To hijack something is to forcefuly take over something in order to alter its direction for your own purpose.
A meme hijack is just that: When a memetic engineer splices a meme in with another more successful (more horizontal) meme in hopes that his meme will carry on with the other meme.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1401073
I've been meaning to get y'all's insights into this for a while ... recently Alex Jones began a regular campaign of Keyword / Search Term pumping whereby he asks all his listeners to use google and other search engines to PUMP UP the meme-trackers and zeitgeist trackers results for those search terms in a bid to get a particular news article that they have put out in front of the eyes of more people.
It appears to be working in so much as nearly every time they have done this the requested search term has bubbled up to the top of Googles list of top "Hot" search terms.
The most recent example is focused on a seriously "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" type of news article:
‘Resentment Toward Government’ Number 1 Google Hot Topic
Matt Ryan
Infowars.com
September 30, 2010
On today’s Alex Jones Show, Alex called for everyone to Google the phrase, “Resentment Toward Government” and once again, the the term given on the show reached the top spot on Google Trends. This is a giant leap forward in the constant struggle to expose the terrible truth behind government initiatives.
Reaching the top of this list sends waves across the media and blogosphere, forcing the mainstream media to cover topics that otherwise would be covered up behind the latest celebrity sex scandal. This acts as a powerful signal to the corporate media that the truth needs to be presented to the public.
The original article written by Paul Joseph Watson, Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of “Resentment Toward Government”, exposes plans to destroy the fourth amendment by creating an Orwellian system of surveillance aimed at scanning communications for signs of resentment against government agenda. Under this system you could find yourself in a terrorist database for expressing your first amendment right.
http://www.infowars.com/resentment-towa ... hot-topic/
Here is the news article that all the infowars hubbub is about... I'm pretty stunned by this going public:
Technology identifies troubled individuals
By Lou Michel
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Published: September 26, 2010, 12:00 AM
Updated: September 26, 2010, 6:36 AM
Imagine using the same technology to locate a lone bomber before he carries out his terrorist act and to identify a troubled veteran or first responder ground down by tragedies and violence.
Stop imagining.
Some 120 local first responders from law enforcement and other agencies, the military and mental health professionals gathered Friday to hear firsthand about an advanced computer program that can accomplish those two seemingly different tasks.
The presentation was part of the International First Responder-Military Symposium held at Hilbert College in the Town of Hamburg.
A Swiss professor working with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who heads the Mind Machine Project there outlined how this program operates through computerized scanning of phone calls and electronic messages sent through e-mail and social networking mechanisms.
“Suppose you know there’s a threat to the president when he is visiting, say, Texas. Through information obtained by the National Security Agency, we have the tools to go through huge quantities of data obtained from that area,” said professor Mathieu Guidere of the University of Geneva.
How? “The computer system detects resentment in conversations through measurements in decibels and other voice biometrics,” he said. “It detects obsessiveness with the individual going back to the same topic over and over, measuring crescendos.”
As for written transmissions scrutinized by the computer program, it can detect the same patterns of fixation on specified subjects, said Guidere, who has worked for years screening mass data that involves radicalization and ideological indoctrination.
Using character traits that have been identified through psychological profiles conducted on lone bombers following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Guidere said he and his colleagues developed programs that isolate signs pointing to a potential terrorist.
He said lone bombers, in particular, are not mentally deranged but harbor hatred and deep resentment toward government. Their emotional spikes, Guidere explained, can be identified by the computer program.
The practical side is that once the individual has been identified, the information can be passed along to authorities so surveillance can begin, he said.
Currently, the computer program can review 10,000 voice or other electronic transmissions in an hour. The goal, the professor said, is to increase the capacity to 100,000 per hour.
On the civilian side, the program can be used by psychologists and other mental health providers working with war veterans, law enforcement officials and others to measure their progress in recovery.
“By recording the voice of the patient, the program can rate negativity and positivity with depression and other emotional disorders,” said Guidere, who is working with Dr. Newton Howard, director of MIT’s Mind Machine Project.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article201702.ece
New Infowars Search Term: Resentment Toward Government
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 30, 2010
In order to draw attention to Paul Joseph Watson’s latest article, Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of “Resentment Toward Government,” Alex Jones has announced a new search term – Resentment Toward Government.
If alive today, would the founders be profiled as criminals resentful toward government?
Watson draws attention to a symposium in held Hamburg, New York, that was attended by federal agencies, police departments and others and where a system that trawls phone conversations, emails and instant messages to detect “resentment toward government” was demonstrated. The system works by detecting “resentment in conversations through measurements in decibels and other voice biometrics,” more specifically the emotional spikes that characterize “hatred and deep resentment toward government.”
