Obama staffer wants “cognitive infiltration” of 9/11 conspiracy groups

By Daniel Tencer
Raw Story

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 — 10:48 pm

In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11.

Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.

As head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Sunstein is in charge of “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs,” according to the White House Web site.

Sunstein’s article, published in the Journal of Political Philosphy in 2008 and recently uncovered by blogger Marc Estrin, states that “our primary claim is that conspiracy theories typically stem not from irrationality or mental illness of any kind but from a ‘crippled epistemology,’ in the form of a sharply limited number of (relevant) informational sources.”

By “crippled epistemology” Sunstein means that people who believe in conspiracy theories have a limited number of sources of information that they trust. Therefore, Sunstein argued in the article, it would not work to simply refute the conspiracy theories in public — the very sources that conspiracy theorists believe would have to be infiltrated.

Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, suggests that the government “enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories. It might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts.”

Download a PDF of the article here.

Sunstein argued that “government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.” He suggested that “government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.”

“We expect such tactics from undercover cops, or FBI,” Estrin writes at the Rag Blog, expressing surprise that “a high-level presidential advisor” would support such a strategy.

Estrin notes that Sunstein advocates in his article for the infiltration of “extremist” groups so that it undermines the groups’ confidence to the extent that “new recruits will be suspect and participants in the group’s virtual networks will doubt each other’s bona fides.”

Sunstein has been the target of numerous “conspiracy theories” himself, mostly from the right wing political echo chamber, with conservative talking heads claiming he favors enacting “a second Bill of Rights” that would do away with the Second Amendment. Sunstein’s recent book, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done, was criticized by some on the right as “a blueprint for online censorship.”

Sunstein “wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading ‘rumors,’” wrote Ed Lasky at American Thinker.

Obama gives diplomatic immunity to Interpol by executive order

On December 17th, by executive order, president Obama removed all exceptions that in the past would have allowed domestic law enforcement agencies access to Interpol’s records and possessions in their US offices.

Now we can add Interpol to the list of organiations such as the UN, IMF, and World Bank, that we are ceding our national sovereignty to.

In other Interpol news:  FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton

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International Organizations Immunities Act, December 9, 1945 made “international organizations” immune from taxation and discovery.

Reagan’s EO made Interpol an official “international organization” but not immune from taxation and discovery.

Obama’s EO made Interpol immune from taxation and discovery.

Thus anything in Interpol’s files cannot be gotten at by legal process. Anyone accused by Interpol cannot use legal process against it to defend himself.

Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425

EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

BARACK OBAMA

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Executive Order 12425

Ronald Reagan’s Executive Orders
Executive Order 12425
by Ronald Reagan

International Criminal Police Organizations
Delivered on 16 June 1983.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), it is hereby ordered that the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), in which the United States participates pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 263a, is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act; except those provided by Section 2(c), the portions of Section 2(d) and Section 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect the privileges, exemptions or immunities which such organization may have acquired or may acquire by international agreement or by Congressional action.

RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
June 16,1983.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:59 a.m., June 17, 1983]

http://www.answers.com/topic/executive-order-12425

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International Organizations Immunities Act, December 9, 1945

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/decad034.asp

SEC. 2. International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows:

(a) International organizations shall, to the extent consistent with the instrument creating them, possess the capacity-

(i) to contract;

(ii) to acquire and dispose of real and personal property; (iii) to institute legal proceedings.

(b) International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract.

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith; the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments.

SEC. 3. Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the baggage and effects of alien officers and employees of international organizations, or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to such organizations, or of the families, suites, and servants of such officers, employees, or representatives shall be admitted (when imported in connection with the arrival of the owner) free of customs duties and free of internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation.

SEC. 4. The Internal Revenue Code is hereby amended as follows:

(a) Effective with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1943, section 116 (c), relating to the exclusion from gross income of income of foreign governments, is amended to read as follows:

“(C) INCOME OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND OF INTERNATIONAL, ORGANIZATIONS.-The income of foreign governments or international organizations received from investments in the United States in stocks, bonds, or other domestic securities, owned by such foreign governments or by international organizations, or from interest on deposits, in banks in the United States of moneys belonging to such foreign. governments or international organizations, or from any other source within the United States.”

