http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/11/11/gas-companies-caught-using-military-strategies-to-overcome-drilling-concerns/FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The battle over gas drilling is now being compared to elements of an actual battlefield. Energy industry officials were caught on tape at a conference in Houston using military terms to describe their opposition. One company says it uses ex-military psychological operations experts in its community plans.
The comments came as companies were meeting to talk about strategies for overcoming concern over practices like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. ….. “Download the US Army/Marine Corp counter insurgency manual. Because we are dealing with an insurgency,” he said. Matt Carmichael went on to recommend attendees read Rumsfeld’s Rules, from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
In another session, referring to those comments about the military, Range Resources Matt Pitzarella said, “We have several former psy-ops (psychic-operations) folks that work for us at Range, because they’re very comfortable dealing with localized issues and local governments. Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances.”
Some energy and business experts who spoke to CBS11 said there is no conspiracy by energy companies in using military psy-ops experts. Experiences in a war zone, they said, can go a long way to dealing with emotional issues here at home. The Army’s website classifies psy-ops and public relations as different specialties. It describes psy-ops as influencing reasoning and, ultimately, the behavior of governments, groups and individuals ….... (more at link)
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It should come as no surprise to the informed members of the Democratic Underground that the Cheneyites in the “energy” industry view environmentally-conscious citizens as “an insurgency.” I have spoken before about a time when Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons spoke to an audience in Binghamton, NY. He told the people there that it was only a matter of time until they experienced the same treatment that the Native Peoples had for centuries. And so it is.
There was a time when the Founding Fathers – many of whom met with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy – were consider “an insurgency” by King George & Company. Those founding Fathers who were most influenced by the Six Nations (“Haudenosaunee”) viewed the concept of “government” very different than did the English combination of “royalty” and business interests. Indeed, each of the “founding documents” – Franklin's Albany Pan of Union, the Declaration of Independfence, the Articles of Confederation, and the US Constitution – clearly illustrate this.
The Constitution includes the three-branched federal government, with the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. These three branches are equal, though not exact, in powers that balance one another. Yet these branches grow from the actual Tree of Liberty, which is rooted in the concept that all men and women are created equal, and have unalienable rights, which are self-evident. This is the same tree that the Iroquois Constitution recognizes, and that they taught Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, and Washington about.
King George the Cheneyite wanted to chop this tree down. He viewed the Patriots as an insurgency. In the 1800s and 1900s, the US government frequently viewed Native Americans as an insurgency to be destroyed, in the name of “progress.” The corporations that own our federal government used to be content to exploit the natural resources of Indian Territory and other foreign lands. But due to a combination of factors, today these same industries are targeting the gas resources across the nation.
Because these corporations can reap the largest profits by a process known as “hydro-fracking,” which poses an extraordinarily high risk to the environment – including human inhabitants – those individuals, families, and communities who are attempting to protect their properties are the new insurgents. As their opposition to hydro-fracking grows more organized and powerful, the energy corporations are intent upon using para-military tactics to discredit, disrupt, and destroy them.
There is, of course, ample evidence that the “elite” view the growing OWS movement in the same manner. Hence, OWS will be subjected to an increasing amount of these tactics, which will try to discredit, disrupt, and destroy OWS.
During the upcoming days and weeks, I am hoping that forum members here will take interest in an effort to focus attention on this topic, much as we did back in 2004-2005 on the Plame Threads. We have some outstanding resources here – the people who are part of that Tree. Some of us old-timers can offer the lessons from our experiences in the 1960s and '70s, when both the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements were subjected to such anti-insurgency tactics. More, we have the talents and insights of a younger generation, which views today's situation with new eyes.
Thank you for reading this, and for hopefully participating.
Peace,
H2O Man
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