THE STRATEGY OF TENSION: A CASE STUDY

       As of this writing, the perpetrator of the mass-shooting at Brown University is still roaming about at large: no doubt he's laughing at the stupid media coverage, the online finger-pointing, and the bungling efforts of the would-be Alpha Supermen in Kash Patel's Woke Right FBI to apprehend him. 

      There was another high-profile murder in Los Angeles County, involving Hollywood figure Rob Reiner, which has also generated headlines. The police in California have a suspect, however. This case, too, has generated considerable partisan blame-shaming.

      Never ones to let a good crisis go to waste, the PR people on Madison Avenue are always on top of exploiting these kinds of incidents. There's never any discussion about addressing the root causes of these violent outbreaks and seeking actual solutions. One side of the Uniparty invariably stokes the flames of political violence while the other calls for increased State repression. We've spoken of this before: it's known as the Strategy of Tension, a Psyop developed by the Pentagon in the 1970s and experimented with by our NATO colonies allies until President Reagan stopped the program. It's been employed again by the Neocons beginning with Bush 1.0. To summarize briefly, the State permits---and even encourages---violence to create the illusion that only a strong Security State can bring control to the situation. 

      Both the Brown University and Reiner Murder Cases serve as examples of this kind of manipulation. At Brown, the first identified fatality was a member of the campus Republican Club, which led for immediate assumption that the shooter targeted her for her views (the same narrative of the Kirk assassination). The Whacko Left Wing has responded by pointing out that the second identified fatality was a Moslem exchange student from Uzbekistan and he was targeted by an anti-Moslem or anti-immigrant fanatic. We don't know if either (or neither) of these speculations are true; but both sides are calling for crackdowns on the other. The pro-Administration pundits are stepping up calls to suppress so-called violent Left-Wing activists; while the Whacko Left pundits are howling for more Gun Control and increased deployment of surveillance and security technology. Either of those 'solutions' lead to the same result: an increase of Police-State level espionage and control, which is what the ruling Elite desire. 

     In the Reiner Case, the White House turned a celebrity murder case into a social media firestorm by a clearly provocative statement over Reiner's death.

          Now, amidst all of the online hysteria that this tweet (and the White House's subsequent doubling-down upon it), there is a very important statement contained within this boorish farrago that is overlooked by many. Referring to the passing away of Rob Reiner (actually a brutal murder), the Head-of-State ascribes Reiner's demise as "due to the anger he caused others" and that "he was known to have driven people CRAZY (nota bene the emphasis here) by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights," etc.

       Aside from the fact that Reiner's son, who is accused of the murder, is a known drug addict and deeply unstable individual it might be easy at first to dismiss the article as a reflection of the Administration's known admiration for violent, mentally unstable drug addicts. 

      However, this would be missing the point. Trump not only engaged in victim-blaming, the wording of this article strongly implies that attacks on opponents are acts of justifiable anger, and this isn't first time that he's made such statements. This is an example of the Strategy of Tension in actual practice, because in Reiner's case, we have no idea at this point whether there was a political motivation behind his murder or not. 

      The Democrat Wing of the Uniparty has been guilty of the same tactics in recent history: but, again, we're not supposed to be like the Democrats. This is the kind of gutter-level wink and nod at violence that the Whacko Left engages in every time there is a race riot or a Rainbow-activist flips out and commits a murder. It's always understandable anger over some supposed systemic social injustice with them; and the Republicans are proving once again that they are no more than Reactionary Liberals and behaving accordingly.

     We must be on guard against falling for this kind of mass-propaganda. Now, as always, it is merely the same product with a different label.