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Fools Part 2
Gather the Peace Army! As I have told Kenneth, now is the time for
the big push! We have a long weekend,
folks. For God’s sake, think of the boys
and girls in the desert! Take a day,
take two days, and work your butts off to get the message below downrange. We are bloodless infoartillery. We shoot missives
of enlightenment into the dark corners of ignorance (enforced or willing). No one gets hurt by knowledge, and the people
who are dying in
Here are priority targets for the press release I’ve crafted (attached after this letter): Congress; columnists; candidates; media great and small of any genre.
Here’s how to do it: send it to someone, copy it to another, and blind copy it to a third. Try to send it to competing interests, such as a Republican congressperson, a left-wing magazine, then, just for fun, a friend of peace. Every time you send the press release across lines, you break down the infowall.
Be innovative, be incessant, be insubordinate. You are duty bound as Americans to oppose tyranny. Dammit, take back your First Amendment!
I want to quote you something I learned my first week at the Army public affairs school. These are the military guidelines that are supposed to keep our infopros (like your humble captain) within the Constitution. I pulled it off the web yesterday:
Department of Defense Principles of Information [a secure web page but available to the public --Editor]
1. It is the policy of the Department of Defense to make available timely and accurate information so that the public, Congress and the news media may assess and understand the facts about national security and defense strategy.
2. Request for information from organizations and private citizens will be answered in a timely manner. In carrying out this policy, the following principles of information will apply:
3. Information will be made fully and readily available, consistent with statutory requirements, unless its release is precluded by current and valid security classification. The provisions of the Freedom of Information Act will be supported in both letter and spirit.
4. A free flow of general and military information will be made available, without censorship or propaganda, to the men and women of the Armed Forces and their family members.
5. Information will not be classified or otherwise withheld to protect the government from criticism or embarrassment.
6. Information will be withheld only when disclosure would adversely affect national security or threaten the safety or privacy of the men and women of the Armed Forces.
7. The Department’s obligation to provide the public with information on its major programs may require detailed public affairs planning and coordination within the Department and with other government agencies. The sole purpose of such activity is to expedite the flow of information to the public: propaganda has no place in Department of Defense public affairs programs.
Alright, clearly the country is out of control,
because the military is ignoring its own policy on public affairs. The commander in chief has assumed
dictatorial command of the press. Let’s
get moving, folks. While
· “Press release on Dean/Clark ticket”
· “Intelligence for Gen. Clark and Gov. Dean”
· “Dean/Clark cooperation report”
OK, get it? Be creative. Be brilliant. If you’ve ever had a desire to prove yourself unique and true, do so now. Be brave. Be brazen. The media are all whores for a story, remember that. They make their living by pulling folks down or following ‘em up. If they think there’s some new dope on the election prospects of Dean or Clark or Dean/Clark, they’ll be all over it. They’ll open it, they’ll read, they’ll keep reading, they’ll know. The next thing you know secretaries will be sending it to their friends who will copy it for their families who will…
Get it? A Second American Revolution, a bloodless one, using the best guerilla weapon available to us: the Internet. Godspeed.
Captain May