How many people express resentment toward the government? How many Americans display “patterns of fixation on specified subjects” after receiving a parking ticket or on April 15 when the government demands we fill out a pile of meaningless paperwork after a year of wealth confiscation at gunpoint?
The foundation of the American ideal is a deep distrust and suspicion the founders of our nation had for government. Distrust of government is expressed in the Constitution’s separation of powers and the necessity of checks and balances. According to the government today, though, such founding ideals are sedition and the founders were little more than terrorists.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of those surveyed said they trust the federal government “almost always or most of the time,” while 56 percent said they are frustrated, if not resentful. About 43 percent said that government had a negative effect on their daily lives, a significant jump from 13 years ago when 31 percent expressed similar sentiments in the poll.
Government fears all citizens who resent their monopoly on power. In April, the state of Texas reacted in predictable fashion when the CPS snatched the son of Austin-area activists Barry and Candi Cooper for the crime of teaching him to mistrust government.
Federal agencies and police now assigned with the task of scouring the internet and phone calls for resentment toward government will be confronted with an insurmountable task.
The NSA has conducted surveillance on the American people for decades. The false flag attack on September 11, 2001, gave the government and its legion of spooks and Bill of Rights saboteurs a blank check to increase this effort. The elite and their faceless bureaucrats will now create electronic dossiers on those who express even the slightest anger and resentment in response to tyranny.
We need to draw attention to this criminal effort by the government to violate the Fourth Amendment and trash our founding ideals.
Search “Resentment toward government.”
http://www.infowars.com/new-infowars-se ... overnment/
Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of “Resentment Toward Government”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 30, 2010
Photo: Pal Berge
Do you resent the government for enforcing Obamacare or raising your taxes? Write about it in an email or talk about it on the phone and you could be placed under surveillance as a potential terrorist, if frightening new technology being shopped to law enforcement agencies is implemented.
Forget pre-crime and get ready for face-crime, Big Brother is set to unleash a new wave of shockingly invasive and Orwellian technology on the American people if a recent symposium in Hamburg New York is anything to go by. Federal agencies, police departments and others were all in attendance to see a demonstration of a system that trawls phone conversations, emails and instant messages to detect “resentment toward government,” alerting authorities to potential “terrorists” who are then placed under surveillance.
The technology was demonstrated to law enforcement officials, mental health professionals, and military representatives at a recent International First Responder-Military Symposium held at Hilbert College.
“A Swiss professor working with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who heads the Mind Machine Project there outlined how this program operates through computerized scanning of phone calls and electronic messages sent through e-mail and social networking mechanisms,” reports the Buffalo News.
The system works by detecting “resentment in conversations through measurements in decibels and other voice biometrics,” more specifically the emotional spikes that characterize “hatred and deep resentment toward government.”
“As for written transmissions scrutinized by the computer program, it can detect the same patterns of fixation on specified subjects,” states the report.
Once an individual has been identified as harboring “resentment toward government,” the information can be “passed along to authorities so surveillance can begin.”
Besides law enforcement applications, the program is also designed to aid mental health professionals to help “war veterans” become emotionally stable, chillingly implying that distrust or hatred of government, which was hailed by the founding fathers as a vital virtue, is now considered a mental illness.
Of course, this technology completely violates the 4th amendment, but by introducing it as a tool to fight terrorism, authorities hope to skirt around the issue – the problem being that, as we have exhaustively documented, the federal government now sees any political activity whatsoever, be it anti-war protesters on the left, or anti-big government activists on the right, as potential domestic terrorists.
The technology is rationalized by its adherents, who claim that it will help stop terrorists in their tracks, while also being used against ‘troubled veterans and first responders’.
However, the introduction of a program that closely resembles George Orwell’s “facecrime” in 1984 has little to do with fighting extremist Muslims hiding in caves in central Asia, this is all about targeting the American people with total panopticon-style surveillance, while also creating a chilling atmosphere and reminding people that their every conversation, instant message or email is being scanned by super-computers for any sign of extremism or “resentment toward government”.
As we have seen from the MIAC report, the spying case in Pennsylvania, and a host of others in recent years, the federal government defines “terrorist propaganda” as any material critical of the state, therefore any dissent against Big Brother in a phone conversation or an email would automatically trigger the new technology.
This is not only a constitution killer, it represents a hammer blow to free speech. The Internet as a forum of open discourse and free exchange of ideas will be fundamentally damaged if people live in constant fear of being raided by the feds at any minute because they sounded off about the government in an e mail or a posting on a comment board.
Of course, with distrust towards the state touching all time highs, there are millions of Americans who “harbor hatred and deep resentment toward government,” but that doesn’t mean they plan on bombing federal buildings.
