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Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.
This is what occurs when Bin Laden releases a video that stirs random extremists halfway around the globe to commit a bombing or shooting.
This is also the term for what Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, and others do. And this is what led directly and predictably to a number of cases of ideologically-motivated murder similar to the Tucson shootings. As of this writing, there is no evidence to link Jared Loughner to a specific source of incitement; but some of the other cases can be clearly linked.
The stochastic terrorist is the person who is responsible for the incitement. For example they go on radio or television and stir up hatred toward a particular person or group.
The random actor, or "lone wolf" as the term is used in law enforcement and intel, is the person who responds to the incitement by carrying out the violent or terrorist act against the target person or group. For example they shoot someone or detonate a bomb. While their action may have been statistically predictable (e.g. "given sufficient provocation, someone will probably do such-and-such"), the specific person and the specific act are not yet predictable.
http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com
JackRiddler » Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:21 pm wrote:Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.
This is what occurs when Bin Laden releases a video that stirs random extremists halfway around the globe to commit a bombing or shooting.
This is also the term for what Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, and others do. And this is what led directly and predictably to a number of cases of ideologically-motivated murder similar to the Tucson shootings. As of this writing, there is no evidence to link Jared Loughner to a specific source of incitement; but some of the other cases can be clearly linked.
The stochastic terrorist is the person who is responsible for the incitement. For example they go on radio or television and stir up hatred toward a particular person or group.
The random actor, or "lone wolf" as the term is used in law enforcement and intel, is the person who responds to the incitement by carrying out the violent or terrorist act against the target person or group. For example they shoot someone or detonate a bomb. While their action may have been statistically predictable (e.g. "given sufficient provocation, someone will probably do such-and-such"), the specific person and the specific act are not yet predictable.
http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com
Without the term, this is how the Hutu Power radio incitements of 1994 were viewed in retrospect. It's one reason why Julius Streicher was among those hanged at Nuremberg. It's the U.S. government's sole justification for murdering Al-Awlaki (though they say nothing about his son, of course), who was never accused of participation in anything other than spoken incitements.
JackRiddler » Wed Jun 11, 2014 4:16 pm wrote:This is the guy who maneuvered himself into being the best-known "leader" of the 9/11 truth movement. And you guys wonder why that went wrong?
There is no getting around this: To say you are in the current-day "patriot movement" is, in fact, to align yourself with avowedly racist and fascist groupings, even if you yourself don't emphasize that element of it. Even if you're too dense to understand that these are the people you are hooking up with; get in line, there are millions of those. To be at the Cliven Bundy ranch protest? Ditto! Keeping in mind also we are in a time when the most common form of expressing racism in public begins with, "I'm not a racist, but...", or "I reject dividing us by race, because we should all be fighting against the..."
This action was absolutely political. That does not make it any less incoherent or subject to the ambient confusionism, an ideological specialty in which Alex Jones excels. I see no big contradiction in the combination of messages the couple put out in their online presence.
(Confusionism has become the post-reality norm, for example with the discovery of "crisis actors" everywhere where it would make no sense whatsoever to find them; the doubts are largely based on "what I think it would have looked like if...", "how I think people are supposed to react if...", etc. etc.)
What if we start from the premise that they were meatheads first and last, and that they have bought into false-equivalence, post-label, post-reality panic ideologies of the kind put out by Jones, which are also very much present on RI? In the reigning confusionism, everything's the problem, as long as it's not the (visible) daily operation of real-existing corporate capitalism combined with statist authoritarianism. "The NWO" and "Obama's unprecedented tyranny" substitute as the confusionist tropes for these two ideas. Now add some apocalyptic encouragements to propaganda of the deed, romance the fucking arsenals of firearms as though these represent "freedom," strike some heroic poses...
How many thousands of people use their god-bestowed, beautiful, freedom-making firearms to just kill themselves? It's no wonder, given how this country is, that increasing numbers choose to do it this way.
JackRiddler » Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:21 pm wrote:In case anyone's forgotten:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQt-dyPKzxA
See 4:47 forward.
Hunter » 11 Jun 2014 21:35 wrote:As an aside can anyone explain to me what STAGED means in their loony minds because I dont understand it. I know you guys dont think it s staged but what exactly does Jones mean when he says it. Did Harry Reid contact these kids and talk them in to going on a shooting spree, is that what staged means?
He's a paranoid schizophrenic, a former patient at Arkham. The kind of mind the Joker attracts.
8bitagent » Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:53 am wrote:I think we're dealing with more a psychological effect...not quite the Coleman CopyCat theory perhaps, but something. Maybe it's in the air.
I don't think any of these modern mass shootings are staged black ops, certainly not hoaxes. I don't know what to make of them.
The UC Santa Barbara shooting from recently happened in 2001(son of a tv director goes on killing rampage in his car, almost the same exact street area)
I see syncs, patterns, etc but it doesn't mean anything.
There's been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook, and that's not even including public/mall/office shootings
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