to form, much less carry out, a plan,” the defense claims, submitting their arguments in a new court filing.

The defense is requesting for the court to admit 258 statements made by FBI agents and their assets that they believe prove that the feds led the phony plot from its inception all the way until the conveniently-timed sting right before the election in Oct. 2020.

“We have a saying in my office. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story,” one agent said during a Dec. 2020 conversation referencing the fake kidnapping plot.

Another FBI agent said that the “mission is to kill the governor specifically.” Defendants, such as Daniel Harris, were repulsed at this idea. Harris said in response to the federal cajoling: ‘No snatch and grab. I swear to …God.'”

One federal snitch admitted to his federal handlers that no plot was taking place and the entire operation was a waste of time, saying: “Right, but yea, and I keep trying to push, press on them where are you guys wanting to go with this? Because I’m wanting (to) know are you wasting my time in a sense?”

“You can’t just grab brick and mortar. Without a … human to go with it, you’ve done nothing but grab brick and mortar,” the informant went on to say as he was ordered to further the federal entrapment scheme.

Fox also showed remorse about doing anything, suggesting that all the talk of plots were just drunken fantasies, which the defense attorneys have argued.

“I just, I don’t know. I start thinking about out doing it, it’s just like all the things like you know, like we could do that but at the end of the day it’s going to — it’s going to — it will wreak havoc on the community. Even if we don’t hurt nobody, just the action alone is going to devastate that...

‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Admittedly Used by Governments as Tool of Population Control

Leaked details of UK government’s early pandemic response back up Dr. Malone’s assertions.

Dr. Robert Malone’s assertions about “mass formation psychosis” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are underscored by the fact that authorities in the UK admitted to using “totalitarian” methods of “mind control” to instill fear in the population.

In Canada, the military also admitted launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people in order to manipulate them into compliance with COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.

During his viral podcast with Joe Rogan after he was banned by Twitter, Malone explained how the global population was being manipulated into remaining in a constant state of hysterical anxiety via mass formation psychosis.

“What the heck happened to Germany in the 20s and 30s? Very intelligent, highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?” asked Malone.

“The answer is mass formation psychosis.”

“When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere,” he added.

“And one of the aspects of that phenomenon is that the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in and say you have this pain and I can solve it for you. I and I alone,” Malone further explained, “Then they will follow that person. It doesn’t matter whether they lied to them or whatever. The data is irrelevant.”

“We had all those conditions. If you remember back before 2019 everyone was complaining, the world doesn’t make sense and we are all isolated from each other.”

“Then this thing happened, and everyone focused on it,” stated Malone, noting, “That is how mass formation psychosis happens and that is what has happened here.”

Malone’s summary of how health authorities seized on the unifying threat of the COVID-19 pandemic and exaggerated its thread to create mass hysteria is backed up by leaked details of how the UK government manipulated its population during the early days of the pandemic.

As first revealed by author and journalist Laura Dodsworth, scientists in the UK working as advisors for the government admitted using what they now admit to be “unethical” and “totalitarian” methods of instilling fear in the population in order to control behaviour during the pandemic.

The London Telegraph reported the comments made by Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B), a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) the government’s chief scientific advisory group.

The report quotes a briefing from March 2020, as the first lockdown was decreed, that stated the government should drastically increase “the perceived level of personal threat” that the virus poses because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.

One scientist with the SPI-B admits that “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear.”

The unnamed scientist adds that “The way we have used fear is dystopian.”

The scientist further confessed that...

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #162

Pipe bomb planter still unidentified one year after Capitol riot

One year after the Capitol riot, the person who planted pipe bombs the night before outside both the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters in the nation’s capital remains unknown and at large.

Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a speech on the eve of the riot’s one year anniversary in which he described the more than 725 arrests the Justice Department has made thus far — with the attempted pipe bomber going conspicuously unmentioned.

One pipe bomb was placed in an alley behind the RNC, while the other was placed next to a park bench near the DNC.

Steven D’Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, said in a recent interview that the pipe bombs were “viable devices that could have gone off and exploded, causing a lot of serious injury or death." He contended that it "has always been a priority since day one to find this individual.”

D’Antuono said the FBI has done over 900 interviews regarding the pipe bombs and has collected 39,000 video files and 400 tips related to the suspect’s identity.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House in June, saying that "we are aggressively investigating" the pipe bomb saga. When asked if he would commit to releasing all of the video that the bureau has on the attempted pipe bomber, Wray declined to do so, saying, “I’m very careful about making sure that we protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation.”

