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First and foremost a search for a complete Biography on one known as Arie Perliger...is for the most part sparse and interesting to note: strange for one known to be a professor and author,however his own biography is quite telling... take notice of where his degrees were earned and articles published! and the lack of citing any US military experience or service!
[Christians under attack]
Dr. Arie Perliger
Class of 1977 Director of Terrorism Studies
Expert Bio
–Special thanks to the West Point Class of 1977 for generously supporting this position-Arie Perliger is the Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, US Military Academy at West Point. After completing his PhD in Political Science at the University of Haifa Israel (2007), where he was also a fellow at the National Security Studies Center (NSSC), Dr. Perliger became affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2008). On August 2008 Dr. Perliger joined the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was a Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor until the summer of 2010.
In the past decade Dr. Perliger has studied extensively issues related to Terrorism and Political Violence, Politics of Security, Politics of the Far Right in Israel, Europe and the US, Middle Eastern Politics and the applicability of Social Network Analysis to the study of social phenomena. His studies appeared in four books and more than 20 articles and book chapters by publishers such as Columbia University Press, Rutledge, Security Studies, Social Forces and others.
Dr. Perliger is the co-editor of the journal Democracy and Security and a regular reviewer for various publishers and Journals such as Political Psychology, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Columbia University Press, Chicago University Press, Routledge and Polity Press.
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Oath Keepers has an interest in this sort of study, because such analytics are continuously being inserted into the mental states of our public servants, especially those who are to be used to suppress dissent within the population at large. You know, the gals and guys with the badges and the guns – and those with the uniforms of the U.S. military.
These types of analytics shore-up a mindset which becomes applied policy as they are assimilated into the rhetoric of “Homeland Security” at the bureaucratic level. From the bureaucratic level this sort of profiling of American citizens is dispersed through a maze of more than seventy satellite offices under the command of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outwardly, down the chain of command to State level “enforcement agencies”, through County Sheriff departments, and to City or local police departments/offices.
This sort of study is the fertile psychological ground in which the seeds of governmental tyranny are sprouted and nurtured, fertilized and watered and incubated by the heated force of applied government. It is conceived in the misguided and misperceiving minds of statists (people who would grant all authority for the management of individual lifestyles of citizens to government offices and agencies). It gets written up into profiling theses, such as the below, using numbers and statistics reflecting the group behavior – while inadvertently overlooking any semblance of personal responsibility on the part of the individual.
It’s transition is marked by three stages. It is 1) profiling, which becomes 2) predisposed perception, which in turn becomes 3) policy. It is morally irresponsible and repugnant, but it is the only “system” available to any modern government which seeks to contain, limit, control the beliefs, perceptions, habits, and behavior of its citizenry. It is based on “studies” and “polls” drawn from the group, and as such it is biased against the “individual citizen”.
In today’s SWAT-infested militarized combat-style “law enforcement” agencies it often leads to a predisposed violation of Constitutional rights of citizens, as we saw in the protests at the G-20 in Pittsburgh.
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But we here at Oath Keepers already know these basics, of course. Let us therefore simply note that in the study reproduced below, there are some serious Constitutional threats embodied In the sections dealing with militias. In this report, militias are grouped right into the mix with KKK, skinhead radicals, white supremacists, and radicalized fringe groups from the greater Christian society.
Observe the psychological subtlety. Then ask oneself – how can this be applied by rogue government bureaucracies to Constitutional-minded liberty fighters such as Oath Keepers? Another question -
Will it be applied?
- Click on the link to read the article/paper written by the West Point Manchurian Candidate:
Identifying Three Trends in Far Right Violence in the United States
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/identifying-three-trends-in-far-right-violence-in-the-united-states
The danger we face as a nation is twofold: modern consciousness which is a non-inquiring consciousness, and what Aurel Kolnai called: 'the ideology of the 'Common Man'. See Kolnai's essay: 'The Meaning of the "Common Man" in his book 'Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy'.
ReplyDeleteMr. Perliger does not recognize perennial conflicts in the heart of egalitarian democracy. Rather, he identifies extreme forms of dissent with legitimate forms of dissent. Extremism gets identified with the right in general, a continuity exists for him, from the base of the iceberg to the tip. The right as a whole becomes illegitimate, the enemies against a populism of 'we the people/the government'. The identification of the people and the government with the good and the true, and the demonization of legitimate criticism of the leveling corrosive effects of egalitarianism, which is the philosophical grounds for the rejection of the left by the right, (even though the right is not self-conscious enough about the philosophical grounds of their objection) is the bridge to totalitarian forms of democracy. That Mr. Perliger does not recognize elements within government that while operating with the best of intentions in practice are destructive of individual liberty and freedoms simply illustrates that his own thinking belongs 'below the surface', to the dominant non-inquiring modern consciousness.
You are on the mark with this statement: "...based on “studies” and “polls” drawn from the group, and as such it is biased against the “individual citizen”. The good "Dr." begins by acknowledging all the facts are not yet in, then proceeds to build his case on his own preconceived notions. A better example of circular reasoning would be difficult to find. Obviously, Mr. Perliger conducts his "research" in the typical leftist manner. i.e., Begin with a conclusion, then select evidence that bolsters that conclusion.
ReplyDeleteIndeed the both of you hit the mark...you may quote me 'Theory without fact is hypothesis~Fact without theory is Chaos' What we have in the Obama administration is pure Chaos..!
ReplyDeleteSo Perliger, an apparent paid foreign agent employed by a non-human person, is apparently agitating to, in part, facilitate a conspiracy against the Constitution of the United States and the enumerated rights belonging to lawful American citizens?
ReplyDeleteDoes this not meet the definition of a Sedition against the people of the United States and its Constitution? Where does this leave the administration at West Point who apparently pay and operate him as an employee/agent?
Like Piers Morgan, Perliger appears to be a paid foreign agent employed by a non-human, non-voting person to agitate against the enumerated Constitutional rights, apparently in support of foreign government demands that the US Government disarm its citizens and strip them of their enumerated rights. How is this not an organized Sedition?
And what of David Gregory, a domestic agent employed by a non-human, non-voting person to apparently agitate or advocate against our enumerated Constitutional rights, in apparent direct/indirect support of foreign government dictates, treaties and agendas demanding the American population be materially disarmed; apparently to reduced the individual American citizen to the feudal norm of syndicate, supremacist foreign governments now demanding hegemony over the individual persons to be ruled as lessers and subjects of the postmodern supremacist ruling class.
Well willem...well said...that just about sums up the Obama administrations goal!
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ReplyDeleteAs we watch Egypt disembowel itself, I am reminded of a faculty meeting in a so-called 'prestigious' University, where one member acknowledge his Communist affiliation, insofar as it was accepted by the administration. These 'studies' were non-existent (fabricated and/or predetermined) as far back as 1972, and still are today. I hope that our finest will decipher them, question origin, and (perhaps) make their own doctorate accreditation as a result.
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