(b) Effective with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1943, section 116 (h) (1), relating to the exclusion from gross income of amounts paid employees of foreign governments, is amended to read as follows:

“(1) RULE, FOR EXCLUSION.-Wages, fees, or salary of any employee of a foreign government or of an international organization or of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (including a consular or other officer, or a non-diplomatic representative), received as compensation for official services to such government,. international organization, or such Commonwealth-

” (A) If such employee is not, a citizen of the United States, or is a citizen of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (whether or not a citizen of the United States); and

” (B) If, in the ease of an employee of a foreign government or of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the services are of a character similar to those performed by employees of the Government of the United States in foreign countries or in the Commonwealth of the Philippines, as the case may be; and

” (C) If, in the case of an employee of a foreign government or the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the foreign government or the Commonwealth grants an equivalent exemption to employees of the, Government of the United States performing similar services in such foreign country or such Commonwealth, as the case may be.”

(e) Effective January 1, 1946, section 1426 (b), defining the term “emploviiient” for the purposes of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, is amended (1) by striking out the word “or” at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word “or”, and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection the following new paragraph:

(16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization.”

(d) Effective January 1, 1946, section 1607 (c), defining the term “employment” for the purposes of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, is amended (1) by striking out the word “or” at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word “or”, and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection the following new paragraph:

” (16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization.”

(e) Section 1621 (a) (5), relating to the definition of “wages” for the purpose of collection of income tax at the source, is amended by inserting after the words “foreign government” the words “or an international organization”.

(f) Section 3466 (a), relating to exemption from communications taxes is amended by inserting immediately after the words “the District of Columbia” a comma and the words “or an international organization”.

(g) Section 3469 (f) (1), relating to exemption from the tax on transportation of persons ., is amended by inserting immediately after the words “the District of Columbia” a comma and the words “or an international organization”.

(h) Section 3475 (b) (1), relating to exemption from the tax on transportation of property, is amended by inserting immediately after the words “the District of Columbia” a comma and the words “or an international organization”.

(i) Section 3797 (a), relating to definitions, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:

(18) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.-The term ‘international organization’ means a public International organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act.”

SEC. 5. (a) Effective January 1, 1946, section 209 (b) of the Social Security Act, defining the term “employment” for the purposes of title 11 of the Act, is amended (1) by striking out the word “or” at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and insertiDg in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word “or”, and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection the following new paragraph:

” (16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act.”

(b) No tax sliall be collected under title VIII or IX of the Social Security Act or under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act or the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, with respect to services rendered prior to January 1., 1946, which are described in paragraph (16) of sections 1426 (6) and 1607 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and any such tax heretofore collected (including penalty and interest with respect thereto, if any) shall be refunded in accordance with the provisions of law applicable in the case of erroneous or illegal collection of the tax. No interest shall be allowed or paid on the amount of any such refund. No payment shall be made under title 11 of the Social Security Act with respect to services rendered prior to January 1, 1946, which are described in paragraph (16) of section 209 (b) of such Act, as amended.

SEC. 6. International organizations shall be exempt from all property taxes imposed by, or under the authority of, any Act of Congress, including such Acts as are applicable solely to the District of Columbia or the Territories.

You can take that to the bank

But did you really think for one second he was going to keep that promise?

What Obama Reads

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In the photo here, Obama is spotted with a book penned by Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World. Zakaria’s book argues that a world order is emerging led by the authoritarian slave state China and India.

“Criticism of the book focused on certain assertions made by Zakaria, as well as the focus of the book mirroring back a ruling narrative to meet the needs of the global elite,” a Wikipedia write-up notes.

It makes sense Zakaria is talking to the elite. He is one of their trusted minions.

In addition to working as the editor of Newsweek International, Zakaria is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, where he hangs out with insiders such as Brent Scowcroft, CFR president Richard Haass, and CFR member and former Clinton college roomate Strobe Talbott. Zakaria is a Bilderberg attendee, a senior staff member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He was the editor of the CFR’s house organ, Foreign Affairs.

It makes sense Obama is reading Zakaria. He is one of the leading intellectuals of the New World Order.

WeAreChange Ohio confronts Fareed Zakaria.

Orly Taitz Sanctioned for $20,000

The “Birther queen” has been slapped with a five-figure fine for “wasting the judicial resources” of the Middle District of Georgia, where she’d filed one of her numerous lawsuits demanding that President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. The judgment, which calls Taitz’s case and tactics “delusional”:

Counsel Orly Taitz is hereby ordered to pay $20,000.00 to the United States, through the Middle District of Georgia Clerk’s Office, within thirty days of the date of this Order as a sanction for her misconduct in violation of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The entire document, and some key excerpts, after the jump.

