Apparently some police officers, each in their own jurisdictions and with disproportionate community representation and oversight have decided to engage in their own stochastic terrorism, where random LEOs have taken it upon themselves to exceed authority and in some cases execute suspects. An unspoken rule of engagement seems to have infected law enforcement with lethal results for innocent civilians in the post-#BLM era.
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Hillary Clinton (6 September 2016): “I believe I have created so many jobs in the conspiracy theory machine factory, because honestly, they never quit. They keep coming back.”
By ann summers
While an elaboration of the “vast RW conspiracy” that has plagued the Clintons, it is a more specific metaphor and suggests an actual assembly line with machinery that represents if nothing else the Chomsky version of the media industrial system. So there will be a couple of pieces in the future that expand on that CTM idea to explicate the meaning of the PMC.
The 2017 likelihood of Militarism: Trump regime’s state-sponsored violence (symbolic/visceral violence)
The Trump campaign has responded to criticism of Donald Trump Jr.’s assertions that reporters would “be warming up the gas chamber” if his father, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, acted like rival Hillary Clinton.
From Chomsky’s perspective, then, whatever set of interactions is being named by the term ‘politico-media complex’ (PMC) simply instantiates the propaganda model to manufacture consent in the service of the industrial system.
“The liberal, dishonest media is so quick to attack one of the Trumps that they never let the truth get in the way of a good smear,” said communications advisor Jason Miller in a statement. “Don Jr. was clearly referring to capital punishment to make the case that the media continues to take words out of context in order to serve as the propaganda arm of the Hillary Clinton campaign – something that’s only gotten worse as Trump’s poll numbers have improved.”
Since lethal injection is the dominant signified and gas chambers really the secondary image for capital punishment, this goes to the Roger Stone school of messaging. More specifically because Trump jr. referred as a parapraxis to the gas chamber as corporal rather than capital punishment, many other possible interpretations ranging from sexual to carceral become possible.
Genocides could be about Godwin, but they really are more about Pol Pot, Rwanda, or even the Southern hemisphere’s “disappeared” and the Eastern Hemisphere’s military use of chlorine gas barrel bombs dropped from helicopters. Continue reading →
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