The technofascism blog dug up a couple of quotes from George Orwell’s 1984 that almost precisely describe the exact same technology being used in the legendary dystopia about a totalitarian society that constantly hounds, harasses, and surreptitiously spies on its citizens.“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself–anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face…; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…”
-George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 6
Rather than an improper facial expression or nervous tic, which was more within the purview of the equally ludicrous “gait analysis” division of Admiral John Poindexter’s Total Information Office, a program that claimed to be able to identify terrorists by the way they walk, the facecrime technology defines “abnormality” as being critical of the authorities, a frightening throwback to the Soviet psikhushkas — mental hospitals — which were used by the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally.
Indeed, the establishment media has intensified its dissemination of talking points that attempt to categorize distrust of authority as a mental disorder.
Although it survives under a number of different names with private sector funding, Total Information Awareness was mothballed by Congress in 2003 after widespread criticism that it would lead to the implementation of a “mass surveillance system”. Facecrime goes a step further, it not only creates a mass surveillance system of all our communications, it also corrodes and corrupts people’s confidence in being able to exercise their first amendment right to express “hatred and resentment toward government,” without being harassed and targeted as domestic terrorists.
Facecrime technology is illegal, immoral, anti-American and something that needs to be ditched permanently if the United States and indeed any free country is to heed George Orwell’s warning and resist the descent into totalitarianism.
http://www.infowars.com/authorities-pla ... overnment/
Feds Use Pre-Crime To Target Disgruntled Veterans
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 1, 2010
Photo: NYC Marines
The government seems to be obsessed with targeting disgruntled veterans with pre-crime and other unconstitutional forms of surveillance, demonization and harassment, the latest example being an Orwellian software program that purports to identify potential terrorists by analyzing the tone of phone conversations and emails to detect “resentment toward government”.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mind Machine Project, which is currently being demonstrated to law enforcement officials around the country, is primarily aimed at weeding out ‘troubled veterans’ who may be planning to commit terrorist bombings or political assassinations, by illegally wiretapping their phone calls and Internet communications in order to build psychological profiles.
As we reported yesterday, the program purports to be able to identify “resentment toward government,” which is characterized by the technology’s proponents as some kind of mental illness that requires the involvement of “health professionals,” or worse, a trait of domestic terrorists planning imminent attacks.
Why is the government so intent on targeting veterans as likely terrorists? Seemingly unconcerned about Muslim extremists hiding in caves in central Asia, the Big Sis DHS anti-terror machine has been firmly pointed towards the American people, with the government making every effort to subject its own citizens to the measures that were supposedly introduced to fight foreign extremists, the latest example being federal checkpoints that radiate American truckers with x-ray devices at highway “inspection stations”.
Having already had their benefits slashed and their right to self-defense eviscerated with the passage of the so-called “Veterans Disarmament Act,” men and women who served their country are now being treated with more disdain than drug smugglers and illegal coming across the border from Mexico.
In May 2009, the New York Times reported on how Boy Scouts were being trained by Homeland Security and the FBI to disarm and forcibly arrest “disgruntled Iraq war veterans” who were characterized in the exercise as domestic terrorists.
“Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor,” began the article, later describing how the Boy Scouts were told by a federal agent to “Put him on his face and put a knee in his back, I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”
Veterans were again targeted in an April 2009 Homeland Security “assessment” report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”
The report warned law enforcement officers to be on guard against “disgruntled military veterans,” especially veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who were demonized as potential terrorists.
“The return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks,” stated the report, equating America’s supposed best and brightest with Al-Qaeda bombers.
DHS chief Janet Napolitano was subsequently forced to apologize to veterans for the report, a token gesture which did not satisfy veterans organizations that were deeply offended at the content of the Homeland Security assessment.
Pete Hegseth, chairman of Vets for Freedom, responded, “It wasn’t an apology in my view. It was one of those non-apology apologies. She was sorry that veterans were offended. She should either apologize for the content of the report as it stands or they should rewrite the report and reissue it.”
Despite the apology, Big Sis Napolitano, Homeland Security, and the rest of the federal bureaucracy continue to make it clear that military veterans are a primary target of the war on terror, with the revelation that authorities are seriously looking at MIT’s new pre-crime software as a useful tool with which to spy on vet’s private communications, identify “emotional spikes” that betray “resentment towards government,” and then target them with surveillance designed to be used on suspected terrorists.
While the CIA blocks a lawsuit brought by veterans concerning illegal experiments on troops between the 50’s and 70’s, and while police officers beat those same veterans nearly to death, the authorities continue to make vets the number one domestic target of the war on terror, a sobering reminder of the fact that the feds have identified the American people as their main enemy and are now focusing the vast and expanding force of big government against those who have considered themselves patriots for their entire lives.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.
http://www.infowars.com/feds-use-pre-cr ... -veterans/