Judge Clay Land makes the toughest statement about Taitz’s antics here:

The Court finds that counsel’s conduct was willful and not merely negligent.  It demonstrates bad faith on her part.  As an attorney, she is deemed to have known better.  She owed a duty to follow the rules and to respect the Court.  Counsel’s pattern of conduct conclusively establishes that she did not mistakenly violate a provision of law.  She knowingly violated Rule 11.  Her response to the Court’s show cause order is breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional.  She expresses no contrition or regret regarding her misconduct.  To the contrary, she continues her baseless attacks on the Court.

And here’s the tick-tock of Taitz’s appearance in court:

Counsel’s frivolous and sanctionable conduct wasted the Defendants’ time and valuable judicial resources that could have been devoted to legitimate cases pending with the Court. When she filed the Rhodes case, counsel indicated that it was urgent that the matter be heard because her client was facing imminent deployment.  The Court rearranged its schedule, took time to read the legal papers, and conducted preliminary research in preparation for the hearing.  The Army had to activate its legal team on short notice, sending a Major from the Army Litigation Division in Washington, D.C. and a Captain from the CONUS Replacement Center at Ft. Benning.  In addition, the Assistant U.S. Attorney had to accompany them.  Like the Court, the government attorneys had to prepare in an expedited manner for the hearing.  During the week preceding Captain Rhodes’s deployment, the Court was in the midst of a jury trial.  Therefore, the Court had to alter the trial schedule to conduct the hearing during an extended lunch break, thus affecting other counsel and jurors.  The Clerk’s Office was burdened by Ms. Taitz’s inability to follow the Court’s rules regarding pro hac vice admission and the Court’s rules for electronic filing. On five separate occasions in a short period, the Clerk’s Office personnel error-noticed counsel for her failure to follow simple rules.  At the hearing, counsel failed to make coherent
legal arguments but instead wasted the Court’s time with press conference sound bites and speeches.

Domestic Al Qaeda terrorists question Lord Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

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As publicly documented in the Department of Homeland Security Terrorism Threat Assesment 2009, any and all American citizens can be declared a terrorist for infractions ranging from “owning a firearm” (supporting the 2nd amendment is terrorism?) to “supporting Ron Paul” (supporting a sitting US Congressman is an act of terrorism?).  This can be done without proof and without the need for judge or jury, as laid out in the John Warner Defense Bill, the Military Commissions Act and Patriot Acts 1 2 and 3.  The term terrorist has been so ambiguated, confused, and deliberatly redefined into any number of clearly NON-TERRORISTIC acts, that it can be successfully used as a semantic fear button, to illegaly imprison and silence the citizens of our crumbling Republic.

As you may have heard, USA-CEO Barry Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week…. for continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and starting a new one in Pakistan.   If you think there is something wrong with him winning the $1.4 million dollar, tax free prize, designed to reward PEACEFUL EFFORTS, you are a terrorist.  Don’t believe me?  Ask Democratic National Committee communications directory Brad Woodhouse.

“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize – an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride – unless of course you are the Republican Party.

“The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim,” Woodhouse said.

Translation: If you don’t support Obama you are a terrorist.  If you don’t put blind patriotism before critical thinking in your political decisions, you are an embarrassment.

For the record I am not a Republican or Democrat, don’t be confused by those words.  Dems and Repubs don’t really exist, they are an invented “Left-Right Paradigm” used by the elite to divide and conquer the masses.  While we are busy arguing for “our team” against the “other team” we completely miss the fact that the elite are the real enemy and that we the people, Dems AND Repubs,  are the real victims.

Barack Obama steaming his way through Afghanistan towards Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize

It’s not the New World Order you’re expecting

Contrary to what you may have heard in the corporate media, the world government that the elite are selling us is not the world government we’re going to get.  The bankers and the royalty have other plans for their cattle.

In all of history, have the bankers and royalty ever been known to rule over their subjects in a fair and just manner, and distribute wealth equally?  Have they ever allowed populations to be free and raise their children in peace?  What makes you think they’re going to start now? Shall we turn over all the remaining power to them by allowing them to form a world government, run by and for the international banking elite and royal families?

Next time you hear any of the financial or political elite refer to a “New World Order,” or as Obama puts it “the kind of World Order I think we’d all like to see” Please remember this anti-Nazi (albeit racist) Walt Disney WW2 propaganda cartoon.  Notice the part about “We bring the world new order.”

Prescott Bush (Union Banking Co) was one of the top 5 financiers of the Nazi party during WW2.  He was charged with “trading with the enemy” and attempted to stage a military coup in the US, but somehow avoided prosecution.  Do we think its a coincidence that his descendants are always going on about a New World Order and constantly bombing the crap out of one nation or another?   Do you really think Obama’s “World Order” is anything different?