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Did Army Use Special Mind Voodoo To Trick Hippie Senators Into Funding War?
I do not even know where to start with this one: "The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in 'psychological operations' to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators."
Damn hippie!
I fell victim to these same techniques and funded a pair Mephistos against my will.
It's those red demon eyes in the logo M that do it. LOOK AWAY! Over there! At the BCBG Store!
I'm guessing 'psy-ops' in this case is really just BS jargon for whatever the military equivalent of a PR flack is. Of course, it's still MASSIVELY ILLEGAL, but only stupid hippies think the military should be beholden to silly things like the rule of law.
You're quite correct, psy-ops is just PR for the military. But over the course of the cold war, the military became really… 'experimental' about their PR methods. Most of it amounts to pseudo-psychological quackery in the vein of dianetics, but because they were actually pursuing goals like mind control and telepathy and whatnot, it's still sPoOoOoOoOoOoKy to some people.
I'd feel better about working in marketing if my department was renamed "Psy-Ops."
One of the places I'd love to work is called Psyop, so this is a dream I can actually pursue!
Their flash website made a loud noise at me without my permission, and that's when I clicked "close tab."
That noise was actually me squealing with joy at their adorable/awesome commercials.
Ever since ol' Dr. Delgado started conducting his feline mind-control experiments in Pasadena, California, back in 1961, the massive and illegal misuse of "psy-ops" was written in the stars — and in this case, it looks like four stars in particular. (Ha! Ha! Ha!)
Anyone who cares to remember those first heady weeks and months in Delgado's lab will recall the irresistible sense of enthusiasm and arrogant swagger that began to overwhelm the doctor's research team as the stats analysts started cracking the numbers, and one unimaginable success followed another.
It rapidly became clear that if science could persuade a three-month old Siamese kitten to prefer vegetarian nut-loaf to salmon-based wet cat-food, 100% of the time, even under highly adverse conditions, such as subjecting the kitten to whole-body irradiation amounting to more than 100x the exposure received by victims standing at or near ground-zero in Hiroshima, Japan, when "Little Boy" detonated, then science could persuade American citizens to prefer just about anything.
Puts George Romney's quote in a new light, [http://tinyurl.com/4l4gjjh] Intel types–narcs and agent provocateurs too!–are obsessed with the idea of "mind control" and try to use such techniques in the most unlikely circumstances. You think the Americans are bad though…
Psyops vs hippies = Men Who Stare at Goatees.