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A Brief Field Guide to Moles N Trolls @ IMC LA

by Sheepdog Saturday, Oct. 07, 2006 at 9:54 PM

From Frothing loonies to Reasonable Persuaders. ( and why they turn into Frothing Loonies ) in a short order.

A Brief Field Guide to Moles N Trolls @ IMC LA

You see, the ruling class, in their silk suits, feathers and lace, psychotic and pathological with the quest for wealth and power that any sane person would find as a mental illness, used to hold all the well marked cards in the game of this system. A genocidal and parasitic system that in these dark times, is feeling the heat from an exponentially growing public awareness of the true structure of this gangster and garrison state.

They ( the effete, amoral beneficiaries of this cancerous system ) realize that despite the array of weaponry directed at the vast majority of the good people of this nation, across the full spectrum, from soft cultural control in the form of status/image conformity to the brutal incineration of the camp Davidian church in Waco, Texas; they know ( believe me, they know ) that these are paper swords. You see, we the people once we become united in an idea ultimately hold all the cards. This is why the keepers of the system deploy their time honored tactic of divide and conquer. Hence, the phenomena of Moles n Trolls.

The Main Target - New Readers

The most feared threat the rulers of our world have is the growing audience of readers who find this site or others like it through various means and are curious ( appalled, frightened, outraged ) and want to read the opinions of others about the header articles and commentary, or find articles they have an interest in, wishing to know more than what they are beginning to realize is a web of malicious deceit about the world we share.

These folk are the harvest the concept of IMC was created to serve, in my opinion, to allow a forum for open information exchange and discussion in countering the perception management from the owners of our system which is manifested by the commercial ‘media’.

These good people are the primary target for activities that discourage, impede, side track, attack and generally disrupt the dissemination of vital information. Hence, we have Moles and Trolls.

Let me share what I have observed as a few operating principles of normal analytical discussion concerning items of interest.

First. Once an issue has been analyzed and rendered into a reasonable conclusion by way of primary source data or reasoned analysis, a normal discussion will accept the given conclusion and move on to further analysis. Any remaining questions are still open to analysis. This is the sequence of normal dialogue if you are in a genuine discussion in an open publishing operation. And this, in my opinion is how you progress to more complex overview and analysis.

Hard evidence is the key in this process. This ideally comes in the form of links, quotes and articles from primary source independent documents like eye witness reports, news and research items involving faithful independent expertise. Corroboration w/other primary source documentation is also a plus. In fact, a necessity considering the ambient disinfo being generated by threatened special interests of the former owners of the means of information dissemination.

This is why IMC is, in my opinion, here.

What we have here is a platform of information which is a dire threat to the rule of lies. And it is lies that enable the enemies of humanity to torture and slaughter the good people of this world.

Now let me break it down to reductive basics as to what I have noticed these tactics to be and what they have in common.

Trolls

They inject vile and antihuman ‘comments’ much like drive by shootings. [lies about our brothers and sisters ]

They are the individuals, w/o any supporting evidence spew ad-hominims against authors, I believe, to incite flame wars and they do it w/o the basic foundation of quotes, links and other verification. [ lies ]

They also fabricate evidence. [lies ]

They love to forge. [lies ]

They ‘forget’ countless previous exposures of these lies as they are only commenting to disrupt, insert false information, soil the thread, and/or extend the length of the thread to prohibit use from dial-up readers and further dysfunctionalize reader participation in the concept being discussed.

These are Trolls. They are wanton liars, spammers, posters of porn and depravity - general assholes. They’re easy to spot. Subtlety is not an issue with them as is neither popularity or persuasion.

Moles.

We can view these creatures as agent provocateurs posing as interested parties.

First, in order to hold creditability among the readers of the venue, the mole must produce dialogue that gains attention and resonates with the audience. Insertion of (a) mole(s) is rather an art as my father used to say. He used to run a counter intelligence unit and knew upon what he spoke.

One would find it difficult, for instance, to insert oneself into a forum of say, peace advocates and anarchists, as a meat eating, weapons owning, OLD combat veteran and hard Constitutionalist.

Much easier to find sympathetic consensus as a, say, pirate radio station operator/American Indian / Vegetarian/ Bike riding/ pro Palestinian, etc. etc.This dialogue is almost always generated by a coincidental appearance of trolls that engage in hostility towards the consensus of the readership and thusly provides a stage to promote the cover the mole needs to establish its credentials. Otherwise, it would be difficult to merely ‘burst’ into the forum and start dominating the discussion(s). Often when they appear they produce an almost deafening torrent of posts and spend major portions of the 24 hour day to engage in this initial cover construction of garnishing the favor of the perceived statistical demographic of the readership. We would also note that this dedicated facade of insightful counterpoint becomes inane and untenable after a short period of time facilitating the propaganda of the trolls.

At this point in the insertion phase they say all the right things and engage in antagonistic rhetoric with these coincidental trolls while damaging the credibility and ideology of these generally disagreeable troll(s). Since the creditability of these disagreeable individuals is flimsy at best, to begin with, this is not difficult, particularly as they most probably have hidden communication networks such as e-mail or phone links or even next desk chat to facilitate the facade. All of these scenarios are possible. A particular item of note is the preference to a single pseudo name which is most likely a method of ID and coordination between physically isolated members of the above mentioned network.

What they do after establishing a cover.

Often they function as gatekeepers waiting to attack any thread or comment that jeopardizes an agency project or introduces a sensitive issue to the rulers. Most certainly they work in consort with the adversaries of this open forum.

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oh joy upon the world

by Dang Saturday, Oct. 07, 2006 at 9:58 PM

At last, a field guide into this funny business. Any questions or comments?

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sure

by gehrig Monday, Oct. 09, 2006 at 2:11 PM

Sure, I have one. Why is it that the only people on this site who seem to have any idea what they're talking about are all Zionists? Has the Mossad hired people to act like very stupid anti-Zionists -- usually with severe anger-management problems and a fifth-grader's potty humor as well -- as a ploy to make anti-Zionists look bad?

@%

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WTF?

by Dawer Monday, Oct. 09, 2006 at 7:34 PM

Thanks for hiding this comment.

Why was it done? Is this a threat?

In response to gerhig's comment

"sure

by gehrig Sunday, Oct. 08, 2006 at 10:11 AM

Sure, I have one. Why is it that the only people on this site who seem to have any idea what they're talking about are all Zionists? Has the Mossad hired people to act like very stupid anti-Zionists -- usually with severe anger-management problems and a fifth-grader's potty humor as well -- as a ploy to make anti-Zionists look bad?

@%
[my reply:]

We can sure see the advantages to going to visit your wonderful new IMC.

It will be a haven for your wise and honest zionist crew.

Take them.

So WTF?

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addendum 1

by Dexter Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006 at 2:35 AM

Concerning moles and their extended operations.

As well as gate-keeping, the m-author will introduce themes that function as 'testing the waters' for particular Psychological Operations as a method for promoting a specific scapegoat or threat to prepare for some event the agency is contemplating and requires rumor and whisper campaigns to be generated towards steering the mindset of the population into a pre-perceived villain.

Likened to the vilification of OBL prior to the 9-11 event. As terrorist events perpetrated by the intelligence communities of western centers of wealth were reported to have been assigned to this CIA asset.

Frantic confabulations of questionable or highly suspect sources are usually employed and can be analyzed by following sources to provide verification, as I noted in the introduction, as conformation with other primary source documentation.

When the 'sources' turn into one or none of the above and provide only stretch inferences, we should view all such posts from the suspected mole with a great deal of consideration.

As such things produce a strong smell.

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