Brainwashing, Mind Control and Biowarfare in Korea

All my life, I've been told by the US Liesmedia, and by my society in general, that some people called "Red Chinese" subjected US Korean War POW's to some kind of a horrible "brainwashing and mind control" program. I've believed this all my life. It never happened. It's all a great big lie. There was about as much brainwashing and mind control as you get from reading this blog.

I was also told that US POW's got tortured. Never happened , at least not by the Chinese. There was some terrible treatment by the North Koreans, but as soon as the Chinese took over, thing quickly got better.

Turns out that a number of US POW's admitted that the US used biological weapons against the North Koreans. The Chinese made videotapes of these confessions and released them for propaganda purposes. The only way for the US government to make sense of these statements was to say that the POW's were tortured and subjected to mind control and brainwashing.

After the war, the POW's who made those statements were released, and came home to a hostile America, where they were threatened with court martial. They quickly recanted and made up a bunch of crap about brainwashing, mind control and torture to explain why they made those tapes.

A new book proves that the US did use biological warfare on North Korea. Evidence includes:

...Reports of sudden deaths from plague, anthrax and encephalitis (brain inflammation resulting from a viral infection), and eyewitness accounts of US aircraft dropping strange objects, including soybean stalks, feathers and cardboard packages containing live insects, rotten fish, decaying pork, frogs and rodents.

Fleas from these airdrops tested positive for plague, which had not been reported in Korea since 1912. And insects, spiders and feathers were found to be carrying anthrax.

Turns out our "free press" never got around to telling me about any of this either. Isn't it great living in a country with "freedom of the press"?

For You Conspiracy-Mongers

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I don't really believe that this is what happened, but Professor Francis A. Boyle, whom I am acquainted with, tosses out some conspiracy theory here regarding the Anthrax attacks and 9-11. First of all, he claims that the Patriot Act was already written and sitting on John Ashcroft's desk on September 10, the day before the anthrax attacks. That's pretty weird right there.

Boyle is convinced that elements of the US government - he lists Bush, Rice, George Tenet and John Ashcroft - either participated in the 9-11 attacks or at the very least allowed them to go forward. He says that before the attacks occurred, the US military had forces positioned all around Afghanistan and Iraq (the decision of which one to attack would be made by the Administration).

He also lays out a conspiracy theory about the anthrax attacks, claiming that an FBI agent, Spike Bowman, may have been responsible for the destruction of the Ames cultural Anthrax Database in Ames, Iowa, which caused the destruction of evidence necessary to figure out which strain the anthrax came from. Since the FBI seems to know which strain it came from anyway, Boyle's claim seems odd.

This same Bowman later was supposedly responsible for thwarting a FISA warrant for searching Zacarious Moussaoui's computer, which had information on it that possibly could have helped stop the 9-11 attacks. After these two strange and seemingly evidence-tampering actions, Agent Bowman was given a promotion.

Leahy and Daschle were reportedly targeted due to their opposition to the Patriot Act - they were holding up the passage of the Act, then they got hit by Anthrax, Capital Hill was shut down, and all opposition to the bill vanished in the wave of hysteria that followed. Indeed, the FBI is now claiming that Bruce Ivins, the man they are fingering as the author of the attacks, mailed the letters to the two Democrats in order to shove the Patriot Act through.

Boyle points out correctly that under the Patriot Act, the government can call you a terrorist, throw you into Guantanamo, and never let you out.

There are problems with Boyle's theory. If the government itself did the attacks, how did they manage to keep the FBI away from the state authors of the attack?

He also notes that there seems to be an effort (exemplified by John Yu of Stanford Law) underway to seed neoconservative sympathizers of an authoritarian state into the nation's law schools to subvert long-established US law.

The Nazis did something similar in Germany, led by attorney Carl Schmidt, who was the mentor to and hero of Leo Strauss, icon of the neoconservatives. Incidentally, Strauss, a German Jew, supported the Nazi Party, but opposed their anti-Semitism. He wanted to strip the anti-Semitism from the Nazis, but he did support fascism in general. So the icon of the neoconservatives was long a covert supporter of fascism.

It was only after the Nazis turned on the Jews bigtime in 1933 that Strauss turned on the party and left Germany for America. There were many other German Jews like Strauss, who supported Nazi fascism but were uncomfortable with the anti-Semitism, and who only turned their backs on the party when the party went after the Jews in 1933.

Israeli scholar of fascism Zeev Sternhill notes that Italian Jews were some of the most prominent supporters of both Mussolini's fascist party and the Italian Communist Party, for what it's worth.

Boyle notes at the end that an FBI agent interrogated him in 2004 and tried to get him to spy for them on his Arab and Muslim clients who he was representing as an attorney. Boyle refused and was then placed on a no-fly list, and has since found it very hard to leave the country.

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The Smallpox-infected Blankets

Oh man, how the American Indians love this story! I've heard it over and over and over.

Did you know that the US gave these evil blankets to Indians all over the country, even here in California? Or Hudson Bay traders gave them to Indians in Canada? That those blankets wiped out "generations" of Indians? That the US gave them out to reservation Indians in the 1800's? That Puritans gave out the blankets to Massachusetts Indians? Neither did I.

Ward Churchill said the US Army gave Indians them nasty blankets. He lied, and he should have known better.

It's always nice to track down a myth, or is it really a myth?

So let's track it down.

