The barbarian invasion itself was brought to you through “elements of fantasy and stagecraft.” It’s clear to Americans that the recent and over-hyped anniversary of the January 6 events was simply another case of politics “as a permanent crisis.” There is only one reason for liberal gross exaggerations. Americans are being sold the idea they have to “forfeit their rights in the name of security.”
Stagecraft and deception
According to Jacob Siegel, a senior writer for Tablet Magazine, “the elements of fantasy and stagecraft present on January 6, from the costumed pageantry at the storming of the Capitol to the Broadway kitsch at its anniversary commemoration, point to the event’s dual origins in the U.S. security state and the paranoid imagination that is a byproduct of government secrecy run amok.” There is a phrase to describe what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and others said in their January 6 speeches to America this year, “obvious threat inflation.” It’s the only way to describe calling “an event in which four people died, all of them Trump supporters and only one by violence, the ‘worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.'” Or, the same as Pearl Harbor or September 11.
Governments and private corporations alike have been using these techniques to award themselves more unaccountable power for generations. The public is easily cowed into submission by “the expertise and authority of institutions that operate in secret.” As shown by the barbarian invasion right on “Q,” illusion and stagecraft are standard elements of Deep State operations. Just ask former Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynihan delivered “a measured but devastating attack on the underworld of administrative institutions better known today as the deep state,” in his 1999 book about secrecy. He admitted that “US policy had been systematically distorted by intelligence agency assessments.” He could have been talking about Steele’s Dirty Dossier when he wrote about how secret reports could be used as weapons through stagecraft and misdirection. Because the agencies, like the FBI, “operated in secret, the exaggerations were not only shielded from scrutiny but had the perverse effect of fueling their own growth.”
A form of regulation
Secrecy, Moynihan explains, “is a form of regulation.” A new form which “supervened democratic procedures and transferred power to bureaucracies operating in the shadows of the elected government.” Smoke and mirrors stagecraft. He didn’t like it but called it “legitimate and necessary.” There were two types of secrecy, one harmless. That’s the one where you hide your strategic secrets from your enemies. That’s good secrecy. Bad secrecy can also be useful.
Moynihan “saw how he could discuss secrecy as a form of regulation that could often take a ritualistic form in order to stigmatize outsiders and critics (as distinguished from the functional secrecy that seeks simply to keep critical information from the enemy).” The stagecraft used against Trump came from U.S. intelligence agencies who’s ranking officials “colluded with members of Congress and the media to foment a conspiracy about collusion between Trump and Russia.” All the claims “relied on secret smoking gun evidence that was supposedly in the possession of the proper authorities and would, any day, result in the President and his associates being tried for treason.” The only problem was they couldn’t produce it because it was all made up. “Of course, this never happened, because what the secrecy concealed was not damning evidence, nor merely the lack of it, but the record showing how Clinton lawyers, ex spies, and current federal agents had, together, manufactured the false collusion narrative.”
The Q-Anon Shaman was brought to you directly by the Democrat stagecraft at it’s finest. “Predictably, the official state-sanctioned conspiracy produced as its mutant offspring the counter-conspiracies of the Right, of which the most notorious was QAnon, a group that would play a leading role in the Capitol riot.” There were almost as many federal agents and rat informants on the ground January 6 as there were alleged rioters, most of whom wandered around looking at paintings and statues like tourists. That’s not the only iffy operation with FBI fingerprints all over it either. The attempted kidnap of Michigan’s Governor is a whole ‘nother story.