Video released by the FBI shows the suspect wearing a gray hoodie, a face mask, gloves, and black and light gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow logo, and carrying a bag as he or she strolled through the Capitol Hill neighborhood between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5. At one point, the suspect is seen on South Capitol Street looking around as a man walking a dog passes, and at another moment, the suspect is seen sitting down at a bench outside the DNC headquarters and rifling through a bag before getting back up. Additional footage shows the suspect walking in front of the Capitol Hill Club, a private venue frequented by Republicans, and in an alley between the club and the RNC headquarters.

D’Antuono speculated that the mask-wearing suspect was likely able to escape suspicion that night due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the bureau does not even know if the suspect is male or female.

The FBI said it released the footage in the hopes that someone can identify the person’s gait, body language, or mannerisms. The suspect is seen carrying the bag in his or her right hand in each of the clips. The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification or arrest of the pipe bomb suspect in early January, and that reward was increased to $75,000 then to $100,000 by the end of that month. The bureau continued posting public pleas on Twitter in March, April, May, and September seeking information on the unknown suspect.

The FBI said that the components of the devices include one-inch by eight-inch threaded, galvanized pipes, a kitchen timer, and homemade black powder. A ”Quick Look Report” by the National Explosives Task Force said the pipe bombs contained “a powdery substance consistent with the oxidizer potassium nitrate, the fuel sulfur, and a fuel consistent with charcoal."

A bipartisan Senate report released in June said that the Capitol Police received word of a pipe bomb at the RNC headquarters around 12:45 p.m. on Jan. 6 and that law enforcement officials discovered a similar pipe bomb at the DNC headquarters just after 1:00 p.m.

It has been widely speculated that the pipe bombs were planted in connection with the Capitol riot the next day, but that has not been proven.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified, “We were dealing with two pipe bombs that were specifically set right off the edge of our perimeter to, what I suspect, draw resources away. … I think there was a significant coordination with this attack.” Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton told the House, “Invariably, when there’s an incident, police officers swarm. … If those pipe bombs were intended to be a diversion, it worked.”

Sund also contended that the initial evacuation of two congressional buildings on Jan. 6 was not prompted by the storming of the Capitol complex but rather because of the discovery of the two pipe bombs.

Karlin Younger said she discovered the bomb near the RNC headquarters while she was taking out her laundry, and she said police arrived almost immediately, evacuating the block.

Former U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin said in March that the pipe bombs were real weapons, saying, “It appears they weren't armed properly. … But they were not hoax devices.”

The FBI released numerous photos and videos of the pipe bomb planter and also released a September video of a map depicting an approximate route the suspect took that night. The FBI said at the time that “reviews of the suspect’s behavior in video footage and interviews with residents in the Capitol Hill neighborhood have led the FBI to believe the suspect is...

As Joe Biden attempts to squeeze as much political capital as he can out of the anniversary of the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol, the White House has informed the press that Biden intends to accuse his predecessor, President Trump, of having "singular responsibility" for the events of that day. The remarks come as the new AG Merrick Garland insists that anyone involved with that day's events will be prosecuted, whether they were present or not.

We'll set aside the fact that the AG has stopped just short of openly calling for Americans to be persecuted for thought crimes, and focus on the matter at hand: that President Biden's sagging polling and twin devils of inflation and the current COVID surge have left him in a desperate position.

In ten months, Americans will head to the polls in what's bound to be a closely watched midterm election. It's possible Democrats could lose both of their narrow Congressional majorities. To try and stop this from happening, Biden needs to try and scare Americans into remembering how bad the last guy was. And he intends to accomplish this with high-handed rhetoric about media lies and the "subversion" of Democracy.

Biden is set to speak live from the Statuary Hall of the Capitol at 0900ET. Readers can watch live below:

The Biden Team has already distributed select excerpts from the president's planned remarks to the media. In one quip, Biden exhorts Americans not to accept "political violence as the norm".

"Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” Biden will say in his speech, according to excerpts provided by the White House. “We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation."

As Bloomberg points out in its coverage, Biden appears to be abandoning a strategy of not mentioning Trump directly. As his poll numbers continue to sag, Biden and his team are going to try "reengaging" with Trump (on a purely rhetorical basis) to see if this might help lift Biden's sagging approval rating. The day represents "a rhetorical opportunity" for Biden to change the narrative of his flailing presidency and "reorient" the conversation away from the disastrous handling of the COVID pandemic and toward something more politically useful for the Democrats.

Speaking during yesterday's White House press briefing, Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted that Biden was "personally" affected by the events of Jan. 6. "It hit him personally", she said (though not as personally as it hit AOC, who infamously lied about the "rioters" threatening her during the "siege".

Psaki also claimed Biden would be discussing "the truth" of what happened that day, while pushing back against "lies" and the "subversion" of...