Turns out, Americans never gave smallpox blankets to any Indians anywhere at anytime. Not the government, not the Army, not anyone. So we are absolved on that one. The incident occurred in 1763, before there even was a USA, before there even were Americans. The British done it, and the guy who is accused of doing it never even did it.

Further, it was in the midst of a horrible and genocidal war (on both sides) called Pontaic's Rebellion, which occurred around the Great Lakes area during this time.

It was really an extension of the French and Indian War, with which it is often incorrectly associated. In the aftermath of that war, that area, which had been ruled by the French, was now ruled by the British. And the Indians, far from fighting the White Man, had adjusted well to French rule and were mad about now being ruled by the British.

They essentially wanted the French back, I believe. Towards the end, they may have even wanted freedom.

But freedom for Indians was never going to work out, at least in the short term, because they were so stupid. Stupid? Yes, which is why in the mid-1700's, when the civilized world was starting to get themselves a country, or something like a country (monarchical empires) no way could the American Indians have made one.

Why? Because they were so stupid that they had endless deadly blood feuds with most of the surrounding tribes such that they spent way more time fighting and killing each other than they did the White man. Any country they would have gotten would have fallen immediately into mad civil war, with no adults around to sort it out and send one to one room and another to the other.

Anyway, the Indians really hated the deal they were getting from the British, who were basically treating them like crap. There were a few settlers around back then, but hardly any really.

If you ever find any of those old adolescent novels about the settling of the pre-US Upper Midwest and Appalachia (forget the name), they are a great read. I spent my early adolescence at the library reading those books.

It's really interesting that in the mid-1700's, these Indians were well-supplied with firearms. They didn't invent any firearms, but they were smart enough to figure out its great value as a weapon real quick (Indians loved their weapons, oh yeah.) and they even got to the point where they were expert gunsmiths - experts at stocks, barrels even gunpowder and pellets.

In Pontiac's War, they added firearms to knives, hatchets (not a bad weapon), bow and arrow, flaming bow and arrow (Now, that is one cool weapon, and probably takes some real brains to use right.) and even rocks and clubs. They ingeniously sawed off their muskets into sawed-off shotgun-type muskets so they could hide them under their blankets.

The Indians were absolutely horrible, vicious and awful in the course of this war, and I guess the British were too. But it was the British who were really getting pounded in this war. Whole forts were being overwhelmed by 300 strong Indian armies, and the Indians would just kill everyone in the place, soldiers, women, kids, anyone.

The Indians were raiding towns, settlements and schools and killing every White they could find. These were some of the most hardass, badass Indians in the whole history of the Indian Wars. Further, the Indians actually made an alliance of many tribes living in the area during this war, which is incredible, since the Indians usually hated their neighbors so much they would not even ally with them to fight the Whites.

The Whites were selling and giving the Indians all sorts of muskets, pellets and gunpowder in this part of the colonial US at this time, but the stupid Indians were mostly using the firearms to kill their Indian enemies rather than to fight the Whites. This situation went on for decades in the US and seriously hampered the Indians anti-colonial wars of national liberation against the White invaders.

In the course of the Pontiac Rebellion, a famous British general named Lord Jeffrey Amherst wrote a letter to the besieged British troops in one of the forts suggesting that they give the Indians smallpox-infected blankets. Turns out that this had already been done by that very subordinate. Simeon Ecuyer, the Swiss-born British officer in command of Fort Pitt, was the guy that done it.

But no one knows how the plan worked out. The two Delaware chiefs who got the blankets were in good health later. The smallpox epidemic that was sweeping the attacking Indians during this war started before the incident. The Indians themselves said that they were getting smallpox by attacking settler village infected with smallpox and then bringing it back to their villages.

So, it's certain that one British commander, and not even the one usually accused, did give Indians smallpox-infected blankets in the course of a war that was genocidal on both sides.

Keep in mind that the guys who did this were in their forts, cut off from all supplies and reinforcements, facing an army of genocidal Indians who were more numerous and better armed than they were, Indians who were given to killing all defenders and capturing some only to torture them to death afterwards. So, these guys were facing, if not certain death, something pretty close to that.

And no one knows if any Indians even died from the smallpox blankets. I say the plan probably didn't even work, and didn't kill any Indians at all, much less 50% of them.

Another example of a big fat myth - legend - historical incident, that, once you cut it open, well, there's just not much there.

A perfectly horrible period telling of Pontiac's War, written from the White POV in the vernacular of the day, is here. The tactics in this war were downright terrifying. At one point Detroit itself was surrounded and besieged, for weeks on end.

Pontiac was a master tactician, and the history of the war is full of all sorts of evil acts of deception. Fake peace treaties, fake peace delegations, Indian mistresses tipping off Whites to Indian attacks, Indian undercover female agents, disguised as workers, in the forts letting the Indians in to massacre the Whites, and Indian mistresses deviously leading their White officer-lovers and the soldiers under them to their deaths.

It took forever for the British to resupply the forts, and many reinforcement missions were ambushed and totally creamed by Pontiac's men. It was not a good time to be White in the Great Lakes region, no sir.

At the end of the day, no one really won, neither the Indians nor the British.

The Indians had foolishly allowed themselves to become dependent on the fickle Whites for gunpowder and pellets, which the Indians quickly ran out of when the Whites wisely quit supplying them during the hostilities.

Lesson: don't buy your war supplies from the enemy. When war breaks out, he'll cut you off.

A little-known aspect of US colonial history.

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