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   Coercive Mind Control Tactics   
      
      
      
   Coercive Mind Control Tactics   
      
   Terminology note: Today Mind control or brainwashing in academia is   
   commonly referred to as coercive persuasion, coercive psychological   
   systems or coercive influence. The short description below comes from   
   Dr. Margaret Singer professor emeritus at the University of California   
   at Berkeley the acknowledged leading authority in the world on mind   
   control and cults.   
      
   a short overview   
      
   Coercion is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as:   
      
   1.To force to act or think in a certain manner   
      
      
   2.To dominate, restrain, or control by force   
      
      
   3.To bring about by force.   
      
      
   Coercive psychological systems are behavioral change programs which   
   use psychological force in a coercive way to cause the learning and   
   adoption of an ideology or designated set of beliefs, ideas,   
   attitudes, or behaviors. The essential strategy used by the operators   
   of these programs is to systematically select, sequence and coordinate   
   many different types of coercive influence, anxiety and   
   stress-producing tactics over continuous periods of time.   
      
   In such a program the subject is forced to adapt in a series of tiny   
   "invisible" steps. Each tiny step is designed to be sufficiently small   
   so the subjects will not notice the changes in themselves or identify   
   the coercive nature of the processes being used. The subjects of these   
   tactics do not become aware of the hidden organizational purpose of   
   the coercive psychological program until much later, if ever. These   
   tactics are usually applied in a group setting by well intentioned but   
   deceived "friends and allies" of the victim. This keeps the victim   
   from putting up the ego defenses we normally maintain in known   
   adversarial situations.   
      
   The coercive psychological influence of these programs aim to overcome   
   the individual's critical thinking abilities and free will - apart   
   from any appeal to informed judgment. Victims gradually lose their   
   ability to make independent decisions and exercise informed consent.   
   Their critical thinking, defenses, cognitive processes, values, ideas,   
   attitudes, conduct and ability to reason are undermined by a   
   technological process rather than by meaningful free choice,   
   rationality, or the inherent merit or value of the ideas or   
   propositions being presented.   
      
   How Do They Work?   
      
      
   The tactics used to create undue psychological and social influence,   
   often by means involving anxiety and stress, fall into seven main   
   categories.   
      
   TACTIC 1   
      
   Increase suggestibility and "soften up" the individual through   
   specific hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such   
   as:Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills,   
   Excessive exact repetition of routine activities, Sleep restriction   
   and/or Nutritional restriction.   
   TACTIC 2   
      
   Establish control over the person's social environment, time and   
   sources of social support by a system of often-excessive rewards and   
   punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and   
   friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share   
   group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group   
   is fostered.   
   TACTIC 3   
      
   Prohibit disconfirming information and non supporting opinions in   
   group communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss   
   with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled. An "in-group"   
   language is usually constructed.   
   TACTIC 4   
      
   Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her   
   experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are   
   designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic   
   consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and   
   defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her   
   life's history and adopt a new version of causality.   
   TACTIC 5   
      
   Create a sense of powerlessness by subjecting the person to intense   
   and frequent actions and situations which undermine the person's   
   confidence in himself and his judgment.   
   TACTIC 6   
      
   Create strong aversive emotional arousals in the subject by use of   
   nonphysical punishments such as intense humiliation, loss of   
   privilege, social isolation, social status changes, intense guilt,   
   anxiety, manipulation and other techniques.   
   TACTIC 7   
      
   Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular   
   psychological threats. For example, it may be suggested or implied   
   that failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief or consequent   
   behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequences such as   
   physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a prior physical   
   illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social failure, divorce,   
   disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc.   
      
   These tactics of psychological force are applied to such a severe   
   degree that the individual's capacity to make informed or free choices   
   becomes inhibited. The victims become unable to make the normal, wise   
   or balanced decisions which they most likely or normally would have   
   made, had they not been unknowingly manipulated by these coordinated   
   technical processes. The cumulative effect of these processes can be   
   an even more effective form of undue influence than pain, torture,   
   drugs or the use of physical force and physical and legal threats.   
      
   How does Coercive Psychological Persuasion Differ from Other Kinds of   
   Influence?   
      
      
   Coercive psychological systems are distinguished from benign social   
   learning or peaceful persuasion by the specific conditions under which   
   they are conducted. These conditions include the type and number of   
   coercive psychological tactics used, the severity of environmental and   
   interpersonal manipulation, and the amount of psychological force   
   employed to suppress particular unwanted behaviors and to train   
   desired behaviors.   
      
   Coercive force is traditionally visualized in physical terms. In this   
   form it is easily definable, clear-cut and unambiguous. Coercive   
   psychological force unfortunately has not been so easy to see and   
   define. The law has been ahead of the physical sciences in that it has   
   allowed that coercion need not involve physical force. It has   
   recognized that an individual can be threatened and coerced   
   psychologically by what he or she perceives to be dangerous, not   
   necessarily by that which is dangerous.   
      
   Law has recognized that even the threatened action need not be   
   physical. Threats of economic loss, social ostracism and ridicule,   
   among other things, are all recognized by law, in varying contexts, as   
   coercive psychological forces.   
      
   Why are Coercive Psychological Systems Harmful?   
      
      
   Coercive psychological systems violate our most fundamental concepts   
   of basic human rights. They violate rights of individuals that are   
      
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